FY06 INTERNAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDED PROPOSALS

In FY 2006, the Office of the Chief Technologist awarded the following IRAD proposals:

Exploration Systems Technology

• Jason Dworkin: Hydrazine-Organic Reactions on Surfaces: Effects of
  Thruster Exhaust on Samples Collected for Solar System Exploration
• Brian Jamieson: High-Performance MEMS Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer
• Lucy F. Lim: A Portable XRF Unit for In-Situ Compositional Analysis
  of Elements Z-6 through Z-92
• Peter Shu: Development of a 64 X 64 inGaAs/InP Photon-Counting
  SPD Arrays for 3-D Imaging Lidars
• Jacob Trombka: A Compact Neutron Gamma-Ray System for
  Planetary Resource Exploration and Astrophysical Investigations

Information Systems, Modeling, and Computation Technology

• Alan Cudmore: Instrument Core Flight Executive

In-Space and Extra-Terrestrial Robotic Assembly, Maintenance and Inspection

• D. Barry Coyle: Laser-Scanning Transmitter
• Steven Curtis: 12-TET Payload Accommodation
• Charles Engler: Testbed for Robotics Dexterity and Control
• Yury Flom: In-Space Robotic Integration System
• Andrew Jones: Modular Architectures—Intelligent Joints
• Vladimir Lumelsky: Robot Sensitive Skin Technology &
  Robotic Arm Collision Avoidance System
• Steven Queen: High-Performance Simulation Env. Dev.

Sensors, Instruments and Supporting Technologies

Sun-Earth Observing

• Jay Herman: Imaging Specro Polarimeter
• Yoram Kaufman: Remote Sensing of Cloud Aerosol
• Paul Mahaffy: ARES Drop Test Spectrometer
• Matthew McGill: UAV-Based Lidar Sensor for Next-Generation Suborbital Platforms
• Rafael Rincon: A Digital Beamforming SAR Processor
• Edward Sittler: Plasma Wave Antenna Design for Solar Probe
• James Wang: Flight Qualification Program for VDI Submillimeter-Wave Receivers

Solar System

• Bryan Blair: Scanner-Less Laser Imaging: Laboratory and Airborne
  Demonstration of Multi-Pixel Ranging Imaging for Planetary Exploration
• John Brasunas: Fourier Transform Spectrometer
• Philip Dabney: Asynchronous Laser Transponder for Highly
  Accurate S/C Tracking at Planetary Distances

Universe

• Richard Kelly: Development of Cryogen-Free System for X-Ray Microcalorimeters
• Randy Kimble: Near-IR Photon-Counting Imager
• Bernard Rauscher: Photon-Counting Detectors
• Peter Shirron: ADR Cooling to 10mK for Advanced Detector Applications

Space Communications and Navigation

• Steven Bundick: Adaptive Baseband Equalization for High Data Rate
  KaBand Downlinks
• Steven Bundick: FFT Correlator for Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Receiver
• David Folta: Flight Dynamics Tools for Lunar Missions
• Michael Krainak: Laser Comm. Enhancement to a Laser Transponder Instrument
• Luke Winternitz: Navigator GPS Receiver for High-Altitude Applications

Telescopes and Large Observing Systems

• Charles Bowers: Addition of 1024-Actuator MEMs Deformable Mirrors to the Asymmetric Dual Michelson Interferometer
• Kenneth Carpenter: Development of Concepts and Technologies for Long-Baseline, Space-Based UV/Optical Interferometers and Sparse Aperture Telescopes
• William C. Danchi: Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer Instrument Testbed
• Carey Johnson: Feasibility Study for Amplitude-Only Near-Field
  Range Antenna Measuring System
• Robert Petre: Technology Development Supporting the New X-ray
  Telescope (NeXT) mission
• Stephen Rinehart: SISSI: The Simulator for Infrared/Submillimeter
  Space Interferometers
• Paul Whitehouse: Subscale Testing of Large Cryo-Optical Systems