FY07 INTERNAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDED PROPOSALS

In FY 2007, the Office of the Chief Technologist awarded the following IRAD proposals:

Curtis Armstrong : Development of a GSFC Precision Time-of-Flight Device
John Baker : Binary Black Hole Coalescence
Scott Barthelmy : CdZnTe Array
Kevin Berry : Orbit Determination Toolbox
James Blair : An Airborne Demonstration of a Space-borne Imaging Lidar Concept Using GSF-Built Fiber Lasers
Brent Bos : Large Depth-of-Field Particle Image Velocimeter for Planetary Dust Flux Characterization
Steve Bundick : Ku-Band Telemetry Modulator for Suborbital Vehicles
Eric Cardiff : Vapor-Phase Reduction for In-Situ Resource Utilization
Ian Cohen : GPS Acquisition in Lunar Orbit
Phil Dabney : Asynchronous Laser Transponder for Highly Accurate Spacecraft Tracking at Planetary Distances
Phil Deines-Jones : Sensitive, Efficient X-ray Polarimeters for SMEX
Thomas Flatley : On-Board SAR Data Processing
Stephanie Getty : A MEMS- and Nanotechnology-Enable Ion Source for the MEMS Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for Solar System Exploration
Rebecca Gillespie : Zero-Leak One-Time-Use Valves for Propulsion System Applications
Daniel Glavin : Miniature Pyrolysis Mass Spectrometer for In-Situ Detection of Lunar Volatiles
David Harding : Swath Mapping Laser Altimeter for Planetary Exploration
Theodor Kostiuk : High-Resolution In-Situ Remote Laser Spectrometer
Sally Heap : TPF-O
Bill Heaps: Small Ultra-Sensitive Detector for Methane and Water on Mars
Randy Kimble : Near-Infrared Photon-Counting Imager
Frank Lemoine : Mars Global Mass Balance Measurements for Future Missions Chopo Ma: Application of VLBI to Extraterrestrial Navigation
Rob MacDowall : GSFC Digital Radio Astronomy Receiver for Heliospheric and Solar System Exploration
T.E. Moore : Electronics Support for Space Plasma Analyzers
Dan Mullinix: Low-Cost Conformal Phased Array Antennas for ELVs
Bo Naasz: GEONS Ground support System
Min Namkung: A Stacked Geometry for Hg12 Radiation Detector for Significantly Improved Efficiency and Built-in Multi-functionality
Wanda Peters: Lotus Dust Mitigation Coating
Robert Petre: X-Ray Mirror Development for Constellation X
Dan Powell: Strategic and Enabling Applied Nanotechnologies for Mission Infusion
Glenn Rakow: SpaceWire Plug and Play in Support of Open System Architectures for Exploration
Richard Ray: Laser Altimetry Over Oceans: Error Characteristics and New Applications
Rafael Rincon : Digital Beamforming Synthetic Aperture Radar Imager
Shannon Rodriquez : Lightweight, Low-Cost, Next-Generation X-Band Wind and Rain Radar
Eric Silk: Large-Scale Surface Area Orientation Independent Spray Cooling Heat Transfer for High Heat Flux Applications
Jeanne Sauber : Use of Laser Altimetry Data for inSAR DEM Generation
Peter Shu: AR&D Camera Technology
David Starr: SIRICE Technology Investigations
Robin Stebbins : Simplified LISA Optical System
Thomas Stevenson: Microwave Multiplexers for Large-Format Superconducting Detector Arrays
Sharon Straka: Lunar and Martian Dusty Environmental Effects Chamber
Jack Tueller: Focal Plane Development for Hard X-Ray Imaging

MidSTAR:
Michael Collier: MINI-ME
Keith Jahoda : the Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimeter
Douglas Rowland : Plasma Impedance Spectrum Analyzer
John Sigwarth: Remote Sensing of the Thermospheric Temperature

Alternate:
Jack Trombka : Compact, Combined Neutron, Gamma-Ray and Particle Radiation Detector