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	NASA Sells Technology Rights to Highest Bidder At a public auction this past October, the first-ever sale of rights to government-owned patents was made. A bidder picked up an exclusive license to a group of NASA patents for signal-processing technology at the event, which was organized by intellectual property managing firm Ocean Tomo LLC. + Read the story at PhysicsToday.org >>> (link opens new browser window) + Read more about the Ocean Tomo partnership >>> + Read press release: NASA and Ocean Tomo Federal Services, LLC Sell Government Patent License >>> (link opens new browser window)

	NASA’s Innovation Ambassador Program – Goddard Space Flight Center’s Call for Applicants The Innovation Ambassador opportunity will provide a temporary developmental assignment for select members of NASA's technical workforce. These employees will be assigned to work with a host external organization for up to 1 year. Shorter assignments (6 months or 9 months) will also be considered. + Read more

	Goddard’s ADR Technology Chosen for Two New Missions Funded at $44M+ This adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) technology developed at Goddard has been chosen to be flown on two missions selected by NASA Headquarters as the Agency’s next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations, with funding totaling more than $44 million. + Read more

	Tech Transfer Training: Something for Everyone Goddard’s IPP Office offers quarterly training classes to help civil servant and contractor personnel understand the ins and outs of technology transfer. + Find out more + Civil servants register online• + Contractors contact Dale Hithon to register

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	Combining Spinoff and SBIR Technologies Yields Cost and Time Savings for NASA Missions The Hammers Company, Inc. (tHC, Inc.) has successfully combined two technologies —ITOS and the VirtualSat™ system—to yield significant benefits for NASA missions. The ITOS (Integrated Test and Operations System) software offers command and telemetry control of spacecraft during development, test, and on-orbit operations. + Read more

	Goddard’s CHARMS Facility Characterizes Material Properties for Advanced Optics As part of reimbursable Space Act Agreements (SAAs) with the University of Oxford, the Aerospace Corporation, Harvard College Observatory, and the University of California Observatories/LICK, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center used its state-of-the-art Cryogenic High Accuracy Refraction Measuring System (CHARMS) facility to characterize material properties of prismatic samples provided by the participating organizations. + Read more

	SBIR Recipient Creates Low-Power, Lightweight Controller Barrett Technology, Inc. has successfully created and commercialized a brushless servo electronics module. The Puck™ module is a powerful universal controller that replaces controller cabinets with a device that weighs 43 grams and can be powered by batteries. The controller increases portability, lowers power consumption, and improves reliability of robotics. + Read more

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	NASA Goddard Technology Wins 2008 R&D 100 Award NASA Goddard Space Flight Center racks up a three-peat with the announcement that its Sensor Web 2.0 won an R&D 100 Award for 2008. This marks the third consecutive year that Goddard technology has been lauded at the ceremony that the Chicago Tribune dubbed the “Oscars of Invention.” + Read more

	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Technology Wins Nano 50 Award NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. proudly announces that its method for manufacturing high-quality carbon nanotubes (CNT) has been named a winner in the third annual Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 awards in the Technology category. + Read more

	NASA Goddard Technology Wins 2007 R&D 100 Award For the second year in a row, a technology developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has been recognized by R&D Magazine as one of the top 100 most innovative and technologically significant new products of the year—this year for Goddard’s Adaptive Sensor Fleet (ASF) technology. + Read more

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