NASA Group Achievement Awards

An infrastructure that autonomously assembles itself from a set of packed parts. This capability enables building of large-scale solar power, communications, and habitat systems on other planets to support future deep space exploration.

Provides expertise in multiscale modeling, theory and simulation of materials, devices, and biosystems in order to develop new materials and biosystems for NASA’s high-performance applications.

For exceptional achievement developing Ziggy, a flexible, highly scalable science pipeline control infrastructure package to support data-intensive NASA missions.

For outstanding accomplishments hosting the NASA Student Cluster Competition and mentoring students from underrepresented communities to provide valuable HPC experience.

For outstanding development and testing of both control architectures and a mission-based approach for evaluating increasingly automated aircraft.

For evolving the Provider of Services for UAM (PSU) technology that will be needed to scale UAM operations in the National Airspace (NAS).

For collaborating across directorates to safely complete a high-fidelity study of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicle (eVTOL) ride quality.

Develops and maintains software to support flight of rodents for scientific research on the International Space Station.

For upgrading NAS networking infrastructure with increased bandwidth and resiliency, ensuring high-speed, uninterrupted access to HPC resources critical to NASA missions.

For outstanding support to the White House OSTP-led COVID-19 HPC Consortium projects in utilizing NASA HPC resources to fight the global pandemic.

For outstanding performance of essential functions to maintain NASA supercomputing systems and user services for researchers supporting agency missions during the pandemic.

For providing outstanding and ongoing server support to NASA’s Mission Assurance System (MAS), ensuring uninterrupted problem reporting and services to critical NASA missions.

For remarkable ingenuity in completing a study demonstrating effective application of a service-oriented system in complex, traditional airspace.

For conducting flight tests, field demonstrations and training sessions for wildland firefighting groups, government agencies and industry organizations groups on the use of STEReO technologies and products, such as the Unmanned Aerial Systems Pilot kit (UASP-kit).

For mission-enabling development of the Moon2Mars platform, a suite of applications and capabilities that provide configuration management, collaboration services, and tracking tools that support the formulation and execution of the Artemis campaign.

For developing an application that enables NASA scientists to search across multiple datasets at once, hone results to find the most relevant records and new data linked to those results.

For developing a simulation of a safe and efficient air transportation system where everything from small package delivery drones to passenger-carrying air taxis is operating above populated areas.

For exploration of concepts of operation, data exchange requirements, and a supporting framework to enable multiple beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations at low altitudes in airspace where FAA air traffic services are not provided.

For the successful development and delivery of the complex Astrobee free flyer units and dock to the International Space Station.

For successful development, integration, and field test of the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies, a prototype life-detection rover.

For the successful development of the NTTS software platform that has been deployed NASA-wide and by another federal agency.

For advancing the frontiers of quantum computing through foundational research in algorithms and software that influences the development of commercial quantum computers.

For successfully developing an innovative second-generation system to improve pointing efficiency and accuracy of the SOFIA telescope.

For conducting various trade studies across subsystems to identify potential improvements for Orion’s subsequent missions with TS staff investigated fencing via arc jet tests in the Aerodynamic Heating Facility (AHF) using the 10-MW TP3 arc heater at NASA Ames Research Center.

For operating one of the highest-powered arc jets available with continued safe and efficient operation of these systems requiring ongoing development of a wide range of specialized engineering and craft skills.