NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This is an exciting time within NASA for innovation and technology. With the creation of the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist, and the selection of its chief, Bobby Braun, a new agency champion ...

When Masten Flight Systems of Mojave, Calif., launches a NASA payload later this year with its Xaero reusable launch vehicle, it will mark the beginning of a new era in NASA-industry partnership as ...

A new Center Innovation Fund seeded through the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist became available when the federal 2011 fiscal year budget passed in April.

NASA needs to improve its treadmills on Earth and in space and offered a prize to NASA researchers who could help with the technologies to make it happen.

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden created the Office of the Chief Technologist in 2010 and named Bobby Braun to head it. Since then, that office has been tasked with focusing NASA's technology ...

Dryden and Seismic Warning Systems Inc., Scotts Valley, Calif., are evaluating the company's QuakeGuard earthquake warning system to determine whether sonic booms cause the system to register false ...

David Voracek has a vision for Dryden in which technology developed here collaboratively through partnerships nationwide will cut across a number of needs for NASA and the nation. More important, the ...

Tao of Systems Integration of Hampton, Va., has developed technology that will revolutionize aircraft control. Small Business Innovative Research funds were among the factors that have enabled the ...

When Dryden researcher Sunil Kukreja assembled a team for an Innovative Partnerships Program Seed Fund effort to begin looking at health monitoring of composite material airframes, he did so with ...

X-Press editor Jay Levine recently talked with William Gray, the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School chief test pilot and staff advisor for Project Icarus: A Limited Handling Qualities Evaluation of ...

When a researcher develops a technology or novel approach to completing a task, he or she writes and submits a new technology report, or NTR. If he or she needs help, it can be found at the Dryden ...

Dryden researcher Allen Parker recently developed an algorithm that permits information from fiber optic sensors to move exponentially faster. In other words, information from fiber optic sensors can ...

A single fiber thinner than a human hair may one day enable systems that can monitor aircraft health, detect cracks and assess damage from natural disasters in bridges and infrastructure as they ...

Dryden's work with fiber optic sensor systems has garnered agency-wide attention.