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Award Requirements
 

To receive any awards from the ICB, the subject invention must have been officially reported and received a tracking number from the sponsoring Center to indicate that NASA has an intellectual property interest in it.  This is done at NASA's Electronic New Technology Reporting System or eNTRe. The Center ALO will also need a home address and Social Security or Tax ID number from each inventor to enter in the NASA Technology Tracking System (Tech TracS). The ALO also needs input from the inventors to verify that an aerospace origin, tie, use or potential use exists for each technology to qualify for the award.


Initial Awards

There are three Initial Awards that are awarded once only upon the documentation of specific events in Tech TracS. There is no paper application for these since they must be requested through the sponsoring Center’s Awards Liaison Officer. These award types and associated qualifying events are:

  • Tech Brief Awards ($350 per inventor, max. 14 inventors)- Upon the documentation of approval of an article for publication in the NASA Tech Briefs Magazine by the sponsoring Center, the ALO notes the approval date in TechTracS and submits award requests for each inventor.
  • Software Release Awards ($1000 for a single inventor, or $500 for up to 10 inventors) - Upon the documentation of the initial non-developmental use of software in TechTracs, the ALO submits award requests for each inventor.
  • Patent Application Awards ($1000 for a single inventor, or $500 for up to 10 inventors) - Upon the documentation of the serial number for a Non-Provisional Patent Application, or the issuance of a Divisional or Continuation In Part patent, the ALO requests awards for each inventor. Provisional Patents, Continuation Patents, and Foreign Patents are not eligible for these awards.

Board Action Awards

These awards are more value driven than the event-driven Initial awards and have no set amount. Applicants complete NASA Form 1329, which is designed to convey the value of the award to the ICB. The ICB relies on the information in this form to determine the award amount, if any, that the technology deserves. Technologies may be submitted for Board Action awards at any time, and may be re-evaluated by the submission of NASA Form 1329A.

 
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