Intelligent Systems Division Awards
2023
NASA Group Achievement Awards
BioSentinel Mission Operations Team
Starling Team
Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Moon Gravitation Representative Unit 3 (MGRU) Rover Team
2022
NASA Government Invention of the Year (IoY) Award
NASA Technology Transfer System (NTTS) – An enterprise web framework for streamlining the Agency’s technology transfer process, which aims to find the widest possible applications for NASA technology through partnerships and licensing agreements with industry, academia, and other U.S. governmental agencies
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) team Computational Materials group
2021
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Rodent Research Team
2020
NASA Software of the Year Award Runner-Up
Astrobee Robot and Ground Software – Next-generation operating software for International Space Station (ISS) free-flying robots that provides a flexible platform for research on zero-gravity free-flying robotics, supports guest science software, and performs ISS utility tasks
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Astrobee Development and Facility Team
Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies Team
NASA Technology Transfer System Team
Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared (SOFIA) Platform Information System Software Updgade Team
2019
NASA Software of the Year Award
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Services – Prototype UAS traffic management system developed with the FAA, industry, and academia as a springboard for managing UAS in all airspace domains
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Connected Autonomous Smart Aerospace Systems Team
Discovery & Systems Health link (DaSHlink) Team
Formal Requirements Elicitation Tool (FRET) Team
Lunar Rover Navigation Team
2018
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Autonomous Systems and Operations (ASO) Project Autonomous Habitat Demonstration Team
Autonomy Operating System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Team
Life-Detection Mars Analog Project Team
Machine-Learning and Data Sciences Team
Mission Adaptive Digital Composite Aerostructure Technologies (MADCAT) Team
NASA-Nissan Partnership Team
Rodent Research Team
Stall Recovery Guidance Team
Systems-Health & Operations Open-Data Team
Terrestrial Exoplanet Survery Satellite (TESS) Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) Commissioning Team
2017
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Discovery and Systems Health (DaSH) Open-Sourcing Team
Safe Autonomous Flight Environment (SAFE50) for small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Team
NASA Space Flight Awareness Awards
Collaborative Life Sciences Repository Team
2016
NASA Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Innovation Award
Research Prospector Team
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Advanced Caution And Warning (ACAWS) Team
Edison Demonstration of Small Satellite Networks (EDSN) Team
Physics-Based Analysis for Space Launch System Design Team
Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) Team
Real-Time Safety Modeling Team
Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Build One Software Team
2015
NASA Software of the Year Award Honorable Mention
Neo-Geography Toolkit – Cartography and planetary mapping software
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Ames 75th Anniversary Open House Event Champions Team
Autonomous Mission Operations Total Organic Carbon Analyzer (TOCA) Station Support Team
Computer (SSC) Experiment Team
Icebreaker Team
Mode and Energy State Awareness Team
Mojave Volatiles Prospector Team
Prognostics Flight Demonstration Team
2014
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Advanced Caution And Warning System (ACAWS) Systems Engineering Analysis Demo Team
Adaptive Aeroelastic Wing Shaping Control Team
Autonomous Loss-Of-Control Cueing Team
Inference Kernel for Open Static Analyzers (IKOS) Team
Lunar Atmosphere, Dust, and Environment Explorer (LADEE) Project Mission Operations Team Planetary Lake Lander Team
Prognostics Team
Robust Software Engineering (RSE) Safety Case Team
Solar Array Constraints Engine Handover Team
Surface Telerobotics Team
NASA Space Flight Awareness Awards
International Space Station Team
Rodent Habitat Team
2013
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Autonomous Mission Operations (AMO) Test Team
Smart Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellite (SPHERES) Team
Aviation Week Laureate Award
Speed Agile Powered-Lift System Concept Demonstration Team
2012
NASA Johnson Space Center’s Director’s Innovation Award
Mission Control Technologies (MCT) Team
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Ames Kepler Science Operations Center Operations (SOCOPS) Team
Ames Mission Network Project Team
Quantum Futures Technologies Conference Organizing Team
2011
NASA Software of the Year Award Honorable Mention
Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) system – Next-generation training management systemfor crew, instructors, and flight controllers
NASA Space Act Awards
Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) system
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Emergency Landing Planner (ELP) Team
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Mission Operations Systems and Ground Data Team
Power pLanning and Analysis TOol (PLATO) Team
2010
NASA Software of the Year Award
Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline – Custom designed transit photometry data management and processing software system to detect exoplanets and observe astrophysical phenomena
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Group Technology & Innovation Award
Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) Data Mining Group
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Science and Payload Team
Orbital Communications Adapter Monitoring System (OCAMS) Team
Robotic Recon Experiment Team
Scheduling, Training Administration, and Records (STAR) Team
Solar Array Constraint Engine (SACE) Team
XSearch Design, Development, Test, and Evaluation Team
2009
NASA Space Act Awards
Java Pathfinder – Model-checking application that allows all possible executions of a Java program to be analyzed for errors
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Ames Program Management Tool (PMT) Team
Common Spacecraft Bus Hover Test Team
Drilling Automation for Mars Exploration Team
Johnson Space Center (JSC) Mission Operations Directorate Intercenter Task Agreement Team
2008
NASA Software of the Year Award Runner-Up
Inductive Monitoring System (IMS) – Systems health monitoring through examination of archived or simulated nominal sensor data using techniques and concepts from the fields of model-based reasoning, machine learning, and data mining
NASA Space Act Awards
Inductive Monitoring System (IMS)
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Human-Robot Site Survey Project Team
2007
NASA Space Act Awards
Automated Design of Spacecraft Systems (ADSS) – Automated hardware design algorithms that significantly improve the performance of spacecraft hardware
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Lunar Lander Handling Quality Simulation Team
2006
NASA Space Act Awards
Intelligent Flight Control System – Innovative neural networks integrated with control algorithms to correctly adjust aircraft control for maintaining the best possible flight performance during unexpected failures
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Collaborative Decision Systems (CDS) Team
Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE) Team
Space Technology (ST-5) Micro-Satellites Evolved Antenna Development Team
2005
NASA Space Act Awards
Collaborative Information Portal (CIP) – System for integrating operational and scientific information for managing the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers Mission
Mixed-initiative Activity Plan GENerator (MAPGEN) – An advanced multi-mission system for building and editing activity plans for spacecraft
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Aviation Data Integration System Technology Development Team
Livingstone on Earth Observing-1 Team
2004
NASA Space Act Awards
Mixed-initiative Activity Plan GENerator (MAPGEN) – An advanced multi-mission system for building and editing activity plans for spacecraft
VIZ – 3D terrain visualization software and surface reconstruction capability developed for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Administrator’s Award
Advanced Information Technology Infusion Team for Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 2003 Mission
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Associate Administrator’s Choice Award
Investigation Organizer Team Supporting the Columbia Accident Investigation Board
NASA Group Achievement Awards
Advanced Control and Evolvable Systems (ACES) Development Team
2003
NASA Software of the Year Award Honorable Mention
Semantic Organizer – Customizable tool for semantics-based information integration, access, management, and analysis across distributed investigative work teams
NASA Space Act Awards
Aviation Data Integration System (ADIS) – Secure integration of aviation data with de-identified
flight data (part of the Advanced Performing Measuring System software suite)
Livingstone 2 – Model-based system diagnosis and recovery engine
Mars Exploration Rover Board (MERBoard) – Collaborative workspace software and large plasma displays with touchscreen overlays
Semantic Organizer
NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Turning Goals Into Reality (TGIR) Administrator’s Award
Java PathFinder Model-Checking Team
Performance Data Analysis Reporting System (PDARS) Team
2002
NASA Space Act Awards
Comprehensive Toolset for Model-Based Health Monitoring and Diagnosis
2001
NASA Space Act Awards
Intelligent Neural Flight and Propulsion Control System Group
2000
NASA Software of the Year Award Runner-Up
Surface Movement Advisor – Automated system to improve coordination and planning of airport ground traffic operation
NASA Space Act Awards
Surface Movement Advisor
1999
NASA Software of the Year Award
Remote Agent – Planning, scheduling, and execution agent that was the first artificial intelligence system to operate a spacecraft. Cited by AAAI as “one of the top achievements in the history of AI”
NASA Space Act Awards
Darwin – Web-based remote access to wind tunnel test data
Remote Agent