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New NASA Technology Transfer Web Portal Goes Live

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NASA has pulled together the content from 10 different websites under a mandated technology transfer program that makes it available via a new web portal promoting its patents and commercialized technologies.

The new portal, launched late last month, showcases 1635 out of NASA’s 6329 patents that have been commercialized by American businesses, many of them small companies. A NASA Spinoff section lists commercialized technologies from the 10 agency field centers, such as ventilators for critically injured patients and custom machines that advance composite manufacturing. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Women@NASA: Love Leads Small Town Girl To Space Career

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This is one among a collection of videos and essays from women who contribute to NASA’s mission. They are part of the agency’s efforts to create a collaborative and supportive community of women at the agency, inspire girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to encourage openness and accountability at NASA.

Growing up as a girl in a small town in Colfax, Louisiana, I didn’t aspire to work for NASA because I thought, as a lot of people still do, that only engineers and scientists can work for such a highly technical organization. Keep reading →

 /  Published July 3, 2012 at 7:00 AM

Mobile Milestones: NASA Plays The Game Well

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This is one in a regular series on the latest innovation in mobile apps and mobile technology in the federal government. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM

NASA Cheers Launch Of First Private Sector Launch To Space Station

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NASA officials watched as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early Tuesday morning, carrying the Dragon capsule payload that, if all goes according to plan, will dock with the International Space Station later this week.

This is the first time a private company has attempted to berth a spacecraft with the International Space Station. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM

FedSMC: Is Governing ‘Beyond The Desktop’ All Good?

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A conversation about how technology allows leaders to “govern beyond the desktop” generated optimism and laughter as well as fear and skepticism Tuesday at the annual Federal Senior Management Conference in Cambridge, Maryland.

“People are dating online. Meeting people all over the world,” said Anthony Macri, who serves on the General Services Administration’s mobility transformation team. “You have to shift to a virtual mentality and the technology supports that. It’s a mindset of virtual connectivity.” Keep reading →

 /  Published April 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM

FedSMC: Small Science Investments Can Yield Big Returns

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From developing a foot and mouth disease vaccine to simulating nuclear explosions, government leaders shared examples on Tuesday of how science advances government missions during a panel discussion at the annual Federal Senior Management Conference in Cambridge, Maryland.

The discussion, which included executives from the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security and NASA and was led by FedInsider Executive Editor Tom Temin, offered a glimpse into the range and power of science in the federal government. A common thread among the panelists was accomplishing big things with fewer resources. Keep reading →

 /  Published April 17, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Space Shuttle Discovery Landing In Virginia

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The Space Shuttle Discovery is arriving at its new home at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia this morning after a flyover in Washington, DC.

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Discovery is the longest-serving orbiter, having flown 39 times from 1984 through 2011 – more missions than any of its sister ships – spending altogether 365 days in space. Keep reading →

 /  Published April 17, 2012 at 10:28 AM

NASA Up For Social Media Award

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NASA could end up having something in common with Conan O’Brien, Sesame Street’s Grover and Suze Orman tonight.

That’s if the agency wins the Shorty Award for which it’s nominated for being among the best of social media among people and organizations producing real-time short form content across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare, and the rest of the social Web. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Women In Federal IT: NASA Takes Innovative Approach To Diversity

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In honor of Women’s History Month, Breaking Gov highlights women’s relatively recent breakthrough in the growing and increasingly crucial world of federal IT. This is the last of a three-part series on women in federal IT that reveals who these leaders are and how they’re making a difference.

NASA, well-known for breaking technological barriers to explore outer space, has now launched a different kind of innovative program. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 14, 2012 at 2:30 PM

NASA Beams Space Data To Your iPad Via New Mobile App

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Armchair NASA fans, as well as science enthusiasts, will appreciate NASA’s latest mobile app –the Visualization Explorer App –which takes the stunning and beautiful Earth science visualizations captured from NASA’s fleet of research spacecraft and puts them directly into peoples’ hands.

“NASA satellites beam data from space; now the agency is beaming it straight to your iPad,” said media specialists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in releasing the new iPad app yesterday. The application is free to the public and available from the App Store via iTunes. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM
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