View awards from: 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2007 marked the receipt of GRC’s 100th R&D 100 Award. Past and current winners of this prestigious honor—called the “Oscars of Innovation” by the Chicago Tribune—gathered to celebrate with Center management on Feb. 4, 2008. Read about all 100 of GRC's R&D 100 awards

100th R&D 100 Award Luncheon: First row (left to right) - Richard Lee, Afroz Zaman Second row (left to right) -Woodrow Whitlow, Felix Miranda, Kevin Lambert, William Darby, Ramon Lugo, Jih-Fen Lei

R&D 100 Awards

Established by the editors of R&D Magazine (link opens new browser window), the R&D 100 Awards have been helping companies provide the important initial push a new product needs to compete successfully in the marketplace. An R&D 100 Award is a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative of the year.

Recent GRC R&D 100 award winners include:

2009

• L-3 ETI Model 2300HE High Efficiency Space Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifier for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft—by Dale Force, Rainee Simons, Todd Peterson, Adan Rodriguez-Arroy & Jirasak Visalsawat (GSFC), Paul Spitsen, Wm. Menninger, Neal Robbins, Daniel Dibb, Phillip Todd (L-3 ETI)
• NASA Mini-Classifier, a Microscale Particulate Classifier—by Paul Greenberg & Patrick Spanos, Al Blaze, Da-Ren Chen & Chaolong Qi  (Washington Univ.), William Yanis (Natl. Cntr. for Space Ex. Research)
• Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation version 4 (OTIS4)—by John Riehl, Waldy Sjauw, Robert Falck, Stephen Paris (Boeing Phantom Works

2008

• Contact Angle Measurement Device— by David Chao and John Sankovic (GRC) and Nengli Zhang (OAI)
• Terahertz Imaging— by Don Roth (GRC), and Bill Winfree and Jeff Seebo (LaRC)

2007

• Defect Clustering Thermal and Environmental Barrier Coatings (TEBCs) for Si-Based Ceramic Turbine Engine Components—by Dongming Zhu
• High Speed Electro-Mechanical Shutter for Imaging Spectrographs—by Quang-Viet Nguyen
• Antenna Near-Field Probe Station Scanner (ANFPSS)— by Felix Miranda

2006

• L-3 Communications Electron Technologies, Inc., Model 999H Traveling-Wave Tube—by Jeffrey Wilson and Rainee Simons

2005

• Polyimide Rod-Coil Block Copolymers as Membrane Materials for Ion Conduction— by Mary Ann Meador and Jim Kinder
• Glenn Refractory Adhesive for Bonding and Exterior Repair (GRABER)— by Jay Singh and Tara Shpargel
• Multi-Parameter, MicroSensor-Based Low False Alarm Fire Detection System (MMFDS)— by Gary Hunter, Robert McKnight, Paul Greenberg, Jennifer Xu, and Terry Ferrier
• NESSUS V8 Probabilistic Engineering Analysis Software— by Shantaram Pai

2004

• Nanometer Step Height Standard— by Phil Abel, Phil Neudeck, Tony Powell, and Andrew Trunek
• Morrison Motor— by Carlos Morrison
• ME3 Advanced Turbine Disk Alloy— by Mike Nathal and Tim Gabb

2003

• PS/PM 300— by Chris DellaCorte and Brian Edmonds
• MASS Software— by Ted Wright, Kevin McPherson, Richard Delombard, Kenol Jules, Eugene Liberman, Nissim Lugasy, Ken Hrovat, Eric Kelly, and Timothy Reckart
• Hi-Temp, Hi-Load Radial Magnetic Bearing— by Gerald Montague, Mark Jansen, Andrew Provenza, Alan Palazzolo, Ralph Jansen, Albert Kascak, and Ben Ebihara
• Pilot Weather Advisor/InFlight w/ViGYAN— by Glenn Lindamood
• Hybrid Icing System With Cox & Co— by Andy Reehorst and Dean Miller