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HUBZone Industry Day June 19, 2012

Technology Transfer and Space Act AgreementsKimberly A. Dalgleish-MillerChief, Innovation Projects OfficeEmail: kimberly.a.dalgleish@nasa.gov

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Who We Are – Innovation Projects Office

• Your conduit for access to Glenn technologies: “tech transfer”• Part of the team at Glenn that supports formation of partnerships with

external organizations: “space act agreements”• Reviews and performs commercial evaluations of Glenn inventions• Secures awards and publicizes our outstanding Glenn technologies

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• Technology developed through multiple projects with Glenn

• Stretched Lens Array optimized for Deep Space 1: performance, reliability, and efficiency

• Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) module called SolarVolt™ has met the CPV module testing, construction, and safety requirements

• U.S.-based jobs created as Entech Solar implements its SolarVolt manufacturing facility

“The Stretched Lens Array is a spectacularly enabling technology for electric propulsion in space.” – Tim Glover, Director of Development, Ad Astra Rocket Co.

Entech® Solar: Affordable Green Energy Technology

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Developed by DNA Medicine Institute with funding from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program

Glenn provides expertise in microgravity fluid physics, microfluidics, and numerical modeling

Glenn is facilitating FDA discussions for using the rHEALTH sensor as a biomedical research and/or diagnostic tool

Technology contributes significantly to space medicine, biomedical research, POC diagnostics, and environmental monitoring

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“The interaction with NASA has been wonderful. The team brought significant capabilities and a deep expertise in flightworthiness, computational fluid modeling, and testing. Through these interactions, we have been able to attain a much better instrument than otherwise possible.”

– Dr. Eugene Chan, DMI Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer

rHealth sensor: Shrinks hospital lab to single POC device

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• Award-winning PhotoVolt™ cell is based on innovations developed with Glenn

• Critical high-intensity flash testing was conducted at Glenn

• The company’s first commercial solar concentrator was sold to Glenn

• The Oberlin, OH company expects many new hires for production ramp-up

• Selected as an Ohio Third Frontier Photovoltaics Program awardee

“The support we’ve received from NASA has been instrumental to our success, and the facilities and expertise at Glenn were essential to solving numerous technical issues. The credibility that NASA has brought to our development has helped in our fundraising.”

– Neil Sater, CEO and Founder, GreenField Solar

GreenField Solar: Rugged, Low-cast, High-voltage Solar Power

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NASA’s partnership with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company produced tires that avoid puncture failure, lower fuel consumption in vehicles, and save energy

For both lunar/planetary exploration and Earth-based applications, the tire offers greater safety because it has no single point of failure

Tested in Glenn’s Simulated Lunar Operations (SLOPE) facility

Winner of the 2010 R&D 100 Award, and Patent and Tech Brief Awards

Spring Tire: For off-road terrestrial or planetary vehicles

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Ways That You Can Work with Glenn

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Facilities Test (FT) ServicesIntellectual

Property

Research, Development, Test

& Evaluation (RD T&E) Services

Subject Matter Expert (SME) Services

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Mechanisms for Working with Glenn

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Space Act Agreements

Licenses

Software Usage Agreements

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Space Act Agreements (SAAs)

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Used for enabling access to research and testing facilities, to SMEs, or to Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RD T&E) Services

Unique to NASA – similar to Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) offered by other government agencies

Notable

• Defined Statement of Work (SOW) including milestones

• Intellectual Property (IP) and data rights defined upfront

• Reimbursable or nonreimbursable types

• Appropriate for all types of partners (small, medium, or large businesses, universities, etc.)

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Licenses

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Provide access to NASA inventions for commercialization purposes

Notable

• Terms/Negotiation is on a case-by-case basis

• Licenses may be exclusive, partially exclusive (different fields of use), or nonexclusive

• What is required

‒ See: http://technology.grc.nasa.gov/licensing.shtm

‒ Two step process

Part I – Business Terms with Pro Forma Income Statement

Part 2 – Development and Marketing Plan

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Notable

• Access Glenn software on the Glenn Software Catalog: http://sr.grc.nasa.gov

• Requests can be handled entirely electronically

• Available to all types of organizations (business, government, academic, etc.)

Software Usage Agreements (SUAs)

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Glenn’s software is available to approved parties under Software Usage Agreements

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The Process at Glenn

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Basics for NASA Agreements …

• Mutually beneficial agreement

•Define SOW, IP & data rights

• Initiate dialog with NASA

•Connect to SMEs

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Thank you!

Any Questions?

Kimberly A. Dalgleish-MillerChief, Innovation Projects OfficeEmail: kimberly.a.dalgleish@nasa.gov

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