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Valerie Thomas, an African American scientist and inventor, invented the Illusion Transmitter for NASA, still used today. How will your invention stand the test of time? 🥼 #InventAndPresent #BlackHistoryMonth #services #engineering #inventor #invention #innovation #ideas #design #legalprofessionals #patent #partnership #patentprotection #patentedtechnology #patentattorney #present #product #productdesign #prototype

Ready to shape the future of technology at the #ACT-IAC Emerging Technology & Innovation Conference! I'm delighted to share that I'll be at this incredible event. Looking forward to diving into transformative discussions and reconnecting with my industry, government, and academia colleagues. It has been a long time! 🤝 In addition to the 🎤 "Disruptive Session: What Disruptors? And What Response?" on Monday, 5/20/2024, from 11:15 am-12:00 pm, where we'll explore "Overcoming Federated Data in Government" with leaders from USDA, DOE, and NASA, I'll be speaking at two more exciting sessions: 🎤 Disruptive Interactive Session (9:45 AM): "The Art of Identifying and Wielding Disruption" - We'll introduce the new Disruption Innovation Framework (DIF) alongside esteemed colleagues from the government and industry. 🎤 Power, Progress, and Petri Dishes: The Role of Academia in Innovation Generation (1:45 PM) - Leaders from academia and research institutions will share their insights and experiences in adopting emerging technologies, focusing on collaboration, challenges, and the impact of innovation. Join us to explore the future of technology, share ideas, and collaborate on building the digital future. It is a great time to #DIG… psst… come to figure it out. ⛏ #TechInnovation #Transformation #ACTIAC2024 #EmergingTech #DigitalFuture #InnovationLeadership #CTO #MIT #Innovation

We've spent almost 30 years (so far) perfecting our highly controlled burnishing processes. Just a few years after we obtained our first patents for low plasticity burnishing, we wrote this paper with the NASA Glenn Research Center titled, "FOD Resistance and Fatigue Crack Arrest in Low Plasticity Burnished IN718." This paper may be "old," but the research is still relevant and the science is still applied to many applications today. Read the full text to learn how to improve the fatigue and FOD tolerance of superalloy components. Link in comments. #superalloy #NASA #aerospaceengineering

An Optica Quantum [#OPG_OpticaQ] study demonstrates a 4.09-GHz repetition rate source of photon pairs entangled across early and late time bins separated by 80 ps: https://ow.ly/eyQP50RztKI The research team from Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory resolves the density matrices of the entangled states for each multiplexed channel and expresses distillable entanglement rates in ebit/s. The source serves as a building block for high-rate entanglement-based quantum key distribution systems. Written by: Andrew Mueller, Samantha I. Davis, Boris Korzh, Raju Valivarthi, Andrew D. Beyer, Rahaf Youssef, Neil Sinclair, Cristián Peña, Matthew D. Shaw, and Maria Spiropulu #quantum #quantumscience #physics

CFD Research: Academia vs Industry 🎙️In a recent interview with Dr. Philippe Spalart, Director of Fluid Sciences at Flexcompute, he talked about his transition from academia to industry. Dr. Spalart shared his motivation for departing NASA, continued research at Boeing, and his thoughts on the collaborative environment at Flexcompute. See the full interview to hear more about his thoughts on CFD in modern engineering! 👉Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dZjfFsAe #CFD #Engineering #Flow360 #Flexcompute

Countdown to the 2024 #Symposium 233DAYS 8HOURS 43MINUTES 0SECONDS-Save the Date Rendez vous 2024 #NIAC SYMPOSIUM September 10-12, 2024 Bozeman, Montana -" The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) seeks innovative, technically credible, advanced concepts that could one day change the possible in aeronautics and space. The 2024 NIAC Symposium will be held in Bozeman, Montana and will feature progress presentations from our currently funded Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III Fellows. This portfolio of NIAC studies addresses diverse research areas including: Revolutionary Exploration Systems, Novel Propulsion, Human Systems & Architectures for Extreme Environments, Sensors, and Imaging. This year’s Symposium will feature exciting keynote addresses to inspire attendees. Past NIAC speakers have included visionary thinkers, distinguished scientists, senior government officials, authors, astronauts, and entrepreneurs." https://lnkd.in/en_YxurK #NASA #EVENT #innovations #disruption #nextspace #deepspace #spaceexploration #spacetech #technology #startups

Are you a small business with big ideas? If so, the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program could be your game-changer. At SightLine Ventures, we're dedicated to helping you navigate this powerful funding opportunity. Here’s why you should pay attention: Massive Budget: The STTR program taps into 0.45% of the federal extramural research budget from giants like DOD, NIH, DOE, NASA, and NSF. That’s a whopping $450 million up for grabs each year! Higher Success Rates: Our clients see significantly higher chances of securing funding compared to other programs. Read more about STTR: Your Tactical Advantage: https://lnkd.in/gUyRQPVb #STTR #Funding #Innovation #ResearchAndDevelopment #SmallBusiness #SightLineVentures #TechTransfer

One of the next challenges in astrobiology is to search for life on icy ocean worlds in the Solar System, such as Europa and Enceladus. In fact, both exhibit strong evidence of the presence of liquid oceans beneath kilometers of icy crust. Reaching the liquid part poses an extreme engineering challenge. One interesting idea is to design a cryobot powered by a nuclear system that, thanks to the heat generated, can dig down like a worm into the ice. Currently, the cryobot is merely an idea, but it provides ample food for thought and once again highlights the difficulty and pioneering nature of space exploration. For more details on this incredible idea, you can visit the following link: https://lnkd.in/dS27mgiD #astrobiology #lifedetection@GT #NASA #ESA

I just attended my first International Electric Propulsion Conference – #IEPC2024! For me, some especially notable things; - Most spacecraft now use Electric Propulsion. Even ‘high power’ (5+ kW) is becoming common. Will Starship change this? Probably there’ll be even more use for EP in that future. - There are plenty of research challenges to solve; for example (and vastly oversimplifying it) alternative propellants, predictive simulation. - Fusion-propulsion is science (and awesome, see e.g. Helicity Space). Yes, engineering and system challenges, but it could be for our life times. Great to be there with my colleagues from Paihau-Robinson Research Institute, Jakub Glowacki and Jamal Olatunji.

International team captures first clear evidence of compounds impact on aerosol development in air we breathe. Led by Argonne, Sandia National Laboratories, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the multi-institutional team wanted to investigate a class of compounds called Criegee intermediates. These compounds have long been thought to have effects on the radiation balance and air quality in the Earth's inner atmosphere. Through field measurements taken in the Amazon rainforest, researchers think that Criegee intermediate chemistry could be driving more transformation in the troposphere than previously thought. That, or other, yet unidentified chemical mechanisms, are at work - https://bit.ly/43hvqr1