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David Steitz
Headquarters, Washington              March 13, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1730)

RELEASE: 03-101

NASA FUNDS NEW INFORMATION INVESTIGATIONS

     NASA has awarded funding for 20 new investigations in information 
systems technology development under the Advanced Information Systems 
Technology (AIST) Program. 

The proposals, selected from more than 200 submissions, focus on 
high-priority information technology areas: on-board processing, 
space-based communications networks, mission automation, and high-end 
computing technologies for modeling. The total funding for these 
investigations, over a period of three years, is approximately $19.4 
million. Investigators hail from 14 states and Washington.

Through the AIST Program, NASA invests in research and development of 
new and innovative information technologies. The research supports and 
enhances NASA's Earth science enterprise and applications objectives 
as part of the agency's mission to understand and protect our home 
planet. AIST focuses on: creating mature technologies that will lead
to smaller flight systems that can be built quickly and efficiently, 
since they will be less resource-intensive and less expensive. AIST 
investment leads also to more efficient ground-based processing and 
modeling systems that make the use of Earth science data for the good 
of humankind.

The investigations selected by NASA's Office of Earth Science are:

*     Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, Norman, 
 Okla.): Seamless Handover in Space Networks
*   Marcos Bergamo (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass.): 
 Multi-Satellite Virtual Private Network for Space-Based 
 Applications (SpaceVPN)
*   Eric Byler (Lockheed Martin Aerospace Corporation, Palo 
 Alto, Calif.): Realtime-Reconfigurable Distributed-Computing 
 for Adaptive Science Operations in Satellite Formations using 
 Heterogeneous CPUs and Heterogeneous Connectivity 
*   Liping Di (George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.): 
 Integration of OGC and Grid Technologies for Earth Science 
 Modeling and Applications
*   Andrea Donnellan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
 Pasadena, Calif.): Complexity Computational Environments: 
 Data Assimilation SERVO Grid 

*   Stephen Durden (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 
 Calif.): An On-Board Processor for a Spaceborne Doppler 
 Precipitation Radar
*   Andrew Gray (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 
 Calif.): Reconfigurable Protocol Chip for Satellite Networks
*   Jeffery Herath (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, 
 Va.): Radiation Tolerant Intelligent Memory Stack (RTIMS)
*   James Joseph (Spectrum Astro, Gilbert, Ariz.): TCP/IP 
 Router Board (TRB) with Ethernet Interfaces
*   Stephan Kolitz (Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, 
 Cambridge, Mass.): Mission Automation for "A Train" 
 Correlative Measurements Using the Earth Phenomena Observing 
 Systems

*   Jacqueline LeMoigne (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 
 Greenbelt, Md.): A Reconfigurable Computing Environment for 
 On-Board Data Compression and Cloud Reduction
*   Mike Lin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 
 Md.): 10/100 Mb/sec Flight Ready Ethernet Hardware
*   Yunling Lou (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 
 Calif.): On-Board Processor for Direct Distribution of Change 
 Detection Data Products
*   Daniel Mandl (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 
 Greenbelt, Md.): Hybrid Ground Phased Array Prototype for Low 
 Earth Orbiting Satellite Communications
*   Robert Morris (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 
 Calif.): Planning and Scheduling of Coordinated Science 
 Observations

*   Kara Nance (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska): 
 Intelligent Dataset Identification, Assimilation, Collection 
 and Transformation System 
*   Christa Peters-Lidard (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 
 Greenbelt, Md.): Coupling High Resolution Earth System Models 
 Using Advanced Computational Technologies 
*   Russell Rew (University Corporation for Atmospheric 
 Research/National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, 
 Colo.): Merging the NetCDF and HDF5 Libraries to Achieve 
 Gains in Performance and Interoperability 
*   Brian Schott (University of Southern California, 
 Arlington, Va.): Reconfigurable Hardware in Orbit
*   Peter Thornton (National Center for Atmospheric Research 
 Boulder, Colo.): Implementing an Efficient Supercomputer-
 Based Grid Compute Engine for End-to-end Operation of a High-
 Resolution, High Data-Volume Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Model

*   Daniel Weigand, (ITT, Reston, Va.): RF Agile Low-Power 
 Transceiver (LPT) Technology for future Space-Based 
 Communications Networks

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