Volume 9, Number 3 • May/June 2001

Events

NASA Glenn Research Center recently opened an Acoustical Testing Laboratory (ATL) to support the low-noise design of microgravity space flight hardware. The lab utilizes an acoustical data acquisition system that will be used to perform acoustic emission and sound power level testing. Removable floor wedges will allow the test chamber to operate in either a hemianechoic (semi-echo-free) or anechoic (echo-free) configuration, depending on the size of the test article and the specific test being conducted. For more information, please call Beth Cooper at 216/433-3950.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, will be presenting its third Technology Showcase June 14 and 15, 2001, with an open house at Goddard held June 16. The Technology Showcase will feature award-winning technologies, interactive exhibits and forums on working with NASA and Earth and Space Sciences. For more information and to register online, visit the Web site at http://techshowcase.gsfc.nasa.gov.

The 3rd Annual National Institutes of Health (NIH) SBIR/STTR Conference will be held July 2 and 3, 2001 in Bethesda, Maryland. The theme of the conference is “Small Businesses and NIH: Key Partners in Health Research.” Program highlights include the latest changes in the SBIR/STTR program guidelines; dedicated one-on-one sessions with NIH staff; application preparation tips from successful awardees; mock study section review of SBIR applications; doing business with NIH; mining the NIH Web site; university partnerships and technology transfer opportunities; and tools for forming successful partnerships and alliances. For more information or to register visit http://www.ncifcrf.gov/fcrdc/conf/sbir/index.html.

The NASA Commercial Technology Training Subteam is sponsoring its first Commercial Technology Office (CTO) Workshop June 26-28, 2001 in St. Louis, Missouri. The workshop is targeted to internal commercial technology office personnel and their contractors to participate in professional development and strategic planning sessions for the future of the agency’s commercialization program. For more information, visit the CTO workshop Web site at http://training.nttc.edu/ctowork/.