RIACS project receives Space Act Award recognition

The Space Act Award program, coordinated through the Ames Technology Partnershops Division (Code DTP) is designed to provide official recognition of, and to grant monetary awards for, those inventions and other scientific and technical contributions that have helped to achieve NASA's aeronautical, commercialized and space goals.

The program also stimulates and encourages the creation and reporting of similar contributions in the future. To accomplish these objectives, the Inventions and Contributions Board (ICB), funded by NASA Headquarters, is authorized to evaluate nominations received from NASA field centers and recommend monetary awards.

NASA Ames has two teams that have recently received Space Act Award program recognition with over $13,000 recently awarded to them. Advanced XML Database Integration Technique for Managing Unstructured Documents (NETMARK) is one of those teams, consisting of David Maluf of Universities Space Research Association; Yuri Gawdiak, Chris Knight, and Shu-Chun Lin of Ames; David Bell of RIACS; Tracy La of CSC; and Peter Tran of QSS.

NETMARK enables data stored in a variety of databases and documents, meaning that users would have to look in several places for related information. NETMARK allows users to search and query information across all of these sources in one step.

NASA projects that use NETMARK include ERASMUS, NASA's Enterprise Management Tool, Integrated Financial Management Program (IFMP), International Space Station Knowledge Management, Mishap and Anomaly Information Reporting System (MAIS) and the Mars Exploration Rover.

For more information about the Space Act Award program, visit the Web at http://icb.nasa.gov.