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ELORET RECIPIENT OF NASA "TURNING GOALS INTO REALITY" AWARD

Within the last Eight years, ELORET was recognized as having contributed to six separate teams that received NASA’s prestigious ‘Turning Goals into Reality’ (TGIR) awards.

• July 2004  MSM - Mission Risk Analysis Objective (10.1); NGLT Systems Analysis Project (SAP) Team (July 14, 2004), LARC (Nominating Center), GRC, JSC, KSC, MSFC, SSC, SAIC, Boeing, Gormley & Assoc, ISSI, ELORET Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, McKinney Assoc, Georgia Tech, Andrews Space & Tech,GE Aircraft Engines, AFRC, UAH, ZINT, Jacobs Sverdrup, Vitech, QSS, Pratt&Whitney, Microcraft.
• May 2002  Technology Innovation Objective; Carbon Nanotube Logic Circuit Team (May 23, 2002), ARC (Nominating Center), Univ. of Southern California, ELORET Corporation, SETI Institute
• May 2002  Mission Affordability; Development and Mission Insertion of SIRCA TPS (May 21-23, 2002), ARC (Nominating Center), HC Chemical, ELORET Corporation, Orbital Sciences
• May 2002   Pioneering Technology Innovation Goal; SLI: Advanced Engineering Environment (AEE)/ Advanced Design Technologies Testbed (ADTT) Team (May 23, 2002), MSFC & ARC (Nominating Centers), LARC, GRC, ELORET Corporation, AMA
• May 2002  Mission Safety Objective; Highly Maneuverable Crew Transfer Vehicle Development Team (May 16, 2001) ELORET Corporation
• May 2001  Mission Affordability; X-33 Thermal Protection System Development Team (May 15-17, 2001), ARC (Nominating Center), DFRC, LARC, MSFC, Bechtel National, Inc., ELORET Corporation, HC Chem, Raytheon, Sverdrup Technology, Inc., BF Goodrich, and Lockheed Martin

OTHER NASA AWARDS

• 2010 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the CEV Orion Launch Abort Motor Test Measurement Team, “For conducting acoustics, aerothermal, and imaging measurements in the CEV Orion launch abort motor test.” David W. Bogdanoff and Jeffrey D. Brown.
• 2010 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the CEV TPS Advanced Development Project, “For outstanding work in support of the CEV Project and for developing the first human-rated ablative heatshield in 40 years.” (23 ELORET employees)
• 2010 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the Simulated Assisted Risk Assessment (SARA) Team, “For exceptional accomplishments and dedication in developing innovative engineering risk assessments for Ares I ascent abort, contributing to improved crew safety.” Hamed Nejad.
• 2010 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the TPS Model Processing and Fabrication Team, “For outstanding initiative, skill, dedication, team work, and performance in delivering high-quality aerothermodynamic test models in support of critical National Programs.” Jose F. Chavez-Garcia, Donald R. Ebaugh, Todd R. Frazee, Jerome W. Ridge, and Valerie Vinisko.
• 2009 Ames Honor Awards, Contractor Employee, Ioana Cozmuta
• 2009 NASA Honor Awards – Exceptional Public Service Medal, Margaret M. Stackpoole.
• 2009 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the CEV Aeroacoustics Testing Team.
• 2009 NASA Orion Project Office, Exceptional Contribution Award. Jeff Brown
• 2009 NASA Group Achievement Award to CEV Aeroacoustics Testing Team (multiple ELORET task members)
• 2009 NASA Group Achievement Award to CEV Aerosciences Project (multiple ELORET task members)
• 2009 Ames Contractor Council Excellence Awards – Individual awards to Jose Chavez-Garcia and Christopher Dateo.
• 2008 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the Ames STS-118 Aerothermal Analysis Team, “For aiding the safe return of STS-118 with minimum risk.” Chun Tang (now CS), Kerry Trumble (now CS), Grant Palmer, Dinesh Prabhu, David Saunders, and Todd White.
• 2008 NASA Honor Awards – Group Achievement Award to the MSL Heatshield Team, “For outstanding Arc Jet support for the Mars Science Laboratory Thermal Protection System material evaluation and qualification.” Dinesh Prabhu and Steven Sepka.
• 2008 NASA Honor Awards – Public Service Group Achievement Award to the ELORET CEV and MSL Team, “For outstanding support of the Crew Exploration Vehicle, Crew Launce Vehicle, and the Mars Science Laboratory.” (69 ELORET employees)
• 2008 NASA Honor Awards – Public Service Group Achievement Award to the UARC Team, “For outstanding performance in fundamental research and collaborations to support NASA Missions.” Prabhu Arumugam, Geeta Dholakia, Yijiang Lu, Cattien Nguyen, and Alessandra Ricca.
• 2008 NASA Honor Awards – One NASA Peer Award, “In recognition of your achievement in supporting NASA’s Strategic Goals that utilize a One NASA Approach. You have been recognized by your peers for outstanding accomplishments to provide sustained, timely support to the Ares I Project via aerodynamics test, analysis, and database development.” Ken Gee, Veronica Hawke, and Alex Te.
• 2008  NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Medal, presented to Dr. Kristina Skokova (ELORET)
• 2008  NASA’s Group Space Flight Awareness Award, CFD Aerothermal Analysis Team (ELORET and ARC TSA members)
• 2008  NASA’s Group Space Flight Awareness Award, OMS Pod blanket repair team for STS-120 mission and STS-118 Damage Assessment Team
• 2008  NASA’s Group Space Flight Awareness Award, STS-120 - CLV Simulation Assistance Team - Stuart Rogers, Mike Aftosmis, Scott Murman (NASA), Edward Tejnil (NASA) and Veronica Hawke (ELORET)
• June 2008  NASA’s Public Service Group Achievement Award, CEV and MSL Teams
• 2008 Individual Space Flight Awareness Awards – Chun Tang, Grant Palmer (ELORET) , Dinesh Prabhu (ELORET) and David Saunders (ELORET)
•  2008 NASA Innovative Partnerships Program Proposal “Advanced Thermal Protection Systems for Hypersonic Flight in Air and Planetary Atmospheres“ (funded 2008) Sylvia Johnson (ARC), Mairead Stackpoole (ELORET), Wendy Fan (ELORET) , Jeremy Thornton (ELORET) and Jim Arnold (UARC)
• 2008 Outstanding performance commendation by Orion TPS ADP presented to P.Agrawal and L.Yang for PICA sizing analysis.
• 2008 Outstanding performance commendation by Orion TPS ADP presented to J.Feldman for material property testing.
• 2008 Outstanding performance commendation by Orion TPS ADP presented to K.Skokova for ArcJet testing at ARC, JSC, and AEDC.
• 2008 Outstanding performance commendation by Orion TPS ADP presented to B. Balakrishnan for Project support. 
• 2008 Outstanding performance commendation by Orion TPS ADP presented to I. Cozmuta for thermal sizing analysis for the Orion heat shield and the Stardust post-flight analysis effort.
• 2007  NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Medal, presented to Dr. Dinesh Prabhu (ELORET)
• 2007  NASA’s Silver Snoopy Award, presented to Chun Tang, now a NASA Civil Servant, for his work on STS-118 performed when he was with ELORET
• April-May 2007  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, Stardust Risk Management Team to Dinesh Prabhu (ELORET)
• 2007  NASA’s Group Space Flight Awareness Award, to the CFD Aerothermal Analysis Team.
• 2007  NASA’s Certificate of Outstanding Performance, in support of NASA Ames Federal Information Security Act (FISMA) Certification and Accreditation activities for the IT team.
• 2007  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, TUFROC development Ð to Kristina Skokova (ELORET)
• Dec 2007 NASA Space Flight Awareness Award presented to Grant Palmer for Support during STS-118.
• Chuck Smith, Chief, Space Technology Division, sent a note to ELORET congratulating the Endeavour STS-118 mission team on the New York Times article dated August 20, 2007 "Shuttle Shows Shift at NASA,” describing the tools used and the open debate surrounding the analysis of the damage.
• 2006  NASA’s Silver Snoopy Award, presented by Astronaut, Dr. Megan McArthur, to Dr. Dinesh Prabhu (ELORET) and James Reuther (NASA Ames) for outstanding contributions to the STS-114 flight.
• Nov. 2006  NASA’s Silver Snoopy Award, presented to Scott Murman who was among six other people (Michael J. Aftosmis, John R. Allmen, Michael T. Eodice, Barbara J. Navarro, Stuart E. Rogers, Cecilia L. Wigley) for their support of the Return to Flight effort.
• 2006  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, to the STS-114 Aerothermal Support Team.
• 2006  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, to the Exploration Systems Architecture Study Aero/Aerothermal Team.
• 2005  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, from the Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) Ð to Deepak Bose and Dinesh Prabhu (ELORET) and Michael Wright (NASA ARC), for Cassini-Huygens Probe Entry, Descent, and Landing work .
• 2005  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, to the Project Columbia Team
• May 2003  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, for their work on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) .
• Sept. 2002  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, for their work on improvement of Space Shuttle safety through the expansion of Space Shuttle abort capability.
• July 2001  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, for their work on the Ames X-33 Integrated Product Team.
• June 2000  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, for their work on the Ames Integrated Product Team on Devices and Nanotechnology.
• Jan. 2000  NASA's prestigious Space Act Award - Four ELORET researchers were among the 7 recipients of this prestigious award. Drs. Gary Allen, Peter Gage, Ethiraj Venkatapathy, and Michael Wright, along with their civil service colleagues Mark Loomis, David Olynick, and Paul Wercinski, were recognized for their innovative Entry Vehicle Integrated Design System work.
• 2000  NASA Ames Honor Award for Contractor Employee in 2000 (Awarded to Peter Gage)
• 2000  NASA’s Group Achievement Award, for Devices and Nanotechnology in 2000.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

• " 2010 U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator's Award for Excellence, presented to ELORET Corporation, May 25, 2010, "In recognition of outstanding contribution and service to the nation by a small business in satisfying the needs of the Federal procurement system."
• " 2010 The International Organizing Committee of the International Planetary Probe Workshop - the 2010 Alvin Seiff Award, Michael E. Tauber
• " 2009 U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator's Award for Excellence, presented to ELORET Corporation, May 19, 2009, "In recognition of outstanding contribution and service to the nation by a small business in satisfying the needs of the Federal procurement system."
• " 2009 AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee's Thermophysics Best Paper Award, "CFD Analysis Framework for Arc-Heated Flowfields I: Stagnation Testing in Arc-Jets at NASA ARC" AIAA 2009-4080, Dinesh K Prabhu, primary author.
• Alfred P. Gessow Award for Best Paper at American Helicopter Society 63rd Annual Forum, Virginia Beach, VA, May 2007 for “Application of CFD/CSD Coupling for Analysis of Rotorcraft Airloads and Blade Loads in Maneuvering Flight” Mahendra J. Bhagwat, ELORET Corp.; Robert A. Ormiston, US Army AMRDEC and Hossein A. Saberi and Hong Xin, Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc.
• W.Fan – outstanding poster award, National Space and Missiles Materials Symposium, Colorado, June 2007, Poster title: “Functionalized Nanoadditives For Improvement of Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablators (PICA)” Authors: Wendy Fan, Mairead Stackpoole, Pasha Nikolaev, Brett A. Cruden, Tane Boghozian, Harry Partridge, Michael Waid, Leonard Yowell, Sivaram Arepalli, Sylvia M. Johnson and James O. Arnold.
• The AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee selected a paper written by J D Brown (ELORET), D W Bogdanoff (ELORET), L A Yates, M C Wilder, and S M Murman (ELORET) as one of its best papers of the last twelve months. The January 2006 publication was entitled “Complex-trajectory aerodynamics data for code validation from a new free flight facility”
• AIAA Outstanding Paper Award was awarded (AIAA Ground Testing Technical Committee) for “Aeroheating Testing Approach for Shuttle Wing Leading Edge Repair Concepts,” authored by D. M. Driver, F. Hui, T. Gökçen, G. A. Raiche, J.Balboni, I. Terrazas-Salinas, B. Mayeaux, J. Riccio, F. Lin, and D. Lester, 2006
• Deepak Bose and Tahir Gökçen, along with Michael Wright (NASA ARC), were recognized at the 38th AIAA Thermophysics Conference in June 2005 with the Thermophysics Best Paper Award for their paper titled “"Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of Thermochemical Modeling for Titan Atmospheric Entry," AIAA Paper 2004-2455,” that was presented at the 37th AIAA Thermophysics Conference in June 2004.