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NASA Awards Florida Teenagers $5000 Grand Prize for Space Settlement Design Project in Rigorous International Competition

2013-04-22 23:03:12

Six-student team from Weston Florida's Cypress Bay High School wins $5000 Grand Prize in 2013 NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest, competing against 592 entries from 20 countries. Weston, FL (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 NASA Ames Research Center announces that a Cypress Bay High School team has won the $5,000 Grand Prize in the 2013 NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest. The six-student team created a space settlement plan, “Maui,” which was selected for the top award from 592...

NASA Hosts Media Briefing To Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery

2013-04-15 16:20:21

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) The briefing will be held in the Syvertson Auditorium, Building N-201, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and be broadcast live on NASA Television and on the agency's website. Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of...

Donation to Hackers Offers Promise to Baynetwork, Inc.’s Long-term Strategy and Hackers Uninterrupted Power Supply

2013-04-05 23:03:03

Hacker group accepts Baynetwork’s three 3000W UPSs’ donation for new Hacker Dojo facility in Mountain View, CA. Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) April 05, 2013 Thanks to wonderful community support the Hacker Dojo has recently moved into their new Mountain View space. Moving into the new space is a grand accomplishment for the member supported non-profit Hacker Dojo and thanks to Baynetwork, Inc.’s donation of three 3000W uninterrupted power supplies for their IT configuration the Dojo...

Samsung To Lend a Hand To Build Mozilla’s Servo Browser

2013-04-04 19:11:56

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Last year, Mozilla announced plans to help produce a brand new programming language. Though it closely resembles the larger “C” language, it is meant to create applications and programs which use large boundaries in order to protect the integrity of the program and the system running it. Mozilla is also using this code to power a “Next Generation Web Browser Engine” called Servo. Though the company still claims the language...

AAA Educators Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory

2013-02-15 08:35:24

NASA The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, after completing their initial flight on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. That flight launched the AAA program’s first full year of operations, during which 26 educators from classrooms and science centers across the United States will fly on SOFIA as partners with scientists conducting...

Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley Announces Connected Embedded Systems Concentration Offered Through the Software Engineering Graduate Program

2013-01-18 23:03:30

Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley is now offering a Connected Embedded Systems concentration as part of the Master of Science in Software Engineering (MS SE) degree program designed for technical professionals interested in working as software engineers, developers, architects, technical project leads, and software development managers. Moffett Field, CA (PRWEB) January 18, 2013 The Software Engineering graduate programs at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley provides...

American Small Businesses For Continuation Of Innovative Research And Technology Projects Selected By NASA

2012-11-09 10:45:22

NASA has selected 39 small business proposals to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The SBIR program partners with small businesses to catalyze efforts to develop new technologies to support NASA's technology needs. NASA will award contracts to 36 small high-technology firms in 17 states with a total value of approximately $27 million. These competitive, awards-based programs encourage U.S. small...

Contract For Safety, Environmental, Medical Services Selected By NASA

2012-11-02 06:39:20

NASA has selected Earth Resources Technology, Inc., (ERT), of Laurel, Md., to receive a contract for safety, environmental, and medical support services at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The contract has a maximum value of $55 million. This is a firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity hybrid contract that begins Nov. 16. The contract consists of a two-year base period and three one-year options. Under the terms of the...

NASA Selects Contract For Safety, Environmental, Medical Services

2012-11-01 15:22:25

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected Earth Resources Technology, Inc., (ERT), of Laurel, Md., to receive a contract for safety, environmental, and medical support services at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The contract has a maximum value of $55 million. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) This is a firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity hybrid contract that...

Contract For Architect Engineering Services Selected By NASA

2012-11-01 05:33:39

NASA has selected AECOM Technical Services Inc. of San Francisco, to support architect engineering services for the Facilities Engineering Branch at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. This firm-fixed-price, definite-core, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity hybrid contract begins Nov.1. The contract has a maximum value of $59.3 million and a one-year base period with four one-year options. Architect engineering support services the company will provide under...