The Aerospace Corporation's Civil and Commercial
Division Awarded NASA Project

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (11/18/04) -- NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate has identified an Aerospace proposal as "among the best received" and has selected this proposal for award. The proposal was submitted in response to a broad agency announcement for work in human and robotics technology.

Aerospace was one of only 70 awardees chosen from a pool of approximately 4,000 submissions. The proposed project, titled “Campaign Methodology: Exploration-Driven Architectures,” focuses on developing approaches to designing and evaluating evolvable space exploration campaigns that are adaptable to changes in objectives, policies or discoveries for civil programs. "I'd like to congratulate Matthew Marshall, principal investigator, and Dr. Patrick Smith, co-investigator, for this success," said Gary Pulliam, general manager of the Civil and Commercial Division.

In addition to receiving this award, Aerospace employees will be supporting other awardees as a subcontractor. George Valley will be the Aerospace principal investigator in a subcontract support role. Valley completed a successful project related to small-aperture multiband microwave antenna array receivers.

"Development of the detailed and complex proposals in response to NASA’s broad agency announcement requirements was truly a team effort requiring extensive support from many, including the Civil and Commercial Division's, contracts and pricing personnel; technical editing, and project management staff," Pulliam said. "Congratulations goes out to everyone who worked on these proposals and helped put Aerospace in the winner’s circle."