New Commercialization Initiative at Glenn
A NEW INITIATIVE
OFFERS A COMPETITIVE advantage to small, disadvantaged, minority-owned
or women-owned businesses in the Great Lakes Region through enhanced
use of NASA programs, technology and expertise. The Garrett Morgan
Commercialization Initiative (GMCI) provides access to NASA programs,
technology and expertise while providing resources and services
to successfully leverage technology in developing new products and
processes or improving current ones.
NASA's Glenn Research Center and the Great Lakes Industrial Technology
Center (GLITeC), one of NASA's six Regional Technology Transfer
Centers, have teamed to help small businesses increase competitiveness.
This effort will also assist the commercial potential of NASA Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) technologies in the six-state
area of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The initiative was named in honor of the African-American inventor
and entrepreneur, Garrett Morgan. Morgan founded a sewing equipment
repair shop and invented a line of popular hair care products. His
most well-known inventions, the automatic traffic signal and the
gas mask, have saved countless lives.
Opportunities to grow a business by working with NASA abound,
but accessing and making the most of them are not easy for companies
operating on tight margins. With this in mind, GMCI services have
been designed so companies can quickly identify promising opportunities
and obtain the support they need to build opportunities into better
bottom lines.
GMCI provides qualified companies with comprehensive business
assessments, the identification of promising NASA opportunities,
strategic planning, links to resources, partnership and project
facilitation, and market development assistance.
For more information, contact Gynelle Steele at Glenn Research
Center.
Call: 216/433-8258.
Or contact Gail Wright at the Great Lakes Industrial Technology
Center.
Call: 440/686-2208.
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FIELD
CENTER NAME CHANGE CELEBRATED
The
name of NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, was
officially changed to John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis
Field, following a ceremony in May. "The blending of names
reflects the pioneering research in aerospace technology that
employees have performed throughout the center's history,
and will continue to perform in the future," said Center Director
Donald J. Campbell. The research facility, built in 1941,
was named for George William Lewis, research director for
the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Glenn,
a native of Ohio and the first American to orbit Earth in
1962, trained at Lewis as one of the original seven Mercury
astronauts. In 1998, after serving four terms as a U.S. Senator,
Glenn again made history as the oldest astronaut to fly in
space as a crew member on the STS-95 mission.
The Glenn
Research Center is one of 10 NASA centers located across the
country. The research and technology development work conducted
at the center focuses on aeronautical propulsion, space propulsion,
space power, satellite communications and microgravity sciences
in combustion and fluid physics. More than 2,100 civil service
employees and 1,500 onsite support-service contractors carry
out its work. The center consists of 24 major facilities and
more than 500 specialized research facilities at the 350-acre
Cleveland site, next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport,
as well as the 6,400-acre Plum Brook Station in Sandusky,
Ohio.
For more
information, contact Laurel Stauber at Glenn Research Center.
Call: 216/433-2820,
Fax: 216/433-2555, E-mail:
Stauber@grc.nasa.gov
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