NASA Awards 2010 Government and Commercial Inventions of the Year

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, has won NASA’s 2010 Government Invention of the Year Award and the Commercial Invention of the Year Award. The Government Invention of the Year was the Future ATM (Air Traffic Management) Concepts Evaluation Tool (FACET), a software tool that creates simulations for managing air traffic scenarios. The center won the Commercial award for developing a powder vibration system used in portable X-ray diffraction (XRD) instruments.