2024
NISAR Team Award: Joshua Doubleday
For going above and beyond in contributing to the success of the Operational Readiness Tests.
ISLAND Automation Team Award: Christopher Davies, Elly Shao, Matthew Salis, Ryan Harrod, Michael Trowbridge, and Russell Knight
For repeatedly implementing time critical software updates that advanced unique areas of new technologies under development on short notice.
Voyager Award: Itai Zilberstein
For outstanding accomplishment in formulation of a multi-agent system framework for federated scheduling including publication of said techniques.
Voyager Award: Alberto Candela Garza
For exceptional work on developing a neural network and for integrating a Python library for task network models into the operation for autonomy tools.
Voyager Award: Evan Davis
For significant collaboration, creativity, and deep domain knowledge in Copilot development for Simple Planner.
CADRE Team Award: Gregg Rabideau and Joseph Russino
For the development, test, and FSW integration for CADRE, ensuring successful DDR and SDR of all multi-agent algorithms and capabilities.
CADRE Team Award: Nihal Dhamani
The CADRE V&V team has done an outstanding job with the verification and validation of the new multi-agent autonomy demonstration mission.
M2020 Team Award: Evan Davis and Jason Swope
GDS APSS Simple Planner Development Team
M2020 Team Award: Shreya Parjan and Evan Davis
Simple Planner 1 Deployment & Ops Team
2023
NASA Early Career Achievement Medal: Christopher Wells
For early career achievement in automated operations and mission analysis for multiple Earth science missions.
Voyager Award: Christopher Wells
For performing exceptionally in the deployment of CLASP to support a range of missions including ECOSTRESS, OCO-3, EMIT, NISAR, and SBG.
Europa Clipper Team Award: Steve Schaffer and Adrien Maillard
For going above and beyond to develop scheduling prototypes and requirements that meet user needs and ensured timely integration into MGSS MPSA Aerie.
EMIT INSTRUMENT OPERATIONS SYSTEM GROUP: Adrien Maillard
For group achievement in the operation of the EMIT Instrument resulting in delivery of key science and applications observations despite operational challenges.
MARS 2020 ROBOTIC OPERATIONS TEAM: Nihal Dhamani
For the development and delivery of the Mars 2020 robotic operations processes, culminating in successful commissioning and record setting robotic surface operations
MARS 2020 SURFACE ENGINEERING OPERATIONS TEAM: Daniel Gaines, Gregg Rabideau, and Shreya Parjan
For group achievement in assessing the health of the Perseverance Rover and building plans to explore the surface of Mars and successfully completing the prime mission.
MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY R13 TEAM: Daniel Gaines, Gregg Rabideau
For achievement in development, delivery, and installation of R13 Flight Software to the Curiosity rover’s primary computer, ensuring continued operation for extended mission.
2022
NASA Group Achievement Award: Dan Gaines
MARS 2020 SURFACE ENGINEERING OPERATIONS TEAM
For outstanding contribution to the health and performance assessment of engineering
systems and planning of activities for every sol on the Perseverance rover
NASA Group Achievement Award
ISS AUTONOMY & INSTRUMENT PROCESSING DEMO TEAM
For demonstrating autonomy and instrument processing software on the Spaceborne Computing 2,
Qualcomm Snapdragon and Intel Myriad computers on the International Space Station.
Alberto Candela Garza
Steve Chien (Team Lead)
Faiz Mirza
Jason Swope
Lauren West
Voyager Award: Christopher Wells
Outstanding project support for multiple projects (especially NISAR and ECOSTRESS) completing several critical deliveries.
2021
Early Career Public Achievement Medal: Andrew Branch
For early-career achievement in developing and testing autonomous systems for NASA’s Ocean World
exploration.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Dan Gaines
MARS 2020 CRUISE ANOMALY RESPONSE TEAM For anomaly response and resolution,
which resulted in keeping the Mars 2020 spacecraft safe in the face of multiple
hardware-based anomalies during mission operations.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Dan Gaines
MARS 2020 CRUISE SEFI RESPONSE TEAM For successfully responding to Single Event Functional Interrupt
(SEFI)
anomalies during Mars 2020 Cruise, as well as contingency planning and procedure development in
preparation for entry, descent, and landing approach.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Dan Gaines
MARS 2020 ENGINEERING OPERATIONS DEVELOPMENT TEAM For the development and delivery of the Mars 2020
engineering operations systems and processes, culminating in a successful test campaign and
readiness for surface operations.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Dan Gaines
MARS 2020 LCAE MISSION OPERATIONS TEAM For the planning, development, and execution of launch,
cruise,
approach, and EDL (LCAE) in the face of significant challenges, resulting in the successful landing
of Perseverance.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Andrew Branch, Dan Gaines, Gregg Rabideau, Vincent Wong
MARS 2020 ROVER FLIGHT SOFTWARE TEAM For outstanding technical achievement in the development of
Rover Flight Software and its successful execution in all phases of the Mars 2020 mission.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Amruta Yelamanchili
MARS 2020 ACTIVITY PLAN AND SEQUENCE SOFTWARE TEAM For exceptional achievement in the design and
development of
highly innovative and effective uplink software enabling successful Mars 2020 operations.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Nihal Dhamani
MARS 2020 COMMON SOFTWARE AND SERVICES TEAM For outstanding development of innovative cloud
infrastructure,
cybersecurity, and common software services, enabling secure, reliable, and capable Mars 2020
mission operations.
MSL Discovery Award: Evan Clark
For exceptional achievement in developing the Rover Planner
Tachical Time-Management procedures resulting in consistent
Rover Planner tactical support and better prepared trainees.
MSL Team Award: RSVP Software User Test Development Team
For outstanding achievement in developing an improved
user testing process for the RSVP Toolset resulting in more
efficient and thorough test results that increase the reliability
and robustness of the delivered tools.
Early Career Spotlight: Evan Clark
JPL Director's Review and Discussion
2020
NASA Early Career Public Achievement Medal: Amruta Yelamanchili
For early career achievement in advancing mission operations
automation capabilities critical to the success of the
ECOSTRESS prime mission.
NASA Group Achievement Award: ECOSTRESS Anomaly Response Team
For achievement in the investigation, development, test, and deployment
of a new onboard data storage system which enabled ECOSTRESS to successfully
complete its prime mission.
NASA Group Achievement Award: ECOSTRESS and ISS Operations Team
For exceptional operations of ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer
Experiment on Space Station, and completing the prime mission.
NASA Group Achievement Award: ASTERIA Extended Mission Team
For ingenious use of a CubeSat that had met its primary goals,
to conduct groundbreaking experiments in autonomy and communication,
and achieve key scientific investigaitons.
NASA Group Achievement Award: MSL SOL2172 Anomaly Recovery Team
For outstanding technical achievement during the Sol 2172 MSL recorded data
anomaly collecting critical data, reformatting, and restoring the preferred
computer to operability.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Multi-Mission Execution Technology (MEXEC) Team
For exceptional innovation in creating the lightweight, multi-mission, autonomous
plan, scheduling, and execution technology, MEXEC.
Voyager Award: Andrew Branch
For developing and deploying marine autonomy as well enhancing and
initiating key partnerships in this area with NRL, MBARI, and WHOI.
Voyager Award: Evan Clark
For outstanding leadership in the conceptualization of the IceNode instrument concept.
Team Award (MOSAIC): Martina Troesch, Tiago Stegun Vaquero (AI Group Members)
Demonstrating distributed systems operation and automation on
multiple science cases including Venus, Mars, and the Moon.
Team Award (ASTERIA): Martina Troesch, Faiz Mirza (AI Group Members)
For outstanding achievement in the demonstration of autonomy
capabilities onboard and in testbed for the ASTERIA mission.
Team Award (Island): Elly Shao, Evan Davis, Russell Knight, Ryan Harrod (AI Group Members)
For successful delivery of key elements to ensure operational
success of the Island Technology Project
2020 Notable R&D Project: IceNode
JPL Office of the Chief Scientist and Chief Technologist.
2019
NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal: Dr. Daniel Gaines
For exceptional technology achievement in the development of self-reliant rover
technologies showing significant increase in mission productivity for future NASA rovers.
For the development and demonstration of self-reliant rover technologies,
greatly expanding the productivity of future Mars robotic explorers.
Voyager Award: Amruta Yelamanchili
For outstanding technical accomplishment in the development and deployment of automated scheduling
for the ECOSTRESS mission, contributing to mission success despite ring buffer, Mass Storage Unit,
and radiation reset challenges.
Team Award: MSL FED/FEST Team
For the successful development, testing, and implementation of end
to end Feed Extended Drilling and Sample Transfer which returned
sampling capability to MSL following the failure of the feed
mechanism on MSL.
NASA Group Achievement Award: MSL Drill Recovery Team
For exceptional achievement in recovering the MSL drill capability using
innovative feed-extended drill and sample delivery techniques.
Voyager Award: Steve Chien
For outstanding leadership and technology development in the deployment of automated scheduling for
the ECOSTRESS mission.
2018
Group Achievement Award: Mark Johnston, Danny Tran, Martina Troesch, and the DSN FtSO Team
For transitioning NASA's Deep Space Network to the innovative Follow-the-Sun
Operations paradigm, increasing the efficiency of support to NASA deep-space
missions.
Team Bonus Award: Mark Johnston, Danny Tran, and the LCM Team
To the DSN Follow-the-Sun Opperations Link Complexity and Maintenance Team:
for the successful completion of the Link Complexity and Maintenance Tool.
Team Award: Jagriti Agrawal, Wayne Chi
For outstanding technology development leading to multiple publications and
infusions into the M2020 Ground System
Voyager Award: Amruta Yelamanchili
For above and beyond support during instrument checkout and science
operations for ECOSTRESS.
Voyager Award: Chris Davies
For outstanding technical achievement in the development and application of
mission analysis for techniques leveraging automated scheduling technologies
to assess mission configurations' overall mission return leading to improved
mission design.
Voyager Award: Martina Troesch
For outstanding technical achievement in the development of marine autonomy
techniques to leverage ocean models for autonomous station keeping in
vertically profiling floats and autonomous glider-based tracking of ocean
science features.
2017
Charles Elachi Award for Oustanding Early Career Achievement: Michael A. Trowbridge
For exceptional technical accomplishments in developing automatic methods
for accurately assessing observation capabilities to achieve areal coverage.
Explorer Award for Stategic Leadership: Russell L. Knight
For exceptional leadership in the development of mission analysis
capabilities for accurate assessment of observational capabilities of
missions.
2016
USV Swarm II Team Bonus Award: David Brown, Steve Schaffer, and the SwarmII Team
For designing, developing, and demonstrating state-of-the-art multi-agent
autonomy for ONR's "Swarm" maritime robotics program.
Achieved on the 2nd of October, 2016.
Exceptional Public Service Medal: Daniel Tran
For exceptional service in technology development and deployment, advancing
NASA's autonomy capabilities for space missions and the Deep Space Network.
JPL Explorer Award: Daniel Tran
For development and infusion of autonomy technology for Rosetta Orbiter
science planning and Deep Space Network requirements-based scheduling.
ESTD Team Bonus Award: Dan Gaines, Gregg Rabideau, Steve Schaffer, and the SRR Team
For outstanding contributions to the Mars Science Laboratory case study
resulting in an increased understanding of productivity challenges and
opportunities.
IND Team Award: Daniel Tran, Martina Troesch, and the SSS Team
The team successfully completed the development and deployment of
the next generation DSN realtime scheduling system.
2015
ESTD Team Bonus Award: Steve Schaffer and the DARPA ACTUV Autonomy Team
In recognition of your outstanding team accomplishments in supporting the
highly successful FY 14-15 efforts to innovate, substanially improve,
integrate and deliver a state-of-the-art motion planner to ASW Continuous
Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) DARPA supplier for integration into Sea
Hunter, DARPA's new unmanned surface vehicle for the ACTUV program. JPL's
motion planner for the first time ever provided for the ACTUV program both a
novel deliberative planner for high-level navigation and also "rules of the
road" behavior for open ocean interactions with other surface traffic as a
Navy Force-Multiplier.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Steve Chien, Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Martina Troesch, Joshua
Doubleday, and the rest of the US-Rosetta Team
For support to Rosetta mission in environment characterization, science
planning, and navigation leading to successful landing of Philae on the
coment.
Magellan Award for Outstanding Senior JPL Management: Steve A. Chien
For outstanding leadership in the application of automated science planning
technologies in partnership with ESA for the Rosetta Mission
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal: Steve A. Chien
For exceptional achievement in developing science-scheduling automation
enabling Rosetta science operations to adapt quickly to changing comet and
mission.
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal: Gregg R. Rabideau
For outstanding and sustained contributions in technology development and
deployment, advancing NASA's capabilities in ground-based and onboard
spacecraft autonomy.
ESTD Team Bonus Award: Steve Schaffer and the Navy USV SWARM Demo Team
In recognition of your outstanding team accomplishment in supporting the
highly successful, first-time-ever, demonstrated JPL CARACaS Intelligent
Autonomous Mission-level Control & Hazard Avoidance / Situational Awareness
Architecture for the coordination of 5-8 Unpiloted Sea Surface Vehicles to
prove out SWARM Technology as a Naval Force Multiplier for cost- and
warfighter- effective ship defense for the US Navy in the high-profile
ONR/OSD exercise August 2014 on the James River, VA.
2014
Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal: Russell Knight
For revolutionary development of geometry-aware and coverage observation
planning techniques, impacting numerous NASA missions.
NASA Group Achievment Award: Joshua Doubleday, Steve Chien, and the IPEX Team
For outstanding performance in the development and operation of the
IPEX/CP-8 Cubesat advancing new technologies for future autonomous science
observations systems.
2013
Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal: Tara Estlin
For exceptional technological achievement in onboard rover autonomy leading
to operational deployment on the Mars Exploration Rovers and further
missions.
Exceptional Achievement Medal: Daniel Gaines
For outstanding contributions to the Mars Science Laboratory flight
software, including key insights contributing to the resolution of the
Rad750 reset anomaly.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Mark Johnston, Daniel Tran, and the SSS development team
For outstanding innovation in the development of new DSN scheduling
software for web-based collaborative schedule creation and
negotiation.
2011
NASA Software of the Year Award (Winner): Tara Estlin, Robert C. Anderson, Benjamin Bornstein,
Michael Burl,
Rebecca Castano, Charles de Granville, Daniel Ganes, Michele Judd,
David Thompson
For the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science
(AEGIS) technology and its implementation abord the Mars Exploration
Rover (MER) Opportunity.
NASA Software of the Year Award (Honorable Mention): Troy Ames, Matthew Handy, Vuong Ly, Daniel
Mandl, Frederick Policelli,
Donald V. Sullivan,
Patrice Cappelaere,
Steve Chien, Ashley G. Davies, Joshua Doubleday, Mark Johnston, David McLaren, Gregg Rabideau,
Steven Schaffer, Daniel Tran,
Linda Derezinski,
Stuart Frye,
Robert Sohlberg
For the Sensorweb Toolbox and it's application to a wide range of Earth
Science and disaster monitoring including volcanism, flooding, and
wildfires.
AIAA Intelligent Systems Award: Steve Chien
To recognize important fundamental contributions to intelligent
systems technologies and applications that advance the capabilities
of aerospace systems, presented to Steve Chien for pioneering
achievement in deploying AI-based planners on spacecraft to enable
event detection and response and sensorweb capabilities for
earth-observing and planetary missions.
NASA Group Achievment Award: Tara Estlin, Robert C. Anderson, Ben Bornstein, Michael Burl,
Rebecca Castano, Charles de Granville, Daniel Gaines, David R.
Thompson
For the development of the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering
Increased Science (AEGIS) technology and its implementation on the
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity.
NASA Group Achievment Award: Daniel Tran, Gregg Rabideau, Steve Chien, Steve Schaffer, Daniel
Mandl, Russell DeHart
For outstanding technical achievement in developing automated
mission planning techniques to substantially increase observation
scene count capabilities of the EO-1 mission.
NASA Group Achievment Award: Terrance Huntsberger, Hrand Aghazarian, Christopher Assad, Harry
Balian, Charles Bergh, Lorena Carrillo, Robert Chan, Tien-Hsin
Chao, Tara Estlin, Carol Fisher, Daniel Gaines, Michael Garrett,
Andrew Howard, Eric Kulczycki, Yoshiaki Kuwata, Thomas Lu, Lee
Magnone, Curtis Padgett, Brandon Reese, Steve Schaffer, Robert
Steele, Anna Stern, Robert Stirbl, Helen Tanabe, Julie Townsend,
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, David Trotz, Gabriel Udomkesmalee, Richard
Volpe, Michael Wolff, Gail Woodward, David Zhu
For exemplary performance in development and transition of
first-of-its-kind intelligent autonomy technology derived from NASA
flight missions to the US Navy maritime domain.
2010
Best Applied Research Paper: S. Chien, D. Tran, G. Rabideau, S. Schaffer, D. Mandl, S. Frye
For paper entitled "Timeline-based Space Operations Scheduling with External
Constraints" presented at May 2010 International Conference on Automated
Planning and Scheduling, Toronto, Canada.
2009
NASA Honor Award: A. Castano, A. Fukunaga, J. Biesieadecki, L. Neakrase, P. Whelley,
R. Greeley, M. Lemmon, R. Castano, B. Bornstein, S. Chien
To the MER Onboard Dust Devil Cloud Detection Team for design
implementation and deployment of algorithms for automated detection
of dust devils and clouds onboard the Mars Exploration Rovers.
2007
NASA Group Achievement Award: Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
To the Earth Observing One Sensorweb Team for outstanding
achievement in the development of an operational 24/7 autonomous
Earth Observing sensorweb integrating multiple space and ground
sensors.
2006
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal: Steve Chien
In recognition of outstanding leadership of the Autonomous
Sciencecraft and Sensorweb efforts on Earth Observing One.
Level A Bonus Award: Steve Chien
In recognition of outstanding leadership of the Autonomous
Sciencecraft Experiment, enabling flight validation of autonomy
software to enable increased science return and reduced operations
costs.
2005
Steve Chien, Daniel Tran, Ben Cichy, Gregg Rabideau
The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment software is a co-winner of
the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award, for its ability to monitor
and respond to scientific events without ground intervention and the
entailed increase in science return and reduction in operations
costs. ASE is no longer an experiment: it is the primary mission
operations software for EO1.
Section 317 Team Award for Excellence: Tara Estlin,
Daniel Gaines,
Caroline Chouinard
For outstanding contributions to the OASIS Development Team leading
to the successful demonstration of autonomous planning and
scheduling for rover operations.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
For outstanding accomplishments in demonstrating, as part of the
Earth Observing-1 mission, the potential for space missions to
increase total engineering and science data return by using
spacecraft autonomous decision making.
NASA Group Achievement Award: Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
To the Livingstone on Earth Observing-1 Team
NASA Group Achievement Award: Gregg Rabideau, Daniel Tran, Steve Chien
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Best Paper Runner-Up:
Daniel Tran,
Steve Chien,
Gregg Rabideau,
Ben Cichy
For "Safe Agents in Space: Preventing and Responding to Anomalies in the Autonomous Sciencecraft
Experiment" at
AAMAS 2005 Workshop on Safety and Security in Multi-Agent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2005.
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Level A Bonus Award: Daniel Tran
For Scientific and technical excellence: Outstanding technical
achievements in flight software development and resolution of
multiple inflight anomalies critical to the success of the
Autonomous Sciencecraft experiment enabling flight validation of
autonomy technology for future missions.
2004
Best Paper in Session
For "Onboard Autonomy on the Earth Observing One Mission," at
the 1st AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Converence, Chicago, IL, September 2004.
2003
NASA Space Act Award:
Brad Clement,
Tony Barrett,
Rus Knight,
Gregg Rabideau
For work on Abstract Reasoning for Multiple Rover Coordination.
NASA Space Act Award
The ASE software team was awarded a NASA Space Act Award in
recognition of "Significant Scientific and Technical Contributions
to NASA" for "Software for the TechSat 21 Autonomous Sciencecraft
Experiment (ASE)."
2002
Best Software Prototype Paper Finalist
For "The Techsat-21 Autonomous Space Science Agent" at
Agents 2002 Conference, Bolonga, Italy, July 2002.
2000
NASA Exceptional Service Medal
Steve Chien
Granted for significant sustained performance characterized by
unusual initiative or creative ability that clearly demonstrates
substantial improvement in engineering, aeronautics, space flight,
administration, support, or space-related endeavors which contribute
to NASA programs.
NASA Group Achievement Award: ASPEN Development Team
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the design,
implementation, and deployment of an advanced planning and
scheduling system for spaceflight mission operations automation.
NOVA Leadership Award: Tara Estlin
For demonstrating leadership quality by open dialogue and direction
to many tasks and achievement of goals for these tasks.
1999
Honorable Mention, 1999 NASA Software of the Year - ASPEN:
Steve Chien,
Gregg Rabideau,
Russell Knight,
Robert Sherwood,
Alex Fukunaga,
Ben Smith,
Forest Fisher,
Tara Estlin,
Tony Barrett,
Anita Govindjee,
Andre Stechert,
David Yan
Co-winner, 1999 NASA Software of the Year - Remote Agent:
E. Gamble, Jr.,
B.D. Smith,
D.E. Bernard,
N.F. Roquette,
E. Gat,
Y.-W. Tung,
G.K. Man,
S.A. Chien,
S. Davies,
G. Rabideau,
D. Yan,
Daniel L. Dvorak
Group Achievement Award - Adaptive Problem Solving Team:
Mike Burl,
Steve Chien (Team Lead),
Darren Mutz,
Andre Stechert
In recognition of breakthrough advances in statistical learning
techniques enabling significant performance improvement in adaptive
systems for automated planning and scheduling and optimization.
Group Achievement Award - Deep Space One Flight Software Team: (For Remote Agent Experiment
Planner):
Steve Chien,
Anita Govindjee,
Gregg Rabideau,
Ben Smith,
Todd Turco,
David Yan
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the design,
development, and demonstration of an advanced autonomous agent for
spacecraft control.
Group Achievement Award - Deep Space Terminal (DS-T) Team:
Steve Chien,
Tara Estlin,
Forest Fisher,
Darren Mutz
In recognition of outstanding achievement in the design,
development, and demonstration of an advanced autonomous Deep Space
Communications Station.
NOVA Award - Adaptive Problem Solving (APS) Team:
Steve Chien (Team Lead),
M. Burl,
D. Mutz,
A. Stechert
In recognition of breakthrough advances in statistical learning
techniques enabling significant performance in adaptive systems for
automated planning and scheduling as well as optimization.
NOVA Award - Automated Rover Sequence Generation Demonstration Team:
Steve A. Chien,
G. Rabideau (Team Lead),
P. Backes,
E. Chalfant,
K. Tso
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design and
demonstration of an advanced planning and scheduling system for
automation of rover command generation and validation.
NOVA Award - Multi-Rover Integrated Science Understanding System (MISUS) Team:
Eric Mjolsness (Team Lead),
Tara Estlin,
Becky Castano,
Tobias Mann,
Alex Gray,
Gregg Rabideau,
Darren Mutz,
Steve Chien,
Ashley Davies
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design, implementation,
and demonstration of a distributed architecture for multi-rover
science exploration.
1998
Group Achievement Award - Automated Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Processor (ASIP) Development
Team:
Steve Chien,
Forest Fisher (Team Lead),
Ronald Greely,
Edisanter Lo
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design, implementation,
and deployment of an advanced planning system for science data
analysis.
Group Achievement Award - DATA-CHASER Automated Planning and Scheduling (DCAPS) System
Development Team:
Steve Chien,
Tobias Mann,
Gregg Rabideau (Team Lead),
Jason Willis
In recognition of outstanding achievement in design, implementation,
and deployment of an advanced planning and scheduling system for
mission operations automation.
NOVA Award - DCAPS Planning Systems Team:
Steve A. Chien,
William C. Eggemeyer,
Tobias P. Mann,
Gregg R. Rabideau (Team Lead),
Jason Willis
In recognition of outstanding achievement in research and
development in the DCAPS planning system.
NOVA Award - Deep Space Terminal Prototype Automation Team:
Steve A. Chien,
Tara A. Estlin,
Forest W. Fisher (Team Lead),
Raymond K. Lam,
Darren H. Mutz
In recognition of outstanding achievement in research and
development in Deep Space Terminal Prototype Automation.
NOVA Award: Russell Knight
In recognition of the Commitment to Excellence demonstrated by
Russell Knight working on improvements to the ASPEN planning and
scheduling system.
NOVA Award: Gregg Rabideau
In recognition of the outstanding efforts made by Gregg Rabideau in
the development and deployment of automated planning and scheduling
technology.
NOVA Award: Ben Smith
In recognition of the outstanding leadership that Ben Smith has
demonstrated on the New Millenium Deep Space One Planning Engine
development task, solving complex technical problems and performing
many system engineering duties.
