Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer

NASA Stennis Supports Louisiana Businesses, Academia, and Government Entities
Over the years, successful partnerships with NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC), located in southern Mississippi, have brought benefits to Louisiana businesses, academia, and government entities. These stakeholders work in harmony with Mississippi interests beyond borders to leverage the assets of NASA and the companies that support the NASA mission, as well as the many other federal labs at Stennis. Nearly 30% of the more than 5200 employees at the Stennis Federal City are residents of Louisiana, providing a sizable return-on-investment economic impact to the state. The 2008 direct economic impact (50-mile radius) of Stennis is estimated at $691 million. The Louisiana Technology Transfer Office (LTTO) is designed to foster business relationships between Louisiana industry and federal laboratories. This mission is accomplished through the Louisiana Business and Technology Center's (LBTC) statewide activities and offices located on the campus of Louisana State University in Baton Rouge and an office at NASA's SSC.

Handheld Apparatus for Mobile Mapping and Expedited Reporting
Real property managers, engineers, public works officials, environmental scientists, natural and cultural resource managers, risk managers, and first responders routinely face the difficult task of acquiring data and effectively integrating it for operations management and decision-making. Key to minimizing risk is having the ability to rapidly collect, analyze, and share disparate data (structural, economic, geospatial, environmental, cultural) of the assets across the landscape into a common operating picture (COP). This understanding is fundamental to managing our nation's complex infrastructure. Conventional methods are labor-intensive, involve multiple technologies that are not well-integrated, and require numerous steps to produce a map or report. Between 2000 and 2008, Tad Britt, Senior Researcher with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), conceived, designed, and developed the HAMMER™-Handheld Apparatus for Mobile Mapping and Expedited Reporting. The instrument integrates a broad spectrum of high resolution, geospatial and sensor data in an accurate, digital, objective, and consistent manner. This fine-grained data can be seamlessly organized into a relational database for automatic report generation.