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Partners with COSGC
The Colorado Space Grant Consortium and the experience it provides to students is strengthened by its many partnerships. Below is a partial list of the NASA centers, industries, and organizations that the COSGC is currently work with.
Air Force Research Laboratory
Ames Research Center
Analytical Graphics Inc
Ball
Composite Technology Development
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
Goddard Space Flight Center
Interface Control Systems
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lockheed Martin
Marshall Space Flight Center
Microsat
Planetary Systems Corporation
SpaceWorks
Starsys Research
Xilinx
Air Force Research Laboratory:
http://www.afrl.af.mil/employment
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is the heart of science and technology for the United States Air Force. The men and women of AFRL are creating the Air Force of the future-turning science fiction into science fact. AFRL is responsible for developing the systems crucial to aerospace superiority. With a team of more than 5,200 scientists, engineers, and support personnel throughout the world, the Air Force Research Laboratory is one of the most exciting organizations in the Air Force. Because our employees are up close and personal with the discovery, development, and integration of cutting-edge technologies, AFRL presents some of the most rewarding career opportunities anywhere.
AFRL is organized into nine technology directorates plus the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Each technology directorate performs, procures, and synthesizes basic research, exploratory technology development, and advanced technology development within its areas of responsibility.
Ames Research Center:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/
Founded in 1939, NASA Ames has evolved into one of the nation's premiere
research labs in support of NASA missions and the nations Vision for Space
Exploration. Located in California's Silicon Valley, NASA Ames has created
partnerships with leading universities and high-technology industry leaders,
bringing the scientific and corporate communities together in efforts to advance
human knowledge and explore the unknown.
Analytical Graphics, Inc.: 
http://www.agi.com
Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), headquartered in The Commons at Great Valley near Philadelphia, PA, offers commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) geospatial analysis and visualization software to more than 30,000 aerospace, defense, and intelligence professionals worldwide through its core product Satellite Tool Kit� (STK) and a comprehensive set of STK add-on modules. With integrated land, sea, air, and space elements, the STK software suite provides technology solutions for all phases of industry programs and initiatives.
AGI emphasizes product excellence, customer success, fun, and exceptional stakeholder value. Enjoying strong growth in its 15-year history, AGI has been named to numerous prestigious lists, including the Inc. 500, Technology Fast 50, Technology Fast 500, Softletter Top 100, and Space News Top 50. AGI has also been recognized as one of the "best places to work" in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Magazine), Pennsylvania (Great Place to Work® Institute), and the United States (Mademoiselle Magazine).
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation:
http://www.ball.com/aerospace/
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s vision is to be a global leader providing advanced imaging, communications, and information solutions to the government and commercial aerospace markets.
Ball Aerospace offers employees, customers, and other stakeholders the opportunities and technical solutions to turn their visions into reality by believing in outstanding people, technical excellence, professional freedom and creativity, unwavering integrity, and business excellence.
We conduct domestic and international business in the defense, civil space, and commercial arenas, providing best value and innovative solutions. Ball Aerospace supports national policy-makers, the military services, NASA, and other U.S. government agencies, as well as numerous aerospace industry allies.
Composite Technology Development:
http://www.ctd-materials.com
CTD is a unique company that merges the development of original materials with incisive engineering methods to provide our customers with innovative solutions for their specific technology and system needs.
Our mission is to develop enabling engineered materials solutions for composites, insulation, adhesives, and coatings for cryogenic, space, and other harsh environments.
Interface Control Systems:
http://www.interfacecontrol.com/
"Leading the way people think of, design, integrate, test, and operate real-time autonomous command and control systems."
Interface & Control Systems has been in the Real-Time, Automated Command and Control business since 1988. We have seen many changes in the Aerospace industry and have continually adapted our SCL product to meet exceedingly higher demands for reliable and robust control systems in the Aerospace, Intelligence, and e-Commerce sectors.
And our track record speaks for itself. Our highly qualified engineering staff have provided Systems Engineering, Development and Fielding of large scale systems. ICS also provides product, training, and engineering services to a wide variety of customers like Lockheed Martin, The Aerospace Corporation, Ball Aerospace, Johns Hopkins University and Applied Physics Lab, Naval Research Laboratory, Aerojet, GE-Harris and the Army. These companies have relied on SCL as the core component of mission critical systems that include:
- Control Centers
- Embedded (flight and ground)
- Test Sets and GSE
- Tactical Intelligence
- Fault Detection and Recovery
- Simulations
- e-Commerce
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems:
http://www.gd-ais.com/
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS), headquartered in Arlington, Va., is a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR). GDAIS has a rich heritage of providing government and commercial customers in the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities with superior customer satisfaction through flawless execution and continual improvement.
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of the General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD), operates as one of four companies in the Information Systems and Technology group. General Dynamics is one of the largest technology companies in the world, employing 67,600 people and holding market leading positions in mission-critical information systems and technologies, land and amphibious combat systems, shipbuilding and marine systems, and business aviation.
Goddard Space Flight Center:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov
Goddard's role as a leader in technology and science is as alive today as it was in 1959 when Explorer Vl, under Goddard project management, provided the world with its first image of Earth from space.
Goddard is the lead Center in NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE), which is NASA's long term, coordinated researcheffort to study the Earth as a global environmental system. The Earth Observing System (EOS) is the centerpiece of the Enterprise and is managed by Goddard. EOS features a series of polar orbiting and low inclination satellites for global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmospheres and oceans.
Goddard managed the highly successful first servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in December 1993. The mission to correct the vision of the telescope's optical components, was described as the most challenging satellite servicing mission NASA has ever attempted. Goddard is also the home of the Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC). The STOCC is the nerve center for HST where all commands for the telescope originate. From this location, project managers and engineers control the observatory, retrieve data, and maintain an around-the-clock vigil of HST. The health and safety of HST, efficient operation and flight system engineering of the observatory also are the responsibility of Goddard. The Space Telescope Science Institute, a user facility where the scientific observing program is formulated on behalf of the astronomical community, is likewise managed by Goddard.
Goddard is also responsible for the procurement, development and verification testing of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES). GOES is a geostationary weather satellite system developed and launched by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The latest and most sophisticated satellite, GOES-L (11), was launched in May 2000. GOES provides atmospheric image, temperature and humidity profile, wind velocity data and severe storm coverage of the Earth's western hemisphere. NASA and NOAA are in a cooperative program to continue the GOES system with the launch of new generation GOES spacecraft throughout the decade.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
A new generation of space missions to explore the solar system and the universe beyond is unfolding at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The American space age began January 31, 1958, with the launch of the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, built and controlled by JPL. In the four decades since then, JPL has led the world in exploring all of the solar system�s known planets, except Pluto, with robotic spacecraft. The tools developed at JPL for its spacecraft expeditions to other planets have also proved invaluable in providing new insights and discoveries in studies of Earth, its atmosphere, climate, oceans, geology and the biosphere.
Entering the new millennium as the 21st century begins, JPL continues as a world leader in science and technology, breaking new ground in the miniaturization and efficiency of spacecraft components. At the same time, the Laboratory is pushing the sensitivity of space sensors and broadening their applications for a myriad of scientific, medical, industrial and commercial uses on Earth.
JPL is a federally funded research and development facility managed by the California Institute of Technology for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Lockheed Martin:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com
The sky's not the limit at Lockheed Martin, where we're helping our customers turn vision into reality with critical space missions. We're harnessing the power of space with capable, efficient and cost-effective systems to help businesses and governments, citizens and entrepreneurs, scientists and peacekeepers move our world from what is, to what can be.
Lockheed Martin capabilities address the complete range of space systems requirements including launch services; the design, manufacture and integration of on-orbit systems; and spacecraft operations on the ground. The goal: An integrated approach with a commitment to performance that provides assured and reliable access to space, and focuses on cost effective solutions.
At Lockheed Martin, we bring the advantages of space-based systems down to Earth. Breakthroughs in telecommunications, navigation, remote sensing, space transportation, and planetary explorations are changing the way we talk, see, think, work and live.
Examples of critical missions our space systems and technologies support include:
- Support to the human space flight program
- Orbiting observatories and telescopes that extend the field of vision to the very origins of life
- Critical national security payloads that gather intelligence and provide protected connectivity
- Sophisticated spacecraft that capture high-resolution images and relay information back to Earth
We realize that for our customers, critical space payloads represent their future. When it's time to put their future into orbit, we only have one chance to get it right. From national security to telecommunications, weather forecasting to planetary exploration, every mission is critical. Our customers are relentlessly focused on their missions. And so are we.
Marshall Space Flight Center:
http://msfc.nasa.gov/
MicroSat Systems:
http://www.microsatsystems.com
MSI is a small business that designs, builds, integrates, tests and operates high performance satellites. The company also builds high performance spacecraft subsystems, including advanced thin-film solar arrays for space power systems and lightweight composite structures for commercial and government space industries.
MicroSat Systems Inc. (MSI) was founded in April 2001. The company was formed as a product company (spin-off) from technology incubator ITN Energy Systems after ITN was awarded the Air Force Laboratory�s TechSat 21 (program) for three microsatellites demonstrating formation flying and distributed aperture processing.
Planetary Systems Corporation:
http://www.planetarysystemscorp.com
PSC was founded in 1998 with the goal of providing high-quality, affordable mechanical systems to the aerospace industry. PSC has invested over two million dollars and nearly five years of R&D to produce the Lightband
Every flight Lightband is tested for strength, stiffness, separation reliability, thermal vacuum, and vibration. Our goal is 99% reliability with 95% confidence rating. Performance is demonstrated through rigorous test verification; we have a 100% success rate.
SpaceWorks:
http://www.spaceworksinc.com/
SpaceWorks has career opportunities for motivated, skilled, experienced individuals that are ready to develop exceptional space systems.
- Senior Electrical Systems Engineer
- Senior Mechanical Systems Engineer
- Communications Engineer
- Technician
- Business Manager
Starsys Research:
http://www.starsys.com/
We are a design, engineering, and manufacturing company, located in Boulder, Colorado, that provides mechanical systems to the aerospace industry.
Founded in 1986, we have developed a reputation for outstanding performance, providing mechanical systems, structures, and mechanisms that open, close, release, and move components on a spacecraft. We are known as the company to go to for motion-control actuators, cover systems, deployment systems, and separation systems.
People choose to work with us because they know, either from other customers or from past experience, that we are the best in the business. With the diversity of our technology base and our innovative approach to problem solving, we deliver solutions that meet our customers' needs for performance, schedule, and cost. We work closely with our customers to ensure that we provide exactly what they need, exactly when they need it.
From initial concept through flight certification, our facility has the machine shops, clean rooms, and environmental testing areas required for the specific demands of the aerospace industry. Our mechanisms have flown on more than 200 spacecraft, with 100 percent operational success.
We are experts in our industry, and we strive to be innovative, personal, and professional. We attract the best and the brightest engineers, technicians, and machinists because our work environment is both challenging and fun. Our customers tell us that when they work with us, they "become" a part of our entrepreneurial culture.
Our work is about using our heads, our hands, and our hearts. Because we are extraordinary, our results are extraordinary.
Xilinx:
http://www.xilinx.com/
While the rest of the industry was moving towards layoffs and shaking-off excessive inventory, Xilinx was busy innovating, collaborating, and introducing new products to market. Unlike many of our counterparts, Xilinx viewed the downturn as an opportunity to focus on research and development, streamline operations, and deliver new products that would change the FPGA landscape.
This last year, Xilinx decisively separated itself from our competition. For the first time in our history, we secured over 50% of the PLD market share and are bigger than all other public PLD companies combined. We avoided layoffs and were ranked by Fortune magazine as the sixth best company to work for.
Through the power of innovation and partnerships, Xilinx also took the FPGA-based value chain to a new level. By teaming with technology leaders in silicon fabrication, design automation, system level tools, IP, and design services, we delivered a complete value chain and strengthened our position as a strategic partner for our customers. Delivering this complete value chain enables the fastest innovation while reducing total development and system costs for our customers. It also reduces time to market and increases time in market for our customer's products.
This unique work environment has resulted in breakthrough technology, marketing and community achievements. For example, Xilinx continues to support local schools through our Stock for Students program and made a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross. Also, Xilinx was the first semiconductor company to simulcast training in North America and Europe through industry events like Programmable World 2002.
With a combination of innovative products, world-class partners, inspired employees and the recognition of the balance between business and community, our clients have taken Xilinx solutions, management, and employees to heart. This is a reminder that good people ultimately do come in first when they are inspired and empowered to be leaders.
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