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Plum Brook Station recently hosted the TTPO staff on a tour through its major facilities, including the newly rededicated Space Power Facility.

The Technology Transfer and Partnership Office (TTPO) exists to promote leveraged partnerships. We facilitate and catalyze efforts to ensure that NASA’s technology and capability portfolio is supplemented through partnerships with commercial, academic, and other external sectors to gain access to a wider variety of technologies than the Agency could develop in-house.

We enable leveraged partnerships through the wide variety of mechanisms that are illustrated in this report and summarized below.

• NASA’s Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP): The IPP promotes leveraged technology partnerships aimed at both technology infusion and transfer. Technology infusion is accomplished through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs as well as IPP Seed Fund (link) collaborations. More traditional technology transfer activities include new technology reporting and licensing.
  
  
• Business practices that support and document partnership formation: The TTPO negotiates Space Act Agreements—NASA’s unique method of documenting collaborative activities—as well as prepares GRC’s annual R&T Report , which documents the most illustrious research achievements of the Center.
  
  
• Awards: Recognition is achieved with the Inventions and Contributions Board Space Act awards for significant contributions to NASA’s activities from GRC’s engineering and scientific community and through commercial recognition such as the R&D 100 Awards.