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I'm Lori Meggs and I'm bill hubscher

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welcome to focus on Marshall for today's

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program we are at the activities

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building on the marshall center at the

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research and Technology Expo that's

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right bill in most of the time we have

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to go and find technologies but this is

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a dream come true for us all the

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technologies are here right in one place

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road how do we go see what I can find

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okay and while Lori gets a head start on

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that we are joined now by the chief

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technologist here at the marshall center

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james bilbro first of all sir thank you

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for making time to talk to us today oh

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it's my pleasure it's a very important

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subject to me well let's get started

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with the overall the big picture tell us

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just how important technology is to the

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agency and to the vision for Space

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Exploration well you know NASA is really

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all about a cutting edge and you can't

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do the kind of research the kind of

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missions that that NASA is proposing

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particularly with respect to exploration

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without having technology development

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and so the ability to develop the

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technology to get the technology focus

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to the needs for the mission are going

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to be one of the most challenging and

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important things that the agency can do

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so how important though is is the

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marshall center into the development of

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technology for the agency marshall is a

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development center so first and foremost

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it's primary responsibility is

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developing vehicles like the the Ares

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one on the Ares 5 the responsibility

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that we have relative to the lunar

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programs those are those are major

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what I call engineering development

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programs and yet it's critical not only

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to have technology developed in order to

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enable those missions but to actually

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understand how technology has developed

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as you incorporate them from the other

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research centers within the agency from

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other agencies from industry academia

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and so doing technology development at

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Marshall not only provides the kind of

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technologies that we're going to need

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for our future missions but it provides

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skills and training to the individuals

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and to the programs and projects to

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understand what is involved in

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technology development you don't always

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get from point A to point B in a

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straight line thanks very much again for

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coming to talk to us today we're going

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to see some of those technologies you

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were talking about right now here today

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so let's go see if we can catch up with

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lori i'm here with fred SRAM the

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independent research and development

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program administrator for marshall and

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fred tell me about all of the things

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that we're seeing here today well what

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you actually have here is a science fair

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Hall of Fame because all the people here

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are winners at least twice first of all

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they won the research funding under our

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program competing with maybe 150 others

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for program funding maybe 20 out of 150

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might get funded so they're already

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winners in that respect and then again

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because they've actually taken their

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idea to a product or to some level of

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understanding where some program project

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or someone with additional funding that

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has a problem or a need for their

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technology can see it they can talk to

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the innovator about it and then possibly

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offer them additional funding for for a

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follow-on development effort now one of

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the examples maybe the surface mobility

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people right here you may want to talk

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to them about that all right we're going