ViGYAN corporate awards include:

ViGYAN Wins a 2003 R&D 100 Award

NASA Minority Contractor of the Year - 1987
U.S. Small Business Administration Minority Small Business Person of the Year - 1989
Co-winner of the 1996 NASA Software of the Year Award for VGRID and VPLOT.


Frederick D. Gregory, NASA Associate Administrator for Safety and Mission Assurance, jointly with Dr. Daniel R. Mulville, NASA Chief Engineer and Chair of NASA's Inventions and Contributions Board, today [July 9,1996] announced the winners of the 1996 NASA Software of the Year Award. The award is granted to software that has been developed by NASA that has been used in significant ways to enhance its mission and to assist U.S. industry to maintain world-class technology status.

Patents held by ViGYAN employees include:

• Leading Edge Cavity Flap for Swept Wings (12/01/87)
  
• Aircraft Stall-Spin Entry Deterrent System, Pat. #4,776,542 (10/11/88)
  
• Yaw and Pitch Control of Air Vehicles at High Angles of Attack, Pat. #4,786,009 (11/22/88)
  
• Gain Control of Photomultiplier Tubes Used in Detecting Differential Asorption LIDAR Returns, Pat. #4,820,914 (04/11/89)
  
• Vehicle Aerodynamic Drag Reduction System and Process, Pat. #4,867,397 (09/19/89)
  
• Control-Configured Vortex Flaps, Pat. #5,094,411 (3/10/92)
  
• Pilots Automated Weather Support System, Pat. #5,265,024 (11/23/93)
  
• Porous Airfoil and Process, Pat. #5,167,387 (12/01/92)
  
• Lift Augmentation for Highly Swept Wing Aircraft, Pat. #5,255,881 (10/26/93)
  
• Directional Emittance Surface Measurement System and Process, Pat. #5,347,128 (9/13/94)

ViGYAN employee awards include:

• IR-100 Winner in 1987 awarded by Research & Development magazine. Popular Science magazine made similar award in 1990
  
• Co-recipient of R&D 100 Award, FDP 3100 Frequency Domain Processor, October 1990
  

NASA Certificates of Appreciation

• From the NASP Aero-Space Plane Program for participation and key technical contributions as a Langley Integrator Team Member. June/Sept 1987 (3 employees)
• In recognition of exceptional Service and achievement in support of the Aeroassist Flight Experiment Project. October 1991
• For participation in the LaRC Active Structures Technical Committee. 1991-1992
• As a member of the X-31 Drop Model Team for contribution to the program for the final core research flight of the X-31 Drop Model. April 1993
• As a member of an LaRC Group Recognition Award given to The Pegasus XL Return to Flight Team. December 1995

NASA Certificates of Recognition

• For the disclosure of an inventive contribution entitled Aerodynamic Side-Force Alleviator Means. March 1980
• For the disclosure of an inventive contribution entitled Leading Edge Vortex Flaps for Drag Reduction. June 1981
• For the disclosure of an inventive contribution entitled Leading Edge Flap System for Aircraft Control Augmentation. October 1981
• For the disclosure of an inventive contribution entitled Hinged Strake Aircraft Control System. May 1982
• For the creative development of a scientific contribution which as been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the aerospace technology program of NASA, and is entitled Aerodynamic Side Force Alleviator Means. July 1984
• For the creative development of a scientific contribution which as been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the aerospace technology program of NASA, and is entitled Leading Edge Flap System for Aircraft Control Augmentation. April 1985
• For the creative development of a technical innovation which has been proposed for publication as a NASA Tech Brief entitled Yaw Control at High Angles of Attack. September 1986
• For the creative development of a technical innovation which has been proposed for publication as a NASA Tech Brief entitled Airplane Takeoff, Abort, and Landing Performance Monitoring System. November 1987
• For the creative development of a technical innovation which has been proposed for publication as a NASA Tech Brief entitled New Method for Aerodynamic Drag Reduction of Bluff Bodies. March 1988
• For the creative development of a scientific contribution which has been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the aerospace technology program of NASA and is entitled Variable Anodic Thermal Control Coating. December 1989
• For the creative development of a scientific contribution which as been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the aerospace technology program of NASA, and is entitled Yaw and Pitch Control of Air Vehicles at High Angles of Attack. October 1990
• For the creative development of a technical innovation which has been proposed as a NASA Tech Brief entitled SOL-Sizing and Optimization Language Compiler. April 1991
• For the creative development of a technical innovation which has been proposed for publication as a NASA Tech Brief entitled Codes for Evaluating Thermodynamic Properties, Transport Properties and Equilibrium Constants of an 11-Species Air Model. May 1991
• For the disclosure of an invention entitled Airplane Runway Performance Monitoring System. July 1993
• For the disclosure of an invention entitled Airplane Takeoff and Landing Performance Monitoring System. September 1994
• For the creative development of a technological contribution which has been determined to be of significant value in the advancement of the space and aeronautical activities of NASA, and is entitled: Airplane Runway Performance Monitoring System. September 1994
• NASA Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Engineering Accomplishments in the Assessment of Productivity Issues Crucial to the National Transonic Facility as a member of the National Transonic Facility (NTF) Productivity Assessment Improvement Study Team. September 1995

NASA Group Achievement Awards

• To a member of the NASA F-18 High Angle-of-Attack Aerodynamic Team for superior efforts in definition of complex aerodynamics at high-angle-of-attack conditions and aggressive application of computational fluid dynamics methods in the NASA High Angle-of-attack Technology Program.
• First Shuttle Flight Achievement Award for contribution to the success of the First Manned Orbital Flight of the Space Shuttle.
• As a member of the Technical Analysis Team for the National Aero-Space Plane Program for exceptional effort in providing an analytical assessment of design and performance potential of the National Aero-Space Plane vehicles with emphasis on propulsion systems.
• To a member of the Vortex Flap Development Team for exceptional scientific achievement in developing concepts for exploiting separation-induced vortex flows to improve the capabilities of high-performance aircraft. October 1982
• To a member of the Advanced Technology Airfoil Test (ATAT) Research Team for the conduct of a cooperative study with the U.S. transport industry to determine the flight equivalent aerodynamic characteristics of an extensive series of advanced technology airfoils. November 1985
• To the Transonic Wall Interference Assessment/Correction Methodology Team for outstanding contributions to the understanding of transonic wind-tunnel-wall interference and the provision of computer codes that permit the accurate assessment and correction of wind-tunnel data for wall interference effects. May 1989
• To a member of the SILTS Anomaly Resolution and Data Retrieval Team for outstanding, investigative assessment of SILTS experiment operation on STS 61-C, resulting in full understanding of hardware operation anomalies and generation of the first in situ-infrared imagery of the Shuttle Orbiter in flight. May 1989
• To a member of the X-29 Drop Model Team for outstanding teamwork in conducting drop model tests of X-29 configuration which contributed significantly to defining its high-angle-of-attack flight dynamic characteristics and control system requirements, and for providing vital support to the full-scale flight program. June 1990 (2 employees)
• As a member of the Unstructured Grid Methodology Team, for outstanding achievement in developing unstructured grid methodology, including grid generation, flow solver, and flow visualization, for efficiently and accurately solving the Euler equations about complex shapes. March 1992 (2 employees)
• To a member of the F-18 Thrust Vectoring Control System Flight Research Team for out-standing accomplishments in the development and flight demonstration of multi-axis thrust vectoring controls in the NASA High Angle-of Attack Technology Program. March 1993

NASA Honorary Superior Accomplishment Awards

• For superior performance and high-quality contributions to the development, evaluation, and flight testing of an algorithm for the Takeoff Performance Monitoring System (TOPMS). March 1989
• For timely computational support to the Test Module Review Activities of the National Aero-Space Plane Project. July 1989
• For superior performance and high-qualtiy contributions in developing a detailed aerodynamic model of the ALS-L boost vehicle for use in design and simulation necessary to carrying out a research program of national importance. November 1989
• For superior performance and high quality contributions in support of research and development of advanced optical sensor systems. April 1990
• For outstanding effort in the development of an incompressible Navier-Stokes code, VOR3DI, for vortical flow analysis. July 1990
• For outstanding effort in the development of a high-order accurate three-dimensional boundary-layer program for supersonic laminar flow control research. July 1990
• For outstanding performance in modifying and maintaining the CFL3D code and for outstanding support of the users of this code. May 1991
• For proposing an innovative porous wing concept which can be applied to a variety of aircraft. August 1991
• For coauthoring the Report Selected by a Committee of Peers as the Outstanding Scientific Paper Documenting SDyD-Sponsored, In-House Research in Calendar Year 1991. April 1992
• For the development of a new concept for the generation of unstructured grids. August 1992
• For recognition of superior accomplishment in support of the design, development, and testing of the Optical Measurement System. September 1992

NASA Team Excellence Awards

• To a member of the SILTS Experiment Flight and Data Processing Team for outstanding achievement in accomplishing the successful flight operations, and subsequent flight data processing for the Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing (SILTS) experiment. February 1992
• To a member of the National Transonic Facility Modification for Productivity Team for outstanding contributions to the modifications and upgrade of the National Transonic Facility and timely completion of the CoF Project. June 1993
• To a member of the Space Station Freedom Assembly Dynamics and Control Team for outstanding contributions to the validation of the Johnson Space Center Space Station Freedom Program dynamics simulation capability. July 1993
• NASA Team Award in recognition of his contributions to the Access to Space Option 3, Single Stage-to-Orbit Airbreathing/Rocket Vehicle team. September 1993
• To a member of the CSI Team for EOS AM-1 Performance Enhancement and Jitter Reduction for outstanding contributions to the prelaunch structural dynamics analysis and pointing jitter predictions for the Goddard Space Flight Center EOS AM-1 Project Office. December 1993.
• As a member of the X-31 Drop Model Team for outstanding teamwork in the conduct of the X-31 drop model program which provided results that were vital to the success of the full-scale flight program. February 1994 (3 employees)
• As a member of the MD-11 Pylon Fairing Redesign Team for outstanding teamwork in using advanced CFD methods to develop an improved pylon fairing for the McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Transport Aircraft MD-11 Airplane. June 1994

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