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Rob Sherwood

Rob Sherwood is the Manager for Earth Science Information Systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Rob is also the Experiment Manager of the New Millennium Program ST6 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment. He holds an M.B.A. from Loyola-Marymount University, a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. Rob received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for leadership in June 2005 and eight other NASA Achievement Awards for his work in Information Technology Development and Spacecraft Mission Operations. He has contributed to several projects involving Planning and Scheduling technologies and Mission Operations Automation. Previously Rob was the Supervisor of the Flight Software Development and Technology Group. Rob was also the Project Manager for the MVACS Integrated Payload on Mars Polar Lander.

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Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Project that is flying A.I. software to enable a spacecraft to make real-time decisions.
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AIST - Advanced Information Systems Tech.
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REASoN
Research, Education, and Applications Solutions Network
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ACCESS - Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth-Sun System Science
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R. Sherwood, S. Chien, D. Tran, B. Cichy, R. Castano, A. Davies, G. Rabideau, "The EO-1 Autnomous Sciencecraft," Proceedings of the 2007 Small Satellite Conference, Logan, UT, August 2007. (CL#07-2056) [PDF]

R. Sherwood and S. Chien, "Sensor Web Technologies: A New Paradigm for Operations, " Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Reducing the Costs of Spacecraft Ground Systems and Operations (RCSGSO), Moscow, Russia, June 2007. (CL#07-1639) [PDF]

R. Sherwood and S. Chien, "Sensor Webs for Science: New Directions for the Future," Proceedings of the IEEE Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Rohnert Park, CA, May 2007. (CL#07-1387) [PDF]

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2005 NASA Software of the Year Award: Co-Winner ASE
The ASE software team was awarded as a co-winner of the NASA Software of the Year Award. [NASA Site]

2005 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
For leadership of the New Millennium Program Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment, which successfully demonstrated an autonomous spacecraft.

2003 NASA Space Act Award
The ASE software team was awarded a NASA Space Act Award in recognition of "Significant Scientific and Technical Contributions to NASA" for "Software for the TechSat 21 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE)."

2002 NASA Space Act Award
For the development and operations of the Deep Space 1 Beacon Monitor Operations Software.

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