Small Businesses Help Us Explore Space!

Earlier this month, Congress introduced a resolution officially recognizing Nov. 24, 2018 as Small Business Saturday “to increase awareness of the value of locally owned small businesses and the impact of locally owned small businesses on the economy of the United States.”

This annual American Express campaign began on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2010 to support “local places that make our communities strong.”

For 60 years, we have supported and partnered with small businesses across the country to pioneer the future of space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

Our Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program funds the research, development and demonstration of innovative technologies that help address space exploration challenges and have significant potential for commercialization. In 2018, our program awarded 555 contracts to small businesses for a total of $180.1 million.

NASA works with small business Nanocomp Technologies Inc. of Merrimack, New Hampshire, to advance manufacturing of carbon nanotube composite materials.

Our investments in small businesses help equip future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond by advancing our science and technology capabilities. They also benefit the U.S. economy. The SBIR/STTR program’s 2017 Economic Impact Report indicated a $2.74 return for every dollar spent on awards—money well spent!

Small businesses also contribute to scientific advances for the International Space Station as well as here on Earth. Pancopia, Inc. in Hampton, Virginia, developed an innovative, high-performance water recycling system to remove high levels of organic carbon and nitrogen in wastewater. Recycling water in space saves money on resupply and enables more Earth-independence and self-reliance. With the help of an SBIR award, Pancopia is also working on a similar system for public wastewater that has the potential to cut treatment expenses to less than half the current costs.

When NASA went to the private sector to develop deformable mirror technology—a key component of starlight-blocking instruments—a small business in Berkeley, California, applied for research and development funding through SBIR to design extra-precision, segmented mirrors. This innovative approach for a small deformable mirror made up of many tiny hexagonal segments enables advanced control when paired with other optics.

Data collected by a telescope using the Iris AO deformable mirror can be used to determine if the target investigated in space is an exoplanet based on its orbit, and if the exoplanet has atmosphere using color spectrum imaging analysis. The Iris AO technology is currently being refined and prepared for inclusion in a future exoplanet mission.

Does your small business have a big idea? Your next opportunity to join our SBIR/STTR program starts on Jan. 7, 2019, when our next solicitation opens. We’ll be seeking new innovative ideas from small businesses and research institutions for research, development and demonstration of innovative technologies. Go to https://www.nasa.sbir.gov/ to learn more.

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Trends that are going to change the HR industry

Suitable candidates are considered as the assets for organizations. The hardships lead to be more strategic for the HR (human resource) team of organizations because HRs’ role is to recruit not only an employee but also understand if the employee can serve as an asset for the very organization and recruit accordingly.

Nowadays technologies have made HR industry evolving to become more efficient, profitable, and enjoyable for employees. This industry is converting into more productive one with the help of advanced technologies.

Trends That Are Going To Change The HR Industry

Following are some of the trends, which are transforming the industry:

Artificial intelligence (AI): Talent acquisition is one of the important responsibilities of HR departments, but even they cannot be entirely sure about the hiring. Artificial Intelligence technology streamlines this hiring process by relying more on the analytical process instead of by human observations. Also, AI helps in listing relevant interview questions according to the post, employee’s background.

Robotics Quotient: The HR department has many transactional activities that are ideally suited for robotic process automation (RPA). RPA enables HRs to automate tasks that are rule-based, repetitive, and standardized and results in free-minded HRs who can focus on more strategic and innovative functions as talent development, retention, and policy implementation.

Predictive analysis: HRs deal with large quantities of people data. With the help of predictive analytics, HRs need not rely on gut feeling or soft science; they can rely on proven and data-driven predictive models. Predictive analysis enables HRs to forecast the impact of people policies on the well-being and bottom-line performance of the employees.

Cloud: Cloud applications play a significant role in the HR industry. Functions of organizations need fast and flexible IT frameworks. Cloud is redefining the frameworks and process of working of the organizations. The competitions in organizations on recruiting processes increase data of a number of candidates and push the organizations to move the information to the cloud. Moving data to the cloud makes HRs’ functions more efficient as it lowers the manual works of HRs.

By the advancement of technology, HRs are playing a leadership role in the growth of organizations. As HRs are adopting the change with the help of technologies, the organizations will become smarter and more productive.

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