NASA’s New Innovation Framework1

Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin

A radio frequency engineer from rural New Hampshire contributed the best solution to a public challenge issued by NASA’s Space Life Sciences Directorate. This is a clear example of what Aneesh Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer, describes as “... a notion that in our society, knowledge is widely dispersed. And if knowledge is widely dispersed, how do we capture the insights from the American people?”

Chopra also said, in the speech titled, “Rethinking Government” to a live audience at the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum, “A semi-retired radio frequency engineer living in rural New Hampshire was able to share his idea on how to address this problem, and it so blew away the ...

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