NASA ARC Internal Memo: Annual Call for Silver Snoopy Awards

Subject: Annual Call for Silver Snoopy Awards
From: Centerwide Announcement
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010

TO: Resident Staff

FROM: Janice Fried, Director, Human Capital

SUBJECT: Annual Call for Silver Snoopy Awards

As part of the ongoing motivational activities of the Space Flight Awareness (SFA) Program, nominations are requested in support of the annual Silver Snoopy Award call. The Silver Snoopy represents the astronauts’ own recognition of excellence. This award is a special honor as it is presented to the award recipients by a member of the astronaut corp.

This award provides special recognition to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding performance in support of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program. It is presented for either a single outstanding effort, or for continuous outstanding performance in support of Space Shuttle or Space Station Programs. Emphasis for this recognition is placed on efforts that either directly or indirectly ensures quality and safety for Human Spaceflight Programs, i.e., implementing programs, attaining particular goals, saving program costs, developing modifications to hardware and software, and improving operations or processes.

After careful consideration of the award criteria, nominations must be submitted using the Silver Snoopy Nomination Form. All nominations must be approved up through the sponsoring organizational director’s office and turned in no later than March 19, 2010. Please note the criteria below.

Space Flight Awareness Silver Snoopy Award Criteria

Employees (civil servant and contractors) must have significantly contributed to the Human Space Flight Program to ensure flight safety and mission success. Potential awardees must meet two or more of the following criteria:

A. Significantly contributing beyond their normal work requirements.

B. Performing a single specific achievement which contributed towards attaining a particular program goal.

C. Contributing to one or more major cost saving/cost avoidance.

D. Instrumental in developing program modifications that increase quality, reliability, safety, efficiency or performance.

E. Developing or assisting with an operational improvement that increases efficiency and performance.

F. Developing a process improvement of significant magnitude.

Note: Except in rare cases, the Silver Snoopy award is not intended for management and supervisors at GS-14 and above, as well as equivalent levels within industry, which would be second level and above.

To meet the criteria for this award, the individual’s job performance must be oriented to flight safety or mission success. It must be of outstanding nature to distinguish the individual in his or her particular area of responsibility.

For a nomination form, double click on the following web site http://sfa.jsc.nasa.gov/docs/nf1738.ppdf and forward the completed nomination form to mailto:Lynette.I.Forsman@nasa.gov .

If you would like to respond to this memo electronically, you may do so by clicking the following: mailto:Lynette.I.Forsman@nasa.gov .