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    NASA George M. Low Quality Improvement Award nomination

    9/15/2003

    Glenn Research Center has named ZIN Technologies, Inc. the nominee for the 2003 NASA George M. Low Quality Improvement Award in the Small Business – Product category. ZIN develops a variety of instrumentation and payloads that support university Principal Investigators or researchers. This prestigious award recognizes that ZIN Tech has significantly contributed to the success of the NASA and the Glenn Research Center’s mission.

    'ZIN is extremely proud of providing NASA with engineering and product development services for over 30 years,' said Daryl Laisure, ZIN Tech’s President and CEO. 'We are extremely proud of NASA’s continued satisfaction in our products.”

    This nomination signifies NASA’s recognition that ZIN has demonstrated excellence, continuous improvement and outstanding technical and managerial achievement in quality and performance.

    This award is given to contractors who demonstrate outstanding achievement within several nomination factors: customer satisfaction and contract technical performance, cost performance, schedule performance, alignment with NASA strategic goals, corporate leadership and continuous improvement, research and development, and safety, community outreach, employee development, and equal opportunity commitment.

    ZIN performs on two contracts with GRC dealing with spaceflight and aerospace system development and operations. ZIN Tech operates under an ISO 9001-certified Quality Management System (QMS). The QMS and sustained outstanding technical performance were cited by Glenn as a key discriminator in ZIN Tech’s selection. ZIN Tech has been an active partner with GRC on more than 95 science payloads since 1990. Recently, ZIN Tech was one of the first developers operating science payloads on the ISS with a continuous presence since April, 2001. ZIN Tech supports a variety of programs including the International Space Station, Next Generation Launch Technology, Orbital Space Plane, Aircraft Safety and Communications, Power Systems, and advanced MEMS sensor systems.