NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal is a United States government awarded to any non-Government individual or to an individual who was not a Government employee during the period in which the service was performed for sustained performance that embodies multiple contributions on NASA projects, programs, or initiatives. The criteria must include all of the following: Sustained performance has made a significant improvement to NASA deliverables, operations, or image; Employee's record of achievements sets a benchmark for other non-Government contributors to follow; substantial improvement to a NASA program that yielded high quality results or improvements; Impact and importance of the employee's services have made a lasting impact on the success of the Agency See also NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal NASA Public Service Group Award List of NASA awards EPSM Awardees 2021 Dr. Vinay Goyal, Adjunct Professor at University of California Los Angeles, Part-time Faculty at University of Southern California, and Technical Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation: For outstanding engineering support to safety of flight assessments, methodology development, and engineering analyses of critical interest to NASA and its missions. 2020 Margarita Aponte Paul A. Catalano Gregory P. Frederick Richard J. Kearney Arnold Kuchenmeist 2019 Carolus J. Schrijver, for demonstrating scientific excellence through outstanding leadership and dedication in support of NASA Heliophysics missions and the impact to the community. Richard W. Eastes, for successfully implementing NASA’s first hosted payload mission and for significant and lasting scientific contributions to atmospheric and space physics. Kamal Oudghiri. 2018 Dean A. Szabo, for outstanding service to the air-breathing propulsion community and in mentoring the next generation of test and data engineers at Glenn Research Center (GRC). Benjamin P. Saldua, for exceptional service by improving structural design of the Deep Space Network antennas, enabling operation at higher frequencies and efficiencies and NASA mission success at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). 2016 Victor A. Canacci, for exceptional management of repair, maintenance, and upgrade projects in the test facilities at the NASA Glenn Research Center. James J. Kubera, for exceptional service to the design and deployment of innovative financial management processes resulting in efficiencies on multiple NASA contracts. 2015 Eric C. Clemons, an employee of Vantage Partner LLC, for exceptional public service in managing the Glenn Engineering and Scientific Support (GESS) contract, plus leading strategic business development and partnership for the benefit of NASA, the agency and Ohio. Martha L. Clough, an employee of Leidos, for demonstrating outstanding service as