Jenn Gustetic
Director
Early-Stage Innovations and Partnerships,
Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
NASA
Bio:
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/
August 30, 2022 about_us/bios/gustetic_bio
Ensuring American global leadership in Space Technology
Advance US space technology Encourage technology driven economic
innovation and competitiveness in a growth with an emphasis on the
global context expanding space economy
Inspire and develop a diverse and
powerful US aerospace technology 2
SPACE TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO
EARLY STAGE INNOVATION SBIR/STTR TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY
AND PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAMS MATURATION DEMONSTRATION
• Early Stage Innovation • Small Business Innovation • Game Changing • Technology Demonstration Missions
• Space Tech Research Grants Research Development • Small Spacecraft Technology
• Center Innovation Fund • Small Business Technology • Lunar Surface • Flight Opportunities
• Early Career Initiative Transfer Innovation Initiative
• Prizes, Challenges & Crowdsourcing
• NASA Innovation Advanced Concepts
•Technology Transfer
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NASA SBIR/STTR Opportunities
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Interested in exploring potential
SMD-STMD Innovation Corps Pilot customers? Form your team and
apply today for a $10k grant to
Are you ready for your innovation to take off? support your team & customer
discovery. Subsequent funding up
Join NASA’s Innovation Corps Pilot today to $40k will also be available.
Apply to participate in an immersive entrepreneurship training Easy lift proposal - 6 pages or
designed to help you take your idea from the lab to the marketplace. less - due to NSPIRES by:
The opportunity is designed for not-for-profit entities, such as • September 16, 2022
academia & nonprofit research institutions. • November 17, 2022
Build your capabilities through the NASA • January 20, 2022
Innovation Corps:
• Informed decision-making to facilitate research and/or technology Stay Connected
transitions and new NASA funding opportunities Create a NSPIRES account and
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• Facilitated focus and inspiration on the commercial potential of
proposed research and/or technology reminders and updates and read
the full solicitation for the most
• Advanced workforce development opportunities in science accurate and up-to-date
missions and space technology by preparing students with a
foundational education in entrepreneurship
information.
• Enhanced entrepreneurial mindset
Image credits Back: Top to Bottom: Dominic Hart; Joel Kowsky; Frank Michaux
Do you
NASA SBIRhave
Ignitea commercially-viable tech idea?
GOAL
Fund early-stage tech to help
make companies and their tech
more attractive to private sector
investors, customers, and
partners.
2022 SUBMISSION
PERIOD
July 12 - September 1, 2022
2022 AWARD AMOUNT
Topics:
Phase I: $150,000
• Technologies Using NASA Data to Foster Climate Resilience Phase II: $850,000
• Enabling technologies for the development of a robust Low-Earth Orbit
Economy 2022 PERIOD OF
• PERFORMANCE
Electric and Hybrid Electric Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and
Phase I: 6 months
Aircraft in the 1500 to 5000 lbs. size class
Phase II: 24 months
• Low-Cost Photovoltaic Arrays for Space
• LEARN MORE
Point-of-use Recycling for Optimized Space-Age Logistics
sbir.nasa.gov/ignite
• Commercial Development of Active Debris Remediation (ADR) Services 6
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NASA Technology Transfer Program
Technology Transfer University
• Student entrepreneurs build case studies with NASA’s patent portfolio
• Learn about commercialization and licensing opportunities
• https://technology.nasa.gov/t2u
Technology Transfer Expansion Initiative
• FedTech Startup Studio
https://technology.nasa.gov/fedtech-startup-studio-cohort
• Dynamic experiential training program using NASA technology
• Designed to turn ambitious entrepreneurs into lean startup
companies
• Tech Center Research Park Accelerator Network Program
https://technology.nasa.gov/tech-center-research-park-accelerator-network-pilot-program
• 3-month cohort comprised of minority and under-represented
entrepreneurs turning NASA innovations into globally-
impactful products and services
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Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing
In fiscal year 2021:
• NASA ran 65+ crowdsourcing projects and competitions
• Prizes totaled more than $9 million
• Current & future opportunities: nasa.gov/solve
Honey, I Shrunk
the Payload
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Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII)
Has engaged 600 organizations across 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico to advance the technologies needed to explore the lunar
surface in new ways and stimulate a lunar surface economy .
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab serves as the LSII integrator and manages the Lunar
Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC). LSIC Fall Meeting will be Nov. 2-3, 2022, online and in
person at the University of Texas – El Paso.
Technology Focus Areas LSII
• In-situ resource utilization Representation
• Surface power
• Dust mitigation
• Extreme environment
• Extreme access
• Excavation and construction
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Solicitations and Opportunities
Bookmark for updates on STMD opportunities: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/solicitations
Open Solicitations and Opportunities:
• Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP) to Advance Tipping Point Technologies
• Final proposals due: To be announced
• Space Technology Announcement for Collaboration Opportunity (ACO)
• Final proposals due: To be announced
• Space Technology Research Institutes (STRI)
• Full proposals due: November 3, 2022
• NASA SBIR Ignite 2022 Program Solicitation
• Proposals due: September 1, 2022
• Break the Ice Lunar Challenge Phase 2
• Registration close: September 30, 2022
• Submission deadline: November 4, 2022
Future Solicitations and Opportunities:
• NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTRGO) solicitation – September 2022
• NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) 2022 Phase II Call for Proposals – October 2022
• NASA SBIR/STTR Solicitations 10
nasa.gov/specials/calliefirst
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The Flight Opportunities program rapidly demonstrates
promising technologies for space exploration, discovery,
and the expansion of space commerce through
THROUGH SUBORBITAL FLIGHT suborbital testing with industry flight providers.
NASA TechLeap Prize (cash prize and suborbital flight test) TechFlights (grant or cooperative agreement to purchase a
Enables businesses, academic institutions, entrepreneurs, and other suborbital flight)
innovators to compete for funding to advance an innovation that Awards up to $750K for promising space-based innovations to
addresses a current NASA technology need. researchers from U.S.-based industry, academia, and other non-
NASA organizations. Awardees purchase flights directly from any
Current Challenge: Nighttime Precision Landing Challenge No. 1
eligible U.S. commercial flight provider that best suits their
– Register by May 5, 2022
technology demonstration.
Seeking proposals for sensing systems that can detect hazards
from an altitude of 250 meters or higher and process the data in
Mandatory Preliminary Proposal is due June 2, 2022 at 5:00 pm ET.
real time to help spacecraft land safely in the dark.Win up to
$650,000 and a suborbital flight test at no additional cost.
Awards are planned to start in February 2023. NASA plans to make
approximately 7-10 suborbital awards and 1-2 orbital awards.
Community of Practice Webinars
Learn more about Flight Opportunities
1st Wednesday of the month @ 10am PT!
nasa.gov/flightopportunities
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STMD Technology Maturation (TechMat)
The Technology Maturation investment portfolio provides transformative and crosscutting technologies to enable human and
robotic exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond, while enhancing research and development that contributes to U.S.
leadership in space technology.
Technology Maturation has a broad portfolio of 120+ projects, with >70% including partnerships or
collaborations with industry, academia and/or other government agencies.
TechMat targets maturation of technologies to be transitioned into NASA missions and advance commercial
technologies and markets
Technology Maturation consists of:
• The Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative (LSII), which develops transformative capabilities for lunar
surface exploration across the Space Tech portfolio
• The Game Changing Development (GCD) Program, which aims to advance exploratory concepts and
deliver transition-ready solutions that enable new capabilities or radically alter current approaches
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NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
Proposed NIAC concepts must demonstrate innovation and
have a clear potential impact in transforming future NASA missions
• Early stage concepts NIAC in Chicago PROGRAM MILESTONES
for NASA missions 10
• Out of this World - 16 book series MarCO Cat Sat
to 20+ years out Mission
• High risk, high for grades 4-12 in partnership with Mission
• 1st inter-
World Book, based in Chicago. • University of AZ
reward planetary • Student led
• Science Fiction to Science Fact – cubesats
• Open to ideas from • Increase Data
Annual event held at science
all scientific Return (5G)
museums across the US, began at
disciplines
• Projects are Museum of Science and Industry in
Ingenuity Astrobotic
Astrobotic Lunarcredible Chicago RoversZ
Landers & Autonomous
technically Helicopter • Lunar Landers
• Inspired 1st and
flight Autonomous
PHASE I PHASE II PHASE III mission Rovers
NASA Inventors Hall of
Fame: Robert Youngquist 2022 NIAC Symposium: FREE and open to the PUBLIC!
9 Months 2 Years 2 Years
Up to $175K Up to $600K Up to $2M You’re invited to the NIAC
For concept For further To strategically Symposium!
September 20-22, 2022
definition and development, transition Ph II’s https://www.nasa.gov/co
initial analysis mission analysis, with highest ntent/niac-symposium
path forward, spin potential impact New material for NIAC Symposium Seed Funding ->
nasa.gov/niac offs to NASA and missions with Tucson, AZ at NASA missions
partners extreme heat/cold University of Arizona
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Space Technology Research Grants Program
NASA Space Technology Graduate
Research Opportunities (NSTGRO)
Up to $80K per year
208 active awards
Solicitation anticipated September 2022
Early Career Faculty (ECF)
Up to $200K per year
41 active awards
Solicitation anticipated February 2023
Early Stage Innovations (ESI)
Up to $200K per year
52 active awards
Solicitation anticipated April/May 2022
Lunar Surface Technology Research
(LuSTR) Opportunities
Up to $2M, 2 years
Dr. Elizabeth Barrios
9 active awards University of
Solicitation anticipated July 2022 Central Florida
NSTRF16
Space Technology Research Institutes Ceramic / Graphene Thermoelectric Material
(STRI) Loading a graphene network into a silicon oxycarbide ceramic has
created electrically conductive ceramics that are also thermally and
Up to $3M per year, 5 years mechanically stable. This can enable lower cost, less toxic
6 active awards thermoelectric materials useful in radioisotope thermoelectric
generators and other applications.
Solicitation anticipated May/June 2022 16
www.nasa.gov/strg 879 awards 316 active awards 45 states, 1 territory (PR) 118 Universities
WITH SMALL SPACECRAFT
The Small Spacecraft Technology (SST) program expands the ability to execute unique missions through rapid
development and demonstration of capabilities for small spacecraft applicable to exploration, scientific discovery,
and the commercial space sector.
SST’s SMALLSAT TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS (STP) for UNIVERSITIES
The STP initiative has four primary objectives: develop SmallSat technologies for NASA; engage university
students in SmallSat projects; provide student teams with NASA expertise and facilities; and allow NASA
engineers to gain insights into the innovative and rapid development paradigm typical of academia.
STP Initiative Overview:
• 2-year PI-led cooperative agreements between a US university team and NASA
• $200k / year + 0.5 FTE for NASA / JPL partner + $25k procurement for NASA / JPL in the 2 nd year
• Competitive solicitations – specific technology topics vary
• Starting technology readiness level is typically 3-6
