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South Pole Safety: Designing the NASA Lunar Rescue System

Create a compact, efficient system for astronaut rescue on the lunar surface - helping ensure swift, safe evacuation in extreme conditions.

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ARSX2024 Safeguarding Sources Challenge: The Quest to Sustain Genetic Diversity

Cultivate the future in our quest to sustain agricultural ecosystem genetic diversity, including plants and animals and microbes!

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The 2024 FAA Data Challenge

Analytics Powering Airspace Evolution

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Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge

Use public Earth observation data to create a visualization that furthers one of three Sustainable Development Goals.

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Veg Out - Managing Aquatic Vegetation in Canals

Get to the root of the problem! Design and build solutions for managing canal aquatic vegetation for a share of $345,000 in prizes.

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PREPARE Challenge: Advance Early Prediction for Alzheimer's and Related Dementia

Pioneering Research for Early Prediction of Alzheimer's and Related Dementias EUREKA Challenge

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Brilliant Minds for Pure Blue Skies

Help NASA keep skies pure blue with your brilliant idea for eliminating harmful emissions from air travel. Will you help protect our skies?

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ARSX2023 - Secure Future Food Systems Through Safe and Sustainable Agriculture

Help us Secure Future Food Systems as we look for innovative ideas to implement sustainable agriculture as a path to nutrition security.

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NASA MarsXR 2 Challenge

Help NASA by building Virtual Reality (XR) assets and scenarios for them to use in extravehicular activity research for the surface of Mars.

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Recycling Air Beyond our Earth Junior Challenge

Share your ideas for how to keep an extraterrestrial habitat’s atmosphere breathable! Win glory and NASA recognition!

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NASA Particle Partition Challenge

Help NASA develop next generation life support system hardware by solving a challenging problem with carbon separation and collection.

NIOSH Counterfeit N95 Challenge

Help make counterfeit N95 respirators a thing of the past! Share your proposal for spreading the word about fake N95 respirators.

PETs Prize Challenge: Advancing Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

The goal of this prize challenge is to mature federated learning approaches and build trust in their adoption.

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Better Call Trawl

Explore BOEM data, build analytic tools, and recommend solutions for sea turtle relocation trawling approaches to reduce incidental risk.

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ARSX2022 - Innovations for a Circular Economy in Agriculture

Ready to be an agent for change? How will you cultivate a circular economy in agriculture? You can win $100,000 to test out your idea.

NIOSH Protective Clothing Challenge

Help us find new ways to provide better-fitting protective clothing for the full spectrum of U.S. workers. Let’s leave no body behind!

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NASA MarsXR Challenge (2022)

Build Virtual Reality (XR) assets and scenarios for use by NASA in research focused on extravehicular activities on the surface of Mars.

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Millions of dollars in funding to build, launch & operate new technology that maps the world’s magnetic fields.

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The Trash-to-Gas Ash Management Challenge

Help NASA develop an ash removal process for a trash-to-gas reactor that helps space travel be more sustainable.

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NASA Waste Jettison Mechanism Challenge

NASA is seeking concepts for a jettison mechanism to eject non-recyclable material from a crewed spacecraft during transit to and from Mars.

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Waste to Base Materials Challenge: Sustainable Reprocessing in Space

Help NASA improve future space missions by proposing approaches to permit efficient reprocessing/recycling/repurposing of onboard resources.

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Mars Spectrometry: Detect Evidence for Past Life

This challenge seeks innovative methods to automatically help analyze and interpret mass spectrometry data related to Mars exploration.

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Air pollution is a serious environmental threat to our health. Strengthen public health with accurate, high-resolution air quality estimates

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Run-way Functions: Predict Reconfigurations at US Airports

Use real-time air traffic and weather data to predict future airport configurations.

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NHLBI Air You Wear Challenge

Help outpatients on supplemental oxygen lead fuller lives and win money to develop your solution to improve their oxygen delivery options.

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MagNet: Model the Geomagnetic Field

Help NOAA better forecast changes in Earth’s magnetic field! Develop models for forecasting Dst using real-time solar-wind data.

by Bureau of Reclamation

Rust Busters Challenge

Join the Resistance: Submit your rust busting breakthrough to extend the life of water infrastructure in the United States.

by Convergent Aeronautics Solutions | NASA

Future-Scaping Our Skies

Mapping societal, economic, technological, environmental, political, and regulatory trends to the future of aviation.

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ARSX2021 - Harvest for a Healthier Future

Ready to be an agent for change? ARSX2021 is the first step to developing healthy harvests. You can win $100,000 to test out your idea.

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NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity

NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity in Biomedical and Behavioral Science

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NASA's Lunar Delivery Challenge

Landing on the Moon with all that we need is just the beginning. Now we have to unload it. Your ideas can help jump-start the space economy

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Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload, The Sequel

Build miniature payloads to make lunar exploration more effective.

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Protecting the Natural Flavor of Catfish

Blue-green algae can cause off-flavors in farmed catfish, leading to costly harvesting delays. How can USDA-ARS eliminate these off-flavors?

DeID2 - A Better Meter Stick for Differential Privacy

Help NIST PSCR by proposing metrics to better assess the accuracy and quality of differential privacy algorithm outputs.

by Bureau of Reclamation

Guardians of the Reservoir Challenge

Help sustain America’s reservoirs. We’re looking for ways to remove sedimentation that regularly accumulates in reservoirs.

by NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) Program

NASA's Lunar Loo Challenge

Help astronauts go back to the Moon in 2024! NASA seeks new designs for a toilet that will work both in microgravity and lunar gravity.

by NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) Program

NASA’s Lunar Loo Challenge - Junior Category

Help astronauts go back to the Moon in 2024! NASA seeks new designs for a toilet that will work both in microgravity and lunar gravity.

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Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload

Give a tiny bot a new set of tools to explore the moon. Share your ideas for a mini payload to make lunar exploration more effective.

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Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover

To explore the daunting surface of Venus, NASA needs an innovative obstacle avoidance sensor for its mechanical clockwork rover.

by Bureau of Reclamation

Rust Busters Challenge

Join the Resistance: Submit your rust busting breakthrough to extend the life of water infrastructure in the United States.

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NIST Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge

Propose a mechanism to enable the protection of personally identifiable information while maintaining a dataset's utility for analysis

The Unlinkable Data Challenge: Advancing Methods in Differential Privacy

Propose a mechanism to enable the protection of personally identifiable information while maintaining a dataset's utility for analysis.

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Next Generation Animal Tracking Ideation Challenge

Propose a system that can enhance and eventually replace the current animal telemetry data collection system.

by VA Center for Innovation

My Kidney Nutrition App Features Challenge

Compete to make the VA's My Kidney Nutrition App fun and gamified while implementing rewards tailored to the user’s kidney health goals

by VA National Cemetery Administration

Veterans Online Memorial Challenge

Submit your idea to make the Veterans Online Memorial more engaging and meaningful for users

by VA Center for Innovation

The VA PseudoVet Challenge

Compete to build synthetic patient database software for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

by The United States Special Operations Command

CubeSat Challenge

Propose new or innovative CubeSat payload technology/use concepts that can be demonstrated to support USSOCOM missions within 12-24 months

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High Performance Fast Computing Challenge

Improve the speed of computational fluid dynamics algorithms in NASA's FUN3D software.

NIST Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge

Design a physical measurement environment that uses immersive virtual reality tools for testing new first responder technologies

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Space Poop Challenge

Competition to source a system that routes and collects human waste away from the body, hands-free, for fully suited astronauts.

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A short film competition offering filmmakers around the world a chance to share their works inspired by, and using, actual NASA imagery.

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Sky for All: Air Mobility for 2035 and Beyond

Envision the skies of 2035 and design an airspace system that allows vehicles to safely and efficiently navigate dense and diverse airspace.

NASA PAM (Partnership Agreement Maker) Responsive Web Application Wireframe Challenge

We are looking for your help to rethink the existing UI that is available for development, review, concurrence, and approval of NASA’s various agency agreements.

NASA - REALM System - Item Management Wireframe Challenge

This is the first challenge in a series of challenges to build the User Interface, in this challenge we will be focusing on Item Management.

Fishing for Fishermen

Create an algorithm to effectively identify if a vessel is fishing based on observable behavior and any additional data such as weather, known fishing grounds, etc. regardless of vessel type or declared purpose.

In-Situ Materials Challenge

Transforming in situ materials such as regolith or basalt into useful structural elements is a significant way to reduce the mass of materials launched as payload from Earth.

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Overhead Geopose Challenge

Make satellite imagery taken from an angle more useful for time-sensitive applications like disaster and emergency response.

The Space Robotics Challenge

This challenge focuses on developing software to increase the autonomy of dexterous mobile robots in humanoid format.

Vascular Tissue Challenge

The program offers incentive prizes to generate revolutionary solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation.

CineSpace - NASA Imagery Your Vision 2016

CineSpace offers filmmakers around the world a chance to share their works inspired by, and using, actual NASA imagery through “CineSpace,” a short film competition.

NASA In-Space Manufacturing Logo Challenge

The goal of this challenge is to develop a project graphic and/or patch. The product should graphically convey the key theme of space exploration and on-demand manufacturing/repair.

NASA Experiment Attachment System (EAS) Challenge

NASA is seeking to challenge the GrabCAD Community by sponsoring an open competition where participants design an attachment system for an experiment on the International Space Station.

Robonaut Vision Tool Manipulation Challenge

TopCoder has created Marathon Matches in an effort to provide a more flexible competition format with an extended timeline that offers different types of problems than what can be offered in a traditional TopCoder algorithm round.

The Star Trek Replicator Challenge

Your challenge is to create a digital 3D model of a non-edible, food-related item for astronauts to 3D print in the year 2050.

TopCoder has created Marathon Matches in an effort to provide a more flexible competition format with an extended timeline that offers different types of problems than what can be offered in a traditional TopCoder algorithm round.

Robot Arm Architecture Challenge

In the latest set of challenges, we will be designing a robotic arm for the Astrobee, the next generation of free flying robots on the International Space Station.

NASA Contest: Develop an Origami/Folding Concept for Radiation Shield Packing/Deploying

This challenge seeks creative ideas that can be shown using diagrams, graphics, 3D models, or animations that at a minimum show the stowed and deployed configurations.

NASA Contests: Storyboard for 2 Minute Video/Animation for REALM Project

The goal of this challenge is to create a storyboard for a 2-minute animation that describes NASA’s REALM project to the general public.

Cinespace, short film competition

NASA and Houston Cinema Arts Society offer filmmakers around the world a chance to share their works inspired by, and using, real NASA imagery through “CineSpace,” a short film competition.

NASA's 2016 Sample Return Robot Challenge

The challenge seeks for teams that can demonstrate an autonomous capability to locate and retrieve specific sample types from various locations over a wide and varied terrain.

NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge Video

NASA wants you to help create a suite of videos that will inform the public about its Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC) program.

Bio-Inspired Advanced Exercise Concepts

This Challenge seeks bio-inspired approaches for compact and efficient Advanced Exercise Concepts (AECs).

In-Situ Materials Challenge

Transforming in situ materials such as regolith or basalt into useful structural elements is a significant way to reduce the mass of materials launched as payload from Earth.

The Textile Test Methods Challenge

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks proposals for test methods or procedures to assess wear/damage to candidate space suit textile materials.

NASA Centennial Challenges: Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Prize

The challenge focuses on getting the samples from the Martian surface to Mars orbit for collection and return to Earth.

Improving NASA Enterprise Search Capabilities

The NASA OCIO is deploying a new Enterprise Search Engine and is seeking to include enhancements in filtering, geolocation, content types, imagery discovery and machine learning.

2015 Sample Return Robot Challenge

The Sample Return Robot competition offers a total $1.5 million to teams that demonstrate autonomous capability to locate, retrieve and return specific sample types to a designated zone.

NASA Imagery – Your Vision

CineSpace enables filmmakers to use actual NASA imagery in works, fostering creative relationships at the intersection of art and science.

Quest for Quakes Challenge

The ‘Quest for Quakes’ competitors will attempt to develop new software algorithms to uniquely identify the electromagnetic pulses that may precede an earthquake by days to weeks.

NASA's Centennial Challenges: 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge

NASA and its partners are holding a $2.5 million competition to build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to Mars.

NASA 3D-Printed Habitat

The multi-phase challenge is designed to advance the construction technology needed to create sustainable housing solutions for Earth and beyond.

NASA Challenge: Space Pioneering – Achieving Earth Independence

For this specific Challenge, the Solver is asked to focus on particular elements of “pioneering space,” namely those elements needed to establish a continuous human presence on Mars.

NASA Challenge: Reducing Exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays through Active and Passive Shielding

This Challenge seeks solutions for the reduction of GCR exposure to astronauts by utilizing configurations of passive shielding, active shielding, or a combination of both.

NASA Challenge: Flexible Sealing Device

NASA is seeking new sealing method or device to reversibly join the edges of flexible fabric-like materials. The seal device will be integrated into an inflatable airlock, and utilized to facilitate extravehicular activity.

DTN Dashboard Challenge

This challenge will run on Topcoder.com and will ask competitors to design and develop a UI that is easy to use, intuitive and provides capabilities to help manage a disruption tolerant network.

International Space Apps Challenge

The International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day hackathon where teams across the globe collaborate and engage with publicly available data to design innovative solutions for global challenges.

Cube Quest Challenge

The Cube Quest Challenge offers a total of $5 million to teams that meet the challenge objectives of designing, building and delivering flight-qualified, small satellites capable of advanced operations near and beyond the moon.

DTN Neighbor Discovery Protocol Challenge

The goal of this challenge is to update Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) "ION" implementation so that it includes IP Neighbor Discovery (IPND).

NASA CubeQuest Challenge

Cube Quest is part of NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program, which accelerates technology by engaging non-traditional sources in competition.

NASA Handrail Clamp Assembly Challenge

NASA challenges you to design a handrail clamp assembly for The International Space Station!

Climate Resilience Data Challenge

Leverage the federal government’s extensive, freely-available climate-relevant data resources to spur innovation and private-sector entrepreneurship.

NASA Challenge: Reducing Galactic Cosmic Rays to Enable Long Duration Deep Space Human Exploration

NASA is seeking to identify key solutions that will protect astronauts from GCR, specifically a way to reduce exposure by at least a factor of four.

NASA’s Balance Mass Challenge: Using “Dead Weight” on Mars Spacecraft

NASA is looking for creative yet practical ideas to find a dual purpose for Balance mass that is jettisoned from Mars landers to balance the spacecraft during entry and landing.

OpenNEX Build An App

NASA is seeking applications that utilize the Climate and Earth Science data recently made available on the Open NASA Earth Exchange platform on Amazon Web Services in new and creative ways.

Humans in Space Art Video Challenge

We invite you to explore “How will space, science, and technology benefit humanity?” and to express your answer creatively in a video 3 minutes long or less.

NASA Asteroid Tracker Challenge Marathon Match

The Asteroid Tracker challenge tasks competitors to develop optimization algorithms for Near Earth Object tracking using monolithic radar arrays.

NASA Challenge: New Ways to Use, Visualize, and Analyze OpenNEX Climate and Earth Science Data

This Challenge focuses on gathering new and creative ideas for how to use, visualize, analyze or otherwise utilize the datasets to address items in the President’s plan.

Astronaut Email Challenge

Develop extensions to MS Outlook/Exchange Server for ISS that utilizes DTN to exchange email files between ISS and MCC.

NASAs Solution Mechanism Guide

NASA need to develop a software version of the Solution Mechanism Guide so that users can navigate a search form to a filtered subset of solution mechanisms.

NASA’s Disruption Tolerant Networking Challenge Series

This challenge is seeking to solve the particularly difficult problem of managing security key information across a set of nodes that may be connected with delayed or disrupted/unreliable communications links.

Asteroid Data Hunter Challenge

The challenge seeks a more computationally efficient, general purpose algorithm to detect moving objects using Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) data.

EPA Android App – Design Concepts for Cyanobacterial Bloom Mapping

To build an app that will help environmental planners and scientists to browse and compare satellite images of cyanobacterial blooms

NASA Climate Modeling - Search for New Sources of Observational Data

NASA is seeking new sources of observational data for a the climate modeling initiative.

ISS Longeron Challenge

The goal of the challenge is to position the solar collectors on the International Space Station to generate as much power as possible during the most difficult orbital positions.

NASA Challenge: Non-invasive Measurement of Intra-cranial Pressure

This Challenge seeks a non-invasive method or technology to measure the absolute intracranial pressure (i.e., the pressure of the interior of a human’s head).

NASA Challenge: Strain Measurement of Vectran and Kevlar Webbing Challenge

NASA is looking for a new method to measure the strain on Kevlar and Vectran straps in the 25 to 125°C range.

Night Rover Challenge

The Challenge will be to demonstrate a portable energy storage system through several cycles of lunar daylight and darkness.

Android Electrocardiography (ECG) Challenge

The mobile ECG Challenge asked competitors to design and build a mobile Android-based ECG application capable of displaying and recording a 12 lead ECG signal collected via a bluetooth signal.

Mapping Dark Matter

The aim is to measure the shapes of galaxies to reconstruct the gravitational lensing signal in the presence of noise and a known Point Spread Function.

Green Flight Challenge

This challenge aims to bring forth aircraft that maximize fuel efficiency, reduce noise and improve safety--features that can be applied in the full range of private, commercial and military aircraft of the future.

Planetary Data System Challenge

The goal of the Planetary Data Storyboard is to create an online collaborative environment for scientists, researchers and students to expose PDS data and make it accessible to all.

NASA Challenge: Coordination of Sensor Swarms for Extraterrestrial Research

This Challenge asks solvers to develop and simulate a high performing sensor swarm coordinate protocol.

NASA Challenge: Data-Driven Forecasting of Solar Events

The Seeker wishes to develop the ability to forecast the occurrence of a Solar Particle Event within a select window in time.

Astronaut Glove Challenge

The Astronaut Glove Challenge seeks improvements to glove design that reduce the effort needed to perform tasks in space and improve the durability of the glove.

by Bureau of Reclamation

Snowcast Showdown

Estimate snow water equivalent (SWE) at a high spatiotemporal resolution over the Western U.S. using near real-time data sources.

by NASA Tournament Lab

Air pollution is a serious environmental threat to our health. Strengthen public health with accurate, high-resolution air quality estimates

by NASA Tournament Lab

Run-way Functions: Predict Reconfigurations at US Airports

Use real-time air traffic and weather data to predict future airport configurations.