2021 NASA iTech Announces New Call for Innovative Technologies

NASA’s unique government initiative, NASA iTech, has issued a call for inventive technologies with both a commercial market path and application to NASA missions.

The focus areas for 2021 NASA iTech Cycle II are:

• Enabling Technologies for Commercialization of Low-Earth Orbit
• Hybrid Electric Aircraft Technologies and Alternative Fuels
• Physics-Based Machine Learning for Artificial Intelligence
• Technologies Using NASA Data to Foster Climate Resilience

An X-Factor Innovations focus area will also allow for entries that that could dramatically enhance NASA capabilities or missions or stimulate NASA-relevant commercial markets, but do not fit into the other focus areas in this NASA iTech cycle.

NASA iTech events give inventors and entrepreneurs across the U.S. the opportunity to showcase their innovations to a panel of subject matter experts from industry and NASA in front of an audience like no other. The NASA iTech Forum connects entrepreneurs to space industry experts and potential investors with the goal of shining a spotlight on innovations that could solve some of NASA’s toughest technical challenges.

Innovators interested in participating in the 2021 NASA iTech Cycle II submit short whitepaper entries during the “call for ideas” window at NASAiTech.org. From these entries, NASA will ultimately select 10 finalists to showcase their innovative technology at the 2021 NASA iTech Cycle II Forum, scheduled in early December 2021.

Learn more at https://www.nasaitech.org.