STMD Solicitations and Opportunities
This page provides information about ways to engage with STMD through current and forthcoming solicitations or opportunities. Please also view STMD’s Tipping Point and Announcement of Collaboration Opportunities page. To see what STMD opportunities might be best suited for you, visit TechPort.
Open Solicitations and Opportunities
FUTURE SOLICITATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES – upcoming solicitation release dates are pending and are subject to change.
NASA TechFlights Solicitation
Flight Opportunities continually seeks impactful options for advancing space technology. Although the program did not issue a TechFlights solicitation in 2024, NASA opened another TechLeap Prize challenge to rapidly identify and develop space technologies. In addition to a cash prize, TechLeap winners have the opportunity for a flight test aboard a commercial vehicle. See the “Space Technology Payload Challenge” listed above for more information about the latest NASA TechLeap Prize.
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) 2026 Phase I Call for Proposals
June, 2025 – The NIAC program supports visionary research ideas through multiple progressive phases of study. Phase I studies are nine-month efforts to explore the overall viability and advance the technology readiness level. Eligible recipients of Phase I awards can propose for a follow-on Phase II study.
Space Tech Industry Partnerships
The Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) uses partnerships to expand important space technologies and capabilities.
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