NASA Nebraska EPSCoR RID Program FY 2019-2021 Augmentation

NASA Nebraska EPSCoR has established an outstanding record of success and has demonstrated its commitment to developing research capabilities that are long-term, self-sustaining, and nationally competitive. The proposed research infrastructure development (RID) program for FY2019 to FY2021 will continue to support and sustain unique research activities that address the priorities of both NASA and Nebraska. NASA Nebraska EPSCoRs philosophy of using strategic investments in seed projects to develop competitive proposals for the national NASA EPSCoR competitions has been incredibly successful in developing Nebraskas aerospace infrastructure. Industry partnerships have been, and will continue to be, vital to the programs success. The proposed RID program will build on these historically productive relationships and will actively involve industry in all facets of the programs implementation from RID to technology transfer.

This Augmentation proposal provides the opportunity to expand the number of research mini-grants and collaborative travel grants to our Nebraska institutions as all of the funds will be added to the subcontract portions of the budget.

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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