Search NASA's TechPort inventory — every technology R&D project the agency has tracked, active and completed. Harvested gradually in the background (TechPort only exposes one project per API call, ~21,000 total), so the list grows over time rather than all at once.
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21,052 projects harvested so far — page 208 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novel Sorbent to Remove Radioactive Halogens and Noble Gases from NTP Engine Exhaust | Completed | 3 | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion | TDA Research, Inc. |
| Ceramic-Metal Interfaces by Functional Grading | Completed | 4 | Materials for Electrical Power Generation, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, and Electrical Machines | Glacigen Materials, Inc. |
| Next-Generation Ion Thruster Design Tool to Support Future Space Missions | Completed | 6 | Electromagnetic Propulsion | Tech-X Corporation |
| Compact Optical Inertial Tracking for Launch Vehicles | Completed | 5 | Site Management for Launches, Tests, and Operations | MagiQ Technologies, Inc. |
| Near Real-Time Computational Noise Monitoring Tool for UAM e-VTOL Aircraft, Phase II | Completed | 4 | Aeroacoustics | ATAC |
| Metallic Joining to Advanced Ceramic Composites | Completed | — | Lightweight Structural Materials | Plasma Processes, LLC |
| Graphene Interleaves for High Strength and Toughness Composites | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Trimer Technologies, LLC |
| On-Demand Cost Situational Awareness for Urban Air Mobility | Completed | 2 | Aeroacoustics | The Innovation Laboratory, Inc. |
| Integrated Electrolysis & Sabatier System for Internal Reforming Regenerative Fuel Cells | Completed | 3 | Electrochemical Storage: Fuel Cells | Paragon Space Development Corporation |
| High Performance Carbon Nanotube Based Conductors | Completed | 4 | Hybrid Electric Systems | Hyper Tech Research, Inc. |
| Hiawatha Aircraft Anti-Collision System | Completed | — | Aircraft Avionics Systems | Nokomis, Inc. |
| Novel, Functionally Graded PIP Coating System for Hot Structures | Completed | 5 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Allcomp Inc. |
| Software Redundancy Framework for COTS SoC FPGAs | Completed | 4 | Advanced Commercial-off-the-Shelf Technologies | Innoflight, Inc. |
| Time Inter-Comparison Using Transportable Optical Combs | Completed | 4 | Navigation Sensors | AOSense, Inc. |
| Integrated Development Environment for Core Flight Software Based Projects | Completed | 5 | Robot Software | Windhover Labs |
| Extreme Environment Electronics based on Silicon Carbide | Completed | 4 | Electronics | United Silicon Carbide, Inc. |
| NONA Repair of Composite Structures | Completed | 5 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. |
| HeldenDesign: An Automated Aircraft Drag Optimization Method Using Knowledge-Based Design Tools | Completed | 6 | Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles | Helden Aerospace Corporation |
| Modular Embedded Intelligent Sensor Network | Completed | 6 | Ground and Surface Logistics | Angstrom Designs, Inc. |
| Optical Sensor for High-Performance, Low-Cost Distributed Sensing Platform | Completed | 3 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Sequent Logic, LLC |
| WOLFEChip: Wholly-Integrated Optofluidic Laser-Induced Fluorescence Electrophoresis Chip | Completed | 6 | Lasers | Leiden Measurement Technology, LLC |
| Tensioned Rollable Ultra-light Solar array System (TRUSS) | Completed | 3 | Lightweight Concepts | Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc. |
| Nanomaterials Based Gas Sensor for ISRU Process Contaminants | Completed | 4 | Air, Water, Microbial, and Acoustic Sensors | Innosense Corporation |
| A UAS-ATC Simulation Test-Bed | Completed | 6 | Instrumentation and Health Monitoring for EDL | Sandia Research Corporation |
| Wafer level Integration on PolyStrata(R) Interposer (WIPI) Phase II (17028) | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Nuvotronics, Inc |
| Hybrid Nanocomposites for Efficient Aerospace Structures | Completed | 5 | — | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. |
| Methane LIDAR Laser Technology | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Fibertek, Inc. |
| Enhanced Process Control of Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing | Completed | 6 | Manufacturing Processes | Sciaky, Inc. |
| Advanced Organic Waste Gasifier | Completed | 4 | Waste Management | Pioneer Astronautics |
| Small-Scale, Methane-Fueled Reaction Control Engines for In-Space Propulsion | Completed | 4 | Cryogenic Propulsion | Astra Space, Inc |
| Low Cost, Pump-fed, Non-Catalytic Thruster for Secondary Payload Green Propulsion | Completed | 4 | Earth Storable Propellants | Flight Works, Inc. |
| A Comet Surface Sample Return System | Completed | — | Navigation Sensors | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. |
| Mitigation of Mid-Spatial Frequency Errors | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Optimax Systems, Inc. |
| Quantification of Uncertainties in Integrated Spacecraft System Models | Completed | 6 | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | M4 Engineering, Inc. |
| Physics-Based Conceptual Design Tools | Completed | 5 | Modeling and Simulation for Flight | M4 Engineering, Inc. |
| Cold Weather Technology Development for Low Altitude Ultra-Long Endurance Applications | Completed | 4 | Mission Planning | Vanilla Aircraft, LLC |
| Fast Light Enhanced Active and Passive Gyroscopes, Accelerometers and Fiber- Optic Sensors | Completed | 4 | Navigation Sensors | Digital Optics Technologies, Inc. |
| Resource-Aware Planning for Shadowed and Uncertain Domains | Completed | 3 | Execution and Control | Astrobotic Technology, Inc. |
| Real-Time Smart Tools for Processing Spectroscopy Data | Completed | 7 | High-Performance Processors | Signal Processing, Inc. |
| Higher Strength, Lighter Weight Aluminum Spacecraft Structures | Completed | 4 | Lightweight Structural Materials | Transition45 Technologies, Inc. |
| Low Cost Automated Module Assembly for 180 GHz Devices | Completed | — | Electronics | NxGen Electronics, Inc. |
| High Sensitivity, High Frequency Sensors for Hypervelocity Testing and Analysis | Completed | 4 | Hypersonic Decelerators | Nanosonic, Inc. |
| ePHM System Development, Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing, Fault Tree, and FMECA Applied to and Integrated on NASA Hybrid Electric Testbeds | Completed | — | Environment Sensors | Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. |
| In-Suit Waste Management Technologies | Completed | 8 | Pressure Garment | Omni Measurement Systems, Inc |
| Vapor Compression Refrigeration System for Cold Storage on Spacecrafts | Completed | 6 | Habitation Systems | Air Squared, Inc. |
| In-Process Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing | Completed | — | Manufacturing Processes | ARCTOS Technology Solutions, LLC |
| Vector Magnetometer Based on Spin Wave Phased-array Antenna | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Beam - CA, LLC |
| Nonlinear Data Analysis Tool for Scramjets and Other Engines | Completed | 4 | Aeroelasticity | Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC |
| User Cognitive Modeling to Enhance Task Execution | Completed | 5 | — | Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. |
| Turbulence Awareness via Real-Time Data Mining | Completed | 4 | — | The Innovation Laboratory, Inc. |
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