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 321 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electro-Optically Scanned Micro-Laser Communication Module | Completed | 4 | Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking Techniques and Technologies | Vescent Photonics, Inc. |
| Combinatorial Screening for Advanced Scintillation Detectors | Completed | 6 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Superimaging Display, Inc. |
| Ultrasensitive Analyzer for Real-time, In-Situ Airborne and Terrestrial Measurements of OCS, CO2, and CO | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | Los Gatos Research |
| Fleet and Flight Operations Integration and Optimization in a Mixed-Advanced Air Mobility Environment | Completed | 6 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Aerial Vantage, Inc. |
| Real-Time Methods for Adaptive Suppression of Adverse Aeroservoelastic Dynamics | Completed | 3 | Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems | Systems Technology, Inc. |
| Additive Manufactured Very Light Weight Diamond Turned Aspheric Mirror | Completed | 5 | Mirror Systems | Dallas Optical Systems, Inc. |
| Tool for Collaborative Autonomy | Completed | 5 | Goal and Task Negotiation | Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. - Cambridge |
| Novel Methodology for the Rapid Acoustic Optimization of Supersonic Multi-Stream 3D Nozzles | Completed | 6 | Aeroacoustics | Spectral Energies, LLC |
| Humidity Monitor for In-Situ Resource Reutilization on Mars | Completed | 4 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. |
| New Lidar Laser Configuration for Earth Science Measurements | Completed | 6 | Lasers | Fibertek, Inc. |
| Softgoods Webbing Integrated Strain Sensor for Inflatable | Completed | 4 | Habitation Systems | Paragon Space Development Corporation |
| Non-Water Lunar Ice Mining | Completed | 2 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Paragon Space Development Corporation |
| DNN Radiation Hardened Co-processor companion chip to NASA's upcoming High-Performance Spaceflight Computing processor | Completed | 4 | Verification and Validation of Autonomous Systems | Numem Inc |
| Monitoring Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication by Active Machine Vision | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | Laser & Plasma Technologies, LLC |
| Nanolayer-Coated Flame-Retardant Fabrics for Space Crew Clothing | Completed | 3 | Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses | Innosense Corporation |
| Micromachined High-Temperature Sensors for Planet Exploration | Completed | 6 | Extreme Environments Related to Critical System Health Management | LEEOAT Company |
| Simulation Environment for Power Management and Distribution Development | Completed | 7 | — | PC Krause and Associates, Inc. |
| Collaborative Sensing and Mapping for IVA Robots | Completed | 3 | Collaborative Mobility | Metis Technology Solutions, Inc. |
| Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing of Amorphous Alloys | Completed | 3 | Manufacturing Processes | LM Group Holdings, Inc. |
| Brushless Doubly Fed Motor for Electric Aircraft Propulsion | Completed | 2 | All-Electric Propulsion | Balcones Technologies, LLC |
| Real-Time Flight and Airspace Risk Monitoring for Airline Operations | Completed | 6 | Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles | Robust Analytics |
| Ultra-Compact, Field-Deployable, Quantum-Compatible Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communication | Completed | 4 | Quantum Communications | Quantum Opus, LLC |
| Low Power Digital Correlator System for PATH Mission | Completed | 7 | Field and Particle Detectors | Pacific Microchip Corporation |
| Compact LIDAR for Aerosol Extinction Profiling from Small UAV's | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Physical Sciences, Inc. |
| Cloud-Based Social Media Visual Analytics Disaster Response System | Completed | 4 | Collaborative Science and Engineering | Vcrsoft, LLC |
| Advanced Capabilities Medical Suction Device | Completed | 5 | Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis | UMPQUA Research Company |
| In-Flight and Pre-Flight Detection of Pitot Tube Anomalies | Completed | 8 | Engine Icing | Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation |
| Standard Electric Interface for Payload and Launch Vehicle Enabling Secondary Rideshare | Completed | 4 | Launch Vehicle Propellant | Design_Net Engineering LLC |
| High Temperature, Radiation Hard Electronics Architecture for a Chemical Sensor Suite for Venus Atmospheric Measurements | Completed | 6 | Environment Sensors | Makel Engineering, Inc. |
| Improved Forecasts of Solar Particle Events using Eruptive Event Generators based on Gibson-Low and Titov-Demoulin Magnetic Configurations | Completed | 7 | Space Weather Prediction | Michigan Aerospace Corporation |
| Advanced Pulse Compression System and Testbed | Completed | 3 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc. |
| Ultralightweight Refractory-Lined C/C Ascent Engine Combustion Chambers | Completed | 4 | Earth Storable Propellants | Ultramet |
| Generative Adversarial Networks for Detecting Erroneous Results | Completed | 4 | Execution and Control | TRACLabs, Inc. |
| CubeSat Magnetometer | Completed | 4 | Field and Particle Detectors | Southwest Sciences, Inc. |
| Compact Ethylene Monitor for NASA Space Missions | Completed | 5 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Adelphi Technology, LLC |
| Durable Antifogging Coatings for Spacesuit Helmets | Completed | 6 | Pressure Garment | Luna Labs USA, LLC |
| High-Bandwidth Photon-Counting Detectors with Enhanced Near-Infrared Response | Completed | — | Detector Development | aPeak, Inc. |
| Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) System for Wildfire Response | Completed | 4 | Integrated Systems and Ancillary Technologies | Aeris, LLC |
| Glass Alloy in Microgravity (GAMMA) | Completed | 6 | Manufacturing Processes | Made in Space, Inc. |
| Venus Altitude Cycling Balloon | Completed | 3 | Special Materials | ISTAR |
| G-Band Solid State Power Amplifier for Remote Sensing Radars | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Virginia Diodes, Inc. |
| Networked Aviation Urban Climate Stations | Completed | 3 | Advanced Atmospheric Flight Vehicles | Robust Analytics |
| SWELL: Single-Photon-Sensitive Waveform Enhanced and Lightweight LIDAR | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Nalu Scientific, LLC |
| In-Situ Solid Phase Extraction of Chemical Targets (INSPECT) | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Leiden Measurement Technology, LLC |
| Arm-Deployed Rotary-Percussive Coring Drill | Completed | 5 | Robot Control for Vehicle Capture and Berthing | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. |
| Simulation Environment for Power Management and Distribution Development | Completed | 3 | Management and Control | PC Krause and Associates, Inc. |
| Coherent Lidar Transceiver on a Chip | Completed | 4 | Lasers | Beamlet, Inc. |
| Application of Imaging Sensors for UAS Command and Control for Evolving Towards Autonomous Operations of UAS | Completed | 3 | Multimodal and Proximate Interaction | Aerospace Innovations, LLC |
| Regolith to Steel Powder, Oxygen & Water with Small Equipment | Completed | 4 | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Rolf Miles Olsen |
| New Wireless Sensors for Diagnostics Under Harsh Environments | Completed | 4 | Reliability, Life Assessment, and Health Monitoring | Krystal Engineering LLC |
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