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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21,053 projects harvested so far — page 385 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A compact, high-power 167-174.8 GHz travelling-wave tube amplifier for planetary boundary layer differential absorption radar | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation |
| Extraterrestrial Molecular Indicators of Life Investigation (EMILI) | Completed | 5 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| Identify Best-fit and Optimize AI/ML models to support the Digital Twins related to Air Quality | Completed | 4 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | George Mason University |
| HPC Support for Weather, Climate, and Ocean Dynamics Digital Twins Experiment | Completed | 4 | Modeling | Ames Research Center |
| Photonic radar technology for Earth science | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| The miniaturized High-Energy-Resolution relativistic electron Telescope (HERT) | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | Auburn University |
| Line Survey and Density Sensitivity Studies in Support of Hinode, MUSE, and Solar-C | Active | — | — | — |
| Wildfire Thermal Detection Instrument Development | Completed | 2 | Sensing and Perception | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Kernel Flows: emulating complex models for massive data sets | Completed | 5 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| SToRM SAR | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems Inc. |
| Development of next generation compact time-of-flight plasma instruments for heliophysics exploration. | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | — |
| Bose-Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Lab (BECCAL) | Active | — | Other Sensors and Instruments | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| A Miniature Solar Wind Sensor for future low-cost, constellation, and deep-space missions (MSWIS) | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | — |
| Next generation of Intelligent Meteorological Radar with Built-in Understanding of the Scenery (NIMBUS) (NIMBUS) | Active | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Global L-band Active/Passive Observatory for Water Cycle Studies (GLOWS) (GLOWS) | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Brigham Young University-Provo |
| Super Uncooled Multi-band Radiometer Sensor (SUMRS) | Completed | 4 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Leonardo DRS |
| W-band RF-photonics Receiver for Compact Cloud and Precipitation Radars | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology |
| Increasing the dynamic range of spaceflight charged particle instruments | Completed | 3 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | University of New Hampshire-Main Campus |
| Compact optomechanical accelerometers for space geodesy | Completed | 3 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station |
| AI-enabled Drone Swarms for Fire Detection, Mapping, and Modeling | Active | 4 | Tactical Management of Air Vehicles | Clemson University |
| Medium Energy Electron Telescope (MEET) | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
| Physics-Aware Quantum Neural Network Modeling of Earth Science Phenomena | Completed | 2 | Modeling | Ames Research Center |
| Develop and Demonstrate a Broadband Detector (0.20 to 50 micron) for Measuring Earth's Radiation Budget | Completed | 2 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Banpil Photonics, Inc. |
| AFFORD - Advanced Format and Feature Optimized ROIC Design | Active | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | SAAZ Micro Inc. |
| Multistatic Radar Demonstration | Active | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| An Earth System Digital Twin for Wildfire: Predicting Wildfire Progression and Behavior, and Its Downstream Impacts on Air Quality | Active | 3 | Modeling | California State University Auxiliary Services, Inc |
| Compact Hyperspectral Air Pollution Sensor-Demonstrator (CHAPS-D) (CHAPS-D) | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Johns Hopkins University |
| CHAPS Flight Qualification (CHAPS) | Active | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Development and Demonstration of an All Solid-State 4.7 THz spectrometer Enabling Measurements of Thermospheric Winds, Temperature, and O Density | Completed | 1 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Johns Hopkins University |
| A Spaceborne Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Colorado Boulder |
| Thematic Observation Search, Segmentation, Collation and Analysis system (TOS2CA) | Completed | 4 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Ecological Projection Analytic Collaborative Framework (EcoPro) | Completed | 4 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Predicting What We Breathe: Using Machine Learning to Understand Air Quality | Completed | 4 | Modeling | University of Southern California |
| Fire Alarm: Science Data Platform for Wildfire and Air Quality | Completed | 5 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| The airborne Compact Fire Imager (CFI) for measurements across the entire fire lifecycle | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Stacked Miniaturized And Radiation Tolerant Intelligent Electronics (SMARTIE) | Completed | 3 | Sensing and Perception | Irvine Sensors Corporation |
| Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Lidar PathfindEr (ABLE) (ABLE) | Completed | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Langley Research Center |
| Advanced information systems to fill STV gaps: next-generation stereo+lidar fusion and sensor technology | Completed | 3 | Attitude Estimation Technologies | University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
| Hyperspectral Capability for CoSMIR: Enhancing Capability for Future PBL Suborbital Campaigns and Enabling PBL Science from Space (CoSMIR) | Active | 5 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Maryland-College Park |
| CLASS, a Compact Lyman-Alpha Spatial heterodyne Spectrometer (CLASS) | Completed | 3 | Optical Components | California Institute of Technology |
| Advanced SAPHIRA HgCdTe APD Arrays for NASA Space Lidar Applications | Completed | 2 | Sensing and Perception | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| TransCal – An Innovative, Highly Accurate, Transmissive Radiometric Calibration Approach | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation |
| Coastal Zone Digital Twin (CZ-DT) (CZ-DT) | Completed | 4 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Langley Research Center |
| Intelligent Long Endurance Observing System | Completed | 4 | Collaboration and Interaction | Ames Research Center |
| Hot Spot: High-Resolution Real-Time Wildfire Detection, Mapping, and Communication Relay System with Persistent Broad-Area Coverage | Active | 6 | Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence | Urban Sky Theory, Inc. |
| Low SWaP-C Modular Laser Architecture for Laser-Cooled Quantum Sensors and Atomic Clocks | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Vescent Photonics, Inc. |
| Advanced X-Ray Microcalorimeters | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | NASA Headquarters |
| Plasma and Radiation Combined IN-situ Instrument (PRCINI) | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | Johns Hopkins University |
| Assessing Neighborhood Climate Risk and Daily Exposures in Cities | Completed | 3 | Science Modeling | Goddard Institute of Space Studies |
| Next Generation Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (Next Gen RTG) | Active | — | Static Energy Conversion | Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. |
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