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 386 of 422.
| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Observing Strategies Testbed (NOS-T) Development and Demonstration | Active | 5 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Arizona State University-Tempe |
| Seismometer to Investigate Interior Asteroid Structure | Completed | 4 | In Situ Resource Use | University of Arizona |
| A forecasting scheme for accelerated harmful algal bloom monitoring (FASTHAB) | Active | 2 | Modeling | Science Systems and Applications, Inc. |
| CMOS-Based Millimeter-Wave Spectrometer for in-situ Sensing Applications | Active | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | California Institute of Technology |
| Low Cost, Size, Weight, and Power, Radiation Hard, Time-of-Flight LiDAR or Infrared Radiometry System on a Chip for Earth Orbit and Planetary Missions | Completed | 2 | Sensing and Perception | SenseICs Corporation |
| Study of coronal X-ray jet formation using advanced numerical simulations and laboratory experiments | Completed | — | Science Modeling | Princeton University |
| Mapping anthropogenic water cycle impacts in a future climate: A global digital twin for scenario-driven exploration | Active | 2 | Modeling | NASA Headquarters |
| Pix4DCloud: A Suite of Physics-Constrained Transformer Models to Retrieve 4D Clouds in Real World and Digital Twins (Pix4DCloud) | Active | 3 | Modeling | NASA Headquarters |
| Metamaterial-based Super Spectral Filter Radiometers for Atmospheric Sounding of Temperature and Water Vapor | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. |
| Characterizing Neural-Network Classification Uncertainty Through Bayesian Statistics | Active | 2 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | Bayesics, LLC |
| An Imaging Polarimeter for Hydrogen Lyman-α | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Machine-learning to improve cycling and forecasts with GEOS and expedite the evaluation of assimilating observations from new instruments. | Active | 3 | Modeling | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus |
| A Magnetometer Based on Magneto-Optical Effects for Space Applications | Active | — | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | University of Colorado Boulder |
| High-Rate X-ray Spectrometer for Solar and Space Physics | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| Veery: Flat-panel Scatterometer for Hourly Ocean Surface Vector Winds (Veery) | Active | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Care Weather Technologies |
| Low-power Integrated Acousto-Optics for Atomic Quantum Sensors | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Yale University |
| Global Orbital Research with a Diurnal Observing Network (GORDON): Towards realizing the potential of affordable spaceborne lidar (GORDON) | Active | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Iowa |
| UAS-mounted Canopy Penetrating Radar-Tag System for Understory Fuel Sensing | Active | 4 | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Luminescence Imager for Exploration | Completed | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center |
| Dynamic Targeting | Completed | 7 | Intelligent Data Understanding | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 3D-CHESS: Decentralized, distributed, dynamic and context-aware heterogeneous sensor systems (3D-CHESS) | Completed | 3 | Collaboration and Interaction | Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station |
| Laboratory XUV Spectroscopy: Increasing the Scientific Return of Solar Missions | Active | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Development of Grotifer: a CubeSat for Three-dimensional Electric Field Measurements | Completed | 3 | Field and Particle Detectors | University of California-Berkeley |
| UMIS: The Ultraviolet Micromirror Imaging Spectrograph (UMIS) | Active | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Planetary Science Institute |
| Miniaturized Lidar Sensor for Fire and PBL Payloads | Completed | 3 | Lasers | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| SLICE: Semi-supervised Learning from Images of a Changing Earth (SLICE) | Completed | 4 | Simulation | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Near real-time updated wildfire risk map model informed by powerline fault status | Active | 3 | Environmental Monitoring, Safety, and Emergency Response | Oklahoma State University-Main Campus |
| A scalable probabilistic emulation and uncertainty quantification tool for Earth-system models | Completed | 5 | Mission Architecture, Systems Analysis, and Concept Development | Texas A & M University-College Station |
| Goddard Miniature Coronagraph | Completed | 3 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | NASA Headquarters |
| CHanneled IR Polarimeter (CHIRP) (CHIRP) | Active | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | University of Arizona |
| Gas Filter correlation radiometer (GFCR) solar Limb Occultation TEMPerature sensor (GLOTemp) (GLOTemp) | Completed | 5 | Microwave, Millimeter Waves, and Submillimeter Waves | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Smart Ice Cloud Sensing | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation |
| Fery Grism prototype - Next Gen Atmospheric Gas Spectrometers & Solar Induced Fluorescence Imaging Spectrometers | Completed | 2 | Optical Components | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Blue Laser for Ocean Lidar | Completed | 2 | Lasers | Langley Research Center |
| Advance Foundation Modeling Use in Resilience Applications | Completed | 3 | Modeling | Ames Research Center |
| Ultra RF | Completed | 2 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation |
| Detection of artifacts and transients in Earth Science observing systems with machine learning | Completed | 6 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | UCSD/Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Flight Demonstration of Federated New Observing Strategies for Multiple Science Applications | Active | — | Collaborative Science and Engineering | California Institute of Technology |
| Development of a next-generation ensemble prediction system for atmospheric composition | Completed | 4 | Simulation | Universities Space Research Association |
| Formaldehyde Integrated Path Differential Absorption LIDAR | Completed | 4 | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| ExCALiBR: Extractor for Chemical Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers in Regolith | Active | 4 | In Situ Instruments and Sensors | Ames Research Center |
| Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponder for Small Satellites (GRITSS) Flight Demonstration (GRITSS-FD) (GRITSS-FD) | Active | 5 | Other GN&C Technologies | University of Massachusetts-Lowell |
| Subcanopy UAS development for watershed-scale surface and ladder fuel quantification (Step-2) | Active | — | Fire Detection, Suppression, and Recovery | University of Nevada-Reno |
| An Agile Radar System for High-Resolution 3-D Surface Topography and Vegetation Structure Measurements from Stratospheric and Distributed Platforms | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Aloft Sensing, Inc. |
| SLiFO3X/Tropospheric Ozone | Active | — | Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| An Analytic Collaborative Framework for the Earth System Observatory Designated Observables (ESO) | Completed | 4 | Other Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing | NASA Headquarters |
| Sterilizing Heat Infrared Emitting LED Device (SHIELD) | Active | 4 | Exploration Destination Systems | Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. |
| Hyperspectral imaging on photonic-integrated-circuits for future GeoCARB missions | Completed | 4 | Sensing and Perception | University of California-Davis |
| Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution And Debris Observation - Neuromorphic | Completed | 4 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Advancement of a Lyot Filter Demonstration Instrument (LFDI) for Space-Borne Solar Physics Investigations (LFDI) | Completed | 4 | Optical Components | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
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