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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| Title | Status | TRL | Technology area | Lead organization | Last updated | Potential ⓘ |
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| High Thermal Conductivity Textiles, Phase II | Completed | — | Measurement and Control | Johnson Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| An Integrated Heavy Fuel Piston Engine Ducted Fan Propulsion Unit for Personal Air Vehicles, Phase I | Completed | — | Hybrids | Langley Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Magnetically-coupled microcalorimeter arrays for x-ray astrophysics | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Controlled Thermal Expansion Alloys | Completed | 9 | Mirror Systems | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Silicon Carbide Printed Structures | Completed | 1 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Thermally and Cosmic Ray Driven Galactic Winds for Observational Diagnostics and Galaxy Formation Simulations | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Fiber Coupled Scanned Themographic NDE, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Langley Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Development of the Three-Dimensional Track Imager (3-DTI) for High Sensitivity Medium-Energy Gamma-Ray Polarimeter | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| The Development of a Differential Deposition Technique for Figure Correction in Grazing Incidence Optics | Completed | 1 | Mirror Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Dynamic Transfer Function Measurements for Cavitating Pumps, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Distributed Fiber-optic Electrostatic Potential Sensor System for Spacecrafts, Phase I | Completed | — | Measurement and Control | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Microwave Rain Gauge, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| High Capacity and High Voltage Composite Oxide Cathode for Li-ion Batteries, Phase I | Completed | 1 | Electrochemical Storage: Batteries | Glenn Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Advanced Monitoring System for Space Flight Applications, Phase II | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Fast Temperature Sensor for use in Atmospheric Sciences, Phase I | Completed | — | Environment Sensors | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Next Generation Hybrid Photo-Catalytic Oxidation (PCO) for Trace Contaminant Control (H-PCO) | Completed | 2 | Atmosphere Revitalization | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Laboratory Studies of Astrophysically Significant Carbon Molecules And Ions in Support of Space Missions | Completed | — | Field and Particle Detectors | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Delta-Sigma Modulated Photodetection Method to Reduce Laser Power | Completed | 2 | Electronics | Langley Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Throttleable Vacuum Arc Thruster for Precision Positioning, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2018-10-10 | — |
| National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Partnered Development of Cryogenic Life Support Technologies | Completed | 6 | Protective Clothing and Breathing Apparatuses | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Flight Test Development of the X43A-LS Reusable Launch Vehicle, Phase II | Completed | — | Launch Vehicle Propellant | Langley Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Liquid Crystal Membrane Dust Mitigation System for Lunar or Martian Operations, Phase I | Completed | — | Particulate Contamination Prevention and Mitigation | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| A Refactoring Environment for Incremental Migration of Legacy Code, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Ames Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Antistatic Thermal Control Coatings, Phase II | Completed | — | Radiation-Hardened Extreme-Environment Components and Implementations | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Revolutionary Runway Independent Aircraft Flight Simulation Technology, Phase II | Completed | — | Traffic Management Concepts | Ames Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Improving Electron Thermodynamics in GRMHD Simulations of Black Hole Accretion | Completed | — | Integrated Modeling and Simulation for EDL | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Collaborative Routing Rationing Algorithm, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Ames Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Pulsed Plasma Thruster Piezo-Igniter for Small Satellite, Phase II | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Glenn Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Generating Autoclave-Level Mechanical Properties with Out-of-Autoclave Thermoplastic Placement of Large Composite Aerospace Structures, Phase II | Completed | — | Manufacturing Processes | Langley Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Phase IIE funding to flight harden a Methane DIAL Transmitter | Completed | 4 | Lasers | NASA Headquarters | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Study of Cosmic Ray H and He Isotopes | Completed | — | Science Modeling | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Efficient and Compact Semiconductor Laser Transmitter Modules, Phase II | Completed | — | Lasers | Langley Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| The Ultraviolet Spectra of AGN: Intrinsic Properties and Intervening Material | Completed | — | Semantic Technologies | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Nano Ceramic Sterilization Filter, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Johnson Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Data Mining for IVHM using Sparse Binary Ensembles, Phase I | Completed | — | Intelligent Data Understanding | Ames Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Ordered Ultrathin Films based on Conducting Polymers for Gas Sensors, Phase II | Completed | — | Electrothermal Propulsion | Ames Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Flight-based instrumentation for in situ measurements of multiple trace gases, Phase I | Completed | — | Measurement and Control | Ames Research Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Distributed Spacecraft Mission (DSM) Design Reference Framework and Testbed for Intelligent and Collaborative Constellations (ICC) (DSM-C) | Completed | 3 | Tools and Methodologies for Defining Mission Architectures and Mission Design | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Very Large Solar Rejection Filter for Laser Communication, Phase II | Completed | 4 | Mirror Systems | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Moving Mesh Cosmology with Magnetohydrodynamics | Completed | — | Thermal Conditioning for Sensors, Instruments, Samples, and High-Efficiency Electric Motors | — | 2018-10-10 | — |
| GaN Based UV Sensors for Earth Resources Management, Phase I | Completed | — | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Mars Atmosphere and Regolith COllector/PrOcessor for Lander Operations (MARCO POLO) | Completed | — | Resource Processing for Production of Mission Consumables | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Cassette Based Robotic Multiple Cell Culture System, Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Johnson Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Parametric Amplifiers for Photon-Counting Detector Arrays | Completed | 3 | Detectors and Focal Planes | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Using Additive Manufacturing to Reduce the Cost of Instrument Development | Completed | 2 | Digital Transformation Technologies for Manufacturing | Goddard Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Thioaptamer Diagnostic System, Phase I | Completed | — | Launch Vehicle Propellant | Johnson Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Toolkit for Enabling Adaptive Modeling and Simulation (TEAMS), Phase I | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Advanced UVOIR Mirror Technology Development for Very Large Space Telescopes | Completed | 1 | Mirror Systems | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Development of Ultra-smooth Diamond Tooling for Machining Lightweight Mirrors, Phase II | Completed | — | Food Production, Processing, and Preservation | Marshall Space Flight Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
| Impact-Actuated Digging Tool for Lunar Excavation, Phase I | Completed | 4 | Mission Planning | Kennedy Space Center | 2018-10-10 | — |
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