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The NASA Applied Sciences Program (http://nasascience.nasa.gov/earth-science/applied-sciences) seeks innovative and unique approaches to increase the utilization and extend the benefit of Earth Science research data to better meet societal needs. One area of interest is new decision support tools and systems for a variety of ecological applications such as managing coastal environments, natural resources or responding to natural disasters.

This subtopic seeks technical innovation and unique approaches for the processing, discovery and analysis of data from NASA science missions. Advances in such algorithms will support science data analysis and decision support systems related to current and future missions, and will support mission concepts for:

NASA seeks innovative systems engineering modeling methodologies and tools to define, develop and execute future science missions, many of which are likely to feature designs and operational concepts that will pose significant challenges to existing approaches and applications. Specific areas of interest include the following:

As science missions are given increasingly complex goals and have more pressure to reduce operations costs, system autonomy increases. Fault Management (FM) is one of the key components of system autonomy. FM consists of the operational mitigations of spacecraft failures. It is implemented with spacecraft hardware, on-board autonomous software that controls hardware, software, information redundancy, and ground-based software and operations procedures.

This year's STTR topic hosted by NASA Ames Research Center spans three technology investment areas at the center. These interests include: Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration, Commodity Based Technologies, and Information Technologies for Intelligent Planetary Robotics. Please see the subtopic descriptions for what is sought under each of these solicitations.

The field of Synthetic Biology is a rapidly growing area of study that encompasses research ranging from the introduction of incremental function or regulation into existing organisms to the creation of fully synthetic living structures and systems. NASA is interested in harnessing this emerging field to create technological advances for multiple mission focus areas. Topics include biological life ...

This subtopic seeks out-of-the-box, innovative, broad-based approaches to address space mission requirements.Desired proposals would enable the commoditization of space mission requirements by utilizing existing commercial technology goods and services to reduce schedule and costs of implementation.Examples:Smart-phones today are able to perform many of the basic capabilities of the spacecraft, having a high speed processor with large memory capacity, a set of sensors such as an accelerometer, rate gyroscopes, magnetometer, global positioning system (GPS).

This topic solicits innovative aerospace concepts and techniques that would advance aerospace technologies in all flight regimes. NASA's flight research mission is to demonstrate aeronautic and space technologies through flight research and testing. NASA also seeks advance flight test techniques and analysis tools for efficient and timely flight research. The principle areas of interest encompass ...

The emphasis of this subtopic is proving feasibility, developing, and demonstrating technologies for advanced flight research experimentation that matures new methodologies, technologies, and concepts. It seeks advancements that promise significant gains in NASA's flight research capabilities or addresses barriers to measurements, operations, safety, and cost in all flight regimes from low sub-sonic to high supersonic. This subtopic solicits innovative technologies that enhance flight research competencies by advancing capabilities for in-flight experimentation.

This topic seeks to solicit advanced innovative technologies and systems in space power and propulsion to fulfill our Nation's goal of space exploration. The anticipated technologies should advance the state-of-the-art or feature enabling technologies to allow NASA to meet future exploration goals.