NASA continues to collaborate with international communities to resolve advanced challenges by means of crowdsourcing with a collection of 25 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) contracts managed by the company’s Johnson House Middle in Houston.
The contract goals to empower NASA’s workforce by actively participating the general public to seek out inventive options to troublesome area exploration challenges by means of speedy experimentation with new methodologies, new applied sciences, and distinctive views, guaranteeing NASA stays on the forefront of innovation whereas undertaking its missions.
That is the third NOIS contract, managed by NASA’s Middle of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), and utilized by NASA and different authorities companies. The NOIS3 contract will present options by means of a number of crowdsourcing instruments and methodologies, which embrace public prize competitions, freelance tasking, expertise searches, and different crowd-based strategies.
The whole worth of the NOIS3 contract is $475 million over 10 years. There’s a assured $500 minimal obligation for every contract award. The bottom contract spans June 5, 2025, by means of Might 31, 2027, and there are two choices, the primary for 3 years, and the second for 5 years. If all choices are exercised, work might proceed by means of Might 31, 2035.
The awardees are:
- Blue Readability, Vienna, Virginia
- Capital Consulting Corp., Fairfax, Virginia
- Problem Works, London, United Kingdom
- CrowdPlat Inc., Pleasanton, California
- Design Interactive Inc., Orlando, Florida
- DrivenData Inc., Denver
- Ensemble Authorities Companies, Hyattsville, Maryland
- Hyperion Applied sciences, Arlington, Virginia
- Floor23 Digital, Jackson, Wisconsin
- Freelancer Worldwide, Sydney, Australia
- HeroX, Wilmington, Delaware
- HYVE Innovate, Munchen, Germany
- Innoget, Rockville, Maryland
- Institute of Competitors Sciences, San Francisco
- Loyal Supply Authorities Companies, Orlando, Florida
- Luminary Labs, New York Metropolis
- Nationwide Institute of Aerospace Associates, Hampton, Virginia
- Randstad Federal, Duluth, Georgia
- Rios Companions, Arlington, Virginia
- SecondMuse, Bernalillo, New Mexico
- TechConnect, Summerville, South Carolina
- Toffler Associates, Arlington, Virginia
- Tongal Inc., Los Angeles
- Topcocder, Indianapolis
- yet2.com Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts
NASA’s CoECI offers steerage on open innovation initiatives, serving to outline challenges and necessities and formulating and evaluating potential options. The middle’s end-to-end service permits NASA and different federal companies to quickly experiment with new strategies and remedy crucial issues by means of innovation and collaboration.
Study extra in regards to the NASA Middle of Excellence at:
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Tiernan Doyle
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
tiernan.doyle@nasa.gov
Kelly Humphries
Johnson House Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov
