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About Strategic Partnerships at Ames

The NASA Ames Strategic Partnership Office, within the Office of the Center Director, provides Center-level strategic policy and procedural guidance for all domestic, unclassified partnerships matters. NASA engages in partnerships with international, intergovernmental, academic, industrial, and entrepreneurial communities, recognizing them as important contributors of skill and creativity to our missions and for the propagation of our results.  

Partnerships are implemented through a variety of mechanisms including Space Act Agreements, Commercial Space Launch Act Agreements, and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, Research and Development of innovative technologies through annual Solicitations, Software Licensing, Patents, among others. 

The areas of focus in the NASA Ames Partnership Office include: 

To fulfill the NASA Strategic Plan, the NASA Ames Partnerships Office: 

  • Provides collaborators access to Ames’ unique facilities and expertise 
  • Facilitates commercialization of NASA technology through the private sector 
  • Supports the NASA HQ Office of International and Intergovernmental Relations (OIIR) Office with the exchange and engagement with International Partners 
  • Promotes innovation in the following areas of expertise: 
    • Entry systems: Safely delivering spacecraft to Earth & other celestial bodies 
    • Advanced Computing & IT Systems: Enabling NASA’s advanced modeling and simulation 
    • Aerosciences: Testing on the ground before you take to the sky 
      • Wind Tunnels 
    • Air Traffic Management: Transforming the way we fly 
      • NextGen Air Transportation 
    • Astrobiology and Life Science: Understanding life on Earth – and in space 
    • Cost-Effective Space Missions: Enabling high value science to low Earth orbit & the moon 
    • Intelligent Systems: Complementing humans in space 
      • Autonomy & Robotics 
      • Human Systems Integration 
    • Space and Earth Science: Understanding our planet, our solar system and everything beyond 
      • Exoplanets 
      • Airborne Science 

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