CoECI Other Government Agency Opportunities

USBR Seal Team Fix Challenge

Design a rapid, high-pressure seal to control failed dam conduits and safeguard water and power.

NIOSH Counterfeit N95 Challenge

This challenge represents a real opportunity for the public to address counterfeit respiratory protection by reducing the number of fake N95 FFRs in the marketplace.

Minimizing Bias Challenge

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) team within the NIH is launching the Minimizing Bias and Maximizing Long-term Accuracy, Utility, and Generalizability of Predictive Algorithms in Healthcare Challenge.

NICHD Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge

The challenge goal is to devise new ways of analyzing the large dataset from its Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b) to identify factors that impact maternal morbidity and severe maternal morbidity.

Overhead Geopose Challenge

Overhead satellite imagery provides critical time-sensitive information for use in areas like disaster response, navigation, and security.

Imperfection Detection: Detect Me If You Can

Reclamation, in collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), is sponsoring this challenge with the goal of developing portable tools that use non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods to assess the condition of existing FRP composite structures. 

Detect to Protect Challenge: A Live Animal Test for CWD

The Detect to Protect Challenge: A Live Animal Test is calling upon innovators and scientists,  researchers, and/or startup companies to submit their proposal for developing a novel diagnostic test for the early detection of CWD in a live animal, prior to clinical signs.

Water America's Crops Challenge

The Water America’s Crops Challenge seeks to incentivize new approaches to minimizing seepage in canals that are cost-effective for the farmers and communities that Reclamation serves.

ENACT Challenge

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is exploring potential future vehicle technologies.

LAANC UI Redesign Challenge

Participants are tasked with proposing a fresh UI that takes advantage of current technology and best practices to give users an improved experience.

MagNet: Model the Geomagnetic Field

NOAA is asking the crowd to develop models for forecasting Dst that push the boundary of predictive performance, under operationally viable constraints, using the real-time solar-wind data feeds from NOAA’s DSCOVR and NASA’s ACE satellites. 

Power of Passengers Challenge

The Transportation Security Administration wants to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of its security efforts, as well as improve passenger security screening experience by leveraging innovative approaches and technologies.

Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge

The challenge features a series of coding sprints to apply differential privacy methods to temporal map data, where one individual in the data may contribute to a sequence of events.

More Water, Less Concentrate

Reclamation is seeking innovative solutions for reducing the volume of concentrate requiring disposal from inland desalination systems in an affordable, environmentally sustainable, and efficient manner.

Canal Safety Challenge

The Canal Safety Challenge is a public competition focused on discovering solutions to improve public safety and reduce drownings in canals throughout the United States and make egress from the canals easier or allow for safer rescue and recovery efforts. 

NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity seeks to recognize those institutions whose biomedical and behavioral science departments, centers, or divisions have achieved sustained improvement in gender diversity.

Streamflow Forecast Rodeo

Streamflow forecasts are integral to water management. With higher skill forecasts, water managers can likely better operate facilities for high flows, to mitigate drought impacts, and to achieve other improved outcomes like hydropower generation.

Protecting the Natural Flavor of Catfish

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) seeks to identify methods or technologies capable of reducing or eliminating instances of off-flavor in farmed catfish raised in ponds.

CDC Text Classification Marathon

Participants are asked to build a model based on the given training data. The model will need to make predictions for a test file.

Rust Busters Challenge

In order to address rising maintenance costs and to advance the state of the art for corrosion control, the Bureau of Reclamation, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, launched the Rust Busters Challenge.

Rodeo II: Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecasting

The Rodeo II Challenge series sought to create algorithms to enhance sub-seasonal forecasting, reducing risks to water systems and helping water managers efficiently manage hydrological regimes.

The Opioid Detection Challenge

The challenge calls on innovators in a wide range of fields, from forensic science to industrial quality assurance to artificial intelligence, to help disrupt the flow of opioids into the United States.

USSOCOM HF Geolocation Algorithm Challenge

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is seeking an algorithm that utilizes the high-frequency reception capability of the DRT4411 Software Defined Radio to quickly geolocate a radio frequency transmitter target by means of signals measured by a distant receiver.

MagQuest

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency MagQuest challenge seeks novel approaches to geomagnetic data collection for the World Magnetic Model (WMM).

DHS Escape Respirator Challenge

The Escape Respirator Challenge is a public competition focused on finding solutions to protect end users against aerosolized chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) hazards and provides delivery of oxygen for safe egress from a smoke-filled, oxygen-deficient, and CBR environments.

Connecting the Community for Maternal Health

The goal of this challenge is to help community-based or community-oriented 501(c)3 (non-profit) organizations develop the infrastructure and capabilities needed to pursue maternal health research in areas that specifically impact their communities. 

<strong>Water Supply Forecast Rodeo</strong>

Accurate seasonal are crucial for effective water resources management.

The First Responder UAS Wireless Data Gatherer Challenge

Seeking innovators with applicable expertise across and beyond the UAS ecosystem.

The 2024 FAA Data Challenge

Identify challenges and present solutions toward the evolution of the National Airspace System (NAS) into a more information-centric entity.

Pioneering Research for Early Prediction of Alzheimer's and Related Dementias EUREKA Challenge

Inform novel approaches to early detection that might ultimately lead to more accurate tests, tools, and methodologies for clinical and research purposes.

Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge

Advance genome editing technology by developing solutions for delivering genome editors to somatic cells.