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Discover NASA Glenn’s partnership opportunities designed to foster innovation and collaboration. Explore our various capabilities, technologies, and facilities, and find other available opportunities for industry, government, academia, and the general public.

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Capabilities and Expertise

Glenn’s core competencies span crucial areas that support aeronautics, science, and space exploration. We advance NASA’s missions through our deep technical expertise in aircraft propulsion, in-space propulsion and cryogenics, power, energy storage and conversion, communications technology, materials and structures for extreme environments, and physical sciences. Industry, academia, and other government agencies can leverage Glenn’s technical capabilities, supporting their needs while aligning with NASA’s mission. Discover more about Glenn’s capabilities and expertise areas.

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Transforming Aviation

NASA Glenn conducts revolutionary aeronautics research, helping the nation transform aviation.

Space Exploration

NASA Glenn conducts research and innovates technologies that benefit space exploration and science missions.

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Research and Technology

NASA Glenn advances aerospace research, technology development, and engineering for future missions and capabilities.

Facilities

Glenn is home to world-class facilities that bring private industry, government, and academia to Ohio. Explore the facility offerings from Glenn’s two campuses: Lewis Field in Cleveland and Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Lewis Field

Home to a wide range of ground test facilities including wind tunnels, vacuum chambers, antenna ranges, propulsion component rigs, material research labs, and conceptual design facilities.

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Neil Armstrong Test Facility

Featuring the world’s largest and most capable space simulation test facilities where ground tests are conducted for both the space and aeronautics communities.

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Enhanced Use Lease Opportunities

Explore opportunities to use Glenn assets, land, and facilities.

Technology and Data

NASA Glenn is home to prolific inventors and creates technologies, software, and data that may be available for your use.

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NASA Glenn Technology Transfer Office

An entry point to explore our patent licensing program process.

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

NASA’s repository of conference papers, journal articles, research reports, images, movies, and more.

NASA Glenn Patent Portfolio

Glenn’s portfolio of inventions with commercial potential.

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NASA Glenn Software Catalog

Provides software programs available for free download to use in a variety of technical applications.

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Contract Opportunities

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Small Business

The NASA Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program is the nation’s largest source of early-stage non-dilutive funding for innovative technologies.

Research Calls

NASA Research Opportunities

The NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRE) is a place to explore research opportunity announcements.

University Leadership Initiative

Opportunity for U.S. universities to receive NASA funding to support NASA’s aeronautics research goals.

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Space Technology Research Grants

Graduate student and tenured faculty opportunities to work on low technology readiness level groundbreaking research in advanced space technology.

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Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing

Public opportunity to engage on NASA’s missions and explore creative possibilities for addressing the agency’s needs.

Partnership Inquiries

Does your company have a partnership idea that aligns with NASA Glenn's missions? Submit your partnership idea here.

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Glenn Research Center

Capabilities and Expertise

Transforming Aviation

Space Exploration

Research and Technology

Facilities

Lewis Field

Neil Armstrong Test Facility

Enhanced Use Lease Opportunities

Technology and Data

NASA Glenn Technology Transfer Office

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

NASA Glenn Patent Portfolio

NASA Glenn Software Catalog

Business Opportunities

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Small Business

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