2025 NASA SBIR/STTR Phase I Subtopic Ask Me Anything (AMA) Webinars
To help our community of small businesses and research institutions prepare for the 2025 SBIR/STTR Solicitations, NASA held a series of Ask Me Anything webinars the week of December 9, 2024. In these sessions, we introduced the research subtopics and helped firms prepare to submit a Phase I proposal. These webinars included live Q&As with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and learn more about the research subtopics, which were pre-released to the public December 2. The AMAs are organized according to the 2024 NASA Technology Taxonomy.
Please see the Solicitations on our Phase I Opportunity page (closed on March 10, 2025).
Webinar Recordings
Session 1 : TX01 – Propulsion Systems & TX09 – Entry, Descent and Landing
12/9/2024 11:30-1:00pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- A1.04 Novel Aircraft Configurations for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion
- A1.09 Zero-Emissions Technologies for Aircraft
- Z5.06 Servicing and Assembly Applications
- Z7.01 Parachute Systems for Maneuverability and Wireless Data Acquisition
- Z7.03 Entry and Descent System Technologies
- Z7.07 Plume-Surface Interaction (PSI) Technologies
- Z8.13 Space Debris Prevention for Small Spacecraft
- Z10.01 Components for Extreme Environments
- Z10.03 Space Nuclear Propulsion
- Z10.06 Solar Photon Sails Research and Technology Development
Session 2 : TX04 – Robotic Systems & TX10 – Autonomous Systems
12/9/2024 3:00-4:30pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- A1.11 Health Management and Sensing Technologies For Sustainable Aviation Vehicles
- A2.02 Enabling Aircraft Autonomy
- A2.04 Aviation Cybersecurity
- H6.25 Trusted Autonomy in Space Systems
- H15.01 Autonomous Capabilities for Lunar Surface Mobility Systems
- H15.02 Simulation and Modeling of Lunar Mobility System Interaction with Lunar Regolith
- S13.01 Robotic Mobility, Manipulation, and Sampling
- S17.03 Fault Management Technologies
- T6.09 Human-Autonomous System Integration for Deep Space Tactical Anomaly Response in Smart Habitats
- Z5.06 Servicing and Assembly Applications
- Z5.09 Robotic Hardware for In-Space Manipulation
- Z5.10 Extensible Perception, Manipulation, and Interoperability for Autonomous Robotic Systems
Session 3 : TX02 – Flight Computing and Avionics, TX11 – Software, Modeling, Simulation and Information Processing, TX15 – Flight Vehicle Systems & TX16 – Air Traffic Management and Range Tracking Systems
12/10/2024 11:30-1:00pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- A1.02 Quiet Performance – Airframe Noise
- A1.06 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Vehicle Technologies – Vehicle Design Tool & Electric Powertrain Test Capability
- A2.04 Aviation Cybersecurity
- A3.02 Advanced Air Traffic Management for Nontraditional Airspace Missions
- A3.03 Future Aviation Systems Safety
- A3.05 Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Integration
- H9.03 Flight Dynamics and Navigation Technologies
- S14.01 Space Weather Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research (R2O2R)
- S17.01 Technologies for Large-Scale Numerical Simulation
- S17.02 Integrated Campaign and System Modeling
- T11.05 Model-Based Enterprise
- T15.04 Full-Scale (Passenger/Cargo) Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Scaling, Propulsion, Aerodynamics, and Acoustics Investigations
- Z2.02 High-Performance Space Computing Technology
- Z14.01 Regolith Excavation and Manipulation for Surface Operations and Infrastructure with Assembly and Outfitting of Lunar Surface Structures
Session 4 : TX08.1 – Remote Sensing Instruments and Sensors & TX08.X – Other Sensors and Instruments
12/10/2024 3:00-4:30pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- A2.01 Flight Test and Measurement Technologies
- A3.05 Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Integration
- S11.01 Lidar Remote-Sensing Technologies
- S11.02 Technologies for Active Microwave Remote Sensing
- S11.03 Technologies for Passive Microwave Remote Sensing
- S11.04 Sensor and Detector Technologies for Visible, Infrared (IR), Far-IR, and Submillimeter
- S12.06 Detector Technologies for Ultraviolet (UV), X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instruments
- S13.03 Extreme Environments Technology
- S14.01 Space Weather Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research (R2O2R)
- S14.02 In Situ Particles and Fields and Remote-Sensing-Enabling Technologies for Heliophysics Instruments
- S16.04 Suborbital Platform Technologies
- S16.07 Cryogenic Systems for Sensors and Detectors
- S16.08 Quantum Sensing: Atomic sensors, optical atomic clocks, and solid-state systems
- T8.06 Quantum Sensing/Measurement and Communication
- T8.07 Photonic Integrated Circuits
- T8.08 Lunar Imagery
Session 5 : TX12 – Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems and Manufacturing & TX13 – Ground, Test and Surface Systems
12/11/2024 11:30-1:00pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- A1.03 Propulsion Efficiency – Propulsion Materials and Structures
- A1.06 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Vehicle Technologies – Vehicle Design Tool & Electric Powertrain Test Capability
- A1.08 Aeronautics Ground Test and Measurement Technologies: Diagnostic Systems for High-Speed Flows and Icing
- H5.01 Modular, Multi-Use 50 kW Lunar Solar Array Structures
- H8.01 In Space Production Applications (InSPA) Flight Development and Demonstrations on ISS
- H10.04 In-line Commodity Purity Analysis
- S12.02 Precision Deployable Optical Structures and Metrology
- T12.01 Additively Manufactured Electronics for Space Applications
- T12.10 Low-Cost Manufacturing and Integration of Reusable Thermal Protection Systems (TPS)
- T12.11 Biomanufacturing for Space Missions: Harnessing Microbial Communities for Sustainable Production in Moon and Mars Environments
- T12.12 Spray Processing of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) Alloy GRX-810
- T13.02 High-Efficiency, Reliable Electrical Subsystems for Cryogenic Pumps
- Z4.05 Advanced In-Space Laser Welding and Nondestructive Evaluation
- Z13.05 Components for Extreme Environments
- Z99.02 Beyond LEO Sustainability
Session 6 : TX08.2 – Observatories & TX08.3 – In Situ Instruments and Sensors
12/11/2024 3:00-4:30pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- S11.05 Suborbital Instruments and Sensor Systems for Earth Science Measurements
- S12.01 Exoplanet Detection and Characterization Technologies
- S12.02 Precision Deployable Optical Structures and Metrology
- S12.03 Advanced Optical Systems and Fabrication/Testing/Control Technologies for Extended-Ultraviolet/Optical to Mid-/Far-Infrared Telescopes
- S12.04 X-Ray Mirror Systems Technology, Coating Technology for X-Ray-UVOIR (Ultraviolet-Optical-Infrared), and Free-Form Optics
- S13.05 In Situ Instruments and Instrument Components for Lunar and Planetary Science
- S15.02 In Situ Sample Preparation and Analysis for Biological and Physical Sciences in a Microgravity Environment
- S14.02 In Situ Particles and Fields and Remote-Sensing-Enabling Technologies for Heliophysics Instruments
- S15.03 Environmental Monitoring for Micro-G and Partial-G Experiments
- S16.08 Quantum Sensing: Atomic sensors, optical atomic clocks, and solid-state systems
Session 7 : TX03 – Aerospace Power and Energy Storage & TX14 – Thermal Management Systems
12/12/2024 11:30-1:00pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- S13.06 Dynamic Power Conversion
- S16.04 Suborbital Platform Technologies
- S16.05 Thermal Control Systems
- T3.05 Lunar Orbital Power Beaming Technology Development
- Z1.05 Surface Power Technologies
- Z1.10 Enabling Power and Thermal Technologies
- Z2.01 Spacecraft Thermal Management
- Z13.05 Components for Extreme Environments
Session 8 : TX06 – Human Health, Life Support and Habitation Systems & TX07 – Exploration Destination Systems
12/12/2024 3:00-4:30pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- H3.13 Oxygen Compatible Habitation Solutions for Exploration Environments
- H3.14 Nanobubble Facilitated Hydrogen Peroxide Production In Space
- H4.09 Long-Duration Exploration Portable Life Support System (PLSS) Capabilities
- H4.11 Advanced Materials for Durable Space Suits for the Moon and Mars
- H12.09 In-Suit Detection of Venous Gas Emboli
- S13.04 Contamination Control and Planetary Protection
- T7.04 Lunar Surface Site Preparation
- Z5.11 Orbital Infrastructure Assembly
- Z12.03 Space Resource Processing for Consumables, Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy
- Z13.05 Components for Extreme Environments
- Z14.01 Regolith Excavation and Manipulation for Surface Operations and Infrastructure with Assembly and Outfitting of Lunar Surface Structures
Session 9 : TX05 – Communications, Navigation and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems & TX17 – GN&C
12/13/2024 11:30-1:00pm ET
Subtopics Included:
- H9.03 Flight Dynamics and Navigation Technologies
- H9.08 Lunar 3GPP Technologies
- S16.03 Guidance, Navigation, and Control
- S16.04 Suborbital Platform Technologies
- T5.06 Non-Earth Orbit Conjunction Risk Analysis
- T5.07 Communications Quality of Service (QoS) Optimization Through Network Autonomy
- T8.06 Quantum Sensing/Measurement and Communication
- Z8.13 Space Debris Prevention for Small Spacecraft
- Z99.01 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Sustainability
- Z99.02 Beyond LEO Sustainability