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 upcoming 2025 SBIR/STTR Solicitations, NASA will hold a series of Ask Me Anything webinars the week of December 9, 2024, to introduce the research subtopics and help firms prepare to submit a Phase I proposal. These webinars will include live Q&As with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). This will be an opportunity to not only hear the perspective of NASA SMEs but also ask them questions about the research subtopics, which will be released to the public December 2. The Solicitations are anticipated to open January 2025.
The AMAs are being organized according to the 2024 NASA Technology Taxonomy.
Please see the subtopic postings here: SBIR Posting and STTR Posting
Submit Your Questions Ahead of the AMAs
We encourage you to submit your questions ahead of the AMAs here! Please submit one form for each question, and do not include company-sensitive of IP information in your questions; if we deem the question to be company-sensitive, it may be changed or not answered. While there will be an opportunity during the sessions to submit additional questions, submitting questions prior increases the likelihood SMEs will address them. Viable questions that cannot be answered in the allotted time will be answered in a document published to this webpage after the session, along with the session recordings. Please note that we will be accepting pre-submitted questions until 24 hours before each session. If you have any questions after the deadline, please hold them for the webinars.
Webinar Links
All webinar recordings will be available after the sessions on this page.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
- A2.01 Flight Test and Measurement Technologies
- 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
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