Trevor Osborne posted the following, please pass it around to all those
who might have ideas for novel or new propulsion systems. Here is your
chance to submit your ideas to possibly get funding or at least get a
chance to see if your ideas can proven;
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NAIC is the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. They have funding to
pursue non-NASA research into a broad set of areas, including advanced
propulsion.
Please forward this to your university, small business, industry, and
other government lab contacts who may be interested in using this avenue
for funding.
Thanks - John Cole.
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USRA released in Commerce Business Daily a Sources Sought Solicitation
for the Institute a few weeks ago. Additionally, their webpage is now
operating. It's address is
Attached is the one page summary of Purposes and Objectives of NIAC, and
the Sources Sought Solicitation, for your information. I just received
an electronic copy, otherwise, I would have sent it to you sooner.
Please feel free to forward this information to any non-NASA person who
may have an interest in participating in the NIAC.
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The Universities Space Research Association
(USRA) was awarded a contract from NASA to
establish and manage the NASA Institute for
Advanced Concepts (NIAC). Through a series
of open solicitations over the life of the
contract, the NIAC will be seeking proposals
from the science and engineering community to
develop "revolutionary", advanced concepts in
aeronautics and space. These advanced
concepts should be "new", "revolutionary",
"imaginative" and aimed at becoming
aerospace missions for the time frame of 10 to
40 years in the future.
The NIAC will foster a continuing involvement
with researchers through annual meetings
and communication by implementing a "virtual
institute" over the Internet.
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The Solicitation
A solicitation is under development to seek proposals
in response to a list of "Grand Challenges" which are
being prepared by the NIAC Exploration and Technology
Council with inputs from NASA and number of other
people in the aerospace community. The "Grand
Challenges" will be aimed clearly at the far term;
i.e., well beyond the capabilities of even the next
generation of aircraft or space systems,
even if they sound "impossible"
with currently understood technologies.
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