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2025 Research Contest

2025 Research Contest

The NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge

Forecast the number of arrivals at airports in the USForecast the number of arrivals at airports in the USChallenge type: Analytics, visualizations, algorithmsAgency name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Total cash prizes: $12,000,000.00 ...


2025 NIA Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator

Entrepreneur Accelerator and Prize Competition for Aging InnovationsThis Challenge aims to stimulate innovation by fostering diversity in aging research and life science entrepreneurship. Challenge type: IdeasAgency name: Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of HealthTotal cash prizes: $66,500,000.00 ...


Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Prize

Prize for companies & coalitions that demonstrate grid-edge tech/plans to integrateThe Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Prize is focused on the grid edge, or where buildings, industry, transportation, renewable energies, storage, and the electric grid come together.Challenge type: Technology demonstration and hardwareAgency name: Department of Energy - Under Secretary of EnergyTotal cash prizes: $20,000,000.00 ...


StatVentures Address Geolocation Challenge, Phase 2 Competition

Innovate the ways the U.S. Census Bureau geolocates residential addresses.Propose a novel technology, method, data source or approach to geolocate residential addresses in the US, especially in rural and remote locations. $250,000 in prizes divided across up to 6 prizes. Challenge type: Software and appsAgency name: Department of Commerce - Bureau of the CensusTotal cash prizes: $25,000,000.00 ...


KidneyED Youth Innovation Challenge

Young solvers developing solutions to raise awareness of kidney disease and preventionThe KidneyED Youth Innovation Challenge aims to have participants develop solutions that raise awareness of kidney diseases and promote prevention behaviors. Challenge type: Software and appsAgency name: Department of Health and Human ServicesTotal cash prizes: $25,000,000.00 ...


Community Power Accelerator Prize Round 3

Fast-tracking efforts of emerging developers/co-developers to grow distributed solarRound 3 seeks organizations that have the desire and ambition to develop and finance a portfolio of two+ projects that, in aggregate, total at least 1 MW AC of distributed solar generationChallenge type: Business plansAgency name: Department of Energy - Under Secretary of EnergyTotal cash prizes: $1,000,000,000.00 ...


CTE CHIPS Challenge

Prepping Students for CHIPS-Aligned CareersExpand student recruitment, training, and placement strategies in semiconductor fab construction and advanced manufacturing careers that align with CHIPS.Challenge type: IdeasAgency name: Department of Education - Office of Career, Technical, and Adult EducationTotal cash prizes: $100,000,000.00 ...


UUV Autonomous Mission Operations Development: Tire Detection Challenge

UUV Autonomy Development to Detect Tires in NVIDIA Omniverse Range Representative Envir.Challenge type: Software and appsAgency name: Department of Defense - NavyTotal cash prizes: $5,000,000.00 ...


xTechLive Pitch Competition

The U.S. Army xTech Program live pitch competition at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show!The U.S. Army invites interested entities to participate in the U.S. Army xTech Live pitch competition, designed for eligible small to medium businesses attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).Challenge type: Technology demonstration and hardwareAgency name: Department of Defense - ArmyTotal cash prizes: $10,000,000.00 ...


Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge

Revolutionizing technology development of delivery systems for in vivo genome editing.A $6,000,000 competition to improve in vivo delivery technologies for genome editors in two Target Areas: 1. Programmable delivery systems, and 2. Non-viral delivery across the blood-brain barrier.Challenge type: ScientificAgency name: Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of HealthTotal cash prizes: $600,000,000.00 ...


First Responder UAS Wireless Data Gatherer Challenge

NIST competition seeks innovative technologies and researchers for UAS 6.0 Challenge. Join us for the sixth prize challenge in our Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) competition series: The First Responder UAS Wireless Data Gatherer Challenge (UAS 6.0)!Challenge type: Technology demonstration and hardwareAgency name: Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and TechnologyTotal cash prizes: $73,000,000.00 ...


Barriers and Solutions to Building Community Partnerships in Deploying Remote Assessments

Creating actionable steps to reduce barriers between researchers and communitiesChallenge type: IdeasAgency name: Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of HealthTotal cash prizes: $30,000,000.00 ...


Remote Assessments of Substance Use Disorder (SUD)-Relevant Measurements

Highlighting current best practices and state-of-the-art approaches in remote monitoringChallenge type: Technology demonstration and hardwareAgency name: Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of HealthTotal cash prizes: $30,000,000.00 ...


NEI Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge

Submit your innovative ideas related to eye care and vision research for leveraging OHDSI.This challenge seeks to expand the OHDSI network for vision research by incentivizing innovative ideas for leveraging real-world evidence. Prizes can support winner's integration into the network.Challenge type: ScientificAgency name: Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of HealthTotal cash prizes: $100,000,000.00 ...


Good Jobs in Clean Energy Prize

Building Partnerships for Good Jobs in Clean EnergyThis prize is designed to encourage coalition-building in communities across the country that focus on creating quality jobs and fostering an equitable and inclusive workforce in clean energy sectors.Challenge type: Business plansAgency name: Department of Energy Total cash prizes: $337,500,000.00 ...


EnergyTech University Prize 2025

Student and faculty competition with prizes available for energy tech elevationPrizes available to students who create/present an energy tech business plan & faculty who elevate energy entrepreneurship at their institutionChallenge type: Business plansAgency name: Department of Energy Total cash prizes: $54,500,000.00 ...


Gateways to Blue Skies Competition

Collegiate students tackling environmentally and socially conscious aviation solutions.The 2025 competition challenges collegiate students to conceptualize aviation systems that can be applied by 2035 or sooner to address challenges in agriculture.Challenge type: Business plansAgency name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Total cash prizes: $6,400,000.00 ...


NIH Quantum Computing Challenge

Solve translational biomedical problems with quantum computingInnovative design solutions for novel applications of existing quantum-enabled technologies to apply toward use cases within clinical, translational, and biomedical problem areas are soughtChallenge type: Technology demonstration and hardwareAgency name: Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of HealthTotal cash prizes: $130,000,000.00 ...


NASA's Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition)

RASC-AL fuels innovation for aerospace systems concepts, analogs, & technology prototypingThrough RASC-AL, teams and their faculty advisors will design innovative solutions with supporting original engineering and analysis in response to one of three themes.Challenge type: IdeasAgency name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Total cash prizes: $10,400,000.00 ...



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