The document discusses opportunities for commercial partnerships with NASA, including: 1) HEOMD partnerships to develop commercial cargo and crew capabilities for the ISS through programs like COTS, CRS, CCDev, and NextSTEP. HEOMD also manages launch services through the LSP. 2) SMD partnerships through strategic science missions and programs like Venture Class Launch Services to enable small satellite launches. 3) STMD focuses on early-stage technology development and transfer through programs like Tipping Point, SBIR, and partnerships with organizations like SwitchPitch Space.

1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA and Commercial Space
Opportunities – Problem Statements
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2. SwitchPitch Space
Overview
• Who am I?
• What is NASA?
• Overview of NASA Commercial Space Partnering Opportunities
• SwitchPitch Space Problem Statements
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3. SwitchPitch Space
Who am I?
• University of Michigan
– B.S.E Aerospace, 2006
– M. Eng. Space Engineering, 2007
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
– Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Thermal Protection System (TPS) Advanced
Development Project (ADP) systems engineering
– Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL), Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
– Spin Subsystem Lead, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
• Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), NASA Headquarters
(HQ)
– Staff Technologist, focused on commercial space technology development
– Market research, partnering opportunities, and new content development
– Tipping Point, Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity, SBIR/STTR
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
– Manager, Technology Partnerships Office, Office of Space Technology
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4. SwitchPitch Space
What is the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)?
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NASA is ten (10) Field Centers + Headquarters
– Centers includes one (1) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
– Many other facilities not shown (e.g., Wallops Flight Facility, Plumbrook Station, White Sands Test Facility, Michoud
Assembly Facility, DSN and NEN sites, International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory)
• Ames Research Center
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory *
• Langley Research Center
Goddard Space Flight Center
• Glenn Research Center
Johnson Space Center •
• Stennis Space Center
• Armstrong Flight Research Center
• Kennedy Space Center
• Marshall Space Flight Center
* NASA Headquarters
* Where I sit
NASA is a diverse organization made up of 10 Field Centers and a Headquarters –
each with their own capabilities, interests, and stakeholders

5. SwitchPitch Space
• Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) – $10,303M
– SLS/Orion/Ground System/R&D: $4,030M
– Space operations (ISS): $5,029.2M
– Commercial Crew: $1,243.8M
• Science Mission Directorate (SMD) – $5,589.4M
– Earth Science – $1,921M
– Planetary Science – $1,631M
– Astrophysics – $730.6M
– James Webb Space Telescope – $620M
– Heliophysics – $649.8M
– Education – $37M
• Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) * – $686.5M
• Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) – $640M
• Other – $3,309.9M
– Center Management/Agency Management – $2,768.6M
– Construction and Environmental Compliance – $388.9M
– Education – $115M
– Inspector General – $37.4M
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NASA is four (4) primary Mission Directorates – $19,285M (FY16 Appropriation)
* Where I sit
What is NASA?

6. SwitchPitch Space RTF-5
NASA is partnered with a wide industrial base for technology development/mission execution
Ex., Exploration Systems Development Partner Companies and Suppliers
What is NASA?

7. SwitchPitch Space RTF-6
What is NASA?
NASA is partnered with a wide academic community for technology development/mission execution
Exploration Systems Development Partner Companies and Suppliers
Texas A&M University
Texas Tech University
Tufts University
University of Akron
University of Alabama, Huntsville
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
University of Arizona
University of Arkansas
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Hawaii
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Boston University
Brigham Young University
Brown University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Clemson University
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Florida Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Illinois Institute of Technology
Iowa State University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
Michigan Technological University
Mississippi State University
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Montana State University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Mexico State University
New York University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Ohio State University
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Purdue University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rutgers University
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Stanford University
State University of New York, College of Nanoscale
Science & Engineering
State University of New York, Stony Brook
STRG Element To date Active
NSTRF 301 ~200
ECF 25 24
ESI 46 45
STRI 2 2
University of Houston
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kentucky
University of Maine
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
University of New Hampshire
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras
University of Rochester
University of South Carolina
University of South Florida
University of Southern California
University of Tennessee
University of Texas, Austin
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Utah State University
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Washington State University
Washington University, St. Louis
West Virginia University
William Marsh Rice University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University
Ex., Space Technology Research Grant (STRG)
Partner Universities

8. SwitchPitch Space
Human Exploration and Operations Mission
Directorate (HEOMD) Commercial Opportunities
• Commercial Cargo to ISS (~$18.2B invested in development or open service contracts)
– COTS ($716M) – Demonstration of Commercial Partner’s capability to deliver cargo to ISS
– Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) – service contracts, $3.5B announced in in 2008, up to $14B announced in 2016
• Commercial Crew to ISS (~$8.26B invested in development or open service contracts)
– CCDev1/2/3/CPC1/2 – research and development for commercial human spaceflight services to ISS
• Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC)
– Non-reimbursable partnerships to develop new space capabilities available to the government and other customers
• Launch Services Program (LSP)
– Manages all NASA (and some OGA) launch services procurements - indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract
• Latest contract awarded in 2010 for up to 70 launches valued at up to $15B from 4 firms over 10 years
– Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) partnership w/ SMD Earth Science Division for small spacecraft launch capabilities (~$17M)
• Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Program
– CubeSat Launch Initiate (CLSI)/Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) – Small satellites as secondary payloads on NASA
launches and partners with to deploy small spacecraft from the International Space Station
– Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) Broad Agency Announcement – Concept and technology
development projects in three key areas: advanced propulsion, habitation, life support, and small satellites
– Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (Lunar CATALYST) – To encourage the development of robotic lunar
landers that can be integrated with U.S. commercial launch capabilities to deliver payloads to the lunar surface
• International Space Station (ISS) Program and Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)
– Leverages significant industry capabilities for operation of the ISS and for ongoing technology development and research efforts in
support of a wide range of NASA goals from physical and biological science up through applied deep space crewed technologies
– CASIS is the manager of the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, provides seed money, facilitates
accommodation, and access to launch for non-NASA research on ISS
• Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
– Employs crowd-sourced challenges to solve tough, mission-critical problems under the umbrella of the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL)
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HEOMD has strong partnerships with commercial space to advance crewed exploration goals
through technology development and acquisition

9. SwitchPitch Space
Science Mission Directorate (STMD)
Commercial Opportunities
• Commercial Partnering Through Strategic Science Mission Implementation
– In-house Flagship missions (e.g., Mars Science Laboratory, Mars 2020, etc.) and other directed missions (Soil Moisture Active
Passive, etc.) rely heavily on industry for key component, subsystem, and system implementations, and also for competed
instruments, representing a significant opportunity for commercial space and industry partnerships
• Commercial Partnering Through Competitive Mission Implementation
– New Frontiers missions focused on key planetary science themes identified in the Planetary Science Decadal such as Comet
Surface Sample Return, Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return, and Venus In Situ Explorer
– Explorer missions (MIDEX, SMEX, UNEX, etc.) across all four science Divisions (Earth, Planetary, Astrophysics, & Heliophysics)
provide flight opportunities for space science investigations, using innovative, streamlined, and efficient management approaches
– Discovery Program complements Planetary Science flagships through lower cost missions with shorter development times
• Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program
– Earth Venture Mission (EVM) are low-to-moderate cost, small to medium-sized, competitively selected missions for high-return Earth
Science missions launched within 5 years of initiation
– Earth Venture Instruments (EVI) develops spaceborne instruments for flight as missions of opportunity
– Earth Venture Sub-Orbital (EVS) support suborbital/airborne investigations
• Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO)
– Performs strategic technology planning and development for a range of Earth science technology needs through the Instrument
Incubator Program (IIP), Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST), Advanced Component Technology (ACT), In-space
Validation of Earth Science Technologies (InVEST) programs, and other special initiatives
– Ex. in 2016 6 new projects were selected through the Sustainable Land Imaging-Technology program to develop future Landsat-like
instruments, sensors, components, and measurement concepts
• Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) and SMD Technology Development
– SMD’s annual omnibus NASA Research Announcement features appendices for specific research, technology, and mission needs,
many of them focused on technology developments of interest to industry and commercial space firms
– Wide range of industry technology development opportunities across the TRL spectrum (PICASSO, MatISSE, PSTAR, H-TIDeS)
– Ex., in 2016 the COLDTech appendix solicited for spacecraft technologies required for future Oceans worlds missions
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SMD partners with industry for technology development and mission implementation to
deliver Decadal-class Earth, Astrophysics, Heliophysics, and Planetary science

10. SwitchPitch Space
Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
Commercial Opportunities
• Tipping Point (TP) Solicitation (~$87M to date)
– Annual directorate-level solicitation, fixed-price contracts, 25% corporate contribution, to provide direct support for commercial
technology development to commercial space firms to advance commercial space capabilities
– 2015: $70M across 9 awards; 2016: $17M across 8 awards; 2017: solicitation in development
• Announcement of Collaborative Opportunity (ACO) Solicitation (~$25M to date)
– Biennial directorate-level solicitation, no exchange of funds non-reimbursable Space Act Agreements (SAA), to offer access to
government capability (test facilities, engineering, patents, software licensing) to support commercial technology development
– 2015: $15M across 12 award; 2017: Proposals in review, ~$10M across 10 awards planned
• Flight Opportunities (FO) Program (~$40M and over 140 flights to date)
– IDIQ contract for suborbital flights (Blue Origin, Masten, Near Space Corporation, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galactic, WorldView)
– Payloads solicitation, 2 opportunities/year, up to $300k to support flights on suborbital technology development platforms
• 4 other providers available: Blue Origin, Exos Aerospace, Integrated Spaceflight Services, Zero Gravity Corporation
• Centennial Challenges/Prizes and Challenges Program (~$6.2M in prize awards to date)
– Offers incentive prizes to generate revolutionary solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation directly engage the public
in the process of advanced technology development (Power Beaming, Lunar Lander, Strong Tether, Vascular Tissue)
• Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) (~$200M/year)
– Small business opportunities for research, development, and demonstration of technologies that fulfill NASA needs
– Phase I: $125k, 6/12 months (SBIR/STTR), Phase II: $750k, 24 months, Phase III/Phase II-E/-X/CCRPP opportunities
• Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) Program
– Annual Early Stage Innovation (ESI) solicitation allows university researchers to partner with industry/commercial ($500k grants)
– Space Technology Research Institutes (STRI) – $30M across 2 grants announced in 2016 for the first of a series of early stage multi-
disciplinary, multi-institution, academic-industrial partnerships for breakthrough advances in key space technologies
• Technology Transfer (T2) Office
– Manages large patent and software library with an online portal for standardized, streamlined licensing of NASA intellectual property
– Startup NASA/The Space Race – competition to commercialize NASA intellectual property
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STMD develops crosscutting technology and fosters commercial space capabilities to enable
future NASA, other government agency, and comemrcial space missions

11. SwitchPitch Space
NASA Problem Statements
• Philosophy for these problem statements
– NASA has many opportunities to satisfy specific programmatic and project
requirements through technology development and formal mission support
• NASAPRS/nspires, FedBizOps, Grants.gov, SBIR.nasa.gov – take a look!
– These problem statements are not designed to fill any specific NASA mission
needs but are a reflection of market research and perceptions of emerging
opportunities or challenges in the commercial sector that may overlap with future
NASA/OGA needs or help resolve strategic challenges
• Problem statements
1. Cross-cutting: Small Spacecraft Supply Chain Challenges
2. SMD: Geo-spatial Data Analytics Platforms
3. HEOMD: Microgravity-based Manufacturing and Production Applications
4. OGA: Space Management Data Sources and Information Technology
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12. SwitchPitch Space
• NASA Motivation
– Achieving Science with CubeSats report identified a multitude of Decadal-class missions implementable
through small spacecraft or constellations of small spacecraft (up to ESPA-class, ~200 kg)
– Other applications, such as supporting biological and physical sciences as well as augmentation of
human exploration missions, e.g., precursor missions and ancillary functions like standoff imaging during
capture or proximity operations or low-cost telecommunications architectures
– NASA requires a healthy supply chain, from component suppliers up through system integrators, to
partner with to capitalize on the small spacecraft revolution and satisfy crosscutting technology needs
• Commercial Space Market Research
– Commercial space firms are deploying small spacecraft at a rapid rate for satellite telecommunications,
navigation and tracking, and remote sensing applications
– Even these ’low cost’ enterprises are demanding more capability, longer lifetimes, and higher reliability
– Increasing requirements cannot come at significant higher cost – reliable, capable, but affordable
• Challenge
– Fill key capability gaps in the small spacecraft supply chain
• High delta-V propulsion systems (5 – 6 km/sec for small spacecraft – from CubeSats up through ESPA-class)
• Innovations to improve reliability of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics (4 – 6 year lifetimes)
• Virtual aperture and other small spacecraft constellation management capabilities
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A more robust small spacecraft supply chain delivering affordable but more capable and reliable
components and systems will serve NASA, OGA, and commercial space mission needs
Problem 1 – Small Spacecraft Supply Chain
Challenges