NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing space technologies (CO)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进空间技术 (CO)

• 批准号: 2308142
• 负责人: Dawn Conley
• 金额: $ 94.14万
• 依托单位: CATALYST CAMPUS FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2308142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This NSF Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on igniting technological innovation and workforce development to foster technology commercialization and technology transfer in space systems, space infrastructure, and space cybersecurity for the space economy. Based in Colorado Springs, this development award for the Resilient Space Infrastructures, Systems, and Economy (RISE) project has core partners in the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC, Exponential Impact, National Cybersecurity Center, Pikes Peak State College, Space Foundation, Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Spanning private, public, and nonprofit sectors, each partner organization brings unique capabilities to inform and grow the vast space ecosystem in Southern Colorado. Through this development award, relationships among core partners will be formalized, and anticipated partner growth will expand beyond the Pikes Peak region further into Southern Colorado to include Pueblo, Trinidad, and Cañon City and possibly into surrounding states.The RISE project will be propelled by and organized across three key pillars: 1) Technological Innovation, 2) Commercialization Acceleration, and 3) Community, Policy, and Workforce Building. The Technological Innovation pillar will act as the research and development arm of RISE. During the Type-1 period, this pillar will organize two workshops to leverage nationwide expertise to develop further specific goals of the pillar, which include the creation of a full stack of space resilience capabilities, creating, maintaining, and running a digital twin of space infrastructures and systems; space resilience standardization and management; and space resilience certification. The Commercialization Acceleration pillar will focus development activities on market research, exploring regional gaps and industry needs, and testing potential innovation pathways to support the development of a strategic plan and building blocks for the type-2 proposal. To ensure the scope and strategic plan are aligned with the market needs and regional culture, the pillar will run emerging tech workshops, focus groups, and human capital support projects. The Workforce Development pillar will leverage existing ties to the local, state, and national policymakers to develop a framework of existing policies and advance channels to create influence on policy decisions in later phases. Community and policy work through this pillar seeks to directly benefit the research and startups emerging from the engine and support existing space companies in the region. With a leadership team comprising representatives from each pillar, development activities will be synchronized across pillars leading to the development of a full NSF Engines proposal.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

NSF区域创新发动机开发奖的重点是点燃技术创新和劳动力开发，以促进技术系统，太空基础设施以及太空经济的空间网络安全的技术商业化和技术转移。该开发奖位于科罗拉多斯普林斯（Colorado Springs），旨在弹性太空基础设施，系统和经济（RISE）项目在科罗拉多斯普林斯商会和EDC，指数影响，国家网络安全中心，派克峰州立大学，太空基金会，太空信息基础，空间信息共享和分析中心（ISAC），美国空军学院（USAFA）和科罗拉多大学的核心合作伙伴。每个合作伙伴组织都跨越了私人，公共和非营利性部门，具有独特的能力来告知和发展科罗拉多州南部的庞大太空生态系统。通过这个发展奖，核心合作伙伴之间的关系将被正式化，预期的合作伙伴的成长将扩展到派克峰区域，进一步进入科罗拉多州南部，包括普韦布洛，特立尼达和卡尼奥市，甚至可能进入周围的国家。崛起项目将由三个关键支柱推进并组织到三个关键支柱上：1）工具，2）技术创新，2）技术加速和3）社区，和3）策略，和3）和3），和3）和工作。技术创新支柱将充当崛起的研发部门。在类型1期间，该支柱将组织两个研讨会，以利用全国范围的专业知识来开发支柱的进一步特定目标，其中包括创建完整的太空弹性能力，创建，维护和运行数字化的太空基础架构和系统；空间弹性标准化和管理；和太空弹性认证。商业化加速支柱将将开发活动集中在市场研究上，探索区域差距和行业需求，并测试潜在的创新途径，以支持制定战略计划和2型提案的构建障碍。为了确保范围和战略计划与市场需求和区域文化保持一致，该支柱将开展新兴的技术研讨会，焦点小组和人力资本支持项目。劳动力发展支柱将利用与地方，州和国家决策者的现有联系，以制定现有政策的框架，并提高渠道，以在以后的阶段对政策决策产生影响。通过该支柱的社区和政策工作旨在直接受益于研究，并从发动机中涌现出来，并支持该地区现有的太空公司。通过领导团队完成每个支柱的代表，开发活动将在支柱之间同步，从而导致完整的NSF引擎提案的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估标准来通过评估来获得的支持。