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Palmetto Tech Bridge Prize Challenge 2021 details
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Atlantic
Palmetto Tech Bridge Prize Challenge 2021
Seeking innovative technology concepts for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), as well as, Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT).Open Until: 12/20/2020 11:00 PM ET
Fatal Injury and Violence Analytics - Tabular View external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of Health & Human Services - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Fatal Injury and Violence Analytics - Tabular View
Help the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention & Control create a solution for detecting trends in fatal injury data...Open Until: 12/20/2020 09:00 AM ET
Innovative Technology Solutions for Social Care Referrals details
Department of Health and Human Services
Innovative Technology Solutions for Social Care Referrals
Opportunity to create and modernize health IT platforms to foster connections between health care systems and community based organizations in...Open Until: 01/06/2021 05:00 PM ET
HHS Hypertension Innovator Award Competition details
Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office on Women's Health (OWH)
HHS Hypertension Innovator Award Competition
Innovative methods of blood pressure monitoring and follow-up in women during pregnancy and/or postpartumOpen Until: 01/06/2021 11:59 PM ET
Fleet Visual Information Capture Challenge details
Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Fleet Visual Information Capture Challenge
Fleet VI is a no-fail mission designed to document with video, for the purpose of being released to the media,...Open Until: 01/11/2021 11:59 PM ET
NASA Lunar Delivery Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
NASA
NASA Lunar Delivery Challenge
Landing on the Moon with all that we need is just the beginning. Now we have to unload it.Open Until: 01/19/2021 05:00 PM ET
SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
U.S. Department of Energy
SMART Visualization Platform Prize Challenge
Bring the Earth to Life with a New Intuitive Visualization Tool for Subsurface Environments!Open Until: 01/22/2021 08:00 PM ET
Canal Safety Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation
Canal Safety Challenge
Discovering solutions to improve public safety and reduce drownings in canals throughout the U.S.Open Until: 01/27/2021 07:00 PM ET
COVID-19 Precision Immunology App-a-thon external challenge site (opens in new window)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
COVID-19 Precision Immunology App-a-thon
Participants will develop applications and pipelines to illuminate the relationship between personalized adaptive immunity molecular data and COVID-19 disease variables...Open Until: 01/28/2021 11:59 PM ET
Power of Passengers Challenge details
Department of Homeland Security - Transportation Security Administration
Power of Passengers Challenge
Building a better, more secure and safer travel experience.Open Until: 01/28/2021 08:00 PM ET
NSWC Crane AISUM Prize Challenge details
Naval Surface Warfare Center – Crane, Division (NSWC-CR)
NSWC Crane AISUM Prize Challenge
Seeking AI algorithms to combine with Robotic Autonomous Systems for Small Unit Maneuver elements.Open Until: 01/29/2021 02:00 PM ET
Safer and More Effective Less than Lethal Capabilities for Area Denial and Crowd Control external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of Defense - Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO)
Safer and More Effective Less than Lethal Capabilities for Area Denial and Crowd Control
Seeking innovative concepts and technologies for de-escalating situations while mitigating injury and unintended effectsOpen Until: 02/01/2021 11:59 PM ET
2021 FAA Challenge: Smart Airport Student Competition details
Federal Aviation Administration
2021 FAA Challenge: Smart Airport Student Competition
The FAA challenges undergraduate and graduate students to develop innovative ways to use smart technology in and around airports to...Open Until: 02/04/2021 11:59 PM ET
Envisioning Health Equity Art Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
National Institutes of Health - National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Envisioning Health Equity Art Challenge
A competition to share original artwork that reflects an America where health disparities are a thing of the pastOpen Until: 02/05/2021 11:59 PM ET
AI ATAC 3 Challenge: Efficiency & Effectiveness Afforded by Security Orchestration & Automated Response (SOAR) Capabilities details
U.S. Navy
AI ATAC 3 Challenge: Efficiency & Effectiveness Afforded by Security Orchestration & Automated Response (SOAR) Capabilities
Artificial Intelligence SOAR Tools for Security Operations Center (SOC) AutomationOpen Until: 02/12/2021 05:00 PM ET
Blazing New Trails for Community Based Direct Support Professionals details
Department of Health and Humans Services - Administration for Community Living
Blazing New Trails for Community Based Direct Support Professionals
Innovations to Transform the Direct Support Professionals WorkforceOpen Until: 02/22/2021 11:59 PM ET
Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload, The Sequel external challenge site (opens in new window)
NASA
Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload, The Sequel
This challenge offers the 14 winning teams of Phase 1 the opportunity to build their teams and work with NASA...Open Until: 02/23/2021 08:00 AM ET
NCATS 2020 ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge (ASPIRE 2020) external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health
NCATS 2020 ASPIRE Reduction-to-Practice Challenge (ASPIRE 2020)
Development of a Comprehensive Integrated Platform for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Use Disorder and OverdoseOpen Until: 02/28/2021 05:00 PM ET
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Ground Control Station Software Challenge Series external challenge site (opens in new window)
NASA
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Ground Control Station Software Challenge Series
NASA needs a Ground Control Station software for small unmanned aircraft systems that can be safely used for live flight...Open Until: 03/01/2021 08:00 AM ET
More Water Less Concentrate external challenge site (opens in new window)
U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation
More Water Less Concentrate
Discovering solutions to reduce the volume of concentrate from inland desalination plants.Open Until: 03/03/2021 07:00 PM ET
Promoting Pediatric Primary Prevention (P4 Challenge) details
Department of Health and Human Services - Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Promoting Pediatric Primary Prevention (P4 Challenge)
Innovations in Pediatric Primary Care to Improve Child HealthOpen Until: 03/15/2021 05:00 PM ET
Watts on the Moon - Phase 1 details
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Watts on the Moon - Phase 1
Open Until: 03/25/2021 05:00 PM ET
NHLBI Hope for Sickle Cell Disease Challenge details
Department of Health and Human Services - National Institute of Health
NHLBI Hope for Sickle Cell Disease Challenge
Foster awareness of Sickle Cell DiseaseOpen Until: 03/26/2021 11:59 PM ET
2021 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge details
Department of Energy - Energy Programs
2021 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge
Want to design buildings that help address the most pressing needs of our time? Love the thrill of competing with...Open Until: 04/15/2021 05:00 PM ET
NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity details
Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health
NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity
NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity in Biomedical and Behavioral ScienceOpen Until: 04/16/2021 05:00 PM ET
Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge details
Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division
Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge
Help public safety agencies share data while protecting privacy.Open Until: 05/17/2021 07:59 PM ET
2021 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
2021 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge
NIBIB is challenging undergraduate student teams to develop technology solutions to unmet healthcare needsOpen Until: 06/01/2021 11:59 PM ET
EcoTox TARGET Challenge details
Environmental Protection Agency
EcoTox TARGET Challenge
Develop high quality, low-cost tools that assess global gene expression in common aquatic toxicity test organismsOpen Until: 06/15/2021 11:59 PM ET
Break the Ice Phase 1 details
NASA
Break the Ice Phase 1
NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge seeks to incentivize innovative approaches for excavating icy regolith and delivering water in extreme...Open Until: 06/18/2021 11:59 PM ET
Streamflow Forecast Rodeo external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation
Streamflow Forecast Rodeo
Improving short-term streamflow forecast skill.Open Until: 09/30/2021 09:00 PM ET
DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
Department of Defense - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge
Create breakthrough technologies and capabilities for underground operations.Open Until: 09/30/2021 12:00 AM ET