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IPP Seed Fund
The Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) provides leveraged technology for Mission Directorates, Programs and Projects through investments and technology partnerships with industry, academia, government agencies and national laboratories. As one of NASA’s Mission Support Offices, IPP supports all four Mission Directorates and has program offices at each of the ten NASA Centers.
The IPP Seed Fund has been established as a new initiative to enhance NASA’s ability to meet mission technology goals by providing seed funding to address barriers and initiate cost-shared, joint-development partnerships. The IPP Seed Fund will be used to provide ”bridge” funding to enable larger partnerships and development efforts to occur and will encourage, to the maximum extent possible, the leveraging of funding, resources and expertise from non-NASA partners, NASA Programs and Projects and NASA Centers.
Partnership goals include providing for an increased range of technology solutions, a broadened technology portfolio, improved cost avoidance, accelerated development and maturation of technologies, and a larger pool of qualified commercial providers. |
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Proposals
Internal Calls will be announced by the Innovative Partnerships Program office to NASA soliciting proposals for cost-shared partnerships with industry, academia, research institutions, national laboratories and other government agencies for joint development of technology that is of primary interest to NASA. Calls will be distributed through the four Mission Directorates as well as through the Center IPP offices (IPPO).
Responses to the call must be from NASA personnel and proposals submitted directly from parties external to NASA will not be accepted. Each NASA Center shall submit no more than eight (8) proposals to the Headquarters IPPO in response to this Call. Proposal submission will be conducted through the IPPOs at each Center, and the Center IPPOs will have the final approval over which proposals are submitted from that Center.
Proposed projects will be competitively selected by IPPO at Headquarters in coordination with representatives from each of the four Mission Directorates based on the criteria identified within this Call.
The project awards will range in value from $50K to $250K (IPP Seed Fund portion); however, proposals exceeding $250K will be allowed on an exception basis only with approval from the IPPO Director or his designee. Approval shall be obtained via the Center IPPO. Actual total project value will vary based on the full amount of leveraging available from all of the participants. Projects will typically be awarded as one year in duration, but may be longer with appropriate justification. The funds for selected proposals will be transferred to the IPP offices at those Centers for award and management of the projects.
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