NASA Early Stage Innovation (ESI)

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Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=304595

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters has released a solicitation, titled Early Stage Innovations (ESI), as an appendix to the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) umbrella NASA Research Announcement (NRA) titled "Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion 2018 (SpaceTech-REDDI-2018), on May 2, 2018. The solicitation is available by opening the NSPIRES homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ by selecting "Solicitations," then selecting "Open Solicitations," and, finally, selecting "Early Stage Innovations (ESI)."
The Appendix exclusively seeks proposals that are responsive to one of the six topics:

• Modeling for Small Satellite Electric Propulsion
• Smart and Autonomous Systems for Space
• Omni-Optical Antennas and Optical-Multiple-Access Technologies for Free-Space Near-Earth Satellite Communication
• Modeling Shock Layer Radiation and Chemical Kinetics for Planetary Entry
• Physical and Mechanistic Modeling of the Self-Reacting Friction Stir Welding Process
• Smart Tribological Mechanical Systems for Extreme Temperature Space Environments