NASA seeks commercial partners to collaborate on low-Earth orbit NewSpace tech advancement

HOUSTON - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have announced it is continuing its Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) and Commercial Crew Program are continuing their efforts to foster the development and growth of American industry in space by seeking new opportunities to work with the agency through the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC-2) initiative.

This CCSC2 initiative continues the pursuit of goals set in the U.S. National Space Policy and NASA’s strategic plan that will benefit human spaceflight and the U.S. commercial low-Earth orbit economy by meeting future business and government needs through unfunded Space Act Agreements (SAA).

These unfunded SAAs are designed to advance commercial space-related efforts through NASA contributions of technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies, and data. Structured sharing of NASA expertise demands minimal government resources but fosters development of technologies crucial to development of a safe, robust low-Earth orbit ecosystem.

The due date for proposal submission is 9 December 2022 at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. NASA will host a pre-proposal conference to answer industry questions related to this solicitation on 7 November 2022 at 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM Eastern Time and will be held virtually via a Microsoft Teams link. The Teams link will be issued the day before to those that RSVP.

To confirm attendance, please have one company representative RSVP via email with the subject line “RSVP CCSC2” to [email protected] no later than 4 November 2022 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. Attendance information should include your company name, name/representative, and point of contact information. Your company representative will be responsible for forwarding the MS Teams link to company participants. Please submit any questions regarding this Announcement for Proposals in an email with the subject line “Q&A CCSC2” to [email protected] and answers will be addressed at the Pre-proposal Conference.

Kelly L. Rubio is the point of contact at NASA for this endeavor. They can be reached at [email protected] or 281-244-7890.