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Here, members of the public compete to help the U.S. government solve problems big and small. Browse through challenges and submit your ideas for a chance to win.
Inclusive Design Challenge details
Department of Transportation
Inclusive Design Challenge
Designing solutions to enable people with disabilities to use automated vehiclesOpen Until: 10/30/2020 05:00 PM ET
EEFs: Environmental and Agronomic Challenge details
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EEFs: Environmental and Agronomic Challenge
This Challenge aims to identify existing Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs) currently on or near-market that meet or exceed certain environmental...Open Until: 10/30/2020 11:59 PM ET
Circle Finder Prize Competition external challenge site (opens in new window)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Circle Finder Prize Competition
NGA is seeking novel approaches to segmentation of satellite imagery to detect, delineate, and describe circular-shaped features. These features come...Open Until: 11/03/2020 05:00 PM ET
BRAIN Initiative Challenge: Considering Ethics During Brain Technology Development details
Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health
BRAIN Initiative Challenge: Considering Ethics During Brain Technology Development
This challenge is seeking creative essays or videos from currently enrolled U.S. high school students that describe a teen’s perspective...Open Until: 11/04/2020 11:59 PM ET
Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge external challenge site (opens in new window)
NASA
Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge
NASA is asking the public to conceptualize and describe a novel approach to cryogenic containment that will allow lunar sample...Open Until: 11/12/2020 07:59 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: 11/16/2020 11:59 PM ET
Reducing Disparities in Breastfeeding Innovation Challenge details
Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office of Women's Health (OWH)
Reducing Disparities in Breastfeeding Innovation Challenge
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office on Women’s...Open Until: 11/16/2020 11:59 PM ET
CHARIoT Challenge - Advancing First Responder Communications details
Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology
CHARIoT Challenge - Advancing First Responder Communications
The CHARIot Challenge is a 4-Phase, dual track competition that offers up to $1.1 million in cash prizes, with a...Open Until: 11/18/2020 05:00 PM ET
Digital Solutions to Support Care Transitions Challenge details
Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Digital Solutions to Support Care Transitions Challenge
Can you help develop interoperable health information technology (IT) solutions that engage patients and family caregivers during care transitions from...Open Until: 11/20/2020 05:00 PM ET
Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS details
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS
EPA & partners seek non-thermal technologies & approaches that destroy PFAS in aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) without generating hazardous...Open Until: 11/23/2020 11:59 PM ET
Rethink Adult Ed Challenge details
U.S. Department of Education
Rethink Adult Ed Challenge
Design pre-apprenticeship programs that better prepare adult learners for apprenticeships and beyond.Open Until: 11/25/2020 11:59 PM ET
Soundscapes Prize Competition external challenge site (opens in new window)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Soundscapes Prize Competition
NGA is seeking innovative methods of identifying, analyzing, and modeling sound and acoustic scene indicators to uniquely classify audio recordings...Open Until: 11/27/2020 05:00 PM ET
CO2 Conversion Challenge Phase 2 details
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
CO2 Conversion Challenge Phase 2
Get Out of Your ElementOpen Until: 11/30/2020 06:00 PM ET
Next Gen Fertilizer Innovation Challenge details
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Next Gen Fertilizer Innovation Challenge
This Challenge aims to identify concepts for novel technologies for fertilizers and other product technology innovations that can reduce the...Open Until: 11/30/2020 11:59 PM ET
AI Tracks at Sea details
Department of Defense - Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
AI Tracks at Sea
This challenge solicits software solutions to automatically generate georeferenced tracks of maritime vessel traffic based on data recorded from a...Open Until: 12/02/2020 03:00 AM 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: 12/11/2020 11:59 PM 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: 12/14/2020 05:00 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: 01/14/2021 07:00 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
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
Blazing New Trails for Direct Support Professionals Working in the Community details
Department of Health and Humans Services - Administration for Community Living
Blazing New Trails for Direct Support Professionals Working in the Community
Innovations to Transform the Direct Support Professionals WorkforceOpen Until: 02/12/2021 05:00 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
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
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
