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Archived Challenges

Archived challenges are no longer accepting submissions and are included for historical purposes only.

See a Bloom, Give it Room – Harmful Algal Bloom Video Challenge

Environmental Protection Agency

Closed On: 01/03/2020 11:00 PM

FAA Challenge - Smart Airport Student Competition

Department of Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration

Closed On: 01/13/2020 11:59 PM

Rust Busters Challenge

Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation

Closed On: 01/16/2020 08:00 PM

Veterans' Employment Challenge

Department of Labor

Closed On: 01/24/2020 5:00 PM

Ocean Observing Prize

Department of Energy

Closed On: 02/12/2020 11:59 PM

2020 REACH Lark Award

Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Closed On: 02/14/2020 11:59 PM

An Inclusive Talent Pipeline for American Businesses

Department of Health and Human Services

Closed On: 02/14/2020 11:59 PM

EmPOWER Air Data Challenge

Environmental Protection Agency

Closed On: 03/02/2020 11:59 PM

Waves to Water Prize

Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Closed On: 03/13/2020 11:59 PM

Marine Corps Ground Sensors Challenge

Department of Defense - U.S. Marine Corps

Closed On: 03/15/2020 11:59 PM

National Guard Innovation Competition - Round 1

Department of Defense - National Guard Bureau

Closed On: 03/16/2020 11:59 PM

Pandemic Response Hackathon

Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the National Coordination for Health Information Technology

Closed On: 03/29/2020 3:00 PM

xTechSearch 5

Department of Defense - U.S. Army

Closed On: 04/01/2020 02:59 AM

Community College Innovation Challenge 2020

National Science Foundation

Closed On: 04/03/2020 11:59 PM

MIT COVID19 Challenge

Department of Veterans Affairs

Closed On: 04/03/2020 12:00 PM

2020 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Closed On: 04/06/2020 11:59 PM

The Culture of Innovation

Department of Defense - U.S. Air Force

Closed On: 04/14/2020 11:59 PM

Leveraging Technology for Operational Effectiveness

Department of Defense - U.S. Air Force

Closed On: 04/14/2020 11:59 PM

Base Security and Defense

Department of Defense - Air Force

Closed On: 04/14/2020 11:59 PM

Installation Resilience

Department of Defense - Air Force

Closed On: 04/14/2020 11:59 PM

Metadata Automation DREAM Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 04/24/2020

Fish Protection Prize

Department of Energy - Water Power Technologies Office

Closed On: 04/24/2020 5 PM

xTech COVID-19 Ventilator Challenge

Department of Defense - U.S. Army

Closed On: 04/30/2020 06:00 p.m.

Lithium Battery Man Portable Hazard Containment Challenge

Department of Defense - U.S. Navy

Closed On: 05/07/2020 02:00 PM

2020 Census - Get Out The Count Video Challenge

U.S. Census Bureau

Closed On: 05/07/2020 11:59 PM

PMA-290 SSD Health Assessment and Visualization Tool Challenge

Department of Defense - U.S. Navy

Closed On: 05/08/2020 11:59 PM

ARIAC

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Closed On: 05/10/2020

Individuals Taking Energy Action in Manufacturing

Department of Energy - Energy Programs

Closed On: 05/15/2020 11:59 PM

Gaining New Insights by Detecting Adverse Event Anomalies Using FDA Open Data Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Food and Drug Administration

Closed On: 05/18/2020 11:59 PM

Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-A-Sat

Department of Defense - U.S. Air Force

Closed On: 05/24/2020 08:00 PM

MIT COVID-19 Challenge Beat the Pandemic II

Department of Veterans Affairs

Closed On: 05/26/2020 11:59 PM

$100,000 for a Start a SUD Startup Challenge, 2020 Spring Edition

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 05/26/2020 5 p.m.

Water Resource Recovery Prize

U.S. Department of Energy

Closed On: 05/28/2020 5:00 PM

Exploring Hell - Avoiding Obstacles on a Clockwork Rover

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Closed On: 05/29/2020 05:00 PM

2020 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 06/01/2020 11:59 PM

COVID-19 3D Maker Challenge

Department of Veterans Affairs

Closed On: 06/07/2020 05:00 PM

Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Closed On: 06/08/2020 05:00 PM

Truth Challenge V2 - Calling Variants from Short and Long Reads in Difficult-to-Map Regions

Department of Health and Human Services - Food and Drug Administration

Closed On: 06/14/2020 11:59 PM

NCATS Rare Diseases Are Not Rare! 2020 Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 06/15/2020 05:00 PM

ED.gov Redesign Challenge

Department of Education

Closed On: 06/15/2020 05:00 PM

Air Force Synthetic Biology Challenge

Department of Defense - U.S. Air Force

Closed On: 06/15/2020 11:59 PM

NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge Non-invasive Diagnostics for Global Health

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 06/16/2020 5 p.m.

STEM DIVE Video Challenge – Diversity and Inclusion Video Exhibition

National Science Foundation

Closed On: 06/25/2020 11:00 PM

NASA Entrepreneur’s Challenge

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Closed On: 06/26/2020 5:00 PM

Network Detection of Adversarial Campaigns using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Department of Defense - Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Closed On: 06/30/2020 05:00 PM

VHA Innovation Ecosystem and precisionFDA COVID-19 Risk Factor Modeling Challenge

Department of Veterans Affairs

Closed On: 07/02/2020 11:59 PM

COVID-19 Maker Challenge, Nursing Homes Edition

Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Health Administration

Closed On: 07/10/2020 5:00 PM

Solar Desalination Prize - Contest 1

Department of Energy - Solar Energy Technologies Office

Closed On: 07/16/2020 3:00 PM

Air Force Synthetic Biology Challenge, Aerospace Fuels

Department of Defense

Closed On: 07/20/2020 11:59 PM

MGMWERX Space Case Study Prize Challenge

Department of Defense - U.S. Air Force

Closed On: 07/21/2020 12:59 AM

Civic Innovation Challenge

National Science Foundation

Closed On: 08/03/2020 5:00 PM

Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety (ASAPS) Prize Challenge: Contest 1

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Closed On: 08/07/2020 05:00 PM

NASA Challenge: A Common Restraint and Mobility Aid System for Multiple Gravity Environment

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Closed On: 08/17/2020 11:59 PM

NASA's Lunar Loo Challenge

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Closed On: 08/17/2020 5:00 PM

GSA Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning End-User License Agreement Challenge 2020

General Services Administration

Closed On: 08/20/2020 5:00 PM

Project Streetlamp

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Closed On: 09/04/2020 05:00 PM

Intelligent Forecasting: A Competition to Model Future Contraceptive Use

U.S. Agency for International Development

Closed On: 09/08/2020 11:00 AM

Mobilizing and Empowering the Nation and Technology to Address Loneliness & social isolation (MENTAL) Health Innovation Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Community Living

Closed On: 09/08/2020 11:59PM

Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC)

Department of Energy - Office of Technology Transitions

Closed On: 09/10/2020 05:00 PM

Mobilizing and Empowering the Nation and Technology to Address Loneliness & social isolation (MENTAL) Health Innovation Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Community Living

Closed On: 09/14/2020 11:59 PM

AHRQ Cross-Sectional Innovation to Improve Rural Postpartum Mental Health Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Closed On: 09/15/2020 5:00 PM

Health+ Sickle Cell Disease Healthathon

Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Chief Technology Officer

Closed On: 09/18/2020 11:59 PM

Warrior Tracks

Department of Defense - Department of Army, HQ, M&RA, Army Enterprise Marketing Office

Closed On: 09/23/2020 11:59 AM

2020 Campus RainWorks Challenge

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Closed On: 09/30/2020 11:59PM

NEI 3-D Retina Organoid Challenge 2020 Reduction to Practice (3-D ROC 2020)

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 10/01/2020 02:00 PM

Rodeo II - Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecasting

NOAA - National Integrated Drought Information System

Closed On: 10/01/2020 12:00 AM

Digital Solutions to Support Care Transitions Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Closed On: 10/06/2020 05:00 PM

COVID-19 Maker Challenge V: Disaster Relief

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Health Administration

Closed On: 10/07/2020 7:00 PM

Rural Tech Project

Department of Education

Closed On: 10/08/2020 5:59:59 PM

Army xTechSBIR

Department of Defense - U.S. Army

Closed On: 10/10/2020 02:59 AM

Fatal Injury and Violence Analytics PoC Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Closed On: 10/12/2020 09:00 AM

Lab-to-Market Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition

U.S. Small Business Administration

Closed On: 10/14/2020 6:00 PM

U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Trusted User Interface (UI) for Digital Wallets Challenge

U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T)

Closed On: 10/15/2020 7:59 PM

CTE Mission: CubeSat

U.S. Department of Education

Closed On: 10/16/2020 05:59 PM

xTechBOLT

Department of Defense - U.S. Army

Closed On: 10/17/2020 02:59 AM

Guardians of the Reservoir Challenge

Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation

Closed On: 10/20/2020 5:00 PM

Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Closed On: 10/20/2020 7:00 PM

Inclusive Design Challenge

Department of Transportation

Closed On: 10/30/2020 05:00 PM

EEFs: Environmental and Agronomic Challenge

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Closed On: 10/30/2020 11:59 PM

Circle Finder Prize Competition

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Closed On: 11/03/2020 5:00 PM

BRAIN Initiative Challenge: Considering Ethics During Brain Technology Development

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 11/04/2020 11:59 PM

Lunar Deep Freeze Challenge

NASA

Closed On: 11/12/2020 7:59 PM

CHARIoT Challenge - Advancing First Responder Communications

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Closed On: 11/18/2020 05:00 PM

Fatal Injury and Violence Analytics - Map View & Analysis

Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Closed On: 11/18/2020 9:00 AM

Partners Engaged in Extramural Reporting (PEER)

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Closed On: 11/20/2020 5:00 PM

Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Closed On: 11/23/2020 11:59 PM

Rethink Adult Ed Challenge

U.S. Department of Education

Closed On: 11/25/2020 11:59 PM

Soundscapes Prize Competition

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Closed On: 11/27/2020 5:00 PM

COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostics Design-a-thon

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Closed On: 11/29/2020 11:59 PM

CO2 Conversion Challenge Phase 2

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Closed On: 11/30/2020 06:00 PM

Next Gen Fertilizer Innovation Challenge

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Closed On: 11/30/2020 11:59 PM

AI Tracks at Sea

Department of Defense - Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Closed On: 12/02/2020 03:00 AM

Reducing Disparities in Breastfeeding Innovation Challenge

Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office of Women's Health (OWH)

Closed On: 12/09/2020 11:59 PM

AI Tech Sprint for Veterans not served by VA

Department of Veterans Affairs - National Artificial Intelligence Institute

Closed On: 12/16/2020 11:59 PM

Palmetto Tech Bridge Prize Challenge 2021

Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Atlantic

Closed On: 12/20/2020 11:00 PM

Fatal Injury and Violence Analytics - Tabular View

Department of Health & Human Services - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Closed On: 12/20/2020 9:00 AM

First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Closed On: 12/28/2020 09:00 PM

COVID-19 Maker Challenge III: In-home Caregivers

Department of Veterans Affairs

Closed On: 2020/08/18 5:00 PM

Big Data Analysis Challenge - Creating New Paradigms for Heart Failure Research

Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health

Closed On: 2020/08/28 12 p.m.