NIAC Fellows Blog

Here's the thing about using AI to write your NIAC 3-page: most people do it backwards.   They open ChatGPT, dump in some notes about their concept, and ask it to "write a NIAC proposal." What comes out is... fine. It has paragraphs. It mentions space. It sounds vaguely professional. And it will get circle-filed along with 60% of the other proposals, because it doesn't pass the tests that matter.   The problem isn't that AI wrote it. The problem is that nobody defined what "g

NASA likes to complicate their explanation of this. The bottom line is that you are writing a 3-page proposal with the goal of getting an invite to write an 8-page "full" proposal. A NIAC 3-page can be one of the hardest proposals to write, because it has to be creative, persuasive, highly innovative, and it must do all of this while projecting credibility in three pages. You don't get to use your team or capabilities to bolster your credibility. The technology concept stands

These NASA projects are feasibility studies to evaluate the potential of a technology in a mission context. If you have a technology...

NIAC projects are feasibility studies to evaluate the potential of a technology in a mission context . The proposal must show that the technology and mission are plausible and possible . Any American can apply to NIAC. If you are going solo, you will need to set some things up so NASA knows that you are a "sole proprietor." We'll go over that in a later blog post. Write a junk draft of your idea in a mission context. When presenting an innovative technology idea to NIAC,