Arbitrage NASA SBIR Pipeline into MSC-TOPS-34 Licensing Navigation
- Organization
- NASA SBIR/STTR Program
- Sector
- NASA-Funded NDE Technology Companies
- Location
- United States
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Executive summary
Current state
NASA Johnson Space Center has dormant NDE software (MSC-TOPS-34) with aerospace-grade validation but lacks commercial distribution. The $446M+ thermography inspection market needs credible solutions but cannot access NASA's technology through bureaucratic licensing channels.
Market catalyst
NASA funds 50+ companies through SBIR/STTR to develop NDE technologies, but these companies don't know about MSC-TOPS-34 sitting in NASA's own technology transfer portal. The information gap exists between NASA's left hand (funding development) and right hand (licensing existing solutions), creating arbitrage opportunity.
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