Arbitrage NASA Fiber Patents into DOT Bridge Monitoring Contracts
- Organization
- NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
- Sector
- State Departments of Transportation bridge monitoring programs
- Location
- United States
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Executive summary
Current state
NASA Armstrong has developed patented fiber optic sensing technology for structural health monitoring with a validated $2.3B global market, but lacks commercial implementation capacity and customer relationships, creating asymmetric opportunities in government infrastructure procurement.
Market catalyst
NASA has world-class fiber optic sensing patents but zero commercial implementation capacity or relationships with infrastructure buyers, while state DOTs have $2.3B budget for structural monitoring but distrust unproven commercial vendors - creating a perfect arbitrage between NASA's technical credibility and DOT's procurement budgets
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