About Us
2025 Judging Panel
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NASA’s Langley Research Center
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Region 4
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About Gateways to Blue Skies
NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) conducts research that generates concepts, tools, and technologies to enable advances in the United States’ aviation future. ARMD programs facilitate safer, more environmentally friendly, and efficient aviation systems. As a program within NASA ARMD, the University Innovation Project (UI) funds university-led innovation to address system-level challenges in NASA Aeronautics’ strategic plan, which guides the Aeronautics programs.
Gateways to Blue Skies is a NASA-complementary, independent, alternative research program designed to expand engagement between universities and NASA/UI, industry, and government partners. It provides an opportunity for multidisciplinary teams of students from all academic levels (i.e., freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate) to tackle significant climate-related challenges and opportunities that can be addressed by the aviation industry through a new project theme each year. The competition is guided by a push toward new technologies as well as environmentally and socially conscious aviation.
About NIA
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The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) is a non-profit research and graduate education institute created to conduct innovative aerospace and atmospheric research, develop new technologies for the nation and help inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.
NIA serves as a strategic partner with NASA Langley Research Center and the aerospace community to enable research creativity and expand technology development opportunities. The Institute integrates research and graduate education while creating new government / academia / industry partnerships to solve tomorrow’s problems today.
The Gateways to Blue Skies Competition is managed by the National Institute of Aerospace on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.