NASA + CrowdPlat — solving missions through crowdsourcing.
Since 2017, NASA has trusted CrowdPlat to design, run, and deliver challenges and competitions that mobilize global expert communities for missions in space exploration, science, and operations.
The partnership
CrowdPlat has been a NASA crowdsourcing partner since 2017. We currently serve NASA through the NASA Open Innovation Services 3 (NOIS3) contract — the agency's vehicle for crowdsourcing across directorates and centers. Earlier, we delivered under NOIS2 (2020–2025) via NASA Tournament Labs.
Across both contracts, our work has spanned space exploration systems, Earth and applied sciences, lunar surface technology, aviation and unmanned systems, detection and sensing, and disaster response.
First NASA crowdsourcing engagement.
Awarded NOIS2 via NASA Tournament Labs.
Awarded NOIS3 — NASA's crowdsourcing vehicle for the next decade.
What we deliver for NASA
NASA's hardest problems span the full range of technical and scientific work. Through crowd-based challenges and competitions, we deliver:
- Technical solutions and instrumentation
- Data science algorithms and modeling
- Software applications and protocols
- Engineering design and systems work
- Technology search and landscape analysis
- Program formulation and competition design support
How we work with NASA
Every NASA challenge runs through our six-step methodology — from kickoff alignment through closeout — with a primary Program Lead and a designated backup accountable end-to-end, a pre-contracted subject-matter-expert team in place at award, and a patented, federal-compliance-ready platform live and configured on day one.
Why NASA selects CrowdPlat
Four reasons NASA program managers stay with us.
Continuity, not dependency
Every engagement has a primary Program Lead and a designated backup, both engaged from kickoff.
No ramp-up risk
Platform is live, configured, and federal-compliance-ready at kickoff.
No scramble for experts
Subject-matter-expert teams are pre-assembled and under contract.
Continuous visibility
Live tracking of milestones, risks, and decisions keeps your team in the loop throughout.
NASA projects we've delivered
A look at specific NASA programs and centers CrowdPlat has supported.
NASA Langley Research Center
NASA elevated its drones and UAS with advanced communication capabilities, developed through a project run with the Langley Research Center.
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NASA Glenn Research Center
Under NASA's Human Research Program, CrowdPlat built proof-of-concept AI/ML models linking in-flight food systems to astronaut health risk, supporting Glenn Research Center's crew-health risk-assessment work.
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NASA SERVIR
For SERVIR — a joint NASA and USAID initiative — CrowdPlat assembled a team of expert freelancers to build a mobile app and website that modernized the ICIMOD Air Quality Explorer for monitoring air quality across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
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NASA Johnson Space Center
NASA Johnson Space Center partnered with CrowdPlat to replace a complex Excel-based Cold Stowage asset-planning system with a modern, browser-based web application for inventory tracking and launch and landing planning.
Read case study →NASA projects we've delivered also span lunar surface technology, detection and sensing, and disaster response.
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