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ULI

Selection round

ULI Round 9

Solicited 2025 · 4 awards · 67 interested partners

More information on each of the ULI awards is available at NASA TechPort (https://techport.nasa.gov/home).

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Timeline

What happened in this round

  1. 01

    March 31, 2025

    NRA Released

  2. 02

    April 30, 2025

    Applicant’s Workshop

  3. 03

    June 26, 2025

    Step-A Proposals Due

  4. 04

    November 6, 2025

    Step-B Proposals Due

  5. 05

    August 20, 2026

    2026 RTMD Selections Announced

Portfolio

Awards

All funded projects

  • Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft

    Adaptive Supersonic Combined-cycle Engine for Next-generation Transportation (ASCENT)

    Lead institution
    University of Minnesota
    Principal investigator
    PI: Terrence Meyer

    2026–2030 · 15 co-investigators

    TechPort record pending

  • Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transports

    Certification-Driven Aircraft Design Under Uncertainty

    Lead institution
    Virginia Tech
    Principal investigator
    PI: Darshan Sarojini

    2026–2029 · 12 co-investigators

    TechPort record pending

  • Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles

    Noise-Optimal Trajectory Planning for UAM Operations Including Ambient Noise

    Lead institution
    Stanford University
    Principal investigator
    PI: Juan Alonso

    2026–2030 · 7 co-investigators

    TechPort record pending

  • Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

    Safety Across the Lifecycle of Learning-Enabled Avionics Systems: The Safety Data Flywheel

    Lead institution
    Stanford University
    Principal investigator
    PI: Somil Bansal

    2026–2030 · 9 co-investigators

    TechPort record pending

Directory

Interested partners

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67 organizations registered an interest in partnering on a proposal for this round. Points of contact and research interests are on the partner directory.

  • California State University--Long Beach (AANAPISI, HSI)
  • Robust Analytics, Inc.
  • ResilienX Inc.
  • The Pennsylvania State University
  • North Carolina A&T State University
  • California State University Long Beach
  • University of Alabama
  • Delaware State University
  • Old Dominion University
  • University of Houston-Clear Lake (Primarily Undergraduate Institution) (MSI, HSI)
  • Oklahoma State University
  • The University of Texas at El Paso (R1 institution) (MSI, HSI)
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Mississippi State University
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
  • Stanford University
  • RTX Technology Research Center
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • Honeywell Aerospace Technologies
  • Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS) at California State University Northridge (CSUN)
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
  • University of Michigan
  • Iowa State University
  • CNA Corporation
  • Rutgers University
  • University of Virginia
  • Clark Atlanta University (HBCU)
  • Boeing Research & Technology
  • Florida International University (HSI)
  • Elizabeth City State University
  • Cleveland State University
  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Louisiana State University
  • University of Nebraska Omaha
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach
  • Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • University of Florida
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Eagle Flight Research Center
  • The Innovation Laboratory, Inc.
  • California State University, Fresno (R2 institution) (MSI)
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Duke University
  • Stanford University
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • The Ohio State University
  • Auburn University
  • Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA (R1 institution) (MSI)
  • Auburn University
  • University of Alabama
  • M4 Engineering, Inc.
  • Indiana University
  • University of Dayton