NASA Tournament Lab - NTL

The NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) is an online, virtual facility that facilitates the use of crowdsourcing to tackle NASA challenges. Since 2011, NASA’s researchers, scientists, and engineers have launched numerous challenges through NTL, often seeking novel ideas or solutions to accelerate research and development efforts, improve algorithm performance, and seek new ideas and approaches in support of the NASA mission.  NTL offers a wide variety of open innovation platforms that engage the crowdsourcing community in challenges to create the most innovative, efficient and optimized solutions for specific, real-world challenges being faced by NASA and other Federal Agencies.
NTL Platforms
NASA Tournament Lab Capabilities



The NTL includes the following platforms:

  • Appirio, Inc, San Francisco, CA
  • HeroX PBC, Chicago, IL
  • InnoCentive, Inc., Waltham, MA
  • Kaggle, San Francisco, CA
  • Luminary Labs, New York, NY
  • NineSigma, Inc., Cleveland, OH
  • OpenIDEO, Palo Alto, CA
  • Patexia, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
  • The Common Pool, LLC, Santa Monica, CA
  • Tongal, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
  • GrabCAD
  • Freelancer.com

The NTL also includes the following capabilities:

  • Research and Data Science - Harvard University
  • Technology Search - yet2.com
    • yet2.com acts as a “Technology Scout” providing a broad external network of experts as potential collaborators based on a specific technological need from an organization.
  • NASA’s Internal Challenges - NASA@work
    • NASA@ work is an agency-wide, virtual platform that seeks to increase innovation by fostering collaboration within our community through the contribution of interactive discussions and the submission of solutions to posted challenges.
For more information on how you can “Harness the Power of the Crowd” please contact us.

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