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NASA Technology Strategy
NASA organizes the Agency’s technology investments into a strategic framework, with the goal of addressing desired outcomes through technology development. The framework is comprised of capabilities, grouped into categories of investment. Each capability area has an associated Envisioned Futures document that describes how the capability areas are working to achieve desired agency outcomes.
Strategic Capabilities
Shortfalls
In April 2024, NASA published a document describing 187 shortfalls. These shortfalls are technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs. NASA asked the aerospace community to rate their importance. The effort led by the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) aims to better integrate the community’s most pervasive technical problems to help guide its space technology development and investments.
The list below shows the integrated, ranked civil space shortfall list. A pdf version of this list
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