NASA encourages the submission of unique and innovative unsolicited proposals that will serve the agency’s mission or shed light on science or engineering topics that may be of interest to NASA. Proposals can be submitted to a number of NASA research centers and on a variety of topics, which include (but are not limited to):

  • Space Communications
  • Commercial Space Development
  • Space Astrophysics
  • Applied Information Systems
  • Biomedical Research & Countermeasures
  • Combustion Science
  • Fundamental Physics & Transport Phenomena
  • Materials Science
  • High Speed Computer Architectures
  • Hypersonics
  • Planetary Biology
  • Telecommunications

For more information, see the link below:

http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/pub_library/unSol-Prop.html