The due date of preliminary proposals for Ideas Lab: Cross-cutting Initiative in CubeSat Innovations solicitation (NSF 19-530) has been changed from 8 February, 2019 to 12 February, 2019 due to the recent partial Federal government shutdown.

The Ideas Lab for CubeSat Innovation is intended to identify critical opportunities for investment that will significantly advance the state-of-the-art of CubeSat engineering and technology to achieve the enhanced operational functionality of constellations or swarms in a cost-effective manner, thereby transforming the scope and execution of CubeSat scientific missions. The goal of this Ideas Lab is to identify, explore, and address the major technology and related barriers to the conception and development of innovative science missions that would benefit from constellations and swarms of CubeSats, and to formulate, design, develop and demonstrate novel, transformative and cost-effective technological solutions to realize these missions. The proposed approaches may be risky, with a significant possibility of failure, but with the potential to rapidly and significantly advance the CubeSat technology and scientific applications and missions.

This Ideas Lab is organized by the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO), the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG).

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S. Irfan Azeem

Program Director, Space Weather Research

Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences

Geosciences Directorate

National Science Foundation

2415 Eisenhower Avenue 8W

Alexandria, VA 22314

Email: sazeem@nsf.gov

Phone: (703) 292-4694