Aviation, Aerospace and Prizes

Since the dawn of powered flight, prize competitions have helped accelerate technology and stimulate publicity. + See full article

NASA Centennial Challenges

Since 2005, NASA has awarded more than $6 million in prizes to 15 of the more than 100 teams that have participated in 24 competitions conducted within nine Centennial Challenges. + See full article

Online Challenges

NASA is not the only U.S. government agency to use challenges on crowd-sourcing and problem-solving platforms such as InnoCentive and TopCoder. + See full article

Darpa Challenges

As the Pentagon’s technology incubator, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) makes more inventive and varied use of prize challenges than any other government entity. + See full article

Human-Powered Helos Close on AHS Sikorsky Prize

Two of the three teams active in the American Helicopter Society International's $250,000 Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Competition could stage prize attempts any moment now. + See full article