re: NASA's Challenges Program Seeks Input For New Competitions
I'm no suit tech but "To ensure cost effectiveness of the suit, a Team must sell a certain number of their suits in an open market." mystifies me. Who is in the market for these? Do they mean to require a willingness to sell suits?
And $500K seems paltry for the work needed. I ran R&D budgets for years as a VP of Engineering. For example, the desert car challenge, all addressable with off the shelf autos and computers w/sensors prize was a megabuck. This job requires custom fabrication for everything from breadboard suits, to prototypes and contest models.