DARPA: 100 Year Starship (DARPA-RA-11-70)

The 100 Year Starship™ is a project seeded by the DARPA, with NASA Ames Research Center as executing agent, to develop a viable and sustainable non-governmental organization for persistent, long-term, private-sector investment into the myriad of disciplines needed to make long-distance space travel viable. The goal is to develop an investment vehicle - with the patronage and guidance of entrepreneurs, business leaders, and technology visionaries - which provides the stability for sustained investment over a century-long time horizon, concomitant with the agility to respond to the accelerating pace of technological, social, and other change. Total amount of money to be awarded: $500K. Single award is anticipated.