NIAC is a NASA program for development of advanced concepts. The program operated under the name NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts from 1998 until 2007 (managed by the Universities Space Research Association on behalf of NASA), and continued under the name NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts from 2011 to present (managed by the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist). The NIAC program funds work on revolutionary aeronautics and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA developed and conducted its missions.
Read more about NASA Institute For Advanced Concepts: NIAC History, NIAC 1998–2007, Revised NIAC
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