TechPort (NASA)

TechPort is a Technology Portfolio System for the <a href="/facts/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration/TIMCV0yV">National Aeronautics and Space Administration</a> (NASA). The TechPort system was created in response to a request by the <a href="/facts/Office_of_Management_and_Budget/CgNXcMkS">Office of Management and Budget</a> (OMB), resulting in the NASA Performance Goal 3.4.1.5 and APG 3.4.1.5: ST-12-17.

Document, coordinate, and prioritize Agency-level technology strategic investments to ensure NASA has a balanced portfolio of both near-term NASA mission (pull) technologies and longer-term transformational (push) technologies that benefit both Agency programs and national needs.— "NASA FY2012 Performance Goal 3.4.1.5"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>
Ensure that 75 percent of all NASA technology projects are recorded in the portfolio database and are analyzed against the prioritizations in the space technology roadmaps.— "NASA FY2012 Performance Goal APG 3.4.1.5: ST-12-17"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>
As part of its mission, TechPort stores research and development:

<ul><li>Progress</li>
<li>Funding levels and budget data</li>
<li>Management information</li>
<li>Purpose</li>
<li>Benefits to the nation</li>
<li>Benefits to the Agency</li>
<li>Benefits to the Industry</li>
<li>Status (e.g. completed, cancelled, active)</li></ul>
TechPort also, per the FY2012 Performance goals, contains NASA's Technology Roadmaps, including the 2012 Technology Roadmap and 2015 Technology Roadmap. Research and development can then be compared with the roadmap(s), ensuring that the research matches the roadmap and budget allocations are inline with roadmap priorities.
To ensure compliance, TechPort includes interfaces for humans (the main website), search engines (via sitemaps), and machine readable <a href="/facts/Application_programming_interface/GMlN4vUr">APIs</a> that follow <a href="/facts/JSON/bs1rUAhd">JSON</a> or <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> standards (/api/specifications detailing the API's specification, /api/projects listing all ids, and /api/project/{id}[.{format}] providing the <a href="/facts/Machine-readable_data/oKEyQhcl">machine-readable data</a> for that item in either XML or JSON, with JSON being used if no extension is given).
As of March 2018, the public instance of TechPort contains 10,677 research and development records.

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