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Program Summary

NSF X-Labs represent a bold, flexible, and outcomes-driven initiative designed to build and accelerate novel platform technologies capable of unlocking entirely new sectors, including new fields of scientific inquiry. The program will support full-time research and development (R&D) teams focused on use-inspired scientific breakthroughs and foundational platform technologies that traditional university and industry labs cannot easily address. NSF X-Labs teams will benefit from ambitious R&D goals, operational autonomy, milestone-based funding, and the ability to engage across academia, industry, national laboratories, and nonprofit sectors.Ìý

The NSF X-Labs initiative is designed to achieve the following strategic objectives for the benefit of the nation and national competitiveness.Ìý

• Build Sector-Defining Platforms—Develop novel platform technologies that can serve as the foundation for future innovations, novel engineering solutions, and/or scientific breakthroughs. These technologies should foster the transformation of scientific breakthroughs beyond traditional outputs like publications and datasets and accelerate innovations within relevant application domains.Ìý
• Develop New Organizational Research Structures—Foster organizations with the structure, resources, and flexibility necessary to tackle large-scale scientific advancements. These organizations should lead and leverage novel partnerships across industry, philanthropic, and academic sectors and tackle key research challenges that lack sufficient incentives within traditional academic and industry labs.Ìý