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Appendixes
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Appendix A
Comparison of Recent Prize Competitions
TABLE A-1 Comparison of Recent Prize Competitions
NASA Centennial Challenges
DARPA Grand Challenge 2004, 2005, 2007
NAE Grainger Challenge
Ansari X-Prize
Target
Technology for space exploration
Autonomous vehicles
Arsenic removal from water supply in LDCs
Private space travel
Type
Variety of annual and one-time challenges (generally best in class)
Annual or biannual races
One-time prize (best in class)
One-time prize (best in class)
Prize purse
$200,000-$2.5 million (prize amounts to increase over time)
$1 million per race
1st $1 million
2nd $200, 000
3rd $100, 000
$10 million
Federal employee eligibility
No
Yes (using free time)
Yes (using free time)
N/A
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NASA Centennial Challenges
DARPA Grand Challenge 2004, 2005, 2007
NAE Grainger Challenge
Ansari X-Prize
Foreign nationality eligibility
No
Yes (except team leaders must be U.S. citizens)
No (U.S. citizen at U.S. institution or resident in the U.S. at the time of award)
Yes
Participants required to register
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Screening of participants
Yes (for safety where applicable)
Yes
Yes (15 entries cleared for physical testing)
Yes (primarily for safety and seriousness)
IP rights
Contestant has title (NASA retains option for nonexclusive license)
Contestant has title (DARPA retains nonexclusive license)
Contestant has title (NAE obtains license in order to test)
Contestant has title
Media rights
Requires that contestants relinquish some media rights
Not in the rules
Not in the rules
Contestants relinquish some media rights
Intermediate awards
No
Yes
No
No
Funding source
NASA appropriations ($500,000 from private sources for $2.5 million Lunar Lander challenge)
DARPA appropriations
Nonprofit foundation
Insurance policy purchased with private funding
Administration
NGOs without compensation under Space Act agreements
DARPA
NAE
X-Prize Foundation
Future prizes
Planetary Unmanned Vehicle Challenge
2007 Urban Challenge; prize authority extended to other parts of DOD
Unknown
X-Prize Cup; Auto X; Genomics X
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