When NASA landed humans on the Moon, we did not do it alone. It took a multitude of partners in government, academia, and industry to bring together the innovative solutions required to make the impossible possible. The same is true today, but we now use new and novel methods for leveraging the Power of the Crowd. Steve Rader currently serves as the Program Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) which are working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowdsourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge-based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the US government.
Steve has worked with various projects and organizations to develop and execute over 100 different challenges. He has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for 34 years. Prior to joining CoECI/NTL, Steve worked in mission control, flight software development for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, command and control systems development for the X-38, and led the Command, Control, Communications, & Information (C3I) architecture definition for the Constellation Program.
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