NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge

Trillium supported NASA HQ to develop a number of ‘grand challenges’ in response to a request by the White House’s Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP). 

The challenge chosen from this process was the Asteroid Grand Challenge (AGC):

“to find all the asteroid threats to humanity and to know what to do about them.” 

Over the four year duration of the challenge, Trillium supported NASA’s Planetary Defense Co-Ordination Office (PDCO) to administer and develop revolutionary new approaches to tackling complex systemic problems, by engaging new constituencies, such as the maker movement, game designers, technology companies, Hollywood producers and data scientists - ultimately giving birth to FDL and raising public awareness of both the threat and opportunity presented by asteroids.