



The USA Dual Use Academic Liaison (DUAL) program seeks to enhance the capabilities of human space flight operations through collaboration between United Space Alliance and academia, while reducing overall space program costs. The program provides university faculty members, seniors, masters and doctoral students the opportunity to work advanced technology projects in direct association with the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Kennedy Space Center (KSC) under the Space Program Operations Contract (SPOC).
The program also affords educators and educational institutions the opportunity to partner with USA for research and development grants from the National Science Foundation and the State of Texas (Advanced Technology Program, Advanced Research Program or the Texas Space Grant Consortium), or other matching fund organizations.