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Project Nessie

Project Nessie (Nessie) is an open-source Apache-2.0 transactional Iceberg catalog for data lakes, originally open-sourced by Dremio, with Git-like branches, tags, and merges across tables, an Iceberg REST plus native API, and commits versioning the whole catalog.

Project Nike

Project Nike was a United States Army family of guided surface-to-air missiles, starting with the Nike Ajax, the world's first operational guided SAM system, deployed in 1954.

Project NOAH (Philippines)

Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) is a Philippine disaster risk reduction program launched in 2012 by the Department of Science and Technology, producing hazard maps and flood forecasts.

Project Olympus (lunar construction)

Project Olympus is a construction system by Austin company ICON, developed with NASA to build landing pads, roads, and habitats on the Moon from local regolith.

Project Origin (BBC)

Project Origin is a media-provenance initiative founded by the BBC with CBC/Radio-Canada, The New York Times, and Microsoft to verify where news content came from.

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

Project Orion was a United States study from 1958 to 1965 of spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions detonated behind a pusher plate, canceled by the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty.

Project Panama

Project Panama was an Anthropic program begun in 2024 to acquire large numbers of print books, remove their bindings, scan their pages, and dispose of the paper copies to build training data for Claude.

Project Pat

Project Pat (Patrick Earl Houston, born 1973) is a North Memphis rapper, older brother of Juicy J, known for the Ghetty Green and Mista Don't Play albums, the hit Chickenhead, and the Patta flow.

Project Phoenix (SETI)

Project Phoenix was a privately funded radio SETI search by the SETI Institute, examining roughly 800 nearby Sun-like stars from 1995 to 2004 with no signals detected.

Project Pigeon

Project Pigeon, also known as Project Orcon, was a World War II US program in which B. F. Skinner trained pigeons to guide a glide bomb.

Project plan

A project plan, formally called the project management plan, is the document defining how a project is delivered, monitored, and controlled, covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, roles, and communication.

Project planning

Project planning is the planning of temporary endeavors with defined beginnings and ends, distinct from repetitive operations; plans set baselines for scope, schedule, cost, and risk.

Project Pluto

Project Pluto was a US Atomic Energy Commission and Air Force program, run from 1957 to 1964, to develop a nuclear ramjet engine for a Mach 3 cruise missile.

Project portfolio management

Project portfolio management (PPM) is the centralized, dynamic decision process by which organizations screen, select, prioritize, and continuously reprioritize projects and programs, allocating scarce resources to achieve strategic objectives.

Project Power

Project Power is a 2020 Netflix action thriller directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, written by Mattson Tomlin, starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback; a New Orleans pill grants five-minute superpowers.

Project Prometheus funding

Project Prometheus funding is the capital raised for Prometheus, the AI venture co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, which raised about $18.2 billion by June 2026.

Project R.E.D.

Project R.E.D. (Records of Extraordinary Dimensions) is Toei's tokusatsu hero franchise launched February 2026 on TV Asahi, replacing the Super Sentai timeslot with six-month red-hero series, starting with Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity.

Project Rainier (Anthropic–AWS)

Project Rainier is an AWS compute cluster of nearly 500,000 Trainium2 AI chips built for Anthropic to train and serve its Claude models, launched in October 2025.

Project Red (geothermal)

Project Red is Fervo Energy's enhanced geothermal system pilot near Winnemucca, Nevada, the first commercial EGS to deliver electricity to a grid, powering Google data centers from 2023.

Project Riese

Project Riese (Projekt Riese) was Nazi Germany's largest mining and construction project, 1943–1945, in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle, Lower Silesia; built by Gross-Rosen prisoners, left unfinished, purpose still unknown.

Project Runway

Project Runway is an American fashion-design reality competition that premiered on Bravo December 1, 2004, hosted by Heidi Klum with mentor Tim Gunn. It has run 22 seasons across Bravo, Lifetime, and Freeform, spawning adaptations on six continents.

Project Runway All Stars

Project Runway All Stars is a Lifetime reality spin-off (2012-2019, seven seasons) in which former Project Runway designers compete again under new hosts and judges, including Angela Lindvall, Alyssa Milano, Isaac Mizrahi, and Georgina Chapman; distinct from Bravo's 2023 All-Stars season 20.

Project Runway All Stars season 5

Project Runway All Stars season 5 (2016): Lifetime spin-off season in which 13 returning designers competed on an anonymous runway; judged by Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman, hosted by Alyssa Milano, and won by Dom Streater.

Project Runway season 21

Project Runway season 21 is the twenty-first season of the American reality competition series Project Runway, premiering July 31, 2025, with Heidi Klum returning as host after eight years.

Project Runway season 22

Project Runway season 22 (2026): 22nd season of the Freeform/Hulu/Disney+ fashion competition, largest-ever cast of 22 designers, judges Heidi Klum, Law Roach, Nina Garcia, Tyra Banks recurring, winner Jude Mikulencak, finale September 10, 2026.

Project Runway: Junior season 1

Project Runway: Junior season 1, the Lifetime reality competition's first season, premiered November 12, 2015: 12 designers aged 13-17, mentored by Tim Gunn, judged by Kelly Osbourne, Christian Siriano, and Aya Kanai, competed for an FIDM scholarship.

Project Silence

Project Silence (탈출: 프로젝트 사일런스, Escape: Project Silence) is a 2024 South Korean disaster thriller by Kim Tae-gon, starring Lee Sun-kyun, Ju Ji-hoon, and Kim Hee-won, about military experiment dogs loose on a foggy collapsing airport bridge; premiered at Cannes 2023, released July 12, 2024.

Project Stormfury

Project Stormfury was a joint US Navy and NOAA program, running from 1962 to 1983, that tried to weaken hurricanes by seeding them with silver iodide.

Project Sunrise (Qantas)

Project Sunrise, also known as Qantas Project Sunrise, is Qantas' program for non-stop flights between Australia's east coast and London and New York, starting in October 2027.

Project Tiger

Project Tiger, India's tiger conservation program launched 1 April 1973 with nine reserves, now a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under the NTCA; tiger numbers fell to 1,411 in 2006 after Sariska, then rose to 3,167 by 2022.