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This is a $122,030 firm fixed price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for a design iteration of Esaero's ECO-150 split wing turboelectric distributed propulsion (TEDP) concept, incorporating lessons learned in propulsion and thermal management system research. The effort will examine three separate propulsion system architectures,...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero), a small business manufacturer of aerospace products and services. The $665,896.69 firm fixed-price contract supports the CEPT (Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology) research phase, which involves designing, building, testing, operating, and sustaining an electric distributed propulsion system on a modified general...

Advanced Technologies, Inc., doing business as Advanced Technologies Inc., has been awarded a $1,507,385 firm fixed price delivery order against its Reliance Consolidated Models V (RECOM V) indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center. The order is for the design, analysis, fabrication, and calibration of a Mach scaled rotor blade set and model scale fully articulated rotor hub for high speed forward...

Streamline Automation LLC, doing business as C3 Propulsion, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to further develop its novel Hybrid Propulsion System (HPS) technology. The HPS is non-toxic, stable, and has energy management capabilities, making it suitable for robotic science missions to Mars and outer planet moons. In Phase I, C3 Propulsion demonstrated the proof-of-principle, and now in Phase...

This federal contract award to Flight Works, Inc., a small business manufacturer of aerospace components and systems, is for the development of a low-cost, compact, low-tank pressure, high-performance propulsion system using LMP-103S green propellant. The $124,866 SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), aims to expand Flight Works' micropump-fed propulsion technology to create a high delta-V capability system suitable for secondary payloads...

This is a $869,991.00 Firm Fixed Price, Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer of thermal management solutions. The contract is for the FY23 SBIR Phase II development of a "Hot End Thermal Management System for Nuclear Electric Propulsion." ACT will perform the research and development work, with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation - Technologies (Usnc-Space)...

NASA awarded a delivery order contract valued at $94,077 to National Institute Of Aerospace Associates for a mechanically coupled concept study to support the Versatile Electric-powered Augmented Turbine Engine program. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, National Institute Of Aerospace will perform work at its Hampton, Virginia location from September 2021 through May 2022. Two subcontracts were issued in support of the prime contract, including one to HS Advanced Concepts LLC to identify...

Advanced Technologies, Inc., doing business as Advanced Technologies, was awarded a $639,662 delivery order against the Reliance Consolidated Models V (RECOM V) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center. The firm fixed-price order is for the fabrication of a tail cone thruster model to support NASA's aeronautics research programs. Performance will take place in Newport News, Virginia from August...

This federal contract award was granted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The $214,485 grant, titled "EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO ADVANCED PROPULSION FORTH GENERATION SPACE TRANSPORTATION," was awarded on April 12, 2001 by an unspecified federal agency for research related to advanced space propulsion technologies. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating that RPI competed for and secured this...

This federal contract award, valued at $79,529.25, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Princeton Satellite Systems, Inc., a small aerospace research and development company, to analyze the feasibility of a Fusion-Enabled Pluto Orbiter and Lander mission. The contract, which is not associated with a set-aside program, aims to develop improved models for the Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) concept, a game-changing propulsion and power technology based on the...