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This is a fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Wyle Laboratories, Inc. for a Low Boom Community Response Pilot Program. The contract is funded through the Recovery Act to support NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Supersonics Project, which aims to develop technologies to enable supersonic civil aircraft that can fly over land without creating unacceptable sonic booms. The $836,926 contract requires...

This federal contract award NNX17AB68H was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to support research on improving the accuracy of models for predicting the size and location of sonic boom carpets from supersonic aircraft. The $110,000 training grant is intended to leverage the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) database to provide more detailed atmospheric profiles and enhance NASA's primary...

This delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center is for $122,450 to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates for research into Pulsed Energy Deposition for Reduction in Ground Sonic Boom Signature. The work is an extension of a prior task initiated under NASA Identified Need 80LARC17F0050 to evaluate the benefits of pulsed energy deposition by electromagnetic devices such as femtosecond to nanosecond lasers, microwaves and DC...

This $1,819,270.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency, to Applied Physical Sciences Corp, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp, for "Risk Reduction for Future Community Response Testing with a Low-Boom Flight Demonstration Vehicle." The contract consists of two phases - the first phase involves creating a conceptual plan for community response testing using an experimental low-boom aircraft, and identifying associated risks and...

This $645,086 firm-fixed-price federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). The contract, which has no set-aside designation, will develop and validate a computer-based simulation tool to analyze the vibration and acoustic response of residential and other buildings exposed to sonic booms. This work supports NASA's Supersonics Project, which is focused...

This is a $119,333 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Creative Aero Engineering Solutions (CAES), a woman-owned small business. The contract is for CAES to integrate its "three-zone method" within NASA's multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) framework, with the goal of improving the accuracy of sonic boom prediction for low-boom aircraft design. The contract is part of a collaborative effort between CAES...

This is a $400,369.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center, a civilian federal agency, to Fidell Associates Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation. The contract is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and is focused on an experiment to assess community response to low-amplitude sonic booms at Edwards Air Force Base. The work includes designing the experiment, collecting acoustic and...

This is a $748,306 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Spectral Energies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Beavercreek, Ohio. The contract is for the development of a design tool to optimize aircraft engine nozzles for acoustics, with the goal of reducing noise production for future N+2/N+3 generation aircraft. The project builds on the successful results from the Phase I effort,...

This is a $91,400 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Altasim Technologies LLC, a limited liability company located in Worthington, Ohio. The contract is for the development of an acoustics optimization model and generation of an optimized source by leveraging pressure sensor data, which is described as "Computational Inverse Methods for Acoustic Source Definition." This sole-source...

This federal contract award to The Boeing Company, Engineering, Test & Technology Division, under NASA's Glenn Research Center, has a ceiling value of $599,563.00. The objective of the first phase is to develop and assess the feasibility of an adaptive acoustic liner design that can achieve broadband acoustic performance exceeding conventional multi-degree-of-freedom liners in the 1.0 to 6.0 kHz frequency range, while also reducing drag by 80% compared to a hard wall. The second phase will...