BPA Call NNL05AA04Z-NNL07AD96T

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 contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Sound Answers, Inc., a small business contractor, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. The contract, valued at $149,597.25, is for a Phase I SBIR project focused on "FULL-SCALE NEAR-FIELD ACOUSTIC HOLOGRAPHY FOR REDUCTION OF ANNOYANCE AND DISTURBANCE." The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of May 3, 2016. As this is a Small Business set-aside contract, the...

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 $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...

<p>The Department of the Air Force Space Command (DOD - United States Air Force) awarded a $875,137 delivery order contract to Ensco Inc. to develop new acoustic and infrasound source modeling and characterization methods. The project will fund two research and development subtasks to be performed by Ensco from September 2022 through September 2023 in Melbourne, Florida. The contract utilizes a cost plus fixed fee pricing structure.</p>

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $1,249,726 firm fixed-price purchase order to Resonado, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop a Short-Range Sonic Projection System for Focused Surreptitious Communication under the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This Phase II SBIR contract continues Resonado's previous work on specialized audio technologies for the military, including sonic control systems, headset systems, and...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $445 thousand definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Solaero Technologies Corporation. The contract is for the development of an improved ionospheric small-scale structure model to characterize skywave high frequency signal propagation paths under the MASE Project SEEM Program solicitation. Per the solicitation, the contractor will design, develop, implement and test a code module to interpret scattering...

This is a delivery order contract awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research institute, to provide simulation development and handling qualities analysis for NASA's Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD) designs. The contractor will develop high-fidelity 6-degree-of-freedom simulations to model the flight dynamics and aeroelastic effects of the long, slender LBFD vehicle designs. They will also analyze the stability,...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business based in San Diego, California. The $754,984 contract is for the development of innovative tools and methods to improve the accuracy of random vibration response predictions for aerospace structures under critical inhomogeneous aeroacoustic loads. This research aims to enable more accurate predictions of structural...

This is a $519,075,450.46 cost plus incentive fee contract awarded by the Armstrong Flight Research Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation for the design, construction, and flight validation of a research aircraft that creates a shaped sonic boom signature with a calculated loudness level of 75 PLDB or less during supersonic cruise (Mach = 1.4) flight. The contract, known as the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD), has a completion date of June 28, 2026 and does not have a set-aside...