Cooperative Agreement 80MSFC18M0033

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) awarded a $825,000.00 definitive contract to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the development of thermally stable nanocrystalline nickel alloys by powder metallurgy. The contract has a one-year base period with two one-year option periods. This contract was awarded without a set-aside designation, as MIT owns the patented process for producing these unique materials and is the...

This federal contract award, valued at $99,982.75, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build upon previous work and further develop a newly discovered nanophase separation sintering process. The goal is to fabricate a thermally stable molybdenum-tungsten (Mo-W) alloy suitable for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) applications. The sintering method will enable pressureless, lower-energy sintering, as well as...

This is a $336,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on "NANOENGINEERED ULTRA HIGH-TEMPERATURE CERAMICS FOR HIGH STRENGTH AND TOUGHNESS MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES FOR SPACE.APPLICATIONS". The grant has an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2027 and does not have a set-aside designation. MIT frequently partners with the U.S. federal government, often...

This is a $309,000.00 research and development contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop an additive manufacturing process for fabricating a ceramic-metal composite material for use in thermal management of high-speed vehicles, energy conversion, and electric propulsion. The contract is focused on characterizing the material and developing a new additive manufacturing machine capable of producing the...

This is a $1,869,151.78 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the "TEP-1: STAGED ELECTROSPRAY PATHFINDER 1 CUBESAT" project. The award has no set-aside designation and runs through July 31, 2026. MIT, a world-class private research university, will serve as the prime contractor on this contract, which supports cutting-edge research and development of space...

This firm-fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the "DIRECTIONAL RECRYSTALLIZATION OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED OXIDE DISPERSION-STRENGTHENED (ODS) ALLOYS." The contract has a ceiling value of $39,960.70 and a completion date of September 19, 2023. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. MIT frequently partners with various federal agencies on advanced...

This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Ats-Mer, LLC (doing business as MER), a for-profit limited liability company. The contract, valued at $124,860.00, is focused on developing boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) reinforced metal matrix composites (MMCs) for advanced lightweight, high-stiffness structures critical to NASA space missions. The contractor will use a solid-state friction stir...

This is a $1,125,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Tufts College, doing business as Tufts University, a private research university. The goal of this program is to improve the understanding of how material properties can be tailored to support advanced system design and performance enhancement for NASA space exploration missions. The purpose is to understand phase selection in structural alloys and investigate the effects of convection...

This contract award to Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd., a small business entity, is part of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program Phase I under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $124,999 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop a hybrid material form that combines a metal matrix composite (MMC) prepreg tape with an ultrasonic additive manufacturing process. This approach is intended to result in enhanced lightweight, cost-effective metallic...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been awarded a $630,082 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research on cryogenic boiling and heat transfer at low temperatures. Over a three-year period, MIT will lead a team that includes NASA Glenn Research Center and Craft-Tech to carry out reduced gravity experiments using liquid nitrogen. The experiments aim to acquire fundamental data on cryogenic boiling parameters and...