This is a NASA SBIR Phase I award to Intelligent Automation, LLC, a small business, to develop morphing aircraft concepts using inflatable muscles for improved performance and aeroservoelastic control. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract will design and integrate advanced aeroelastic aircraft technologies, with the goal of enabling breakthroughs in aircraft performance through seamless aerodynamic transitions. The work will address a need identified by NASA for morphing aircraft capable of...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1.5 million firm fixed price purchase order to Blade Diagnostics Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. The contract period is from February 15, 2022 to May 16, 2023 and involves research to lower sustainment costs for integrally bladed rotors on the F135 aircraft engine through the use of smart blend technology. The place of performance is...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $170,778.74 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Aeromarine Consulting Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the development of the company's patented parallel hybrid turbine electric propulsion system under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Topic AF233-0004. This contract is set aside for small businesses and is related to the Air Force's research and development efforts for advanced aircraft propulsion systems,...
This is a USD 124,751 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business based in San Diego, California. The contract is focused on developing novel aerodynamic devices to improve the efficiency of small-core turbines for future subsonic transport aircraft. Key objectives include mitigating losses from tip leakage and secondary flows in these turbines, while accounting for their...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Jetoptera Inc., a small disadvantaged business. The $149,337.00 contract is for the Experimental Study of the Lift Augmentation Potential Performance of Fluidic Propulsion for Advanced Air Mobility--The Upper Surface Blown Wing, under a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award. Jetoptera, an aviation startup developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), vertical take-off...
This is a firm fixed-price $124,913 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Launchpoint Technologies, Inc., doing business as Magnetic Moments. The contract is for the design, build, and testing of a magnetic transmission system to optimize the integration of high-speed electric motors and efficient propellers for use on electric or hybrid-electric aircraft. The proposed magnetic transmission aims to...
NASA has awarded a $540,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Research In Flight LLC, a small business aerospace engineering company, to develop tools and methods for assessing the stability and control characteristics of unconventional aircraft configurations during the conceptual design phase. The contract supports NASA's continued investigation into advanced aircraft designs, such as blended wing bodies and distributed electric propulsion, which offer potential benefits in fuel efficiency and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Research In Flight LLC, a small aerospace engineering company. The $150,000.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the "Improvement of Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles Performance Using Reduced-Order Aero-Mechanical Models." The contract, which has a total small business set-aside, is focused on...
This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by NASA to Research In Flight LLC, a small business, aims to develop an automated approach for engine integration using the company's proprietary aerodynamics analysis tool, FlightStream. FlightStream is a lower-order, high-fidelity solver that can accurately predict aerodynamic loads on a range of aircraft configurations, including high-lift designs. The $123,473 fixed-price contract will integrate FlightStream with optimization tools, engine performance...
This federal contract award to Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company, is for the development of an actively twisted compliant wing architecture for blended wing body (BWB) aircraft. The goal is to mitigate stall concerns and improve the aerodynamic efficiency of these platforms, which typically suffer from stability issues due to the lack of a conventional tail surface. The $124,806 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract, awarded by the Shared...