This federal contract award was made by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rhoman Aerospace Corporation, doing business as Lean Dynamics, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The $74,984 firm fixed-price purchase order is for SBIR Program Phase I research and development to make any unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 100% capable in global positioning system-denied environments, using the Android Team Awareness Kit application and the Tomahawk Robotics Kinesis application. This...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $149,946, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Continuum Dynamics Inc., a small business research and development company. The contract is for the development of an Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft flight simulation and virtual certification tool, under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I program. The contract is a firm-fixed price purchase order, with a completion date of June...
This is a $1,799,600.00 firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rhoman Aerospace Corporation, doing business as Lean Dynamics, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract, which is set aside for small businesses, is for the development of a "Maritime Global Positioning System-Denied Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autonomy and Alt-Positioning-Navigation-Timing, No-Emit, All Source Position and Navigation and Mod Payload Compliant...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,957 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Airspace Experience Technologies, Inc. for the "Transforming Mobility with First Modular Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (EVTOL) Aircraft" project. This contract is set aside for small businesses. The award date is May 14, 2024, and the ultimate completion date is August 19, 2024. The place of performance is Detroit, Michigan. This contract supports the AFRL's efforts to...
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Continuum Dynamics Inc., a small business research and development company, for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project. The contract, valued at $799,428.00, is for a full-scale electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft performance and aeroacoustic test, evaluation, and modeling effort. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation, reflecting...
This is a $109,928 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rhoman Aerospace Corporation, operating under the trade name Lean Dynamics. The contract is a firm-fixed-price purchase order to develop machine learning-enabled vision autonomy capabilities for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in GPS-denied environments. Lean Dynamics is a self-certified small disadvantaged business focused on advanced aerospace technologies,...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Hinetics LLC, a small business, for $149,890.00. The contract is for the development of modeling tools and a control scheme to improve the performance of electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) powertrain systems. This work is being conducted under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research program, which provides funding for collaborative...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rhoman Aerospace Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business operating under the trade name Lean Dynamics. The $74,984 contract is for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, with a completion date of April 17, 2025. The contract combines AFRL's vision-navigation technology with Lockheed Martin's alternate positioning, navigation, and timing (ALT-PNT)...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Electra.aero Inc. The $149,294 contract is for the STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) Phase I research and development of "Innovative Control and Configurations for Design Space for Aircraft with Distributed Electric Propulsion." This research aims to mature technologies for electric and hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)...
This is a sole-source federal contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a one-year research collaboration with MIT's Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab (REALM). The purpose is to develop and evaluate adaptive envelope protection methods for an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft during flight testing, with the goal of creating an independent runtime safety assurance...