Definitive Contract 80MSFC24CA009
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- <p>The U.S. Marshall Space Flight Center, a civilian agency, awarded a $575,963.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Holly Shulman, a woman-owned small business, for the MOON-TO-MARS PLANETARY AUTONOMOUS CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY (MMPACT) project. The contract has a period of performance through March 3, 2023 and was awarded on September 30, 2020. No set-aside designation was used for this contract.</p>
- Lunar Resources, Inc. has been awarded a $149,990 firm fixed price purchase order contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to support the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract calls for Lunar Resources to develop an ultra-electrically efficient additive manufacturing process using regolith, the lunar soil and rock debris, to construct complex structures. The work will be conducted in Houston, Texas...
- X-Hab 3D, Inc. was awarded a $150,000 firm fixed price purchase order as prime contractor to deliver on STTR 2023-I, a Small Business Technology Transfer Research Phase I solicitation issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract calls for X-Hab 3D, Inc. to conduct research on processing lunar regolith for construction activities using multiple-use microwave sources. The work will be performed in State College, Pennsylvania over a one...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Ceralink Inc., a small disadvantaged and woman-owned business, for the development of an automated hybrid microwave heating system to stabilize the lunar surface. The project aims to address the severe complications caused by lunar dust on previous Apollo missions by creating a microwave-based system to solidify the surface, enabling...
- Radiance Technologies Inc. has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $729,977.96 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA) to provide Microwave Structure Construction Capability (MSCC) in support of the Moon-to-Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technology (MMPACT) Time Domain Lunar Sintering Characterization & Development effort. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama under a firm fixed price contract running from September...
- NASA awarded a $60,450 firm fixed-price delivery order to Floor23 Digital LLC, a women-owned small business based in Jackson, Wisconsin, on March 9, 2026. The contract supports the Artemis II Human Research Data Methodology Challenge and is issued under the larger NASA Open Innovation Services 3 (NOIS3) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, valued at approximately $475 million with a performance period extending through May 2027. The award carries no small business set-aside designation,...
- This is a $166,499 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to The Enabled Manufacturing LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of a multifunctional solid-state manufacturing technology for lunar infrastructure. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program, which supports early-stage research and development efforts. This award is set aside for small...
- NASA's National Shared Services Center awarded a $26,850 firm fixed-price purchase order to Space Power Electronics Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Bonaire, Georgia, for the development of a prototype laser electronics assembly. The contract, awarded on March 12, 2026 with an ultimate completion date of July 12, 2026, was performed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The prototype is designed for a 1030-nanometer fiber laser lidar transmitter supporting NASA's...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase I contract to Honeybee Robotics, LTD. (doing business as Honeybee Robotics Craft Mechanisms), a small business, to develop technology for the robotic construction of landing pads, roads, habitats, and other critical infrastructure on the Moon or Mars using in-situ resources such as regolith. The $118,690.00 fixed-price contract requires Honeybee Robotics to determine optimal...
- <p>NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $899,630 definitive contract to Linc Research, Inc. for Phase II STTR development of novel construction methods for lunar landing pad reinforcement structures on January 6, 2025, under a total small business set-aside. Linc Research is a HUBZone-certified small business.</p> <p>Place of performance is Huntsville, AL. The contract carries a firm fixed price and ultimate completion date of January 5, 2027.</p>
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a $954.3K firm fixed-price contract to Holly Shulman, a woman-owned small business, on March 29, 2024, to develop and mature microwave multimode sintering technology for constructing solid structures from lunar regolith. Under this sole source contract, which concludes March 31, 2026, Dr. Shulman will conduct technology advancement activities including planning, preliminary vacuum demonstrations on Earth, and fabrication of horizontally and vertically adjoined regolith pads under vacuum conditions. The work will be performed in Belmont, New York and represents advancement of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) construction techniques for lunar habitats, landing pads, and related infrastructure that support NASA's exploration objectives. This contract supports NASA's lunar exploration and surface construction initiatives by maturing innovative microwave-based techniques that could enable sustainable, cost-effective infrastructure development using materials already present on the Moon. The woman-owned small business set-aside designation reflects the agency's commitment to supporting underrepresented contractors in advanced space technology development. The successful completion of this work will provide critical technical data and demonstration results for evaluating the viability of microwave sintering as a construction method for future lunar surface operations.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Microwave Multimode (MWM) Continuous Paving, Horizontal, and Vertical Construction Techniques | 25-59-PS50 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center | Pre-Solicitation 1/2 | 7/18/25, 1:41 PM | |
Microwave Multimode (MWM) Continuous Paving, Horizontal, and Vertical Construction Techniques | 25-59-PS50_MWM-JOFOC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center | Limited / Sole Source Justification 2/2 | 2/10/26, 12:28 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00006 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $25 | 12/22/25 | |
| P00005 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $0 | 12/16/25 | |
| P00004 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $200.0k | 9/8/25 | |
| P00002 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 4/11/25 | |
| P00003 | Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $0 | 4/11/25 |