This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to 4D TECH Solutions, LLC, a HUBZone certified, veteran-owned small business. The contract is for the design and development of an Intelligent Electronic Speed Controller (IESC) for use on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The IESC will integrate propulsion system health monitoring sensors and an intelligent rule set to predict...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to H3X Technologies Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods, located in Lakewood, Colorado. The contract, valued at $149,866.00, is for the development of an Integrated Motor Drive for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Aircraft Electric Propulsion, known as HPDM 30 A 10 KWKG. The contract is a firm fixed-price Purchase Order, with a...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Smartgridz, Inc. (doing business as Netss), a small business. The $125,000 firm fixed-price contract is for the development of a unifying physics-based framework to model, simulate, and digitally control aircraft turboelectric distributed propulsion (TEDP) systems. The goal is to create a monitoring and decision system framework to...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Hyper TECH Research Inc., a small business manufacturer, for the research, development, and production of high power density induction motors and drives for aircraft propulsion. The contract, valued at $749,999.00, is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase II and has a completion date of October 29, 2025. This award builds upon Hyper TECH Research's prior...
This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Smartgridz, Inc. (also doing business as Netss) for the development of a "Dynamic Monitoring and Decision Systems (DYMONDS) Framework" to model and control aircraft electric power systems. The $749,276.00 firm fixed-price contract aims to advance NASA's aeronautics goals through innovative electric propulsion solutions. As...
NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $1,224,488 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to H3X Technologies Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer based in Lakewood, Colorado. The contract is for the development of a 10 kW/kg integrated motor drive unit for use in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and aircraft electric propulsion systems. This award builds on H3X Technologies' prior SBIR contracts with NASA and the U.S. Air Force for advanced electric propulsion...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Aerospace Innovations, LLC, a for-profit small business. The contract, valued at $124,993, is for the development of an imaging sensor-based command and control system to support autonomous operations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS). The work is intended to enable the transition from human-piloted UAS to more...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract to Parallel Flight Technologies, Inc., a small business manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and propulsion systems, as part of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase I. The contract, valued at $124,363.00, is for the development of an all-electric multi-rotor UAV with a very limited duration when carrying heavy payloads, typically around 15 minutes of flight time. This...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Kalscott Engineering, Inc., a minority-owned small business. The $1,132,263 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of "CHIP-BASED ADS-B FOR HIGH DENSITY, LOW ALTITUDE UAV OPERATIONS", which involves advanced aviation technologies to support unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations in dense airspace. As a Phase II SBIR contract, this...
This is a $754,476.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Continental Controls and Design, Inc., a small business corporation based in Huntington Beach, California. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II and is focused on developing current prototype motors and inverters for small aircraft electric propulsion with high efficiency (around 95% and 97%) and...