The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,981.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Victor Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company, for the development of advanced algorithms to enable the nondestructive characterization of carbon-fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites using electromagnetic methods. The goal is to create sophisticated inversion algorithms that can distinguish between different types of damage in...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Victor Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company based in Chicago, Illinois. The contract, valued at $124,889, is for the enhancement of Victor Technologies' VIC-3D® eddy-current modeling code to enable near real-time, large-scale nondestructive simulations and automated data reduction/analysis for the characterization of carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer (CNRP) composites using...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to San Diego Composites, Inc. (SDC), a manufacturer of complex composite components, assemblies, and engineering services for the aerospace, defense, and space systems markets. The contract, worth $749,948, focuses on establishing a closed-loop system and software for the structural health monitoring (SHM) and manufacturing quality control (MQC) of composite...
This is a $899,968 firm-fixed price Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to North Country Composits LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for continued research and development of localized 3-D printing techniques for fiber-reinforced composites to support the development of advanced materials for aerospace applications. This follows a previous...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Emphysic LLC. The contract is for the development of a Distributed Fault Tolerant Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Data Reduction Framework, which will enable parallel processing of large NDE datasets on mobile devices, computers, or networked clusters. The goal is to create a system that can automatically detect defects in NDE data, where individual...
This is a $124,939.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I award issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to San Diego Composites, Inc. (SDC), a manufacturer of complex composite components, assemblies, engineering, and tooling for the aerospace, defense, and space systems markets. Under this contract, SDC will develop techniques for the reduction and analysis of fiber optic data, with a focus on associating changes in frequency domain behavior with...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Technical Data Analysis, Inc. (TDA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The $124,744 contract supports the development of an integrated assessment tool for evaluating thin-ply composite materials and their manufacturing processes for potential use in aerospace structures. The goal is to provide NASA and other industry users with the...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Metrolaser, Incorporated, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for $124,932.00. The contract aims to develop a non-destructive evaluation method using acoustic signatures to inspect parts manufactured by additive manufacturing (AM) processes, which can be applied both in space and on Earth. The proposed solution combines laser Doppler vibrometry...
This is a $777,965 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Invocon, Inc., a small business, veteran-owned systems engineering firm located in Shenandoah, Texas. The contract is for research and development under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II to develop technology for detecting, locating, and assessing damage to thermal protection systems from hypervelocity impacts. This contract is part of NASA's efforts...
This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to X-Wave Innovations, Inc. (XII), a minority-owned, small disadvantaged, and woman-owned small business. The contract, valued at $124,998.00, is for the research and development of a novel thermosonic in-process nondestructive evaluation technique for additive manufacturing. This aligns with NASA's interests in advancing inspection and quality assurance...