Definitive Contract 80NSSC18C0190
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- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,935 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business specializing in aerospace research and engineering services. The contract, set aside for small businesses, is for the development of advanced aeroelasticity and aeroservoelastic control technologies. M4 Engineering will conduct research and deliver innovative solutions in areas such as computational modeling,...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract, valued at $749,941, aims to develop a software tool capable of generating weight and load responses for unconventional aircraft designs using physics-based structural analysis simulations. This effort is intended to address the limitations of existing historical databases in accurately...
- This is a firm fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $124,955.00, is for the development of methods and software to generate reduced-order nonlinear models of dynamic aeroservoelastic systems. This approach will capture a range of nonlinear dynamics encountered in complex aerospace systems, providing efficient...
- This is a $501,738 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business contractor. The contract is for the development of "Physics-Based Conceptual Design Tools" to support advanced aerospace applications. M4 Engineering has a successful track record of SBIR contract work and sub-awards with NASA, leveraging its expertise in computational modeling, structural analysis,...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I action awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to M4 Engineering, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The $121,549.00 firm fixed-price contract requires M4 Engineering to investigate the viability of creating a multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) architecture for analyzing spacecraft system models using commercial off-the-shelf software. The project aims to develop a generic and scalable...
- M4 Engineering, Inc., a Long Beach-based small business specializing in aerospace and defense research and engineering, was awarded a $149,989 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by NASA's Shared Services Center on August 7, 2024. The contract, which is set aside for small businesses and operates under a firm fixed-price purchase order structure, focuses on developing a Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Design Space Exploration Framework with embedded version control...
- This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $124,976.00, is for research and development work under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The effort involves developing lightweight conformal structures, which are likely related to aerospace applications based on M4 Engineering's expertise in areas...
- This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $124,842.00, is for the demonstration of a novel aeroservoelastic scaled model design, optimization, and fabrication approach. This involves combining aeroservoelastic scaling with a combined topology/sizing optimization to match target structural dynamic and aeroelastic behavior, and using 3D printing...
- M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business aerospace and defense contractor based in Long Beach, California, was awarded a $149,991 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by NASA's Shared Services Center on September 29, 2025. The contract, designated SBIR I PYFOIL81, calls for the development of a Rotorcraft Design Tool Airfoil Table Generator, with work to be performed in Long Beach through the March 27, 2026 completion date. The award is set aside exclusively for small...
- This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a for-profit small business subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $749,955.00, is for the development of a novel aerodynamic modeling approach using fully unstructured grids for unsteady panel aerodynamic models to support aeroelastic and aeroservoelastic analysis. The goal is to integrate the unsteady aerodynamic code with...
This is a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $726,983, is for the continued modernization and enhancement of the company's PBWEIGHT software to support rotorcraft features and applications. Key updates include porting the software to the Windows 10 operating system, reducing dependency on the OpenCASCADE library, addressing bug fixes, improving runtime performance, and developing automated workflows within the OpenMDAO framework. The contract also calls for the development of a suite of rotorcraft analysis capabilities and demonstration of six unique applications. If option tasks are exercised, additional demonstration cases and support for macOS and Ubuntu platforms will be added. As a small business set-aside contract, this award leverages M4 Engineering's specialized expertise in aerospace research and development to advance NASA's goals in rotorcraft simulation and analysis.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00001 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 12/2/18 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $518.8k | 8/24/18 |