This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Additive Manufacturing Innovations LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged, woman-owned small business. The $124,823 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a multiscale model for material systems with hierarchical microstructure using the Generalized Method of Cells (GMC). This research will support the optimization of...
This is a $49,999 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Additive Manufacturing Innovations LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged, woman-owned small business and limited liability company. The contract is for the "Extension of a Microstructure-Informed Multiscale Structural Analysis and Design Framework to Elevated Temperature" and is a Phase III award under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program....
This is a Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by NASA to CFD Research Corporation, a small business, for the development of multiple high-fidelity modeling tools for metal additive manufacturing process development. The $749,991 Firm Fixed Price contract is a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award that builds upon prior Phase I work demonstrating efficient simulations and feasibility of advanced modeling approaches for selective laser melting (SLM) processes. Under this...
This is a $750,000.00 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Applied Optimization, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The objective of the research is to use probability theory to combine physics-based models for additive manufacturing processes like selective laser melting (SLM) and electron beam melting (EBM) in order to predict and mitigate defects, achieve...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Parabilis Space Technologies, Inc., a small business and certified HUBZone firm. The contract, valued at $124,994, is for the development of a novel additive manufacturing method that enables the use of multiple dissimilar materials in an additively manufactured parent part. This innovation aims to expand the capabilities of additive...
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 $123,687 Phase I STTR contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Advratech, LLC, a small business, for an empirical optimization framework for additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The project aims to leverage in-situ sensor data and process parameters to construct a "physics-capturing" empirical model that can be used to quantify AM process uncertainty, analyze sensitivities, and optimize each layer of selective laser melting (SLM) builds in real-time. The...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $124,954.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to LER Technologies Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, to conduct a feasibility study on an in-situ inspection unit that can be added to an existing additive manufacturing (AM) tool. The goal is to provide real-time information about part quality and detect flaws during the AM process, enabling immediate feedback and process correction to save...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,997, was issued by NASA to 3Dnol, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for a feasibility study on the additive manufacturing of shape memory alloys (SMAs) developed by NASA researchers. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I solicitation and is a total small business set-aside, supporting NASA's goal of stimulating technological innovation through research partnerships with small...
This STTR Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CFD Research Corporation, a small business, to develop modeling and simulation tools for predicting and controlling material microstructure in selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing processes. The $124,996 fixed-price contract aims to establish critical software, modeling methodology, and experimental data analysis required to demonstrate the feasibility of...