This is a $1,078,976 firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a small business limited liability company. The contract is for the development of rover slip estimation and traction control technologies to enable optimal mobility in lunar environments, under Phase III of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract has a total completion date of April 30, 2025. Protoinnovations, LLC is an experienced federal...
Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, was awarded a $124,970.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The firm fixed-price contract requires Protoinnovations to research, design, develop, and validate advanced locomotion controls, rover-based non-prehensile manipulation (RNM) actions, and novel hardware/software architectures to enable rovers to alter their...
This is a $4,551,735.00 firm-fixed-price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of multi-platform, scalable, and modular rover flight software control algorithms and architectures for autonomous in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) excavation, transportation, and deposition...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The $849,838.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a software framework to advance perception capabilities for rovers operating in harsh lunar environments. The contract is set aside for total small business participation. Protoinnovations, LLC specializes...
This is a $593,243.92 research grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit small business specializing in robotics and autonomous systems for lunar exploration. The grant is for research to understand wheel-regolith interaction under lunar gravity conditions, which directly supports the development of advanced rover technologies for lunar missions. Protoinnovations has a history of securing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business...
This is a $124,930.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit small business. The contract is for Protoinnovations to research, design, develop, test, and validate an intelligent, robotic, lunar wheel (IRLW) with integrated sensing and perception subsystems under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase I. The work will be performed in Pittsburgh, PA and...
Protoinnovations, LLC has been awarded a seven hundred forty-nine thousand eight hundred thirty-one dollar definitive contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver an Intelligent Robotic Lunar Wheel with Accurate and Robust Real-Time Mobility Assessment and Response Capabilities. The small business set-aside award is being made under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to further the development of...
This firm fixed price purchase order for $149,732 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC. The award is associated with the SBIR Program Phase I solicitation seeking proposals for a software framework to advance perception capabilities for rovers operating in harsh lunar environments. The total small business set aside contract will support the development of technologies to enable future NASA exploration missions under the...
The U.S. government has awarded a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract worth $749,894 to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development. The contract, set aside for small businesses, is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract supports the continued applied research, development, maturation, and validation of Protoinnovations' Dynamically...
The federal contract award with ID 80NSSC19C0215 was granted to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to develop a Rover-Based Non-Prehensile Manipulation (RBNPM) control architecture and associated algorithms, tools, and metrics. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract, valued at $749,648.00, aims to enhance the mobile manipulation capabilities of robotic rovers by utilizing existing actuated degrees-of-freedom, such as wheel rotation or...