This federal contract award to N&R Engineering Management & Services Corporation, a minority-owned small business, is for the development of a reliability analysis tool for ceramic matrix composite (CMC) turbine blades and vanes. The objective is to create an optimization software suite that integrates physics-based discipline-specific analysis codes and NASA's Fast Probability Integrator (FPI) to determine optimal material properties and geometries for cooled turbine components. The...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to N&R Engineering Management & Services Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $124,322.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a Probabilistic/Reliability Software Tool for Ceramic Matrix Composite/Environmental Barrier Coating Interface Modeling. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract is part of NASA's...
This is a SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to N&R Engineering Management & Services Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $791,389.00 contract funds research to determine the performance gains and weight reductions from using ceramic matrix composite (CMC) turbine blades in the high pressure turbine (HPT) and low pressure turbine (LPT) of turbofan engines. The work includes...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to N&R Engineering Management & Services Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $123,837 firm-fixed-price contract is for research to identify cycle improvements and verify the structural feasibility of shrouding a low aspect ratio high pressure turbine (HPT) rotor designed to use ceramic matrix...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,970 firm fixed price contract to Materials Research & Design Inc., doing business as Mr&D, for domestically available ceramic matrix composites for hot structures under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The research will be conducted at Mr&D's facility in Wayne, Pennsylvania over a four-year period ending July 2024. The contract has a total small business set aside designation....
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing, LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The $124,999.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the research and development of additive manufacturing of silicon carbide-silicon carbide ceramic matrix composites. This SBIR contract falls under the total small business set-aside program, which...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Materials Research & Design Inc. (Mr&D), a small business corporation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract, valued at $124,871.00, is for the rapid fabrication of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) with aligned discontinuous reinforcement via reactive melt infiltration. This research and development effort is...
Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing, LLC was awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $750,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center. The firm fixed price contract is for research and development of boron nitride ceramics for Hall-effect thruster discharge channels under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. Performance will occur in Tucson, Arizona over a two year period concluding in July 2023. The contract has a total...
<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Logisic Devices, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, for the development of radiation-tolerant, high-voltage silicon carbide devices. The firm-fixed-price contract, valued at $124,408.00, was awarded on August 31, 2020, with a completion date of March 1, 2021. The contract was set aside for small businesses.</p>
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to CFD Research Corporation, a small business in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract, valued at $124,989, will support research and development to address the vulnerability of silicon carbide (SiC) power electronics to radiation damage, which has prevented their use in NASA's future science and exploration missions. The research aims to develop a better understanding of the physical mechanisms behind the...