The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $690,809.00 firm-fixed-price contract to Sigma Technologies International Group, Inc., a small business manufacturer, to provide energy buffer capacitors for use in dynamic power conversion. This contract, set aside for small businesses, supports NASA's research and development efforts. Sigma Technologies International Group, Inc. is a for-profit corporation specializing in surface functionalization and thin film engineering, and...
This $120,055.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sigma Technologies International Group, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of lightweight, high energy density direct current (DC)-link capacitors that can operate in extreme temperature ranges, which are a critical component of power processing units (PPUs) used in NASA's...
This is a $723,557.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Sigma Technologies International Group, Inc. under the SBIR Program Phase II. The contract is for the development and evaluation of polymer multi-layer (PML) capacitors as an improved solution to address the failure mode identified in the multi-layer ceramic (MLC) capacitors currently used in NASA's Power Processing Units (PPUs). The PML capacitors are expected...
This is a $754,712.00 federal contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Powdermet Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the continued development of high energy density, high voltage, and wide temperature capacitor technology with applications in harsh aerospace environments, including for NASA's ion thruster propulsion systems. The contract builds on the successful Phase I...
This SBIR Phase I contract, valued at $124,325.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Powdermet Inc., a small business manufacturing company. The contract is for the development of an advanced nanocomposite capacitor that can operate reliably in harsh environments, with a wide temperature range (-100°C to 400°C), high voltages (over 1 kilovolt), and high energy and power density. This technology is intended to support NASA's aerospace exploration...
This federal contract award to Nanoramic, Inc. (doing business as Nanoramic Laboratories) is for the development of an ultra-high power density and high frequency ultracapacitor capable of operating across a wide temperature range. The $124,623 fixed-price contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program, aims to design and prototype a hybrid system combining the ultracapacitor with a high energy...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,995 purchase order to TDA Research, Inc. of Wheat Ridge, Colorado under Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The firm fixed price contract is for research and development of an in-circuit energy storage device for extreme environments, with performance from July 25, 2022 through November 25, 2022. The award is designated for total small business participation. TDA Research will develop the...
This $838,441 SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Polycharge America, Inc., a small business subsidiary of Borgwarner Inc. that specializes in advanced capacitor technology. The contract is for the development of high energy density, radiation tolerant capacitors for cryogenic temperature space applications. This builds upon Polycharge's previous SBIR Phase I contract with NASA to research similar disruptive pulse power capacitor technology. The contract has...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $149,186.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Sigma-Netics, Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Riverdale, New Jersey. The contract is for Phase 1 of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program and involves the development of Sensor Support Electronics (SSE) for the SIGMA-NETICS sensor. This award supports NASA's research and development efforts to advance sensor technology....
<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>