Pepin Associates Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer located in Greenville, Maine, was awarded a $999,999 Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase II contract by the Defense Logistics Agency. This contract, set aside for small businesses, is for the development of "Formable Preforms for Advanced Ceramic Matrix Composite Hypersonic Structures." Pepin Associates specializes in advanced materials research and development, particularly in the field of...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to Pepin Associates Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Greenville, Maine. The $1,584,671 fixed-price level of effort contract is for the development of "Formable, Discontinuous Preforms for Advanced Ceramic Matrix Composite Hypersonic Structures" under DLA's STTR program, specifically under topic #DLA23A-003. The contract has an ultimate completion...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to N&R Engineering Management & Services Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $121,041 contract is for research and development focused on approaches to facilitate using silicon carbide/silicon carbide ceramic matrix composite (SiC/SiC CMC) materials for high pressure turbine (HPT) engine vanes and rotor blades. This...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Physical Sciences Inc., a for-profit research and development company. The contract, valued at $124,998.00, addresses the challenge of sealing the interface between a metal thrust chamber and a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) nozzle extension for flight applications. As a Phase I SBIR award, this contract is focused on initial...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Qortek Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Linden, Pennsylvania. The contract, valued at $124,976.00, is focused on developing power electronic building block (PEBB) devices that can function in extreme environments. The goal is to create high-power density and high-efficiency PEBB solutions using advanced materials like ceramics and wide bandgap semiconductors, in order to meet the challenges of...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Optipro Systems, LLC, a small business manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The $124,900 contract is for research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The research aims to develop a new additive manufacturing process for silicon carbide, a material well-suited for...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nanosonic Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced materials and devices based in Pembroke, Virginia. The contract, valued at $125,000.00, is for the development of "cure in place hybridsil polyimide materials for next generation additively manufactured thermal protection system (TPS) heat shields." This work supports NASA's research and...
Cpec Technologies, LLC has been awarded a $149,799 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research under Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract supports Cpec Technologies' Rotating Detonation X-Combustor (RDXC) Turbine Integration Program, which will investigate integrating an RDXC into a turbine engine to improve performance. As a Phase I SBIR award set aside for...
This is a $124,913.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Cybernet Systems Corporation, a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract will fund the development of Cybernet's Distributed Procedure Execution and Projection (PEP) system, which aims to automate complex spacecraft, subsystem, maintenance, and consumables management procedures while...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) supports the development of a novel, non-invasive method to monitor the condition of thermal protection system (TPS) materials used on spacecraft during reentry. The contract, valued at $120,735.00, was awarded to Jentek Sensors, Inc., a small business manufacturer of specialized sensor technologies, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The proposed solution incorporates innovative...