This is a $899,938 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business Subchapter S Corporation, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the SBIR Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of a Compact, Low Power, Multi-Parameter Astronaut Life Support Sensor (M-PALSS) to support NASA's astronaut life support systems. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation, and the ultimate completion date is August 20,...
This is a $754,792 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of a low-cost, lightweight, and robust chemical microsensor instrument package for detecting carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed solid-state microsensor technology is...
This firm fixed price purchase order for $149,875 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Makel Engineering, Inc. of Cohasset, California under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I solicitation. The award is for research and development of a compact, low power, multi-parameter astronaut life support sensor (M-PALSS) with a completion date of January 25, 2023. As a total small business set aside, this SBIR Phase...
This is a $759,957 firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business, for the development of an Environmental Monitoring Microsensor Array (EMMA) for use on free-flying robots. The contract is part of NASA's SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II and has an ultimate completion date of June 21, 2024. Makel Engineering specializes in chemical sensing systems for aerospace and military applications, and has previously received SBIR awards...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Makel Engineering, Inc. (MEI), a small business based in Chico, California. The contract is for the development of flight-capable chemical microsensor arrays to monitor high-temperature bleed air and turbine exhaust in jet engines. The goal is to provide a new class of on-board engine instrumentation for real-time monitoring of engine and bleed air system...
This is a $2,824,727.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business firm, for research and development work under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. The contract is for the development of chemical sensing systems for aerospace and military applications, building on Makel's prior SBIR awards from NASA and the Department of Homeland Security. The work is to be performed in...
This is a $749,946.00 firm fixed price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business, for the development of the Venus In-Situ Mineralogy Reaction Array (VIMRA) sensor platform. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II and is set to be completed by June 8, 2023. Makel Engineering is a leading provider of chemical sensing systems for aerospace and military...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business based in Chico, California. The contract is for the development of a miniaturized, multi-species chemical microsensor instrument to enable real-time, in-situ monitoring of gases like hydrogen, oxygen, and water vapor in cryogenic propellant lines. This will help improve the efficiency of helium purge operations, a...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,967.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business, to develop a miniaturized multi-species chemical microsensor instrument. The instrument is intended to provide real-time, in-situ measurements of hydrogen or methane, oxygen, water vapor, and mixture thermal conductivity to monitor the effectiveness of purge operations in cryogenic propellant lines. This will help NASA, a major...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Makel Engineering, Inc., a small business specializing in chemical sensing systems. The $124,999.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a new class of microwave-interrogated embedded sensors for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of complex structures. The sensors will be formed using additive manufacturing technology and advanced sensing materials to accurately measure...