Definitive Contract FA811714C0027

Big Metal Additive LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Denver, Colorado, was awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract valued at $99,925 by the Defense Logistics Agency on July 21, 2025. Under STTR Phase I Topic DLA25D-003, the contractor will demonstrate quality assessment methodologies for additive manufacturing, incorporating visual inspection, volumetric nondestructive evaluation (NDE), and surface NDE techniques. Additionally, Big Metal Additive LLC...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,999 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Additive Monitoring, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of a closed loop adaptive laser pathing system for additive manufacturing. This STTR Phase I research contract, which has a total small business set-aside, aims to provide in-situ monitoring and real-time defect detection capabilities to improve quality control and certification of additively...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $48,574 firm-fixed-price Purchase Order contract to Additive Monitoring, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Chicago, Illinois. The contract is for the development of an in-situ monitoring system to support quality control in additive manufacturing processes. This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract has a completion date of December 10, 2021 and was set aside for small businesses. Additive...

This $1,262,869.00 federal contract award was made by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Applied Optimization, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. The contract aims to develop "machine independent, feature-specific parameters for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing" to enable the Department of Defense (DoD) to produce high-quality, as-built material for complex geometry structural...

This is a $123,687 Phase I STTR contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Advratech, LLC, a small business, for an empirical optimization framework for additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The project aims to leverage in-situ sensor data and process parameters to construct a "physics-capturing" empirical model that can be used to quantify AM process uncertainty, analyze sensitivities, and optimize each layer of selective laser melting (SLM) builds in real-time. The...

This is a $109,995 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Additive Monitoring, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for sensor fusion and in-situ inspection capabilities related to additive manufacturing. The contract is set aside for small businesses and will be performed in Chicago, IL. This STTR Phase I research and development effort is focused on developing sensor fusion technologies to enable real-time defect...

This is a $754,962 Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA to Mound Laser & Photonics Center, Inc. (MLPC), a small business. The contract is for in-process monitoring of additive manufacturing (AM) processes, building on prior Phase I work. Under this Phase II effort, MLPC and collaborators at Wright State University (WSU) and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) will develop a low-cost sensor system to track key quality-indicative...

This STTR Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CFD Research Corporation, a small business, to develop modeling and simulation tools for predicting and controlling material microstructure in selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing processes. The $124,996 fixed-price contract aims to establish critical software, modeling methodology, and experimental data analysis required to demonstrate the feasibility of...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Additive Manufacturing Innovations LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged, woman-owned small business. The $124,823 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a multiscale model for material systems with hierarchical microstructure using the Generalized Method of Cells (GMC). This research will support the optimization of...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,993.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Sustainment Technologies Inc., a veteran-owned small business, for the STTR Phase I research project "Integrating Additive Manufacturing Techniques with Traditional Subtractive Manufacturing Processes towards AI-Based AM Candidate Identification." This contract is focused on developing techniques to integrate additive manufacturing (AM) with traditional subtractive...