Definitive Contract FA865013C5011

This SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc., a small business. The contract is focused on addressing the challenge of "big data" in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) through the development of the "NDEToolbox" - a system that provides context-based data browsing, automated data analysis, and data fusion capabilities to support aerospace composite inspections. Key innovations include...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,981.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Victor Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company, for the development of advanced algorithms to enable the nondestructive characterization of carbon-fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites using electromagnetic methods. The goal is to create sophisticated inversion algorithms that can distinguish between different types of damage in...

This is a SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Victor Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company. The contract, valued at $749,906.00, is for the development of sophisticated inversion algorithms to improve the nondestructive characterization of advanced composites, such as carbon-fiber reinforced polymers, using electromagnetic methods. The goal is to better distinguish between different types of...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $73,830 firm fixed price purchase order to Wilder Systems Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small business, for work on an SBIR Phase I proposal titled "Autonomous Non-Destructive Inspection for Aircraft Structural Repair." The research, to be conducted in Austin, Texas, will develop autonomous technologies to inspect aircraft structures for defects during repair work, with the goal of improving safety and...

This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS), a small business based in Milpitas, California. The contract, valued at $124,971.00, is for the development of an effective real-time, in-situ damage locating and growth monitoring system for composite structures using a smart, high-speed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor and piezoelectric actuator network. The project aims to design an...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded to Luna Innovations Incorporated, a leading provider of advanced fiber optic sensing and measurement systems to the U.S. federal government. The contract, valued at $125,000.00, is to develop the Rapid In-Place Composite Rotor Damage Detection (RIPCORDD) system for determining and tracking the structural health of composite rotorcraft blades. The system uses a distributed fiber optic strain sensor to detect and...

This contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Veritox, Inc. (doing business as GT Engineering), a small business. The contract is for the development of a Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) tool for detecting heat damage in composite materials, as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract has a firm fixed price of $749,603.00 and a completion date of February 28, 2020. This award is for research and...

This is a $749,997.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc. (TRI/Austin), a small business division of Texas Research International Inc. The contract is for the development of an automated surface microstructure nondestructive evaluation (NDE) process for aerospace materials, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract is set aside for small businesses. TRI/Austin has...

This is a $149,658 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a unit of the U.S. Air Force, to Innovative Materials Testing Technologies, Inc., a small, minority-owned, and woman-owned business. The contract is for research and development work related to "Multi-Layer Deep Structure NDI", likely referring to non-destructive inspection techniques. As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract represents the initial...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Emphysic LLC. The contract is for the development of a Distributed Fault Tolerant Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Data Reduction Framework, which will enable parallel processing of large NDE datasets on mobile devices, computers, or networked clusters. The goal is to create a system that can automatically detect defects in NDE data, where individual...