The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $23,810,452.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to Spirit Aerosystems Inc., a major aircraft parts manufacturer, for a project titled "BONDED UNITIZED COMPOSITES LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURAL DEMONSTRATION". The contract has no set-aside designation and runs through September 7, 2028.
As a subsidiary of Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc., Spirit Aerosystems Inc. has extensive experience in advanced composite technologies, structural materials research...
This is a $8,764,619.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to Spirit Aerosystems Inc. for the "Industrialization of Oxide/Oxide Composites for Hypersonic" project. The contract has a period of performance through February 27, 2025.
Spirit Aerosystems is a major aircraft parts manufacturer with extensive experience in advanced composite technologies and high-rate manufacturing processes. The company has received multiple awards from the Air...
This federal contract award to Spirit Aerosystems Inc. is for the "Certification of Bonded Aircraft Structures by Process Control" project, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The $6,370,415 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a period of performance through September 30, 2025.
The contract appears to be associated with a larger Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from AFRL's Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Structural Materials Division, which is seeking...
This federal contract award to Fiber Materials Inc., a subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., is for the development of advanced composite materials for hypersonic applications under the "COMPOSITES FOR HYPERSONICS BY INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS ENGINEERING" program. The $8,863,615.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), does not have a set-aside designation. Fiber Materials Inc. is a leading manufacturer of thermal...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21M0254, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the prime contractor Spirit Aerosystems Inc. The $95,460 cooperative agreement is for the High-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HICAM) project, which aims to demonstrate manufacturing approaches and associated technologies for large composite airframe structures. The contract has no set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by June 16, 2023.
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This is a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded to Fiber Materials Inc., a subsidiary of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The $5,028,966.00 contract is for the characterization and performance testing of hypersonic thermal protection composite material systems, with a completion date of September 30, 2027. Fiber Materials Inc. has extensive experience producing advanced composite materials and thermal protection systems for aerospace...
This $3,033,050.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Spirit Aerosystems Inc. to demonstrate automated ceramic matrix composite (CMC) processing and fabrication of reusable hot structure designs for hypersonic vehicles, including flaperons, torque tubes, wing, and fuselage subcomponents. The contract, which has a completion date of September 26, 2026, involves the design, analysis, characterization, and...
This is a $16,988,866.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee research and development contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for hypersonics supply chain research. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. SwRI, an independent nonprofit research organization, will serve as the prime contractor and has enlisted several subcontractors, including Elementum 3D (metal 3D printing), Solar Atmospheres (furnace...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,649,958.00, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc. to develop "Next Generation Additively Manufactured Exhaust Control Duct Enabling Hypersonic Affordability". The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with a period of performance through April 2025. There is no set-aside designation for this award.
The contract was awarded under a broader AFRL Materials and Manufacturing...
This is a $57,734.50 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Spirit Aerosystems Inc., a major manufacturer of aircraft parts and components. The primary goal of the High-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HICAM) project is to demonstrate manufacturing approaches and associated technologies for large composite airframe structures that enable a 4-6x production rate increase without cost. The contract is not set aside and has a completion...