This federal contract award, valued at $1,783,628.00, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Phase Four, Inc., a small business manufacturer of electric propulsion systems and related technologies for spacecraft. The contract is for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to continue maturing a catalytic propellant decomposition chamber for a multi-mode propulsion system. This award supports the Air Force's goals to advance more efficient in-space...
This is a $1,694,485.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Phase Four, Inc., a manufacturer of electric propulsion systems and related technologies for spacecraft. The contract is for Phase Four's continued research and development of a catalytic propellant decomposition chamber, a key component of their radio frequency electric propulsion technology for small satellites. The award was made under a Small Business...
This federal contract award, valued at $45,795.00, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Phase Four, Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for research and development of low-cost, high-power solar electric propulsion systems to enhance in-space maneuverability for small satellites. As a total small business set-aside, this award supports the Air Force's goals to advance more efficient in-space propulsion capabilities through...
Phase Four, Inc., doing business as Phase Four Inc., has been awarded a $748,598 firm fixed price purchase order by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct research on high delta-v electric propulsion for small satellites. The contract was awarded under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program and will run from March 2021 through December 2022. The place of performance is El Segundo, California. This total small business set-aside contract supports the...
This is a $2,307,112 firm fixed-price federal contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Phase Four, Inc., a manufacturer of electric propulsion systems. The contract requires Phase Four to design, build, test, and qualify a new high thrust-to-power thruster for a CubeSat. This thruster is directly traceable to a larger Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solar electric propulsion demonstration mission, where sustained and...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $979,135 firm fixed price contract to Phase Four, Inc. for research in support of its statement of work. The prime contractor will perform the work in El Segundo, California from January 2022 through July 2023. The award stems from the agency's "Transforming the Battlespace" broad agency announcement, which sought solutions to enable disruptive capabilities across domains like unmanned systems, hypersonics, autonomous...
This is a $1,249,691.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Freedom Flight Works, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in San Diego, California. The contract is for the PROPULSION ENHANCEMENT OF JOINT PRECISION AIR DROP SYSTEM 4K (JPADS 4K), which falls under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract has a period of performance through March 30, 2026. Freedom Flight Works, Inc. has a history of participating...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $1,249,947.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Field Propulsion Technologies Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of a novel device to non-destructively disrupt electronic equipment. This award is intended to enhance the Air Force's adaptive and reconfigurable space capabilities in autonomy. The research and development activities will be...
This is a $1,249,994.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to M4 Engineering, Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for the development and integration of physics-based structural analysis models with computational aircraft prototype synthesis. This work supports AFRL's research and development efforts focused on advancing aircraft design capabilities. M4 Engineering,...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,838 firm fixed price purchase order to Field Propulsion Technologies Inc., a small business contractor, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I solicitation. The contract is for the development of a propellant-less spacecraft propulsion system to enhance the Department of the Air Force's adaptive and reconfigurable space force capabilities in autonomy. The research and development activities will take place...