Definitive Contract HR001107C0049

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory has awarded a $149,997.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Opto-Atomics Corp, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, for a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research project titled "Nanoparticle On-Demand Loading System." This contract, set aside for total small businesses, is focused on developing and demonstrating the feasibility of a high-efficiency biphoton source for quantum...

Innovative Advanced Materials, Inc. was awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $750,000 by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to accelerate the design of materials through molecular beam epitaxy automation and machine learning under the agency's COVID-19 Defense Production Act Title III initiative. As a total small business set aside, the firm fixed price contract supports the prime contractor's efforts to develop and apply advanced manufacturing and artificial...

This is a grant awarded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on in-space manufacturing capabilities. The $97,933.50 grant aims to determine the parameters for profitable space-based manufacturing operations within the new space economy, with a focus on additive manufacturing technologies. The research will develop validated system models accounting for technology development, customer demand, supplier...

This is a purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research to the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), a non-profit research organization. The $250,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for additive manufacturing research and development activities. CCAM has previously received federal funding from agencies like the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to conduct advanced manufacturing research. The...

This federal contract, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Concurrent Technologies Corp (CTC), aims to overcome the limitations of existing additive manufacturing (AM) powder bed fusion equipment by extending the longitudinal distance (z-axis) of the original equipment manufacturer's systems. The $4,383,000.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has an ultimate completion date of August 3, 2026. CTC, a non-profit research and development organization, will serve as the prime...

This $5,925,568.22 cooperative agreement was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop an ecosystem for qualifying additive manufacturing (AM) processes and materials for use in aviation manufacturing. The project aims to address two key outcomes: enabling manufacturing methods that reduce costs and increase speed of aircraft manufacture while maintaining quality and reliability, and producing custom-manufactured products...

This is a $125,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program award to Faraday Technology, Inc. by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The objective of the program is to develop a Manufacturing Decision Tree Model (MDTM) that will enable the efficient production of additive manufactured (AM) high-value components with the desired surface finish and mechanical properties. Faraday will work with subcontractors UES Inc., CalRAM Inc.,...

Advanced Photon Sciences LLC was awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $3.9 million by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop magnetic graphene sense random access memory as a non-volatile and radiation hardened alternative to existing memory technologies. The contract aims to address the solicitation issued under the MASE Project SEEM Program Call 009 seeking proposals for an improved ionospheric small-scale structure model to...

This $7.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order was awarded by the Department of the Navy to Advanced Technology International for the Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Naval Shipbuilding and Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence (NSAM COE) Mega Rapid Response Projects. ATI will serve as the prime contractor and work with subcontractor Bath Iron Works Corporation to provide functional tools and integrated data management to support, expedite, verify, and validate rapid prototyping...

Atomic-6, Inc. has been awarded a $146,052 firm fixed price purchase order from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct research under STTR Phase I for Testing TCSO2 Next Generation Carbon Fiber for Hypersonic Applications. As a small disadvantaged business, the contract is fully set aside for small businesses. Atomic-6 will utilize its Marietta, Georgia facility to perform the six-month research effort, evaluating next generation carbon fiber composites...