Definitive Contract N0017308C2082

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Modularity, Inc., a small business doing business as Modularity Space. The $70,601 contract is for the development of a Wireless Integrated Navigation and Docking System under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase I. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by August 29, 2024. Modularity Space provides modular spacecraft,...

This federal contract award is to Modularity, Inc., doing business as Modularity Space, a small business providing modular spacecraft, infrastructure, and lunar/deep space architecture components. The $1,249,670.99 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the development of an intelligent wireless instrumentation network to support on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing. This award is part of the Small Business Innovation...

This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Axient LLC, doing business as Millennium, for the development of a robotic manipulator called the Momentum Device Actuated Canfield (MODAC) Manipulator. The purpose is to integrate the MODAC Manipulator onto NASA's Assistive Free Flyers (AFF) being developed for the International Space Station. The MODAC Manipulator is...

Astrobotic Technology Inc. has been awarded a delivery order valued at $787,081 by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center to support flight testing and maturation of the Touch-and-Go (TAG) Guidance System (TGS) for small-body and interplanetary sample collection. The firm fixed-price contract, awarded on October 23, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027, will be performed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. This award represents a funding action only and carries no...

This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Blue Sun Enterprises, Inc., a small business, to develop the AutoNav Mark 4 autonomous guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software. The contract is valued at $122,700 and was awarded on June 9, 2017 with a completion date of December 8, 2017. The AutoNav Mark 4 software is designed to provide highly capable autonomous GNC capabilities for a variety of spacecraft, from deep space...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Swift Engineering Inc., a product development company specializing in unmanned systems, autonomy, robotics, and advanced composites. The contract, valued at $124,464, is for a lightweight, modular, and scalable surround visual and sensory feedback system for robotic pilots. This system, built on open-source platforms, will enable astronauts to perform...

This is a $124,654 Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Adaptive Aerospace Group Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The contract is for the development of a "Safe Autonomy Flexible Innovation Testbed (SAFIT)" - a high-integrity flight management system and multi-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) ground control station for safe operation of multiple fixed-wing UAS in a wide range of missions,...

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI), a small business, for the continued development of the Generalized Guidance, Navigation & Control Architecture for Reusable Development (GUARD) framework. The GUARD framework is intended to enable the development and testing of reusable guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) software for autonomous...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I action awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to M4 Engineering, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The $121,549.00 firm fixed-price contract requires M4 Engineering to investigate the viability of creating a multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) architecture for analyzing spacecraft system models using commercial off-the-shelf software. The project aims to develop a generic and scalable...

This is a research and development contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Carnegie Mellon University to develop the underlying mathematics and technology for automatically designing and programming modular robotic systems. The goal is to create more efficient and adaptable robots that can be reconfigured for different tasks, which could have applications in space exploration, manufacturing, search and rescue, and other domains. The $261,884.30 award...