Definitive Contract NNJ05JC05C

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Plasma Processes, LLC, a small business that specializes in materials solutions for industrial applications. The contract, valued at $124,838.00, is for a parameters-characterization-properties study to demonstrate the feasibility of using electron beam melting additive manufacturing to produce high-strength niobium alloys for NASA's Reaction Control System (RCS) chambers....

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Reactive Innovations, LLC, a limited liability company, to develop an electrolytic process for coating high-purity tungsten metal onto uranium dioxide spheres. The goal is to create an enabling technology for nuclear thermal propulsion that can improve upon current chemical vapor deposition methods in terms of lowering impurity content, increasing...

Hyper TECH Research Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, was awarded a $125,000.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and improve second-generation magnesium diboride (MgB2) superconducting wires. The goal is to produce lightweight, high-performance superconducting wire with high current carrying capacity, operating temperatures between 4-30 Kelvin, and long piece-lengths up to 60 kilometers. This research...

This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, tasks Transition45 Technologies Inc., a minority-owned small business, with developing and demonstrating a novel manufacturing process based on severe plastic deformation to refine and enhance the microstructure and properties of bulk tungsten. Tungsten is a refractory metal that plays an important role in nuclear reactors, including for nuclear thermal propulsion engines,...

This is a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ultramet, a small business manufacturer of advanced materials. The contract aims to develop innovative melt infiltration processing techniques to optimize the refractory carbide matrix in carbon fiber-reinforced composite materials for use in hypersonic vehicle hot structures. This builds on Ultramet's prior work for NASA and the...

This is a $125,000 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Ultramet, a small business manufacturer of advanced materials. The contract is for the development and characterization of ruthenium- and iron-based catalysts to improve the efficiency of passive cryogenic propellant heat shielding systems. Ultramet will collaborate with the Hydrogen Properties for Energy Research (HYPER) Laboratory at Washington State University to synthesize, test, and optimize the catalysts for...

This is a firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Ats-Mer, LLC (doing business as MER), a for-profit limited liability company. The contract, valued at $124,860.00, is focused on developing boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) reinforced metal matrix composites (MMCs) for advanced lightweight, high-stiffness structures critical to NASA space missions. The contractor will use a solid-state friction stir...

This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ultramet, a for-profit manufacturer specializing in advanced materials for extreme environments. The contract is focused on the design and development of a lightweight, low-cost transpiration-cooled liquid oxygen (LOX)/liquid methane (LCH4) rocket engine in the 10,000 to 25,000 lbf thrust range. Ultramet will leverage its expertise in...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Transition45 Technologies Inc., a minority-owned small business. The $600,000 contract examines the feasibility of an innovative fabrication technology incorporating sand casting and friction stir processing (FSP) to produce affordable near-net-shape components made from high-performance nickel-based superalloys. This technology has the...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ultramet, a for-profit manufacturer of advanced materials solutions. Under this $890,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract, Ultramet is developing a 3D laser-directed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) additive manufacturing system to build free-form refractory metal components for liquid rocket propulsion systems. The system will be able to deposit successive...