This is a $1,530,624 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop physics-based process models capable of predicting bond-line defects during the fabrication of honeycomb core sandwich structures. The contract supports NASA's Advanced Composites Project, which aims to reduce the development and certification timeline for composite aircraft structures by 30%. The...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $100,000.00 cooperative agreement contract to the College of Charleston, a public university in South Carolina, to characterize the properties of composite materials for use in the LS-DYNA MAT213 computational model. This contract, identified as 80NSSC23M0164, has an ultimate completion date of August 2, 2025. The contract is not set aside for any small business or socioeconomic program. The College of Charleston has a...
The University of South Carolina (USC) has been awarded a $3,012,620.00 Cooperative Agreement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to participate in the NASA High-Rate Composites Aircraft Manufacturing (HICAM) Project Phase 1. This contract is not set aside and will have USC performing work approved by NASA and the Advanced Composites Consortium, including developing an Integrated Master Schedule and Plan for the thermoplastic composites manufacturing effort. The...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and education institute. The $489,712 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for a research scientist to provide engineering support and subject matter expertise for long-term research into advanced composite materials fabrication through automated fiber placement (AFP) using the ISAAC robot at the Langley...
This is a $631,189 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Iowa State University of Science and Technology. The contract's objective is to develop algorithms to convert nondestructive evaluation (NDE) data into information on the size and location of defects in composite structures, and then integrate that information into finite element analysis (FEA) models. The contract includes tasks such as mapping NDE...
This contract award is for the HI-RATE COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING (HICAM) project, with the primary goal of demonstrating manufacturing approaches and associated technologies for large composite airframe structures that enable a 4-6x production rate increase without cost. The $100,965.00 cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of South Carolina, a public educational institution located in...
This is a $750,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the College of Charleston's Office of Research & Grants Administration Division, doing business as the University of Charleston, South Carolina. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for research and development work that could have a significant impact on composites fabrication at NASA and the aerospace industry in South Carolina. The outcomes of the...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Technical Data Analysis, Inc. (TDA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The $124,744 contract supports the development of an integrated assessment tool for evaluating thin-ply composite materials and their manufacturing processes for potential use in aerospace structures. The goal is to provide NASA and other industry users with the...
This is a $208,594.71 federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The goal of the project is to develop a novel apparatus that enables in situ X-ray computed tomography (CT) 3D imaging of biaxially stressed thin-ply composite specimens exposed to cryogenic temperatures. This research aims to provide unprecedented insights into the initiation and evolution of damage in composite materials...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $121,184 cooperative agreement to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to study the effect of viscoelasticity on the deployment behavior of thin-ply composite structures through computational modeling and experimental characterization. The goal is to develop a systematic means to evaluate the viscoelastic response of composite materials and ensure deployment reliability and shape accuracy for space applications, such as...
This firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the University of South Carolina (USC) for the development of a multi-scale computational non-destructive evaluation (NDE) simulation tool for composite materials. The objective is to advance the state-of-the-art in NDE ultrasound simulation tools to enable the quantitative characterization of degradation and damage in aerospace composite structures. The $775,072 contract requires USC to develop a physics-based, multi-scale computational predictive tool consisting of three modules: a composite wave dispersion calculator, a multi-scale wave field modeling tool, and an inverse digital and computational analysis terminal. This effort supports NASA's Advanced Composites Project, which aims to reduce the time for development, verification, and regulatory acceptance of new composite materials and design methods. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting USC's status as a large educational institution with extensive experience supporting federal agencies through contracts and grants.