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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to the University of Delaware for IM7/PEKK TUFF LAMINATES. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a potential value of $170,000.00 and a completion date of December 30, 2024. The University of Delaware, a private university, 1862 land grant college, and non-profit organization, has received various federal contracts and grants from agencies such as the...
This is a $100,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Delaware. The contract is for research on the impact of temperature cycles and outgassing on fiber-packaged silicon photonic transceivers. This work supports NASA's efforts to study space weather impacts on technology. The University of Delaware has extensive experience as a prime and subcontractor for federal agencies, including the...
This federal contract award to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is for research on using progressive damage analysis (PDA) to predict impact damage and subsequent compressive residual strength of stiffened-skin composite panels representative of aircraft structures. The $1,102,035 cooperative agreement is funded by NASA and directly supports the agency's Advanced Composites Project within the Advanced Air Vehicles Program. The research aims to establish physics-based analysis tools...
This federal contract award is a cooperative agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and New Mexico State University (NMSU), valued at $744,914.12. The objective is to develop autonomous structural composites capable of self-powered delamination detection and energy harvesting for aerospace applications. The research involves designing and optimizing multilayer thin film materials, embedding them into fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AU36H, was issued by NASA to Arizona State University (ASU) for the development of a robust and computationally efficient modeling methodology to accurately capture the impact and transient dynamic response of polymer matrix composites (PMCs) with complex material architectures, structural geometries, and loading conditions. The $220,000.00 award falls under NASA's "HIGH-FIDELITY MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF ADVANCED POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center awarded a $498,044 firm fixed price delivery order to the University of Delaware for Composite Hard Upper Torso Impact Modeling (XEMU CMS TO3) under an unspecified contract vehicle. Performance will take place in Newark, Delaware through an August 31, 2022 completion date. The award was made on September 15, 2020 without a set-aside designation. As part of its efforts to develop advanced space suits and ensure...
This federal contract award, valued at $157,110.59, was issued by the Shared Services Center (an agency within NASA) to The University of Akron. The contract is for the development of computational strategies to simulate the fabrication of fiber-reinforced composites for aerospace applications. The goal is to understand variations in fiber architecture during fabrication and how they impact the mechanical properties and impact performance of the composite materials, which are critical for...
This is a $500,002.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the University of Illinois for the "Development of a Composite Self-Sealing Face Sheet for Sandwich Structure." This competitive award, funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), supports NASA's Aircraft Aging and Durability (AAD) project under the Aviation Safety Program. The AAD project focuses on aging and...
This is a five-year, $2,910,936 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Convergent Manufacturing Technologies US Inc., a for-profit organization. The contract is for the development of physics-based process models to simulate the formation of defects in the automated fiber placement process and the cure process of complex composite structures. Key milestones include developing preliminary models in Years 1-2 to predict...
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 University of Delaware is a major subcontractor, contributing its expertise in areas such as materials and manufacturing processes. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The contract is aligned with the Manufacturing Process and Simulation technical challenge under the Advanced Composites Project, which seeks to improve quality control and reduce manufacturing defects through advanced modeling and simulation capabilities.