This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Smartgridz, Inc. (doing business as Netss), a small business. The $125,000 firm fixed-price contract is for the development of a unifying physics-based framework to model, simulate, and digitally control aircraft turboelectric distributed propulsion (TEDP) systems. The goal is to create a monitoring and decision system framework to...
This is a $99,989.00 firm-fixed-price Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Smartgridz, Inc. (doing business as Netss). The contract is for the implementation and demonstration of the "Smart Aircraft Power Systems Simulator (SAPSS)" framework, which was developed under prior SBIR Phase I and Phase II contracts. The SAPSS framework is intended to ensure stability across...
This is a $122,382.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Smartgridz, Inc. (doing business as Netss) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of an "Integrated Control and Protection Methodology Based on Energy-Space Modeling for EAP Aircraft", to be performed in Sudbury, MA. The contract has a completion date of February 18, 2020 and was...
Smartgridz, Inc., doing business as Netss, has been awarded a definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research in support of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II Action. Valued at $748,931, the firm fixed price contract calls for Netss to perform work related to an integrated control and protection methodology based on energy-space modeling for electric aircraft. Research will take place in...
This is a $131,500.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Amplified Space, Inc., a small business contractor, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of a "SOFTWARE-DEFINED POWER CONTROLLER: ENABLING ADJUSTABILITY OF SPACECRAFT POWER SYSTEMS DURING AIT AND ON-.ORBIT OPERATIONS." The contract has a completion date of January 24, 2022. This award supports NASA's...
This is a $746,352.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to 4D TECH Solutions, LLC, a HUBZone certified, veteran-owned small business. The contract is for the commercialization of an Intelligent Electronic Speed Controller (IESC) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that will integrate propulsion system health monitoring sensors to predict propulsion system faults. The IESC will leverage an Artificial...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Launchpoint Technologies, Inc. (doing business as Magnetic Moments), a subchapter S corporation. The $124,970 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of hardware and software for energy management in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The focus is on techniques to ensure short-time-scale stability in power microgrids, and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2.13 million firm fixed price contract to Hexagon US Federal, Inc. to support development of an engineering model instrument data system under Phase III of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Performance will take place in Huntsville, Alabama over a 15-month period concluding in August 2023. The contract is set aside for total small business and will advance NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate...
The federal contract award NNX15CL54P, with a ceiling value of $124,997.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Dynsan, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the development of a flight controller that will optimize the fuel consumption of unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) by directing them to sources of potential updrafts, leveraging soaring techniques used by glider pilots. The contract is a Small Business...
This federal contract award to Electric Power Systems Inc. (EP Systems), a small disadvantaged business manufacturer, is valued at $1,124,480.00 and was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for the development of an active battery management system (BMS) with advanced algorithms to improve the life and safety of lithium-ion battery packs used in distributed electric propulsion (DEP) and hybrid electric aircraft, such as the...