This is a firm fixed-price SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Innovative TECH Applications LLC (ITAC) for $124,859.00. The contract is for the development of a plasma-based method to reduce aircraft drag, which would directly translate to reduced fuel consumption and emissions. The proposed effort involves both experimental and numerical investigations to demonstrate proof-of-concept for this...
This is a $1,508,760.10 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded to Innovative TECH Applications LLC, a small business, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for research and development under the SBIR Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of plasma actuation technology to reduce turbulent skin friction drag on wing sections. The contract was awarded on March 1, 2017 with a completion date of June 30, 2019. This contract is a standalone award and is not...
This is a $249,999.87 firm fixed-price Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to Physics, Materials, And Applied Mathematics Research L.L.C. (Pm&Am Research), a small business based in Tucson, Arizona. The contract is a follow-on to Pm&Am Research's current Phase II SBIR effort focused on reducing drag, shock, and acoustic signature of supersonic vehicles through impulsive energy deposition technology. The Phase III effort...
This $124,773 firm fixed-price contract was awarded to Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. (Issi), a small business located in Centerville, Ohio, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is focused on developing an optical skin friction sensor known as Surface Stress Sensitive Film (S3F) and integrating it into a prototype drag balance. This technology enables the accurate measurement of small changes in drag forces, which is critical...
This federal contract award is for the development of a new type of plasma-based flow control actuator by CU Aerospace, a for-profit limited liability company, and its partner the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The actuator uses a high-voltage electrode that arcs to a cylindrical grounded electrode within a magnetic field, producing an arc plasma with a Lorentz force that creates a plasma disc. This is intended to enhance mixing and flow attachment across adverse pressure gradients,...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Research In Flight LLC, an aerospace engineering company based in Auburn, Alabama. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is aimed at advancing the capabilities of Research In Flight's surface vorticity solver for aerodynamic loads on subsonic aircraft, with a focus on improving the accuracy of predicting lift for high-lift configurations. The effort...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Irpi LLC, a small business engineering firm. The contract is focused on developing a prototype testbed to qualify capillary two-phase flow devices for use in various spacecraft systems, such as life support, thermal control, and propulsion. The goal is to better understand fluid interface phenomena in low-gravity environments to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $125,000.00 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Transition45 Technologies Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract examines the feasibility of an innovative surface modification technology incorporating friction stir reaction processing to produce engineered alloy structures or conventional parts with enhanced wear, environmental, and/or creep-fatigue...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Advanced Fluidics LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The contract is valued at $124,996 and will fund the development of a novel method for producing sweeping jets using a simplified geometry with reduced streamwise length and no feedback channels. The goal is to create a more efficient and compact flow control system that can be better...
This is a $98,664 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Irpi LLC, a small business engineering firm, under the FY24 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III program. The contract is for "Advanced Fluids Processing Using Superhydrophobic Surfaces", which aligns with Irpi LLC's expertise in fluid dynamics, thermal control systems, and life support technologies for space exploration. As...