This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bluehalo Labs, LLC, doing business as Intelligent Automation, for the development of a "Stakeholder Web-based Interrogable Federated Toolkit (SWIFT)." The SWIFT program aims to create a predictive query language that populates databases with future information from aviation models, integrates with social media to augment research, and...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,997.00, was granted to Swift Engineering Inc. by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the design, build, and initial flight testing of a flight planning tool using a flight simulator with integrated soaring and weather forecasts. This tool is intended to help unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that do not have point-to-point requirements, such as...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Swift Engineering Inc., a small business, for Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a modular payload high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial system (HALE UAS) for various scientific mission sets. The total contract ceiling value is $149,574, with a period of performance through January 25,...
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 Intelligent Automation, LLC, a for-profit subchapter S corporation. The contract is for the development of probabilistic aerodynamic databases to support high-fidelity simulations of aircraft aerodynamics, in order to reduce the need for costly wind tunnel and flight testing early in the aircraft design process. Intelligent Automation has...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Swift Engineering Inc. The objective is to develop and demonstrate an ultra-long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of sustained flight for a month or more without human intervention. The contract has a ceiling value of $124,812 and a target completion date of December 9, 2016. Swift Engineering has extensive experience in designing and building...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,124,588 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Swift Engineering Inc., a small business specializing in unmanned systems, autonomy, robotics, and advanced composites. The contract, titled "SWIFT ULTRA LONG ENDURANCE (SULE) UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAV)", requires Swift to design, fabricate, and fly a 30-day endurance high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) UAS with flight tests up to 7 days....
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Swift Engineering Inc., a product development company specializing in unmanned systems, autonomy, robotics, and advanced composites. The contract, valued at $124,464, is for a lightweight, modular, and scalable surround visual and sensory feedback system for robotic pilots. This system, built on open-source platforms, will enable astronauts to perform...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Black Swift Technologies LLC, a for-profit limited liability company that specializes in the development of unmanned aircraft systems and technologies. The contract, which has a Firm Fixed Price of $155,956.00 and a completion date of February 2, 2024, is to support the research and development of an Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) data...
This is a $100,000 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center to Bluehalo Labs, LLC, doing business as Intelligent Automation, a small business. The contract is a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to connect Intelligent Automation's METROSIM prototype to NASA's Shadow Mode Assessment using Realistic Technologies in the National Airspace System (SMART-NAS) so that live tests with live data can...
This is a $124,799 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Tethers Unlimited, Inc., a small business, under the SBIR Program Phase I. The contract is for the OPENSWIFT-SDR FOR STRS project, which aims to augment Tethers Unlimited's existing SWIFT software-defined radio platform to make it compatible with the Space Telecommunication Radio System (STRS) architecture and other open standards. This will enable the SWIFT platform to scale to large, multi-body networked systems, especially...