Definitive Contract NNX17CC06C
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- This firm-fixed-price contract, awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, tasks Peregrine Falcon Corp to develop a "Liquid Interface Diffusion" (LID) bonding technique to join the heat pipes and cores of fission power systems. The $124,039 Phase I contract aims to create a high-strength, high-temperature, and homogeneous joint between the Hastelloy-230 alloy of the sodium-potassium (NaK) heat pipe walls and the U-8Mo core. This innovation is intended to...
- Peregrine Falcon Corporation has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $3,588,755 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to support the agency's thermal energy conversion and liquid interface diffusion bonding research. Under this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract, Peregrine Falcon will consolidate heat pipes within a U-8MO core for high efficiency and long-term reliability through thermal energy conversion techniques and...
- This is a $897,469.00 firm fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer based in Pleasanton, California. The contract is for the development of a pulsating heat pipe radiator system to improve the thermal performance and reduce the mass of radiators for NASA's 1 kWe fission power system. The contract aims to characterize a titanium/water pulsating heat pipe system, build prototypes, and compare the performance to a conventional heat...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer based in Pleasanton, California. The $124,731 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an advanced heat transport technology that can enable space nuclear power systems to efficiently transfer reactor heat, convert heat into electricity, and reject waste heat. The technology is based on...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Peregrine Falcon Corporation, a for-profit manufacturer of advanced materials and components for aerospace, defense, and space applications. The contract, valued at $124,976.00, is for the development of an autonomous variable radiator system for a lunar lander. The contract is a Firm Fixed Price definitive contract, and the work will be performed in...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II-E contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Peregrine Falcon Corporation, a for-profit manufacturing company. The contract is focused on optimizing the weight and performance of isothermal radiators produced from titanium with embedded flat heat pipes filled with water, building on the successful development of this technology during the previous Phase II SBIR effort. The contract has a potential...
- This is a $750,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Plasma Processes, LLC, a Small Business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of refractory metal coated uranium nitride fuel for nuclear thermal propulsion systems. Key subcontractor University of Alabama will provide characterization services including X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. The contract...
- This is a $124,780 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a multi-layer radiation shield (MLRS) that can provide thermal isolation and micrometeorite protection for fission power systems on the surface of Mars. The MLRS is designed to have superior insulation properties to traditional multi-layer insulation...
- This is a $749,750 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Little Prairie Services LLC, a small disadvantaged and veteran-owned business doing business as Desert Fox Engineering Services. The contract is funded through a Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program and supports continued research and testing of nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel elements. The objective is to develop models and simulation...
- This is a $1,996,036.00 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer, for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project. The contract is for the development of "Conversion Coated Surfaces for Hypersonic Environments" under SBIR Topic # DLA22.2-007. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and a period of performance ending on September 6, 2025. Peregrine...
This is a $744,354.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Peregrine Falcon Corporation, a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for Phase II research and development to advance the feasibility of applying liquid interface diffusion (LID) bonding technology to embed and join heat pipes to the uranium-molybdenum (U-7Mo) core of 10 kilowatt-electric (kWe) fission power systems (FPS). The successful Phase I effort demonstrated that LID bonding can eliminate seams and voids in the core, providing an integrated heat pipe/U-7Mo core sub-assembly. This work supports the development of FPS to meet power requirements for missions like landing astronauts on Mars, the Neptune Systems Explorer, and the Jupiter Europa Orbiter. The contract is designated as a total small business set-aside.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| 3 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 9/18/19 | |
| 2 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 4/19/19 | |
| 1 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 6/4/18 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $744.4k | 5/3/17 |