Definitive Contract NNX17CC10C
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- Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $124,993 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of the Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG), a 300-watt radioisotope power system based on Nirvana's Thermoacoustic Power Stick (TAPS) technology. The TRG is intended to serve as the foundation for the Linear...
- Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc. was awarded a $141,017 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a 300-watt Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG), a reliable power system based on their Thermoacoustic Power Stick (TAPS) technology. The TRG is intended to provide over 20 years of continuous operation with high thermal-to-electrical efficiency, and is being designed for use in remote power applications where reliability is...
- This federal contract award, identified as NNX16CC86P, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. The $124,975.00 firm fixed-price contract is for Phase I research and development related to the Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG) technology, as described in SBIR-2015 Topic S3.01. The contract has a total small business set-aside...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center has awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order for $124,780.00 to Inventherm, LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for Inventherm's patented Meso-Scale Ericsson Power Generation System (MEPS), which will be used as the enabling technology for radioisotope generators that exceed the performance of existing Stirling power conversion systems. The...
- This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation - Technologies (USNC-Space), a for-profit company that specializes in advanced nuclear technologies for space applications. The $149,912.00 contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I demonstration of affordable in-space dynamic radioisotope power conversion. The work will be performed in Seattle, Washington...
- This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, through its Military Aircraft Systems division doing business as Aerospace Systems. The $3,904,383 Firm Fixed Price contract is to investigate dynamic power conversion technologies, such as Brayton, Stirling, and Rankine cycle machines, that could be used to improve the efficiency of Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) that utilize General...
- This is a Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SCCAQ Energy, LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business, for the development of an advanced Stirling regenerator and heat exchanger assembly. This $124,998 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract is part of NASA's program to develop an efficient and robust radioisotope power system for space applications. SCCAQ Energy is collaborating with Temple...
- This is a $749,984 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Spark Thermionics, Inc., a small business specializing in thermionic energy conversion technologies. The contract is for the development of thermionic energy conversion systems for hypersonic applications, with a focus on addressing critical power generation needs in extreme environments. Spark Thermionics has extensive...
- This is a $1,000,000 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Brayton Energy LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the design of an Advanced Closed Brayton Convertor (ACBC) system capable of producing 10 to 25 kilowatts of continuous electric power for space nuclear power applications. The contract is part of the Fission Surface Power Advanced Closed Brayton Convertor (FSP-ACBC) system research and development effort under...
- The U.S. government agency NASA awarded a $129,123 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Nanohmics Inc., a small for-profit technology company based in Austin, Texas. The contract is focused on developing a novel high-efficiency thermionic thermal-to-electric converter (TTEC) using nanostructured emitters to integrate with radioisotope thermoelectric generators for use in space exploration missions where photovoltaic power generation is inadequate due to lack of sunlight....
This is a $704,157.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG), an innovative remote power device with no hot moving parts, high reliability, and over 25% thermal to electrical efficiency. The TRG technology is based on work done at Xerox PARC and NASA, and Nirvana Energy Systems has designed, optimized, and tested all subsystems for this 1 kilowatt electric TRG system, which will also serve as the basis for scaling down to a 300-watt tunable power device. This contract represents the next step toward reliable dynamic power conversion for space applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| 5 | Other Administrative Action | ($45k) | 10/6/21 | |
| 6 | Close Out | $0 | 10/6/21 | |
| 4 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 3/10/21 | |
| 3 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 4/23/19 | |
| 2 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 5/22/18 |