Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc., a small business specializing in advanced modeling, simulation, and engineering services for vertical flight aircraft, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract valued at $149,920 by a civilian federal agency's Shared Services Center. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside and executed on September 29, 2025, focuses on advanced rotorcraft technology development with a completion target of March 27,...
Blue Ridge Research and Consulting, LLC, an Asheville, North Carolina-based acoustical engineering firm, has been awarded an $849.9K Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract to conduct full-scale eVTOL acoustic measurements, modeling, scaling, and validation. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside with a Firm Fixed Price structure, is funded by a civilian federal agency and carries an ultimate completion date of January 21, 2026. This Phase II award...
Aerodynamic Solutions, Inc. was awarded a $49,340.49 firm fixed price definitive contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to complete SBIR Program Phase I work for a FAST VTOL Vehicle Design & Analysis. As a total small business set aside, this award tasks Aerodynamic Solutions with delivering products and services requested under the original SBIR solicitation to advance design and modeling of a fast vertical take-off and landing aircraft for the...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Research In Flight LLC, a small aerospace engineering company. The $150,000.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the "Improvement of Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles Performance Using Reduced-Order Aero-Mechanical Models." The contract, which has a total small business set-aside, is focused on...
This contract was awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to Delta Group International LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to research the development of a design tool for minimizing the acoustic signature of small rotors under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a potential value of $162,276.30 and a completion date of February 22, 2020. The...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $143,222 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Whisper Aero Inc., a small business, for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project. The objective is to develop tools that will streamline the connection between aerodynamic and acoustic analysis tools, enabling vehicle and propulsor designers to more quickly analyze concepts and trade off acoustics with other vehicle attributes. This research...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc., a small business based in Fremont, California. The contract, valued at $999,843.53, is for the development of advanced simulation software, models, and consulting services related to vertical flight aircraft, including electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),...
This is a $124,988 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Research In Flight LLC, a for-profit aerospace engineering company. The contract is for the development of an early-design aeroacoustics prediction capability for distributed electric propulsion vehicles using Research In Flight's FlightStream solver. This aligns with NASA's research priorities in aircraft performance modeling, particularly for...
The U.S. Department of the Army awarded a $999,998.10 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Aeromancer Technologies Corporation, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business based in Washington, D.C. The contract is for the development of "Laser-Based Acoustic Sensing for Noise Measurement in Wind Tunnel" under SBIR Topic #A15-001. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type and has an ultimate completion date of August 25,...
This is a Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase II contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Delta Group International LLC for $1,068,926.17. The contract is for "STTR PHASE II ROTORCRAFT EXTERNAL FAR-FIELD NOISE MEASUREMENT USING A HOT-AIR BALLOON" and is set aside for small businesses. The contract was awarded on January 19, 2016 with a completion date of January 31, 2020. As an STTR Phase II contract, this represents a follow-on award to...