Delivery Order FA865008D3858-0003

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...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $12.4 million definitive contract to Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program. The objective of this program is to design, build, and flight test an experimental aircraft incorporating active flow control technologies to achieve quantifiable performance improvements. Metacomp Technologies was selected as a subcontractor to provide certain engineering efforts. Funding comes from...

Research In Flight LLC, a small business located in Auburn, Alabama, was awarded a $50,000 firm fixed price purchase order to develop a multi-fidelity supersonic flow solver for preliminary aircraft design and optimization. The award was issued by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Small Business Technology Transfer program. This Phase I STTR contract supports the development of computational tools to analyze supersonic aircraft configurations during conceptual...

Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (Esaero), a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $124,973 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a methodology for flight control algorithm design featuring distributed electric propulsion (DEP) on a modified Cirrus SR22T unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The study will leverage low-order aerodynamic simulation, dynamics modeling, wind tunnel testing, and flight testing...

This federal contract award is for the development of innovative solutions to enable commercially viable civil supersonic transport (SST) aircraft. The effort employs a multidisciplinary team of academic and industrial experts to explore the potential of small real-time geometric outer mold line (OML) reconfigurations to minimize boom signatures and drag in response to changing ambient conditions. The goal is to enable noise-compliant SST flight from takeoff to landing. The prime contractor is...

Exosonic, Inc. has been awarded a $749,981 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support the development of a low boom supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle as a technology demonstration and adversary air trainer under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. Performance will take place in San Jose, California over a 14-month period concluding in December 2022. The award is designated for total small business...

This is a delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc., doing business as Esaero, a for-profit aerospace engineering and manufacturing company. The $766,037.34 firm-fixed-price contract is for the structural fabrication of a replacement wing and associated fuselage interface assemblies for the TECNAM P2006T aircraft as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1.226 million firm fixed price contract to Research In Flight LLC for the STTR Phase II proposal titled "A Rapid Aerodynamic Prediction Tool for Maneuvering Hypersonic Air Vehicles." Under this contract, Research In Flight will develop modeling and simulation capabilities to predict aerodynamic performance for hypersonic vehicles operating in dense atmospheres and conducting complex maneuvers. The work...

This is a $599,635.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Flexsys Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the development of KC-135 winglet and active load alleviation control surface technologies. The contract is not set aside. The work is being performed under a broader solicitation by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate to support the Advanced Power Technology Office in...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Research In Flight LLC, a small business organization, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract, valued at $1,000,000.00, is for the development of the FLIGHTSTREAM aerodynamic prediction code, which uses a surface-vorticity approach to enable more robust and computationally efficient modeling of non-linear aerodynamics and flow separation. The focus of...