The Air Force issued a delivery order to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. on January 31, 2025, with a ceiling value of $39.1 million under the Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research (AASTR) multiple-award contract for the Demonstration of ACP Performance and Effectiveness (DEMON APE) Phase II program, with ultimate completion on April 28, 2029. AASTR is a multiple-award indefinite delivery contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory supporting advanced aerospace...
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...
Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero), a small business aerospace engineering firm based in San Luis Obispo, California, was awarded a $300,000 delivery order contract by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on February 12, 2021, to provide technical challenge assessment support for the X-57 Maxwell project. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside and priced on a time and materials basis, was completed by March 29, 2024. The X-57 is NASA's experimental all-electric...
Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero), a small aerospace engineering firm based in San Luis Obispo, California, was awarded a $399,000 firm fixed-price delivery order by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center on August 6, 2018, to support the integration of the electric propulsion system for the X-57 Maxwell aircraft. The X-57 is NASA's experimental all-electric aircraft designed to demonstrate advanced electric propulsion technologies for aviation. Under this Small Business Innovation...
This firm fixed-price delivery order was awarded by the Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC), a civilian agency, to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. The $813,620.32 contract requires Esaero to design and plan a test and evaluation program to develop requirements, techniques, tools and procedures for testing tightly integrated propulsion-airframe-integration (PAI) systems, specifically those employing a...
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...
Advanced Technology Inc. was awarded a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at approximately $1.1 million by the U.S. Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command. The Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award will support Advanced Technology's continued research and development of a physics-based unified unmanned aerial vehicle design and analysis tool under SBIR Topic A19-019. As a total small business set-aside, the 27-month effort will be performed...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Xwing, Inc., a for-profit company that develops advanced modular autonomy systems for aviation. The $756,607.00 contract is for the "AGILE FLAG DEMONSTRATION AND SUPPORT" project, which is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase III. The contract builds on Xwing's prior SBIR work and will evaluate the company's autonomous flight systems, machine learning...
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. was awarded a $509,601 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support the agency's Hypersonic Systems Advanced Flight Simulation and Integration Capability program. Under the contract, the company will provide services to enable disruptive capabilities across multiple domains including unmanned air systems, hypersonic vehicles, and rapidly developed systems, as outlined in DARPA's Transforming the Battlespace broad...
NASA Ames Research Center issued a delivery order to Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp on April 16, 2020, with a ceiling value of $658,449, under a parent contract for rotorcraft technology assessments, analysis, design, fabrication, and testing across model-scale, full-scale, and flight configurations. Place of performance is Atlanta, GA. The order's ultimate completion date is March 25, 2021. Pricing is cost-plus fixed fee. The delivery order drew task assignments from the spectrum of...