Delivery Order FA945113D0210-0003

Williams International Co., L.L.C., doing business as Willc, was awarded a $10.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to fabricate and test an Efficient Small Scale Propulsion Core Engine Demonstrator. Performance will take place in Walled Lake, Michigan under the seven-year contract starting in April 2010 through October 2017. The Research Laboratory is the Air Force's center of excellence for air-breathing propulsion...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $749,976 firm fixed-price contract to Busek Co., Inc., a small business manufacturer of spacecraft propulsion systems based in Natick, Massachusetts, for the development of a high-density plasma thruster under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. This contract, set aside for small businesses, represents the continuation of earlier Phase I research and aims to advance electric propulsion technologies for military...

Brayton Energy LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Hampton, New Hampshire, was awarded a $500,000 firm fixed-price contract on September 27, 2024, to develop a 100 kilowatt Brayton cycle design for space nuclear electric propulsion. This Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award, set aside for small businesses and funded by a civilian federal agency, represents a continuation of the company's research into advanced propulsion systems for space applications. The...

This $749,929 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Quinstar Technology, Inc., a minority-owned small business, under the SBIR program. The contract is for the development of a family of high-power, compact, reliable, and affordable solid-state power amplifiers operating in the W-band (94 GHz) frequency range. These amplifiers are critical for NASA missions and other remote sensing and environmental measurement applications. The initial...

The Department of the Air Force awarded a $244,414 delivery order contract to The Boeing Company Engineering, Test & Technology Division for full propulsion demonstration of a weapon system conceptual design. Performance will take place in St. Louis, Missouri over 18 months concluding in June 2023. The cost plus fixed fee contract was awarded under an unspecified larger vehicle and has Castheon Inc. providing goods and services in direct support of the statement of work. This award...

NASA's Glenn Research Center awarded a $445,950 firm fixed-price delivery order to Maxar Space LLC on February 26, 2024, for radiated emission testing of a 6-kilowatt Hall thruster under the Gateway Power and Propulsion Element Project. The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026, will be performed in East Palo Alto, California. This delivery order is not set aside for any specific business category and represents work to be conducted by Maxar Space LLC, a...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,838 firm fixed price purchase order to Field Propulsion Technologies Inc., a small business contractor, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I solicitation. The contract is for the development of a propellant-less spacecraft propulsion system to enhance the Department of the Air Force's adaptive and reconfigurable space force capabilities in autonomy. The research and development activities will take place...

This $20,570,930 firm fixed price definitive contract was awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc. to further the design of a low enriched uranium-based nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) engine as part of a three-year technology development project managed by NASA's Game Changing Development program. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Key subcontractors supporting the prime include Atkins Nuclear Solutions US, Inc., Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp,...

This contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Busek Co., Inc., a small business manufacturer of spacecraft propulsion systems and components. The contract, with a potential value of $2,176,738.84, is for the development of electric propulsion beam divergence technology under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. Busek Co., Inc. has delivered in-space propulsion hardware and services, such as Hall effect...

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $2.8M firm fixed-price definitive contract to Busek Co., Inc. on April 20, 2021, for the development of flight and proto-flight smallsat electrospray thruster systems. The contract calls for development of propulsion systems capable of operating on non-energetic ionic liquids such as EMI-IM or EMI-BF4, as well as energetic propellants including ASCENT or AFM315-E. Busek, a small business manufacturer of advanced spacecraft propulsion systems based in...