Delivery Order GS00F175GA-80NSSC18F1888

NASA awarded a $124,995.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. ACT is developing a novel vapor-pressure-driven variable view factor radiator as a thermal control system component for spacecraft. This technology is intended to maintain a constant environment temperature for crewed vehicles across a wide range of external thermal environments,...

This is a federal grant award from NASA to DRS Advanced ISR LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian defense company Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, for the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective is to demonstrate that low-cost, large-area microbolometer focal plane arrays can provide radiometrically accurate imaging in 8 LWIR bands for Earth science applications such as land surface climatology, soil moisture, ecosystem dynamics, volcano monitoring, and geology. The $800,000 grant will...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Physical Sciences Inc., a for-profit research and development company. The contract, valued at $124,960.00, is for developing a novel approach to scavenging heat from high-intensity thermal environments encountered during space missions and converting this thermal power to electrical power at high efficiency. The proposed solution...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Uchicago Argonne, LLC to investigate electron screened, enhanced nuclear reactions by irradiating high density deuterated materials using electron linac generated bremsstrahlung gamma rays. The $510,000.00 contract has two phases: (1) hardware preparation and feasibility assessments, and (2) exposures of candidate materials and reporting. The goal is to conclusively determine if...

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 is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Quest Integrated, LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Kent, Washington. The contract, valued at $124,978.00, is for the development of an active and tunable metamaterial phased array transducer system to enable guided wave mode selection with high intensity per driving channel and lower modal noise compared to the...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Photon Systems, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $124,967, is for developing a standoff Remote In-situ Triggered Organic Compound (RITOC) detection instrument. The goal is to enable remote detection and classification of trace concentrations of organic compounds on the surfaces of ocean and icy worlds, including Europa,...

This is a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Orbital Technologies Corporation (Orbitec) to develop the Advanced Carbothermal Electric (ACE) Reactor. The ACE Reactor is intended to efficiently extract oxygen from lunar regolith using new electric resistant heating elements, which eliminates the need for concentrated solar or laser energy used in current carbothermal...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to American GNC Corporation (AGNC) for the development of the Integrated Monitoring Awareness Environment (IM-AWARE) system. The IM-AWARE system consists of smart sensors and advanced algorithms to enable embedded sensing, remote monitoring, and data capture at propulsion ground test facilities. The $124,998 fixed-price contract will fund research and development of this...

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Apre Instruments Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of optical metrology instruments. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an "innovative, low coherence probe for rapid measurement of free-form optical surfaces" using a novel spectrally controlled interferometry technique. The key innovations include a high surface slope acceptance angle up to 20 degrees (potentially 60 degrees) and...