This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Reactive Innovations, LLC, a limited liability company, to develop an electrolytic process for coating high-purity tungsten metal onto uranium dioxide spheres. The goal is to create an enabling technology for nuclear thermal propulsion that can improve upon current chemical vapor deposition methods in terms of lowering impurity content, increasing...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc. (DVTI), a small business located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The contract is valued at $119,200.00 and is part of NASA's ADVANCED DEPOSITION CAPABILITY FOR OXIDATION & CORROSION PROTECTION COATINGS program. Under this contract, DVTI will use their DVD coating process to apply two coating compositions, NI30CR0.1Y and NI45CR0.1Y,...
This is a federal contract award to Plasma Processes, LLC, a limited liability company that specializes in materials solutions for industrial applications. The $124,728.00 contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center for research and development related to hypersonic vehicle components. The contract supports the development of oxidation-resistant coatings for carbon/carbon (C/C) composites, which are being considered as structural...
This is a task order award issued by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to Kratos Sre, Inc., a subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. The $517,000.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for "CVD Capability Deployment for Refractory Carbide Coated Carbon Composite Tubing and Fuel Particles" and has a period of performance through June 30, 2026. The task order falls under a larger indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded to Kratos, suggesting they...
This is a $3,000,000.00 definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Washington Headquarters Service (WHS), a Defense agency, to Plasma Processes, LLC, a small business. The contract is for the development of carbon/carbon composite leading edges with integrated oxidation protection coatings for hypersonic weapons. As a subcontractor, Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, a manufacturer of rocket motors and related components, will support the leading edge component and test specimen...
Textum Opco LLC will deliver high-temperature thermal barrier test specimens to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under a $24,500 firm fixed-price purchase order. As part of its work supporting advanced thermal protection system research and development, NASA requires test articles and samples for ground testing under its Space Technology Mission Directorate. Textum Opco will manufacture the requested test specimens at its facility in Belmont, North Carolina for delivery...
This is a $750,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Plasma Processes, LLC, a Small Business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of refractory metal coated uranium nitride fuel for nuclear thermal propulsion systems. Key subcontractor University of Alabama will provide characterization services including X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. The contract...
This is a $901,160 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc. (DVTI), a small business located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The contract is for research to demonstrate advanced manufacturing techniques to enable the affordable application of multi-functional thermal/environmental barrier coatings (T/EBCs) with enhanced resistance to high-temperature combustion environments. The goal is to develop T/EBC systems capable of protecting...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Geoplasma LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the development of advanced thermal protection coatings using additive manufacturing techniques. These coatings are intended for use on spacecraft and spacecraft components, such as the Orion Crew Capsule, Exploration Upper Stage (EUS), space habitats,...
This is a $125,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Starfire Industries LLC, a small business manufacturer of neutron generators and plasma sources, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the research and development of (U,ZR)C mixed carbide fuel coatings using impulse physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology. Through past prime federal contract and grant...