Delivery Order NNL04AA11B-NNL05AD23T

This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by NASA to Research In Flight LLC, a small business, aims to develop an automated approach for engine integration using the company's proprietary aerodynamics analysis tool, FlightStream. FlightStream is a lower-order, high-fidelity solver that can accurately predict aerodynamic loads on a range of aircraft configurations, including high-lift designs. The $123,473 fixed-price contract will integrate FlightStream with optimization tools, engine performance...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $143,222 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Whisper Aero Inc., a small business, for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project. The objective is to develop tools that will streamline the connection between aerodynamic and acoustic analysis tools, enabling vehicle and propulsor designers to more quickly analyze concepts and trade off acoustics with other vehicle attributes. This research...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $150,000.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Whisper Aero Inc., a small business, to investigate a novel electric propulsor designed to achieve ultra low noise, high specific power, and high efficiency both at static and high speed cruise conditions. The contract is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research effort focused on developing advanced electric propulsion technologies for...

This is a $748,306 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Spectral Energies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Beavercreek, Ohio. The contract is for the development of a design tool to optimize aircraft engine nozzles for acoustics, with the goal of reducing noise production for future N+2/N+3 generation aircraft. The project builds on the successful results from the Phase I effort,...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $1,237,149 firm fixed price purchase order to Engine Research Associates Inc. (ERA), a small business manufacturer, to develop ultra-quiet, long endurance engines for Group 1 small unmanned aircraft systems. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract requires ERA to advance quiet electric propulsion and alternative fuels capabilities over a 25-month period. ERA specializes in quiet, fuel efficient engines for unmanned...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order awarded by the Langley Research Center, part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to The Boeing Company for a project focused on reducing risk to achieving NASA's N2 noise goal of 42 decibels cumulative relative to the Federal Aviation Administration's Stage 4 requirement. The $2,395,243 task order aims to improve NASA's aircraft system noise assessment methodology in four critical areas: high-fidelity ultra-high bypass fan noise...

This is a $124,977 firm fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to CFD Research Corporation, a small business specializing in engineering simulations and innovative designs. The contract is for the development, validation, and demonstration of a variable-fidelity multi-physics framework for aeropropulsoservoelastic (APSE) simulations of supersonic vehicles. This builds upon CFD Research's...

This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Spectral Energies LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is focused on developing innovative technologies and methods for noise prediction to enable acoustic optimization of multi-stream, 3D nozzles to meet the noise goals for NASA's N+2 and N+3 aircraft. The proposed approach extends Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) based models developed at the University of California, Irvine, to accurately...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $170,778.74 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Aeromarine Consulting Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the development of the company's patented parallel hybrid turbine electric propulsion system under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Topic AF233-0004. This contract is set aside for small businesses and is related to the Air Force's research and development efforts for advanced aircraft propulsion systems,...

This is a $124,988 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Research In Flight LLC, a for-profit aerospace engineering company. The contract is for the development of an early-design aeroacoustics prediction capability for distributed electric propulsion vehicles using Research In Flight's FlightStream solver. This aligns with NASA's research priorities in aircraft performance modeling, particularly for...