This task order is issued to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero), a small business aerospace engineering and manufacturing company, to expand the scope of testing of cruise motors and cruise motor controllers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft demonstrator. The award, which is not set aside, has a firm fixed price of $417,286.36 and is issued under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase III. Esaero has...
This is a $139,203.67 Cost Plus Fixed Fee task order awarded by the Langley Research Center (a civilian federal agency) to Architecture Technology Inc. (a small business) under the Flight Critical Systems Research IDIQ contract. The task order is titled "Understanding What It Means for Assurance Cases to 'Work'" and aims to investigate best practices for using assurance cases in the development and approval of safety-critical systems, particularly for the Next Generation Air...
This is a delivery order task order contract awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The $92,752.08 contract is for TASK 2 SUBTASK 09-01 PART 440 RULEMAKING SUPPORT services and has a period of performance through August 6, 2027. The contract is a Time and Materials type with no set-aside designation. The Aerospace Corporation is the prime contractor and provides specialized...
This is a task order award issued under the Electronic FAA Accelerated and Simplified Tasks (eFAST) blanket purchase agreement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The $3,224,229.61 task order was awarded to Human Solutions, Inc., a for-profit limited liability company, to provide financial, budget, and planning support for FAA regional and center operations. The task order has a time and materials pricing type and runs...
This is a task order awarded under the Specialized Engineering, Evaluation and Test Services (SEETS) contract (NNJ11HB94C) held by The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The task order (NND15AB65T) was issued by the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to support the Flight Opportunities Program (FOP) in evaluating the commercialization viability of emerging suborbital reusable and small satellite launch systems. The $199,696 task order...
This is a delivery order issued under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Basic and Applied Aerospace Research and Technology (BAART) Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract. The $370,078.95 delivery order to The Boeing Company's Engineering, Test & Technology Division is for research and analysis to support aircraft certification by analysis. The task order aims to identify detailed requirements and procedures for using computational tools to predict aircraft...
This task order was awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., a leading provider of management, technology, and engineering services to the U.S. government. The task order is to provide support services in developing, recommending, coordinating, and implementing national aviation policy relating to environmental and energy matters. It has a base period from October 2014 to October 2015 with four option periods through November 2018, for a potential total...
This is a new task order awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to Innovative Computing & Applied Technology LLC, doing business as Incatech LLC, a Small Business Administration (SBA) certified economically disadvantaged women-owned small business (EDWOSB). The $81,966.03 task order was issued under the Electronic FAA Accelerated and Simplified Tasks (eFAST) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract vehicle. The task order is for the NextGen Office Wind Turbine Information...
This is a delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and graduate education institute. The purpose of this $327,071 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order is to assist NASA in developing a strategic framework to guide the agency's technology roadmaps for on-demand air mobility (ODM) systems, including electric propulsion, simplified vehicle operations, airspace...
This is a task order awarded under the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Electronic FAA Accelerated and Simplified Tasks (eFAST) blanket purchase agreement. The task order, with a ceiling value of $556,166.99, was awarded to JMA Solutions LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned, veteran-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned small business. The task order is for business and management support services in support of the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Integration. The work is to be...
TASK ORDER - STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW) TASK TITLE: FLIGHT SERVICES AND AIRCRAFT ACCESS INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: THE PURPOSE OF THE OVERALL ACTIVITY UNDERTAKEN BY THE NASA ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE AVIATION (ERA) PROJECT AND THE CONTRACTOR IS TO DETERMINE THE APPLICABILITY OF ACTIVE SEPARATION CONTROL TO COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT OPERATION, CONSIDERING THAT AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE, SYSTEM INTEGRATION COMPLEXITY, AND SYSTEM COSTS IN TERMS OF REQUIRED ENERGY ARE PART OF THE DECISION PROCESS. VERTICAL TAIL SIZING ON COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT IS DRIVEN, IN LARGE PART, BY PERFORMANCE REQUIRED FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS AND/OR OPERATIONS NEAR THE EDGES OF THE FLIGHT ENVELOPE. FOR AIRCRAFT WHERE THE ENGINES ARE MOUNTED ON THE WINGS, ENGINE-OUT CONDITIONS RELY HEAVILY ON THE RUDDER TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT YAWING MOMENT TO TRIM OUT THE AIRPLANE. AS PART OF THE ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE AVIATION (ERA) PROJECT, NASA IS SEEKING TO DEMONSTRATE THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF REDUCING VERTICAL TAIL SIZE THROUGH THE USE OF ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL (AFC). THE AFC-ENABLED VERTICAL TAIL WOULD UTILIZE AFC TO PROVIDE REQUIRED PERFORMANCE AT FLIGHT CONDITIONS THAT DRIVE THE SIZING OF THE VERTICAL TAIL WHILE OPERATING IN A CONVENTIONAL MANNER AT ALL OTHER FLIGHT CONDITIONS. AS PART OF THE ERA PROJECT, NASA ALSO IS SEEKING TO DEMONSTRATE THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF INSECT ACCRETION AND MITIGATION (IAM) (INSECT PROTECTION). IAM COATING TECHNOLOGIES ARE USED TO MITIGATE WING AND LEADING EDGE INSECT RESIDUE ADHESION IN ORDER TO ENHANCE AND MAINTAIN WING LAMINAR FLOW. ONE OF THE CHALLENGES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WING LAMINAR FLOW IS PREMATURE LOSS OF LAMINAR FLOW FROM ROUGHNESS INDUCED BY INSECT CONTAMINATION. NASA WILL FLIGHT TEST BOTH THE AFC MASS FLOW DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (AFC SYSTEM) AND IAM COATING TECHNOLOGIES ON A COMMERCIAL AIRLINER VERTICAL TAIL AND WING RESPECTIVELY, WITH THE CONTRACTOR PROVIDING FLIGHT SERVICES AND AIRCRAFT ACCESS. THE FLIGHT TESTS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR NO EARLIER THAN AUGUST 2014. 2 SCOPE, OBJECTIVES, APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS, AND DEFINITIONS FOR TERMS AND ACRONYMS: 2.1 SCOPE: THE SCOPE OF THIS TASK ORDER IS TO FABRICATE, INSTALL, AND FLIGHT TEST AFC AND IAM TECHNOLOGIES ON LARGE, COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT TEST BED (THE BOEING 757 ECODEMONSTRATOR). 2.2 OBJECTIVES FOR THIS TASK ORDER ARE AS FOLLOWS: FABRICATE AN AFC SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AFC SYSTEM DESIGN DEVELOPED UNDER SMAAART TASK ORDER NNL13AC06T MODIFY THE 757 BLEED AIR SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AFC SYSTEM DESIGN DEVELOPED UNDER SMAAART TASK ORDER NNL13AC06T INSTALL THE AFC SYSTEM INTO THE BOEING 757 ECODEMONSTRATOR VERTICAL TAIL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AFC SYSTEM DESIGN DEVELOPED UNDER SMAAART TASK ORDER NNL13AC06T FLIGHT TEST THE AFC SYSTEM INCLUDING BASELINE AND UP TO 2 AFC CONFIGURATIONS. FABRICATE AND INSTALL A CAMERA PLATFORM AT WINDOWS 2 AND 3 IN THE 757 ECODEMONSTRATOR INSTALLATION DESIGN AND INSTALL OPTICALLY CLEAR WINDOWS 2 AND 3 IN THE 757 ECODEMONSTRATOR INSTALLATION DESIGN AND INSTALL CAMERAS AND OTHER CAMERA ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION DESIGN AND INSTALL THE NASA-PROVIDED ENGINEERED SURFACES ON THE 757 ECODEMONSTRATOR SLATS 8 AND 9 QUANTIFY IN FLIGHT THE INSECT IMPACT DENSITY ON WING SLATS 8 AND 9 THROUGH OPERATION OF THE CAMERA SYSTEM PROVIDE GROUND SUPPORT TO ASSIST NASA IN THE POST-FLIGHT INSECT ACCRETIONS INSPECTIONS PROVIDE FLIGHT SERVICES AND AIRCRAFT ACCESS FOR USE BY NASA AND THE CONTRACTOR PROVIDE ALL PERSONNEL (INCLUDING QUALIFIED PILOTS), GROUND EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, AND OTHER EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO CONDUCT THE NASA RESEARCH FLIGHTS AND GROUND SUPPORT 2.3 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS DOC. NUMBER TITLE TITLE 14 CFR PART 65 PART 65--CERTIFICATION: AIRMEN OTHER THAN FLIGHT CREWMEMBERS 2.4 DEFINITIONS FOR TERMS AND ACRONYMS - SEE APPENDIX A. 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK/TASKS TO BE PERFORMED: THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PERFORM THE WORK IN THE SIX PHASES IDENTIFIED BELOW AND FURTHER DESCRIBED IN SOW TASKS 3.1 T