Delivery Order NNM12AA01B-NNM13AA52T

This is a $122,030 firm fixed price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for a design iteration of Esaero's ECO-150 split wing turboelectric distributed propulsion (TEDP) concept, incorporating lessons learned in propulsion and thermal management system research. The effort will examine three separate propulsion system architectures,...

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a $69.721 million definitive contract to Lockheed Martin Corp for the Tipping Point Cryogenic Demonstration Mission (CDM) on August 6, 2021, to deliver ground and mission data characterizing full-scale cryogenic integrated system performance. The contract is firm fixed price with no set-aside designation. Place of performance is Roxborough, Colorado. The originating solicitation, posted in January 2020 as a two-step pre-solicitation, sought proposals...

This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K0682, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The purpose of the $487,717.00 grant is to demonstrate the pressure control capability of a cryogenic liquid storage tank in low gravity using two pressurization schemes. This award does not have a set-aside designation. The Aerospace Corporation is the prime contractor and will...

This is a federal contract awarded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The contract, titled "Space Network Reliability and Loading Analysis," supports risk analysis and security evaluation for NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The contractor is tasked with updating and maintaining the TDRS fleet reliability and service availability model, conducting replenishment analyses,...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The contract is for "COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM (CCP) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION PROCESSES ASSESSMENT," with a scope to develop a list of systems engineering and integration functions, identify SpaceX functional leads, obtain process documentation, assess...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The contract, valued at $3,126,213.46, is for cost, schedule, and systems engineering research and analysis support to improve the cost and schedule performance of NASA's diverse and complex flight project portfolio. The tasks include summarizing...

This is a delivery order contract awarded by NASA to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The contract, with a ceiling value of $17,437,375.00, provides technical and programmatic analysis, consultation, and evaluation support to NASA's Exploration Systems Development (ESD) Division. The support includes assistance with integrated cost and schedule development/assessment activities as well as systems engineering and integration...

This is a $124,999 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc. (doing business as Craft-Tech), a small business. The contract is focused on developing advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities to analyze the complex multi-phase physics involved in the control and management of cryogenic propellant tank pressures in low-gravity environments. This...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $489,527.18 grant to Southwest Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization, for a project to improve cryogenic fluid storage and transfer technology for in-space propulsion and storage systems. The goal is to further develop a tapered liquid acquisition device design that can passively remove vapor bubbles to reliably deliver cryogenic fluids, building on previous ground and microgravity testing. This research...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I firm-fixed-price contract worth $109,039 to Trans Astronautica Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to develop a "Long Life Cryogenic Propellant Storage in Space by New Compressor-Expander Cycle (CEX-C) System." This contract, set aside for small businesses, supports the Air Force's research and development of advanced propulsion technologies for space...