Grant For Research 80NSSC18K0270
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- This federal contract award to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) supports the development of Draper's Multi-Environment Navigator (DMEN) technology. DMEN is a vision navigation solution that has demonstrated success in relevant environments such as guided precision parachute delivery, high-speed UAV flight, and simulated ISS capsules. The current award, valued at $494,746.59, will fund a suborbital rocket test campaign to further advance DMEN towards becoming a viable entry,...
- This $632,143 grant was awarded to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., doing business as Draper, a not-for-profit research and development organization, by the Shared Services Center of NASA. The grant is for a test campaign that has the potential to support future NASA lunar exploration efforts. The award does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting Draper's specialized engineering, science, and technical capabilities across areas like guidance, navigation, control systems, sensors,...
- This federal contract award to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a not-for-profit research and development organization, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop the concept of operations, high-level architecture, and requirements for a wearable kinematic system to quantify 3-D space utilization in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS). The $549,832 grant-funded research project involves demonstrating...
- This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) is focused on integrating a configurable and portable simulation platform to assess real-time performance metrics during simulated long-duration exploration missions within the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA). The $437,065.95 grant will support research to characterize flight performance, workload, and situational awareness in...
- NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $524,787.50 research grant to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) on July 1, 2025, to conduct a Phase II study under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. This grant extends research initiated through a prior Phase I award, with work to be performed at Draper's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and completion targeted for June 30, 2027. The Phase II study will advance the exploration and development of revolutionary...
- This is a $100,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) for conducting a human-automation and robotic systems trade analysis. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Draper is a non-profit research and development organization with extensive experience supporting the U.S. government, particularly in areas such as guidance, navigation,...
- This federal contract award to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a not-for-profit research and development organization, has a value of $1,670,351.00. The contract is a Delivery Order with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type, awarded by the Defense Contract Management Agency, a defense agency. The contract has no set-aside designation. Draper, which frequently partners with other defense contractors and academic institutions, has a long history of supporting critical defense,...
- This is a $119,995.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Contract Management Agency to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a non-profit research and development organization, for research, testing, and development support services. The contract has a period of performance through January 25, 2024 and does not have a set-aside designation. Draper is an experienced prime and subcontractor on major federal programs, providing specialized engineering, science, and...
- This federal contract award to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., doing business as Draper, is for the development and demonstration of technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonworking satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit. Draper's primary proposed innovation is a momentum management and dumping system for attitude control to enable non-propulsive maneuvering for repurposed satellite components. The contract has a ceiling value of...
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $825,646.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) for research, development, test, and evaluation services. Draper is a not-for-profit research and development organization that provides specialized engineering, science, and technical services to the federal government, particularly in the areas of defense and space technology. This contract does not have a set-aside designation....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $159,839.10 grant to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) to further develop its Draper Multi-Environment Navigator (DMEN), a vision-based navigation solution for entry, descent, and landing (EDL) applications. Draper, a non-profit research and development organization, has proposed a campaign of high altitude balloon flights to gather data and push DMEN's technology readiness level from 4 to a full EDL navigation solution. The contract, awarded on December 1, 2017, is scheduled for completion on July 22, 2020 and does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime contractor, Draper has extensive experience supporting federal agencies like the Department of Defense and NASA on a range of guidance, navigation, control, and sensing projects for both defense and space applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00003 | Funding Only Action | ($151) | 7/22/20 | |
| Not listed | ($151) | 7/22/20 | ||
| P00002 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 2/14/19 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 2/14/19 | ||
| P00001 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 12/14/18 |