This is a federal contract award to Applied University Research, a small business, for a JUNCTURE FLOW WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT LIGHT DUTY VEHICLE HARDWARE project. The contract, awarded by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency, has a firm fixed price of $172,000.00 and a completion date of December 10, 2015. This contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. No further details about major subcontractors or a larger contract vehicle are provided in...
This is a Cooperative Agreement between the University of Notre Dame DU Lac and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with a ceiling value of $602,617. The purpose of the agreement is to conduct three archival benchmark smooth body flow separation experiments to validate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models for predicting turbulent flow separation, which is an important challenge in off-design aerodynamic configurations. The experiments will be performed at Mach 0.2 to...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Applied University Research, a for-profit small business manufacturer located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The $124,985 firm-fixed-price contract is for developing and demonstrating the use of laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) and complementary LDV (COMPLDV) techniques to make particle position-resolving and flow velocity profile...
This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), a private research university, to develop and implement novel measurement techniques for characterizing unsteady flow in axial turbomachines. The $621,215 contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to expand on ongoing efforts to elucidate unsteady flow phenomena, such as rotor-stator interactions and rotating stall, using advanced methods like...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center to Advanced Technologies, Inc., a small business aerospace engineering company based in Newport News, Virginia. The contract is for the fabrication of an 8.0 percent juncture flow model, including the installation of 629 static pressure taps, to support NASA's aeronautics research and development efforts. The contract has a total ceiling value of $897,235.00 and...
This federal contract award is for the design, analysis, and fabrication of upgrades to the Low Speed Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel at the NASA Langley Research Center. The purpose is to enable testing of small unmanned aerial systems or components for aerodynamic performance and acoustics. The $157,770 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded to Advanced Technologies, Inc., a small business aerospace engineering company, on September 30, 2015. The contract is part of the Reliance Consolidated Models IV...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a defense agency, to Aerolab LLC, doing business as Aerolab Supply Co. The contract is for $98,000.00 and provides AEROSTREAM SUITE SOFTWARE AND LICENSING FOR NRL WIND TUNNEL. The contract has an ultimate completion date of July 15, 2023. Aerolab LLC is a minority-owned limited liability company that designs, fabricates, installs, and calibrates research-grade wind tunnels and aerodynamic testing...
This is a $149,933 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Creare LLC, a small business, for the development of an optical system for high-speed 3D velocimetry. The contract has a period of performance ending on March 20, 2017. As a subcontractor under this award, the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research is responsible for leading the development of the tomographic reconstruction and particle image velocimetry...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA) aims to investigate and enhance unstructured surface-vorticity-based aerodynamic solvers for rapid low-speed analysis of aircraft high-lift configurations. The $155,593.49 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order, awarded on September 28, 2015, has the following key objectives: (1) develop a pressure-difference rule suitable for...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Advanced Fluidics LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The contract is valued at $124,996 and will fund the development of a novel method for producing sweeping jets using a simplified geometry with reduced streamwise length and no feedback channels. The goal is to create a more efficient and compact flow control system that can be better...