Purchase Order 80NSSC18P1562

This is a $749,908 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to T.E.A.M., Inc., doing business as Textile Engineering & Manufacturing (TEM), for the development of mechanically reinforced joints between 3D woven carbon fiber preforms for re-entry vehicle heat shield applications. The contract aims to scale up TEM's innovative stitching process to enable the fabrication of net-shape...

This is a $2,357,824 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies Research Center division. The contract is for the "Predictive Modeling of Foreign Object Impact Damage in Ceramic Matrix Composites for Gas Turbine Aero-Engine Application". This work supports the development of advanced materials for use in military aircraft engines. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, reflecting RTX's status as a...

This is a $443,233.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research to Composite Technology Development, Inc. (CTD) to research and develop resin transfer molding (RTM) processable benzoxazines as an alternative to bismaleimides for naval aircraft composites. The contract has no set-aside designation and is a follow-on to CTD's prior work in advanced materials for extreme environment and high-performance applications. In addition to this federal contract, CTD...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation) for the "Cost Reduction of Naval Composite Structures by Analysis-Based Requirements on Quality" project. The $1,595,405.66 contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is focused on developing advanced analysis techniques to optimize the quality and cost of naval composite structures. RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies...

The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center awarded a $54,259 firm fixed price purchase order to Toray Composite Materials America, Inc. for the delivery of slit tape composite materials. Specifically, Toray will provide 300 pounds of 192gsm unidirectional carbon fiber prepreg with 33.5% resin content under item code 6404 with a width of 0.25 inches, as well as 150 square meters of 196gsm fabric with 35% resin content under item number 5263 with a width of 38...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation to RTI Remmele Engineering, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of precision-engineered aerospace and transportation components. The contract, valued at $848,854.00, is for the production of structural fittings (NSN 8503774056). The contract is a firm-fixed-price arrangement and does not have a small business set-aside designation. RTI Remmele Engineering, Inc., the prime contractor, is a subsidiary of Alcoa...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to Toray Advanced Composites USA, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturing company, for the delivery of 200 pounds of TC700/TC1225 thermoplastic carbon fiber prepreg. The award ceiling value is $26,584.80 and the ultimate completion date is March 7, 2024. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Toray Advanced Composites USA, Inc. has previously received prime federal contract...

This SBIR Phase II contract, awarded to Composites Automation LLC, a small business, by NASA, is focused on evaluating automated tape placement (ATP) processing of thin-ply composites. The $749,962 contract involves material and process development, modeling, test panel fabrication, and performance evaluation. The goal is to enable the fabrication of uniform, high-fiber-volume, low-void-content composite parts using thin-ply ATP processing. The contract builds upon prior Phase I work and...

This is a five-year, $2,910,936 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Convergent Manufacturing Technologies US Inc., a for-profit organization. The contract is for the development of physics-based process models to simulate the formation of defects in the automated fiber placement process and the cure process of complex composite structures. Key milestones include developing preliminary models in Years 1-2 to predict...

This is a $122,325 SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to T.e.a.m. Inc. (doing business as Textile Engineering & Manufacturing), a small business manufacturer of advanced textiles and composites. The contract is for the development of a resin-infused carbon uni-directional broadgood material stabilized by an un-catalyzed epoxy resin binder. This SBIR contract was set aside for total small business participation. T.e.a.m. Inc. has an extensive history of...