Purchase Order 80NSSC20P1652

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order for $618,075.00 to Homogeneous Metals, Inc., doing business as HMI Metal Powders, a for-profit manufacturer of metal powders. The contract is for the delivery of HR-1-AM-R3 Alloy Rotary Atomized Powder, and was set aside for small businesses. The original solicitation was a combined synopsis/solicitation issued as a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for this specialized metal powder to support NASA's additive manufacturing...

This federal contract award to Homogeneous Metals, Inc., doing business as HMI Metal Powders, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $120,600.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order was for the delivery of HR-1-AM ALLOY ROTARY ATOMIZED POWDER. The contract had a completion date of May 26, 2019 and was set aside for small businesses. The original solicitation, which was posted on March 4, 2019 and due on March 7, 2019, did not have a...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Polymet Corporation, a manufacturer of high performance wire and thermal spray powders. The $32,828 contract is for the extrusion of a specialized nickel-titanium-hafnium-zirconium alloy used in high temperature shape memory alloy actuators. This is a sole source award, as Polymet Corporation has been determined to be the sole provider of this product. The...

NASA's Shared Services Center has awarded a $42,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Powder Alloy Corp, a small business manufacturer located in Loveland, Ohio. The contract is to procure 1,000 pounds of ALLOY 754-NON-ODS atomized powder, which is a specialized metal powder with precise compositional requirements critical for NASA's aerospace engineering processes. The powder must meet stringent technical specifications and be produced exclusively in the United States using vacuum or inert...

Fed Crew Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, was awarded a purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center on August 4, 2025, for the supply of spherical high-entropy alloy (HEA) powder. The contract, valued at $48.9K under a firm fixed-price arrangement, calls for the delivery of 20 kilograms of specialized powder meeting precise chemical composition specifications including 59.5%...

This is a SBIR Phase III contract awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center to Hyper TECH Research Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of superconducting coil assemblies. The coils will be used to demonstrate mechanical processing and for heat transfer tests to support NASA's efforts to develop a 1 MW fully superconducting electric machine. The contract has a ceiling value of $100,000.00 and is a firm fixed price purchase order with no set-aside designation. Hyper TECH Research...

This is a $124,721.00 Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Busek Co., Inc. to study the feasibility of 3D printing advanced magnetic alloy components for Hall Effect Thrusters (HETs). HETs are a type of electric propulsion system used on spacecraft. The goal is to develop a lightweight magnetic circuit for HETs by leveraging additive manufacturing techniques. This research, conducted in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, aims...

Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc.'s In Space Propulsion division received a $26.6 million firm fixed-price definitive contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory on April 21, 2021, for the Next-Generation Hall Thruster Study (NGHTS). The contract, which extends through August 31, 2026, is based in Redmond, Washington, and does not utilize any set-aside designation. Hall thrusters are electric propulsion systems critical for spacecraft positioning and station-keeping, and this study focuses on...

Sophisticated Alloys Inc., a small business metal alloy manufacturer based in Butler, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a purchase order valued at $19,301 by the NASA Shared Services Center for vacuum induction melting of recycled shape memory alloy compositions. The contract, awarded June 23, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2025, is designated as a Total Small Business set-aside under firm fixed-price terms. The work will be performed in Cleveland, Ohio and involves processing...

Hyper TECH Research Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, was awarded a $125,000.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and improve second-generation magnesium diboride (MgB2) superconducting wires. The goal is to produce lightweight, high-performance superconducting wire with high current carrying capacity, operating temperatures between 4-30 Kelvin, and long piece-lengths up to 60 kilometers. This research...