Purchase Order 80NSSC22PA342

This is a Small Business STTR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CFD Research Corporation for the development of a "Transient Acoustic Environment Prediction Tool for Launch Vehicles in Motion During Early Lift-Off." The $124,981 fixed-price contract aims to build upon existing capabilities to improve modeling and prediction of the acoustic loads experienced by launch vehicles during lift-off. The project...

This $1,819,270.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency, to Applied Physical Sciences Corp, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp, for "Risk Reduction for Future Community Response Testing with a Low-Boom Flight Demonstration Vehicle." The contract consists of two phases - the first phase involves creating a conceptual plan for community response testing using an experimental low-boom aircraft, and identifying associated risks and...

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by NASA to CFD Research Corporation, a small business, to develop an integrated multi-physics simulation tool to capture and quantify the landing surface damage and debris liberation caused by rocket plume impingement during spacecraft propulsive landing on unprepared surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies. The $124,995 firm-fixed-price contract will focus on demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed approach, with plans to extend and...

This is a $124,819.00 STTR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to ATA Engineering, Inc., a small business, for the development of a simulation framework to enable accurate, design-time prediction of combustion instabilities in liquid-fueled rocket engines. The proposed framework will leverage LOCI/CHEM, a massively parallel, multi-physics flow simulation tool, to generate low-order models of combustion and acoustic response that can be solved simultaneously to map acoustic modes to stability...

This is a $109,747 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Viridian Space Corp, a small business. The contract is for a "LIFETIME AND SWAP ANALYSIS OF AIR-BREATHING ELECTRIC PROPULSION VS. TRADITIONAL ELECTRIC PROPULSION IN VLEO" under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research program. The work involves conducting analysis and studies related to air-breathing electric propulsion systems for space vehicles...

This is a $6,318,818.51 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by NASA Langley Research Center to Airborne Systems North America of CA Inc., a subsidiary of Transdigm Group Incorporated. The contract is for the fabrication and testing of an inflatable decelerator (LOFTID) aeroshell structure and packing restraint to support the LOFTID mission objectives of demonstrating hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator performance under flight entry loads and thermal environments...

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 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Research In Flight LLC, an aerospace engineering company based in Auburn, Alabama. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is aimed at advancing the capabilities of Research In Flight's surface vorticity solver for aerodynamic loads on subsonic aircraft, with a focus on improving the accuracy of predicting lift for high-lift configurations. The effort...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc., a small business, for the "FLIGHT TESTING OF AN AIR LAUNCH TESTBED FOR ENDOATMOSPHERIC HYPERSONIC TRAJECTORIES". The contract has a ceiling value of $34,351,280.01 and a period of performance ending on February 28, 2023. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II, which focuses on further developing...

This is a $74,949 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to In Orbit Aerospace Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Torrance, California. The contract is for the development of onboard fault detection technologies for hypersonic vehicles. As a total small business set-aside, this award aligns with the AFRL's efforts to leverage innovative solutions from the small business sector for critical aerospace applications. In Orbit...