This is a $845,050.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Electra.aero Inc., a small business specializing in advanced air mobility technologies. The contract, designated as a Definitive Contract with a Firm Fixed Price pricing type, is for the "Integrated Flight Validation of HALE UAP Avionics & Propulsion Systems for Science Missions". This work involves developing and testing prototype...
This is a $1,249,079.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Electra.aero Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the research, development, and testing of flight and power control systems for a turbine-hybrid distributed electric propulsion (DEP) short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. Electra.aero has an extensive history as a prime contractor on SBIR, STTR, and Other...
This is a $174,698.00 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded to Electra.aero Inc., a small business, by the U.S. Department of the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command. The contract is for research and development related to advanced air mobility technologies, including electric propulsion, distributed propulsion, digital engineering, flight controls, and modeling/simulation. As a Phase I SBIR award, this contract supports initial feasibility studies and prototype development for...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Electra.aero Inc. The $149,294 contract is for the STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) Phase I research and development of "Innovative Control and Configurations for Design Space for Aircraft with Distributed Electric Propulsion." This research aims to mature technologies for electric and hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)...
This federal contract award was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Electra.aero Inc., a small business specializing in advanced air mobility technologies. The $179,097.70 firm fixed-price contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 award under Topic AF233-0004, focused on "Electra Aero Tradespace Exploration for Lightweight Multi-Application Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Systems." The contract supports research and development efforts to explore...
Electra.aero Inc. has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order totaling $1,497,724 by the Department of Air Force Materiel Command to conduct research and development of hybrid short takeoff and landing concepts. As the prime contractor, Electra.aero will perform work at its Falls Church, Virginia location under a total small business set aside. The contract supports the Small Business Innovation Research program's Phase II objective of maturing technologies necessary for electric and...
This is a SBIR Phase I contract award to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc., doing business as Esaero, a small business manufacturer of aerospace goods and services. The $149,601.00 firm fixed price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center for the development of an "Aircraft Traction Inverter for Hybrid-Electric and All-Electric Megawatt-Class Vehicles." This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project aims to advance...
This $225,865.78 firm fixed-price delivery order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to Empirical Systems Aerospace Inc. (Esaero), a small business manufacturer, to support the Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology (CEPT) research phase. The effort includes modifying an existing general aviation aircraft with NASA-furnished electric motors and power systems to create an electric distributed propulsion demonstrator....
This is a $3,485,340.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee research and development contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Electra.aero Inc., a small business, to create scenarios that provide context for developing and assessing the impact of aviation technologies. The contract involves developing models for the design and optimization of integrated vehicles and applying those models to vehicle trade studies. This award is not set aside and is...
Electra.aero Inc., doing business as Electraaero Inc., has been awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $990,000 by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command to continue development of an electric vertical takeoff and landing concept under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. As the prime contractor, Electraaero will perform work at its Falls Church, Virginia location from October 2021 through September 2022 under a firm fixed price contract. The award...