The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center awarded a $18,216,856.56 definitive, cost-sharing contract to General Electric Company (GE) on May 2, 2019 to develop and test a flight-ready version of GE Global Research Center's megawatt inverter. This contract continues work from a previous NASA research announcement titled "Silicon Carbide Lightweight Inverter for Megawatt Power (SLIM)" and is scheduled for completion by June 30, 2023. The contract does...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center awarded a $433,843.80 firm fixed price purchase order to American Traction Systems Inc. for the delivery of ten 1000V inverters, cables, and connectors to support testing at its NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed facility. The solicitation sought the inverters and associated cables from American Traction Systems to operate at the required 1000V as market research determined they were only available from this supplier. This total...
This is a $124,117 firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Polarix Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in San Diego, California. The contract is for research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, Phase I, to develop a "Distributed Inverter Array Turn-less Motor". The contract has a total small business set-aside designation. This award builds on Polarix's previous SBIR and Small Business...
This is a $2 million, definitive contract awarded by the NASA Glenn Research Center to General Electric (GE) for the "SILICON-CARBIDE LIGHTWEIGHT INVERTER FOR MEGAWATT-POWER (SLIM)" project. The contract involves maturing GE's existing power conversion technologies from 0.5 kV to 1 kV levels, demonstrating power conversion from 200 kW to 1 MW with a minimum specific weight density of 12-19 kW/kg and efficiency greater than 99%. This work is part of NASA's broader advanced power systems...
This is a $754,476.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Continental Controls and Design, Inc., a small business corporation based in Huntington Beach, California. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II and is focused on developing current prototype motors and inverters for small aircraft electric propulsion with high efficiency (around 95% and 97%) and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $14,525.24 firm fixed-price purchase order to Save Again.com Itkickstart Division, doing business as Save Again COM, for the delivery of CASCADIA MOTION CM200DZ inverters. Performance will take place in Agua Dulce, California over a period of approximately five months concluding in January 2024. NASA utilizes inverters in various programs to convert direct current to alternating current, thus this...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center has awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order for $124,780.00 to Inventherm, LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for Inventherm's patented Meso-Scale Ericsson Power Generation System (MEPS), which will be used as the enabling technology for radioisotope generators that exceed the performance of existing Stirling power conversion systems. The...
<p>This is a $229,064.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Rinehart Motion Systems, LLC (RMS), a small business manufacturer, for the delivery of a motor inverter combination. The contract was set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of February 28, 2019. The place of performance is Cleveland, Ohio.</p>
This is a $91,875.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to N H Research, LLC, a for-profit manufacturer of electronic test and measurement equipment. The contract is for a 100 kilowatt power supply with battery emulation capability to supply and absorb power, to be delivered by May 1, 2020. This requirement was not set aside for any socioeconomic program. The contract was awarded on a sole-source...
This is a $114,541.60 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Naval Supply Systems Command to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a division of the aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract is for the delivery of an "INVERTER,POWER,STAT" and has an ultimate completion date of April 24, 2025. The contract does not utilize a set-aside designation. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation specializes in providing advanced navigation,...