This is a $98,782.24 fixed price level of effort purchase order awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Periodic Innovation, LLC for Aluminum-Magnesium (Al-Mg) Alloy Formulation Research and Development services. The contract was awarded on June 12, 2018 with a completion date of September 22, 2022 and has no set-aside designation. The contract was awarded under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, allowing sole-source negotiations with Periodic Innovation...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to MRL Materials Resources LLC, a for-profit small business limited liability company. The $11,997,414.00 contract is for "ALLOYS AND METALLIC MATERIAL PROCESSING EARLY APPLIED RESEARCH (AMP-EAR)", with a completion date of September 1, 2026. The contract is not set aside for any socioeconomic category. MRL provides advanced manufacturing, materials science, and research and development...
This is a $10,000,000 federal contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support to the Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA), a non-profit organization, to conduct research and development related to steel castings. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with no set-aside designation. As the prime contractor, SFSA is leading a team of 38 subcontractors, including universities like the University of Memphis, the University of Alabama, and Iowa State University,...
This is a $798,222 research grant awarded by NASA to Materials Development Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation. The grant supports an international collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct microgravity-based experiments using JAXA's Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF) to measure the thermophysical properties of supercooled molten metal oxides. These materials are precursors to high-value glass used in photonics, lasers, optical communications, and...
This is a $99,861 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the Louisiana Board of Regents to characterize additive manufacturing (AM) of a copper alloy called C-18150. The objective is to evaluate the quality of C-18150 parts produced by selective laser melting, a powder bed fusion AM process. The Louisiana team, consisting of researchers from Louisiana State University, will analyze the as-built material properties and optimize the heat treatment process to improve the material characteristics....
This is a $36,874,279.06 cost-sharing delivery order contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (DLA) to the Steel Founders Society of America, a non-profit organization that advocates for the steel foundry industry. The contract is to advance steel technology research through partnerships with subcontractors such as universities and research institutions. Major subcontractors include the University of Arizona, Grid Raster Inc., Colorado School of Mines, Southwest Research...
Production Metals, LLC has been awarded a firm fixed price contract valued at sixteen thousand two hundred six dollars and forty cents ($16,206.40) from the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center. The contract calls for Production Metals to deliver ten sheets of aluminum plates by July 8, 2023 in support of research being conducted at the Center's laboratories in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Production Metals is a locally and family-owned limited...
This is a $149,950 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to MRL Materials Resources LLC (doing business as MRL), a for-profit limited liability company, for thermodynamic modeling of a high entropy alloy to support integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) based optimization of corrosion resistance. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation. MRL Materials Resources LLC is an expert in...
This is a $21,362 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy, a civilian agency, to Omley Industries, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the fabrication of specialized copper and aluminum nitride brazed channel assemblies for laboratory testing. The requirement was originally solicited as a total small business set-aside, seeking vendors with expertise in precision metal component manufacturing under NAICS code 332999. The contract...
This is a $166,867.76 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM) to MRL Materials Resources LLC (MRL), a small business based in Xenia Township, Ohio. The contract is for the development and comparison of powder production processes of a novel high-strength FeNbAlC alloy for additive manufacturing (AM) applications. As a total small business set-aside, this contract leverages MRL's expertise in advanced manufacturing, materials...