Purchase Order DTFAEN16P00411

This is a $996,002.50 firm-fixed price contract awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration's Technical Center to Science Engineering Associates, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, to support two follow-on flight campaigns. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Science Engineering Associates, Inc. has provided specialized instrumentation, data acquisition systems, and other goods and services to support NASA's aircraft icing research in the past, including for the Icing Research...

This is a $124,944.00 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to NEI Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the development of a new generation of icing mitigation technology for manned and unmanned vehicles, combining a durable anti-ice coating with an active deicing device. This effort is intended to improve the performance and durability of...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microengineered Metals Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business. The contract is focused on developing a hybrid solution to mitigate the in-flight icing hazard for the aviation industry. The proposed approach involves polishing aluminum airfoils to ultra-low surface roughness levels (down to 10 nm) to significantly reduce ice adhesion strength, as...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Science Engineering Associates, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods and services. The contract, valued at $244,730.00, is a definitive, firm-fixed price contract with no set-aside designation. The contract supports NASA's Radar II Flight Campaign and efforts to study ice water content in aircraft. Under this contract, Science Engineering Associates, Inc. will provide specialized...

This federal contract award is a task order under the Research and Technologies for Aerospace Propulsion Systems 2 (RTAPS2) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GRC). The $129,520.59 task order was awarded to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer, to investigate the mechanisms of ice crystal icing inside turbofan engines as part of NASA's...

This federal contract award is for research and testing related to ice accretion and aerodynamic effects on large-scale swept wings, which is being conducted under the Advanced Air Transport Technology Project of NASA's Advanced Air Vehicles Program. The $585,477 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded to The Boeing Company's Engineering, Test & Technology Division. The work is being done in partnership with the FAA and ONERA, and involves a series of icing tests in NASA's Icing Research...

This is a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to NEI Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the development of an anti-ice coating system that functions synergistically with active de-icing methods to improve aircraft safety and reduce energy consumption during de-icing procedures. The contract has a potential value of $794,953 and a completion date of January...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer. The contract, valued at $2,590,125.00, is for the extended turbine operability evaluation of a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) research vehicle concept utilizing water injection. The objective is to verify that an off-the-shelf turbine can operate at higher than...

This contract, valued at $17,500, was awarded by a U.S. government agency to the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), a non-profit organization specializing in aerospace research, development, testing, and education services. The contract is for the "APPLICATION OF AN UNSTRUCTURED NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER TO HIGHLY-LOADED TURBOMACHINERY STAGES," which suggests the work involves developing advanced computational fluid dynamics models for turbomachinery applications. The contract does not have...

This is a $149,962 firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CFD Research Corporation, a small business contractor, for the development of a high-resolution unstructured mesh refinement framework for aircraft icing predictions. The contract has a completion date of January 25, 2023. CFD Research Corporation specializes in engineering simulations and designs across various industries, and has experience...