This is a firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center to Amprius Inc., a for-profit company specializing in silicon anode lithium-ion battery technology. The $1,000,000.00 contract, awarded on January 19, 2016, is for the "Game Changing Development Program, Advanced Energy Storage Systems Phase II." The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 27, 2018 and does not have a set-aside designation. Amprius has received previous prime contract...
This is a $125,000.00 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 located in Piscataway, New Jersey. The contract aims to develop advanced lithium-ion battery technologies to meet the energy storage needs for NASA's extravehicular activities. The program seeks to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a new class of lithium-ion batteries that...
This is a $4,820,777.00 definitive Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials USA, Inc. (Silatronix) to develop organosilicon electrolytes for safe, high energy, high nickel Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. The award has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2024. Silatronix, a manufacturer of goods specializing in organosilicon electrolytes, has previously received multiple contracts from ONR to advance energy storage...
This contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to American Lithium Energy Corp. (ALE), a small business manufacturer of advanced lithium battery technologies and sustainable energy innovations. The contract, valued at $150,000.00, is for the delivery of ballistic resistant wearable batteries under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. As a subcontractor, ALE has provided battery and generator technologies to prime...
This federal contract award to American Lithium Energy Corp. (ALE) is for the development of a high-capacity nano silicon lithium-ion battery with zero-volt tolerance (ZVT) for space applications. The $749,991.00 contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The firm-fixed-price purchase order is intended to advance ALE's proprietary lithium-ion battery technologies, which the company has previously supplied to agencies...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Ames Research Center, a civilian agency, to Nanoscale Corporation for the development of novel metal-oxide-carbon nanocomposites for use in pseudocapacitive electrochemical supercapacitors. The $100,000.00 firm fixed-price contract focuses on synthesizing and characterizing nanocomposites based on manganese, titanium, tantalum, and vanadium oxides combined with conductive carbon supports. Nanoscale is responsible...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Materials Modifications Inc., a minority-owned small business. The $125,000.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the development of an aerogel-supported ionic liquid electrolyte for use in high-performance lithium-air batteries. This is intended to address NASA's need for advanced energy storage systems with high specific energy, high volumetric efficiency, greater reliability, reduced parasitic impedance, and...
This is a $749,989.00 federal contract awarded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to Applied Sciences Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract is for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II development of silicon-modified nanofibers for advanced lithium-ion battery anodes, under the RECOVERY program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). It is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with a completion date of January 30, 2012. As a small...
This federal contract award to American Lithium Energy Corp. (ALE), a small business manufacturer, is for the development of high-energy, high-power battery technology for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The $297,927 firm-fixed-price contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is focused on advancing specialized lithium-ion battery solutions for defense and aerospace applications. ALE has previously secured multiple Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts...
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $3,704,844 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials USA, Inc. (Silatronix) for the development of organosilicon electrolytes to enable safe, high-energy NCA-based lithium-ion batteries for naval applications. The contract has a performance period through December 13, 2020. This is a follow-on award to previous ONR contracts with Silatronix totaling over $12 million to advance energy storage technologies, including a $4.8...