Purchase Order FA864922P0084

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract was awarded by the Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), a for-profit research and development company. The $599,988 firm-fixed-price contract aims to advance PSI's ceramic composite material system for radiation shielding of lunar habitats. The composite material has demonstrated superior performance to aluminum in protecting against galactic cosmic...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,043,139 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract to CFD Research Corporation to develop radiation-hardened silicon carbide (SiC) power electronics for future NASA science and exploration missions. The contract aims to address the high vulnerability of SiC devices to heavy-ion induced degradation and failure, which has precluded their use in space power management and distribution (PMAD)...

This $490,276.93 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University aims to improve predictions and modeling of the variability of relativistic electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt. The project will develop a physics-based model with data-flexible ingestion capability to provide more accurate forecasts of the energetic particle and plasma conditions encountered by spacecraft within Earth's magnetosphere. This will help mitigate...

This is a $1,799,327 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Cosmic Shielding Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business and manufacturer of goods. The contract is for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project focused on "Enabling In-Orbit AI by MSP/PLASTEEL Conformal/Spot Shielding of COTS Based Electronics to Support ISR Sensor Data Processing Applications." The contract has a period of performance...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to CFD Research Corporation, a small business in Huntsville, Alabama. The contract, valued at $124,989, will support research and development to address the vulnerability of silicon carbide (SiC) power electronics to radiation damage, which has prevented their use in NASA's future science and exploration missions. The research aims to develop a better understanding of the physical mechanisms behind the...

NASA awarded a $243,623.11 grant to Space Hazards Applications LLC, a woman-owned small business, to deliver a data-driven model of the high energy electron environment near Earth. The project will build upon an existing neural network-based model to improve spatial, temporal, and energy coverage, as well as add forecast capabilities. The model will be validated against various satellite observations and provide a long-term historical record of the electron radiation environment. The improved...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Tethers Unlimited, Inc., a small business located in Bothell, Washington. The contract, valued at $124,714.00, is for the development of a cost-effective and lightweight radiation shielding system called "COMPOSITE-Z AND GRADED-Z RADIATION SHIELDS (COGZ-RAD)". The shielding system utilizes novel multi-material 3D printing techniques to fabricate...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Coolcad Electronics, Inc., a small for-profit semiconductor company specializing in advanced technologies like silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop radiation-tolerant high-voltage and low on-resistance SiC power devices to meet NASA's capability and performance goals for upcoming missions such as the Io Observer, Saturn Probe, and Europa...

This is a $74,885 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Cosmic Shielding Corporation, a small disadvantaged business, for a STTR Phase I research project on multifunctional conformal radiation shielding systems. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and a completion date of August 4, 2023. The project appears to focus on the development of commercial off-the-shelf radiation-hardened shielding systems, which are likely...

This federal contract award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is for the "Development of 2D and 3D Transient Electro-Thermal Computational Models to Predict the Radiation Failures in SiC-Based Schottky Diodes and Power Field-Effect Transistors (FETs)". The overall goal is to advance the understanding of radiation failure mechanisms in silicon carbide (SiC) materials for power devices and provide guidelines to design and fabricate SiC-based devices with higher resistance to...