The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation Space Systems Division a $807,258 delivery order to provide a flight test vehicle for digital twin under a cost plus fixed fee contract. Performance will occur in Redondo Beach, California over 11 months beginning in late February 2021. Griffon Aerospace, Inc. was selected as a major subsystem subcontractor. This award falls under the Air Force's research efforts focused on...
This $48,545 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a defense agency, to prime contractor Rescan Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for research and development services to leverage digital twin technology for more efficient management of U.S. Air Force facilities. The work involves digitizing and annotating indoor spaces to create 3D digital copies, which can enhance facility management, maintenance,...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $957,794 firm fixed price purchase order to Edlore Inc. to deliver a centralized digital twin standard platform to procure parts under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. The research will be performed at Edlore's facility in Monarch Bay, California through December 2022. The award is designated as a total small business set aside. Under this contract, Edlore will provide the Air Force Materiel...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $746,780 firm fixed price contract to United Aircraft Technologies, Inc. for research and development of a Digital Twin Modeling of Computerized Numerical Control Wiring Failures. The contract is a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II award running from November 17, 2021 through February 17, 2023 to be performed in Troy, NY. The purpose is to further develop technologies to digitally model and predict...
This federal contract award is for a Space System Digital Twins for GPS Resilience project, awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The prime contractor, Sedaro Corporation, is a small, for-profit business based in Arlington, Virginia, that specializes in advanced modeling, simulation, and digital twin technologies for space systems. The contract, valued at $1,967,805.23, was awarded by the U.S. Air Force to develop sophisticated software solutions for...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,805.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Em Photonics Inc., a for-profit company based in Newark, Delaware. The contract aims to refactor NASA's FUN3D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation code to enable it to take full advantage of accelerator hardware in modern hybrid computing environments. The goal is to rearchitect FUN3D using a dynamically-scheduled, task-based approach to improve...
This federal contract award to Kheiron Immersive Training Environments LLC, doing business as Digital Twin Studios, was a $50,000 firm fixed-price Purchase Order for "DIGITAL TWIN STUDIOS SIMULATION BASED LEARNING" services. The award was made on March 5, 2020, and completed on June 9, 2020, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). As a Total Small Business set-aside, this contract highlights Kheiron...
This is a $718,897 STTR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Elequant Knowledge Innovation Data Science LLC, a small disadvantaged business. The contract aims to develop technology for the accurate modeling and data processing needs of future autonomous operation and system design within the paradigm of the digital twin. Key innovations include extending the Holomorphic Embedding Load Flow Method (HELM) to encompass the joint electrical and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Diamond Age Technology LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $151,765.00, is for the development of "Hyper-Realistic Elastically Computed Topologies in Adaptive Reality Environments (HECTARE)". This STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) Phase I project aims to create virtual reality and digital twin...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Physical Sciences Inc. a $5.2 million definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support Phase 1 of the Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design program. Under the three-year award running from November 2021 through November 2024, Physical Sciences Inc. will conduct research and development to advance high-performance feedstock materials, efficient off-Earth manufacturing methods utilizing lunar resources,...