This is a $149,658 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a unit of the U.S. Air Force, to Innovative Materials Testing Technologies, Inc., a small, minority-owned, and woman-owned business. The contract is for research and development work related to "Multi-Layer Deep Structure NDI", likely referring to non-destructive inspection techniques. As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract represents the initial...
This is a $749,997.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc. (TRI/Austin), a small business division of Texas Research International Inc. The contract is for the development of an automated surface microstructure nondestructive evaluation (NDE) process for aerospace materials, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract is set aside for small businesses. TRI/Austin has...
This is a $179,995.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc. (Tri / Austin), a small business. The contract is for the development of an Outer Mold Line Material Condition Probe under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. This contract supports research and development of nondestructive evaluation techniques for composite materials, which is a core competency of Tri / Austin. The company...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Emphysic LLC. The contract is for the development of a Distributed Fault Tolerant Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Data Reduction Framework, which will enable parallel processing of large NDE datasets on mobile devices, computers, or networked clusters. The goal is to create a system that can automatically detect defects in NDE data, where individual...
This federal contract award is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project from the U.S. Air Force focused on guided wave phased array technology for non-destructive inspection (NDI) of aircraft. The prime contractor is FBS Inc., doing business as Guidedwave, a small business manufacturer of non-destructive testing technologies and services. The contract has a firm fixed price of $149,917.00 and a completion date of May 27, 2016. This SBIR Phase I award is part of the...
This SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc., a small business. The contract is focused on addressing the challenge of "big data" in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) through the development of the "NDEToolbox" - a system that provides context-based data browsing, automated data analysis, and data fusion capabilities to support aerospace composite inspections. Key innovations...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $73,830 firm fixed price purchase order to Wilder Systems Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small business, for work on an SBIR Phase I proposal titled "Autonomous Non-Destructive Inspection for Aircraft Structural Repair." The research, to be conducted in Austin, Texas, will develop autonomous technologies to inspect aircraft structures for defects during repair work, with the goal of improving safety and...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to NDE Technologies, Inc., a small business, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II. The contract, valued at a ceiling of $750,000.00, is for the Rapid Qualification of Fracture Mechanics and NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation) Modeling Services. The contract was awarded on September 23, 2015 and has an ultimate completion date of December 23, 2017. As this is a Small Business...
This is a $149,999 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for nondestructive evaluation (NDE)-based condition assessment of sub-surface concrete with limited access. Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc. is a for-profit small business that provides research, development, testing,...
This $1,249,998.00 federal contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Texas Research Institute - Austin, Inc. (Tri / Austin), a small business division of Texas Research International Inc. The contract is for the development of nondestructive inspection techniques for cold spray repairs on aircraft components to support airworthiness approvals. This contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II action, which are set-aside for small businesses. Tri /...