Purchase Order NNG11LD04P

Geocomposites, LLC, a small business, was awarded a $125,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) SBIR Program Phase I to develop high-performance fiber-reinforced composite feedstock for in-space manufacturing of high-strength parts using fused deposition modeling (FDM). The goal is to produce a composite feedstock and associated deposition parameters that can meet NASA's requirement for a minimum ultimate tensile strength of...

This contract award to Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd., a small business entity, is part of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program Phase I under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $124,999 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop a hybrid material form that combines a metal matrix composite (MMC) prepreg tape with an ultrasonic additive manufacturing process. This approach is intended to result in enhanced lightweight, cost-effective metallic...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to N&R Engineering Management & Support Services, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project on "Hybrid Disk Fabrication by Linear Friction Welding." The $148,143.00 contract is focused on applied research and development related to ceramic matrix composite materials, with potential...

This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to UHV Technologies Inc., a minority-owned small business. The contract, valued at $124,830.00, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of 3D printing ferrous, cobalt, and nickel-based alloys using UHV's innovative low-temperature 3D printing technology. This technology, which has been successfully applied to 3D printing of copper for...

This is a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ultramet, a small business manufacturer of advanced materials. The contract aims to develop innovative melt infiltration processing techniques to optimize the refractory carbide matrix in carbon fiber-reinforced composite materials for use in hypersonic vehicle hot structures. This builds on Ultramet's prior work for NASA and the...

This federal contract award to Materials Modifications Inc., a minority-owned small business, is for the development of a novel out-of-autoclave processing method for fabricating nanostructured polymer matrix composites for large structural parts. The $130,000.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is focused on advancing materials solutions for heavy lift launch vehicles. The contract work involves a...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Transition45 Technologies Inc., a minority-owned small business. The $600,000 contract examines the feasibility of an innovative fabrication technology incorporating sand casting and friction stir processing (FSP) to produce affordable near-net-shape components made from high-performance nickel-based superalloys. This technology has the...

This is a $124,982 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to NextGen Materials & Processing LLC, a small business, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase I. The objective of this contract is to leverage NextGen and the University of Massachusetts Lowell's prior experience with automated fiber placement (AFP) of thin-ply composite materials to identify critical parameters that influence...

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center awarded a $147,450 firm fixed price purchase order to Fort Wayne Metals Research Products, LLC, doing business as Fort Wayne Metals, to provide forging of large-scale NiTi-20Hf alloy. This award was made on a sole source basis under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13 for commercial items and services. Fort Wayne Metals is the sole provider of this specialized material, which is being...

NASA Langley Research Center awarded a $525,749 firm fixed price purchase order to COI Ceramics, Inc., a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, to deliver 100 kilograms of Hi-Nicalon silicon carbide 1800 denier fiber tow. The fiber tow will be used to support NASA's flexible thermal protection system development efforts for atmospheric entry vehicles as part of the agency's High Density Ablator project. Over the past eight years, NASA has extensively tested Hi-Nicalon fiber and determined...