This is a Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to Balcones Technologies LLC, a small business based in Georgetown, Texas. The contract is for the development, testing, and delivery of a prototype Active Vibration Isolation System (VIS) for ground support electronics racks or groups of racks on the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP). The system is required to provide up to 18x reduction in payload peak accelerations compared to passive approaches and up to 5x...
This is a STTR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Extreme Diagnostics, Inc., a small business. The contract is for the development of a compact vibration-based energy conversion module (ECM) that can power sensors for structural health monitoring applications on programs such as the Rocket Propulsion Test (RPT) program, the International Space Station (ISS), and the Orion deep space vehicle. The contract has a ceiling value of $750,000.00 and...
The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Integrated Dynamics Engineering, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer, for $98,078.00 to provide vibration isolation systems. This contract is not set aside for any particular business size or type. The vibration isolation systems will be used for an advanced cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope in NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory. The contract requires...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract to Busek Co., Inc., a small business manufacturer of spacecraft propulsion systems, to develop a precision spacecraft pointing and attitude control system. The $124,805 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract will focus on acquiring and analyzing data on the performance characteristics of Busek's BET-1MN electrospray thrusters, which can achieve sub-milliarcsecond pointing accuracy, to...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded to Shock TECH Inc., a small business manufacturer, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $124,998.00 contract is for the ROBUST ISOLATION FOR VIBRATION ABATING (RIVA) project, which is funded through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract requires Shock TECH Inc. to conduct research and development on vibration isolation and dampening technologies for potential...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (Ifos), a small business, to develop a test rig sensor suite to measure pressures, acoustics, static and dynamic strains, and temperatures for advanced propulsion systems. The $120,601.00 contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort related to NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and SpaceX's proposed...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center to Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. (Issi), a small business engineering research and development company. The $149,269.30 firm fixed price contract is for a SBIR Program Phase I effort to provide temperature/heat flux imaging of an aerodynamic model in high-temperature, continuous wind tunnel testing. Issi has previously received federal contracts and grants from agencies like the Department of...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1.5 million firm fixed price contract to Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc., doing business as Issi, as part of the Small Business Innovation Research Phase II program. Issi will provide research and development of a low size, weight and power six-degree-of-freedom tactical-grade microelectromechanical systems inertial measurement unit for hypersonic and related applications. The period of performance is from...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Extreme Diagnostics, Inc. to develop a CubeSat-based on-orbit validation system (CVS) that will provide performance and durability data for macro-fiber composite (MFC) piezocomposite actuators operating in low Earth orbit (LEO). The goal is to mature this precision deployment technology for space applications such as deployable telescopes. The $750,000...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Test Center (AFTC) to Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. (Issi), a for-profit engineering R&D company based in Centerville, Ohio. The $749,876.43 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for advanced research and development related to SBIR Topic 151-176. Issi has been awarded multiple prime federal contracts, including two significant Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs) with the U.S. Air Force totaling...