Purchase Order NNX09CC88P
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- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $12.4 million definitive contract to Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program. The objective of this program is to design, build, and flight test an experimental aircraft incorporating active flow control technologies to achieve quantifiable performance improvements. Metacomp Technologies was selected as a subcontractor to provide certain engineering efforts. Funding comes from...
- This firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian federal agency, to Spectral Energies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $124,850 contract is for the design, development, validation, and implementation of a closed-loop, high-bandwidth active flow control technique using high-momentum, resonance-enhanced unsteady microjet actuators on a NASA-EET high-lift airfoil configuration. The objective is to mitigate flow separation...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Advanced Fluidics LLC, a minority-owned small business located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The contract is valued at $124,996 and will fund the development of a novel method for producing sweeping jets using a simplified geometry with reduced streamwise length and no feedback channels. The goal is to create a more efficient and compact flow control system that can be better...
- This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by NASA to Research In Flight LLC, a small business, aims to develop an automated approach for engine integration using the company's proprietary aerodynamics analysis tool, FlightStream. FlightStream is a lower-order, high-fidelity solver that can accurately predict aerodynamic loads on a range of aircraft configurations, including high-lift designs. The $123,473 fixed-price contract will integrate FlightStream with optimization tools, engine performance...
- Research In Flight LLC, a small business located in Auburn, Alabama, was awarded a $50,000 firm fixed price purchase order to develop a multi-fidelity supersonic flow solver for preliminary aircraft design and optimization. The award was issued by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Small Business Technology Transfer program. This Phase I STTR contract supports the development of computational tools to analyze supersonic aircraft configurations during conceptual...
- Research In Flight LLC has been awarded a $1,249,999 firm fixed price purchase order contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to provide performance and acoustic design optimization tools for cyclonic vortex engines. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and work will be performed in Auburn, Alabama through July 2025. As the prime contractor, Research In Flight will develop modeling and simulation tools to evaluate aircraft engine...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Virtual Aerosurface Technologies, Inc. (VAST) on June 9, 2017. The $123,796.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a novel variant of pulsed blowing active flow control using chemically-based flow control actuators. The proposed system aims to create high-impulse pulsed jets from discrete reaction chambers with a flowable...
- This is a $334,714.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Glenn Research Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for research on "Modeling and Integration of Active Internal Flow Control in Aero-Engine Compressors." The grant has a period of performance from October 1, 2003 to September 30, 2005 and does not have a set-aside designation. MIT has an ongoing partnership with NASA and frequently conducts cutting-edge research on...
- This is a firm fixed-price SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Innovative TECH Applications LLC (ITAC) for $124,859.00. The contract is for the development of a plasma-based method to reduce aircraft drag, which would directly translate to reduced fuel consumption and emissions. The proposed effort involves both experimental and numerical investigations to demonstrate proof-of-concept for this...
- This is a SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Actasys Inc., a small business, to develop and test a module containing an array of synthetic jet actuators (SJA) for active flow control (AFC) technology on commercial aircraft. The 18-month, $749,999 firm-fixed-price contract involves collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Michigan, and The Boeing Company to improve actuator power output and prepare...
OPTIMAL SHOCKWAVE BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTION CONTROL FOR SUPERSONIC MIXED COMPRESSION INLETS SYNGENICS CORPORATION PROPOSES A PROGRAM THAT INCORPORATES SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESSES, RESPONSE SURFACE METHODS, AND STATE-OF-THE-ART NUMERICAL METHODS TO DEVELOP OPTIMIZED, FAIL SAFE TECHNOLOGIES TO CONTROL SHOCKWAVE BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTIONS AND DEMONSTRATE IMPROVEMENTS IN SUPERSONIC MIXED COMPRESSION INLET PERFORMANCE. SPECIFIC PROGRAM OBJECTIVES ARE TO APPLY STRUCTURED, MATHEMATICALLY BASED METHODS TO EVALUATE, COMPARE, RATE, AND DOWNSELECT FLOW CONTROL CONCEPTS THAT WILL ENABLE IMPROVED INLET STABILITY AND CONTROL SHOCKWAVE BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTIONS IN SUPERSONIC, MIXED COMPRESSION INLETS, TO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE AN APPROACH TO FLOW CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION BASED ON DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS AND RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY, AND TO OBTAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICS DRIVING SUPERSONIC INLET PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS ENABLED BY FAIL SAFE, SUPERSONIC INLET FLOW CONTROL AND QUANTIFY THE BENEFIT IN TERMS OF INLET TOTAL PRESSURE RECOVERY AND DYNAMIC DISTORTION. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROGRAM IS THAT IT WILL PROVIDE INLET SYSTEM-LEVEL ASSESSMENTS OF FLOW CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES, INCLUDING STATIONARY MICRO-DEVICES, ACTIVE DEVICES, AND HYBRID SYSTEMS COMPRISED OF STATIONARY AND ACTIVE DEVICES. IN ADDITION, THIS PROGRAM WILL QUANTIFY FLOW CONTROL EFFECTIVENESS IN TERMS OF TOTAL PRESSURE RECOVERY AND DISTORTION COMPUTED AT THE INLET/ENGINE AERODYNAMIC INTERFACE PLANE. THIS PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE PROPULSION EFFICIENCY KEY RESEARCH AREA OF THE NASA FUNDAMENTAL AERONAUTICS SUPERSONICS PROGRAM BY WORKING TO DEVELOP FAIL SAFE INLET FLOW CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL FACILITATE LOW TSFC OF HIGHLY INTEGRATED SUPERSONIC INLETS AND IMPROVED OVERALL CRUISE EFFICIENCY THROUGH REDUCED INLET DRAG.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $99.1k | 1/15/09 |