This is a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Portland, Oregon. The contract is for the development of a Decision Support Tool (DST) that will provide strategic guidance to pilots for mitigating encounters with en route turbulence hazards. The DST is designed to be implemented on commercial off-the-shelf electronic...
This federal contract award to The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., a woman-owned small business, is for the development of a Convective-Induced Turbulence (CIT) Hazard Detection System for Oceanic Trajectory-Based Operations (TBO). The system will utilize satellite-based observations of lightning and other data to provide turbulence estimates and weather hazard warnings for oceanic flights. The $124,603.00 fixed-price contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Portland, Oregon. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an automated, real-time, remote turbulence detection and diagnostics system for the National Airspace System (NAS). The system is designed to leverage Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., a woman-owned small business. The contract, with a potential value of $750,000.00, focuses on research and development of a system to identify moderate or greater levels of aviation turbulence using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data. The solution can detect various types of turbulence, including...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,999.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Barron Associates, Inc. to develop turbulence modeling and decision support systems for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operating at very low altitudes, including in urban environments. This work aims to extend existing aviation turbulence models, which have primarily focused on high altitude operations, to adequately represent the low altitude...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Barron Associates, Inc., a small business research and development company. The contract, valued at $749,958.00, focuses on developing novel technologies to predict, detect, and respond to turbulence for future air transportation operations, including Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Key objectives are to expand turbulence...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price, Definitive Contract to The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Portland, Oregon. The $750,000.00 contract is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort to develop a system composed of two displays - one for the Flight Deck (FD) and one for the Airline Operational Control (AOC) dispatcher. The system will provide shared situational awareness of various...
This federal contract award was issued by NASA to Robust Analytics, Inc., a woman-owned small business. The $123,688 firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract supports the development of a more capable architecture that can integrate airline operations center (AOC) and flight deck capabilities to enhance efficient aircraft re-routing and reduce inefficiencies in planned flight paths. The solution aims to combine the best features of NASA's Dynamic Weather...
This is a $149,907.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Innovation Laboratory, Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Portland, Oregon. The contract is for the FY24 SBIR Phase I "Turbulence-Impact Collaborative Response System" research project, which is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The work will focus on early-stage research and development of innovative aerospace...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,982 Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase I contract to Avmet Applications, Inc., a small, for-profit subchapter S corporation specializing in aviation meteorology. The contract is for the development of a "Weather-Aware UAM System Capacity Manager" to support optimized air traffic management. This contract is a total small business set-aside and is part of NASA's efforts to leverage small business expertise to advance...