Purchase Order NNX16CA42P
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- This is a $124,835 firm fixed price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit small business limited liability company. The contract is for the development of a "Dynamically Reconfigurable Software and Mobility Architecture for Autonomous Planetary Rovers" to support NASA's Exploration Campaign goals. The work focuses on advancing perception, navigation, and intelligent...
- Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, was awarded a $124,970.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The firm fixed-price contract requires Protoinnovations to research, design, develop, and validate advanced locomotion controls, rover-based non-prehensile manipulation (RNM) actions, and novel hardware/software architectures to enable rovers to alter their...
- This is a $749,977 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development. The contract is focused on developing advanced algorithms and controls to improve the safety, speed, and rough-terrain access of wheeled planetary rovers, particularly for lunar exploration. Key technologies include traction control,...
- This is a $4,551,735.00 firm-fixed-price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of multi-platform, scalable, and modular rover flight software control algorithms and architectures for autonomous in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) excavation, transportation, and deposition...
- This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The $849,838.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a software framework to advance perception capabilities for rovers operating in harsh lunar environments. The contract is set aside for total small business participation. Protoinnovations, LLC specializes...
- This is a $849,920.00 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The contract is for the development of advanced robotics and autonomous systems technologies focused on lunar exploration, including software frameworks, mobility architectures, and perception capabilities for lunar rover operations. This contract is set aside...
- This is a $1,078,976 firm fixed-price contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a small business limited liability company. The contract is for the development of rover slip estimation and traction control technologies to enable optimal mobility in lunar environments, under Phase III of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract has a total completion date of April 30, 2025. Protoinnovations, LLC is an experienced federal...
- The federal contract award with ID 80NSSC19C0215 was granted to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to develop a Rover-Based Non-Prehensile Manipulation (RBNPM) control architecture and associated algorithms, tools, and metrics. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract, valued at $749,648.00, aims to enhance the mobile manipulation capabilities of robotic rovers by utilizing existing actuated degrees-of-freedom, such as wheel rotation or...
- This is a $124,887.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Protoinnovations, LLC, a small business specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development for lunar exploration. The contract is for the research, development, and validation of an innovative retractable robotic anchoring mechanism that can work in both hard rock and granular soils,...
- The U.S. government has awarded a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract worth $749,894 to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development. The contract, set aside for small businesses, is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract supports the continued applied research, development, maturation, and validation of Protoinnovations' Dynamically...
This is a Small Business Set Aside contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development. The $124,658.00 firm fixed price STTR Phase I contract is for research, design, development, and testing of software tools and hardware to increase the performance of planetary robots by manipulating the environment around them. The goal is to develop new planning algorithms, non-prehensile manipulation techniques, and simple robotic tools that will allow rovers to alter the terrain for improved navigation, accessing scientific targets, and basic terraforming, without the need for specialized high-torque hardware. This contract work supports NASA's objectives for advancing lunar rover capabilities and aligns with the company's previous contract and grant awards from the agency focused on rover mobility, control architectures, and lunar operations.
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| Not listed | Not listed | $124.7k | 6/1/16 |