This is a $704,157.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG), an innovative remote power device with no hot moving parts, high reliability, and over 25% thermal to electrical efficiency. The TRG technology is...
Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $124,993 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of the Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG), a 300-watt radioisotope power system based on Nirvana's Thermoacoustic Power Stick (TAPS) technology. The TRG is intended to serve as the foundation for the Linear...
Nirvana Energy Systems, Inc. was awarded a $141,017 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a 300-watt Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG), a reliable power system based on their Thermoacoustic Power Stick (TAPS) technology. The TRG is intended to provide over 20 years of continuous operation with high thermal-to-electrical efficiency, and is being designed for use in remote power applications where reliability is...
This is a $500,000.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Brayton Energy LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the design of a 100 kilowatt Brayton cycle system for space nuclear electric propulsion. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III and has a completion date of September 26, 2025. This award builds upon Brayton Energy LLC's prior SBIR and Small Business...
This is a Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SCCAQ Energy, LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business, for the development of an advanced Stirling regenerator and heat exchanger assembly. This $124,998 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract is part of NASA's program to develop an efficient and robust radioisotope power system for space applications. SCCAQ Energy is collaborating with Temple...
This is a $124,961.00 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I research contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Innoveering LLC, a small business based in Bohemia, New York. The contract is for the development of a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) Solid State Semiconductor-Based Thermionic Converter ("MSSTIC") technology. This award is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which provides...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center has awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order for $124,780.00 to Inventherm, LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for Inventherm's patented Meso-Scale Ericsson Power Generation System (MEPS), which will be used as the enabling technology for radioisotope generators that exceed the performance of existing Stirling power conversion systems. The...
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Brayton Energy LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project. The $124,898.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is focused on "CYCLE OPTIMIZATION FOR MASS OF ADVANCED HEAT EXCHANGERS USED IN NUCLEAR SPACE PROPULSION". The contract has a set-aside designation for total small business and was awarded on May 19, 2021...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,814.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nirvana Technologies, Inc., a small disadvantaged, veteran-owned business. The contract, which falls under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program, is for the "Integration of Data and Physics Based Models for Fault Management." The contract has a firm fixed-price pricing type and a completion date of March 1, 2021....
This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation - Technologies (USNC-Space), a for-profit company that specializes in advanced nuclear technologies for space applications. The $149,912.00 contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I demonstration of affordable in-space dynamic radioisotope power conversion. The work will be performed in Seattle, Washington...