Powdermet Inc., a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $123,702 firm fixed price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop a high performance film capacitor with high temperature capability and high energy storage efficiency. The project aims to improve energy storage performance through the use of nanocomposite films, which have not been previously attempted. If successful, the proposed method could enable the scale-up of...
This SBIR Phase I contract, valued at $124,325.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Powdermet Inc., a small business manufacturing company. The contract is for the development of an advanced nanocomposite capacitor that can operate reliably in harsh environments, with a wide temperature range (-100°C to 400°C), high voltages (over 1 kilovolt), and high energy and power density. This technology is intended to support NASA's aerospace exploration...
This is a $754,712.00 federal contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Powdermet Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the continued development of high energy density, high voltage, and wide temperature capacitor technology with applications in harsh aerospace environments, including for NASA's ion thruster propulsion systems. The contract builds on the successful Phase I...
This is a $124,891 firm fixed price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Powdermet Inc., a small business manufacturer. The contract is for research and development of advanced soft magnetic nanocomposites for high-frequency power applications in electrified aircraft propulsion. This SBIR Phase I contract was set aside for small businesses. Powdermet Inc. has prior experience providing research and development services to...
This federal contract award to Nanoramic, Inc. (doing business as Nanoramic Laboratories) is for the development of an ultra-high power density and high frequency ultracapacitor capable of operating across a wide temperature range. The $124,623 fixed-price contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program, aims to design and prototype a hybrid system combining the ultracapacitor with a high energy...
This $120,055.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sigma Technologies International Group, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of lightweight, high energy density direct current (DC)-link capacitors that can operate in extreme temperature ranges, which are a critical component of power processing units (PPUs) used in NASA's...
This $838,441 SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Polycharge America, Inc., a small business subsidiary of Borgwarner Inc. that specializes in advanced capacitor technology. The contract is for the development of high energy density, radiation tolerant capacitors for cryogenic temperature space applications. This builds upon Polycharge's previous SBIR Phase I contract with NASA to research similar disruptive pulse power capacitor technology. The contract has...
This is a $125,000 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Thermosolv LLC, a limited liability company based in Laramie, Wyoming. The contract is focused on the development of novel ceramic dielectrics with a nanostructured architecture to enable high-energy-density, high-power, thermally stable, and long-lived capacitors for energy storage and power conditioning in space applications....
Fastcap Systems Corp, doing business as Nanoramic Laboratories, was awarded a $724,208 firm-fixed price contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The objective of this Phase II SBIR contract is to develop a flexible, high-efficiency, and novel hybrid ultracapacitor module design to enable increased power capabilities in CubeSat spacecraft. This contract is set aside for small...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Ames Research Center, a civilian agency, to Nanoscale Corporation for the development of novel metal-oxide-carbon nanocomposites for use in pseudocapacitive electrochemical supercapacitors. The $100,000.00 firm fixed-price contract focuses on synthesizing and characterizing nanocomposites based on manganese, titanium, tantalum, and vanadium oxides combined with conductive carbon supports. Nanoscale is responsible...