Purchase Order NNX17CD13P
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- Electric Power Systems Inc. (EP Systems), a small business based in North Logan, Utah, was awarded a $1.12 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by NASA on May 9, 2018, to develop an active battery management system (BMS) for the X57 Maxwell electric aircraft demonstrator. The contract, which concluded on June 30, 2022, focused on advancing battery technology for distributed electric propulsion applications by creating dynamic measurement and control systems capable...
- Electric Power Systems Inc. (EP Systems), a small disadvantaged business, was awarded a $124,796 firm fixed price purchase order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop an active battery management system with a physics-based life modeling topology. This contract supports NASA's research on distributed electric propulsion and hybrid electric aircraft, which rely heavily on energy storage systems with large numbers of battery cells. The...
- This federal contract award from the NASA Shared Services Center is for the development of a battery management and control system for hybrid and/or all-electric aircraft propulsion. The $124,449 SBIR Phase I contract was awarded to X-Wave Innovations, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The contract is focused on advancing lithium-based battery technology to improve the efficiency, safety, and reliability of electric aircraft propulsion systems....
- This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to X-Wave Innovations, Inc. (XII), a Small Disadvantaged Business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase II. The contract, valued at $749,623.00, is for the development of a Battery Management and Control System using a Universal Reconfigurable Architecture to extend the life and improve the performance of hybrid and/or all-electric propulsion systems as well...
- This is a $749,999.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to X-Wave Innovations, Inc., a minority-owned and woman-owned small business. The contract, which is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program award, seeks to develop an active balancing electronic system that can balance a battery pack and measure battery health-related parameters without additional hardware. The goal is to improve battery...
- This $213,057 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Electric Power Systems Inc. (EP Systems), a small business manufacturer of energy storage systems, DC fast charging stations, and battery management systems. The contract is to procure de-energized batteries for testing and electric vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) research and development. This award is a follow-on to previous NASA SBIR and small...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Nextgen Battery Technologies, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of an advanced rechargeable lithium battery for space applications. The firm-fixed-price contract, valued at $124,999.00, was awarded on August 19, 2019, with a completion date of February 18, 2020. The contract was set aside for small...
- This is a $749,899 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Solid Power Operating, Inc., a small business, to develop high-energy, long-life solid-state batteries for aerospace applications. The contract is part of NASA's "Ultra High Energy Solid-State Batteries for Next Generation Space Power" program and aims to demonstrate the feasibility of achieving over 600 Wh/kg and 1,000 Wh/L at the cell level, which would represent a 3-5x...
- This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Giner Inc., a small business research and development firm based in Auburndale, Massachusetts. The $124,445 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of advanced rechargeable lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries with high energy density and low cost, under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The Phase I project aims to use a superionic solid...
- This is a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to NEI Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Piscataway, New Jersey. The contract aims to develop advanced lithium-ion battery technologies to meet the energy storage needs for NASA's extravehicular activities. The program seeks to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a new class of lithium-ion batteries that...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc. (Issi), a small business, for the development of an active battery management system (BMS) with physics-based life modeling capabilities. The objective is to improve the life cycle of the battery pack used in the X57 Maxwell electric aircraft by up to 40% through more advanced BMS algorithms and controls. The $123,075 firm fixed price contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and focuses on distributed electric propulsion and hybrid electric architectures, which rely heavily on batteries to achieve fuel efficiency and reduced emissions. The contract aims to address challenges with cell-to-cell capacity variation and limitations of traditional passive balancing topologies, through the use of active balancing and integration of predictive health monitoring, life-based management, and physics-based cell modeling algorithms.
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| Not listed | Not listed | $123.1k | 6/5/17 |