This is a SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Victor Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company. The contract, valued at $749,906.00, is for the development of sophisticated inversion algorithms to improve the nondestructive characterization of advanced composites, such as carbon-fiber reinforced polymers, using electromagnetic methods. The goal is to better distinguish between different types of...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Victor Technologies LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company based in Chicago, Illinois. The contract, valued at $124,889, is for the enhancement of Victor Technologies' VIC-3D® eddy-current modeling code to enable near real-time, large-scale nondestructive simulations and automated data reduction/analysis for the characterization of carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer (CNRP) composites using...
This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS), a small business based in Milpitas, California. The contract, valued at $124,971.00, is for the development of an effective real-time, in-situ damage locating and growth monitoring system for composite structures using a smart, high-speed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor and piezoelectric actuator network. The project aims to design an...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nanosonic Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Pembroke, Virginia. The $750,000 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of revolutionary multifunctional, self-healing, and radiation-shielding carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites as lightweight materials for space applications such as spacecraft structures and habitat modules. The contract is a Small Business...
This is a $124,988 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to CFD Research Corporation, a small business specializing in computational fluid dynamics and materials modeling. The contract aims to develop a computational materials model to simulate the degradation of ceramic matrix composite materials under the high-temperature, high-velocity conditions of propulsion systems. This will provide NASA with a tool to assist in the selection and optimization of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,935.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Luna Innovations Incorporated, a small business manufacturer, to further develop the Rapid In-Place Composite Rotor Damage Detection (RIPCORDD) system. The RIPCORDD system uses high-definition fiber optic strain sensors and optical frequency domain reflectometry to enable rapid and non-destructive assessment of structural health for composite rotorcraft blades and other composite...
This is a $124,939.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I award issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to San Diego Composites, Inc. (SDC), a manufacturer of complex composite components, assemblies, engineering, and tooling for the aerospace, defense, and space systems markets. Under this contract, SDC will develop techniques for the reduction and analysis of fiber optic data, with a focus on associating changes in frequency domain behavior with...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to San Diego Composites, Inc. (SDC), a manufacturer of complex composite components, assemblies, and engineering services for the aerospace, defense, and space systems markets. The contract, worth $749,948, focuses on establishing a closed-loop system and software for the structural health monitoring (SHM) and manufacturing quality control (MQC) of composite...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Intelligent Automation, LLC to develop a "Virtual Inspection" simulation toolbox (UGW-SIM) for ultrasonic guided waves. The toolbox will assist in the analysis and interpretation of ultrasonic guided wave signals for damage detection and identification in aerospace structures. The Phase I effort will focus on the feasibility demonstration for...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Metrolaser, Incorporated, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for $124,932.00. The contract aims to develop a non-destructive evaluation method using acoustic signatures to inspect parts manufactured by additive manufacturing (AM) processes, which can be applied both in space and on Earth. The proposed solution combines laser Doppler vibrometry...