Purchase Order NNX17CM18P
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- This is a $125,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc. (ASTS), an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The contract is for Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop an electrically-heated, stored gas thruster for small spacecraft and satellites. The thruster is designed to provide excellent specific impulse...
- This $990,999.00 firm fixed-price contract was awarded by NASA to Quadrus Corporation, a minority-owned small business, for the continued development of an additive manufacturing (AM) approach to fabricate bimetallic combustion chambers for future NASA small launch vehicles. The contract, which is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II action, leverages Quadrus' expertise in selective laser melting (SLM) and magnetic pulse welding (MPW) to reduce manufacturing lead time and cost,...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop a low-cost, high-efficiency catalyst technology to address navigation and maneuver difficulties in NASA's return missions. The proposed solution involves designing and fabricating a monolithic...
- This is a Phase I SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc. (ASTS), an Alaska Native Corporation-owned small business. The contract, valued at $125,000.00, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using selective laser melting (SLM) to develop the material composition and additive manufacturing fabrication process of silicon carbide (SiC) reinforced AlSi10Mg matrix composite (SiC-AMC) for use as a telescope mirror...
- This is a $125,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the company to demonstrate the feasibility of using an aerospike nozzle to provide increased payload capability to the Mars Ascent Vehicle, a two-stage, all-solid-propulsion system. The aerospike nozzle design is...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $124,954.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to LER Technologies Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, to conduct a feasibility study on an in-situ inspection unit that can be added to an existing additive manufacturing (AM) tool. The goal is to provide real-time information about part quality and detect flaws during the AM process, enabling immediate feedback and process correction to save...
- NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $249,550 firm fixed-price purchase order to North American Manufacturing Pros LLC, a small disadvantaged business based in Ardmore, Alabama, for laser powder bed fusion combustion chamber and specialty alloy build processing. The contract, awarded on April 1, 2025, with completion targeted for December 10, 2025, supports advanced additive manufacturing capabilities for aerospace propulsion system development. The procurement was conducted as a...
- This federal contract award to Arctos Technology Solutions, LLC, a small business, is for the implementation of novel techniques for feedforward and feedback control to improve the control, validation, and documentation of selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing (AM). The key innovations include integrating fringe pattern projection profilometry (FPPP) into the SLM process to capture high-resolution dimensional measurements, and developing integrated computational adaptive AM...
- This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Alphastar Technology Solutions LLC, a woman-owned small business. The $123,390.00 firm fixed-price contract is for Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and supports the development of an in-situ monitoring system for additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The system will enable real-time quality assessment of AM parts, which is critical for the...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Geoplasma Research, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the Additive Manufacturing of Refractory Metal Alloys for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Components, with a potential value of $124,999. The contract was awarded on August 19, 2019 and is set to be completed by February 18, 2020. The contract is a...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc. (ASTS), an Alaskan Native Corporation, for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to demonstrate the feasibility of using an additive manufacturing (AM) approach to fabricate bimetallic combustion chambers for future NASA small launch vehicles. The $125,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract leverages selective laser melting (SLM) and magnetic pulse welding (MPW) to reduce manufacturing time and cost, and improve quality through easier inspection compared to other AM designs. The approach is scalable to larger booster-class combustion chambers. ASTS is a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation that provides a range of engineering and technical services to government agencies under prime and subcontract awards.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $125.0k | 6/9/17 |