Full and Open Competition after exclusion of sources
Major Defense Program
Not listed
Pricing Type
Firm Fixed Price
Place of Performance
Neffsville, PA 17601, USA
Solicitation Procedures
Negotiated Proposal / Quote
Number Of Offers Received
500
Legislative Mandate
Not listed
National Interest Action
Not listed
Research Type
STTR Phase I
Primary Consortia Member
Not listed
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,966 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The contract is in response to a NASA STTR solicitation topic focused on "Energy Harvesting, Transformation and Multifunctional Power Dissemination". Under this effort, ACT, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, will develop a thermo-radiative cell system to harvest energy from waste heat sources, such as radiators, to generate supplementary power for electronics on space vehicles, platforms or habitats. The overall technical objective is to create a practically usable power generation system leveraging the temperature difference between waste heat and the cold of space. This Phase I project will involve fabricating a cryogenic test system to investigate the performance of the thermo-radiative cell using commercially available semiconductor materials.