Cooperative Agreement 70NANB25H070
- Intact Solutions Inc. was awarded a $252,805 cooperative agreement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609). The award will support CONTACT-AWARE PATH LEVEL (CAPL) THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. Under this cooperative agreement, Intact Solutions will provide scientific and engineering research and technology transfer related to thermal...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) provides $106,494.46 to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc., a small business manufacturer, to develop a commercial software tool that will automate 3D scan-to-simulation capabilities. The goal is to improve the efficiency and robustness of engineering simulations by enabling the construction of accurate dynamic...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) provides $106,500 to Aperi Computational Mechanics Consulting, LLC to develop a commercial software tool that will enable the automation of 3D scan-to-simulation capabilities. The project aims to address the growing demand for improved efficiency and robustness in engineering simulations by developing a software...
- Additive Manufacturing Innovations LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The award will support the development of a next-generation, computationally efficient software for simulating additive manufacturing processes of metals from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. The National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Directorate seeks to advance science,...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach grant program (CFDA 11.620) to X-Wave Innovations, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business. The purpose of the award is for X-Wave Innovations to develop an advanced machine learning-based in-situ monitoring (ML-ISM) package for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The proposed technology aims to...
- This $255,934 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant will support Exlattice, Inc.'s development of machine learning-powered additive manufacturing simulation software. Under the SBIR Phase I Project Grant, Exlattice will create a proof-of-concept for 3-5 orders of magnitude faster process simulation software to predict manufacturing failures from high temperature, residual distortion, and residual stresses. The proposed hybrid data-driven and physics-based...
- This Cooperative Agreement award of $210,000 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) federal grant program will be used by the University of Utah to extend existing research into using artificial intelligence, the NIST Hedgehog software, and novel numerical techniques (Material Point Methods) to develop a digital twin simulation of laser sintering in additive manufacturing. The key activities...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620) provides $399,924.21 to Applied Research Transformation, PLLC to develop a commercial system for obtaining optimal interlayer bond strength of cementitious materials used in field-based concrete printing. The project aims to introduce a system that will support the field-based printing industry, building trades,...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $289,830.98 Cooperative Agreement under the CHIPS Research and Development (CFDA 11.042) program to Laser Thermal Analysis, Inc. The purpose of this award is for the company to build a hybrid atomic force microscopy-thermoreflectance (AFM-TR) instrument capable of generating high-resolution thermal resistance, thermal boundary interface resistance, and temperature profile maps of microprocessors and wide bandgap semiconductor...
- Refined Imaging, LLC was awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach federal grant program to develop a secure, printable ink technique for cyber-tracking additive manufactured parts. The company will conduct proof of concept experiments to program 3D printers to modulate material porosity during deposition, resulting in an optically invisible patterned code that can be...
Intact Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a $106,500 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620). The purpose of this award is for Intact Solutions to develop a thermal history simulation framework tailored for multi-laser powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing platforms. This simulation tool will leverage Intact Solutions' proprietary contact-aware path-level discretization technology to provide critical insights for process parameter optimization and defect mitigation in multi-laser PBF systems. The proposed simulation capability aims to help NIST solve problems associated with its additive manufacturing projects and support the qualification and broader adoption of multi-laser PBF technology for efficient production of large-scale components with improved performance. The award has a performance period from August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $106.5k | 7/28/25 |