NASA has awarded contracts to 13 companies to provide advanced propulsion and communications system technologies as part of ongoing long-term aerospace research activities at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
The selected companies are:
GE Aviation, Cincinnati
United Technologies Corporation, East Hartford, Connecticut
Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc., Indianapolis
Williams International, Walled Lake, Michigan
Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc., Canoga Park, California
Orbital Technologies Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin
The Boeing Company, St. Louis
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Redondo Beach, California
Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, Elkton, Maryland
Sierra Lobo, Inc., Fremont, Ohio
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Scottsdale, Arizona
John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland
MTI Systems, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland
Each of the 13 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts provide for fixed price, cost share and cost reimbursement competitive tasks with a cumulative maximum value of $190 million over the next five years. Each contract will have a minimum value of $30,000.
The contractors will develop, demonstrate and verify advanced technologies that support key challenges in the areas of communications, structures and materials, power, propulsion systems for aeronautics vehicles, and propulsion and communications systems for space missions and vehicles.
Included in those challenges are high power density engine turbomachinery; advanced combustors and alternative fuels; low noise propulsion; variable, combined and hybrid engine systems; engine icing; instrumentation, sensors, controls and intelligent systems; electric propulsion, rocket-based, combined cycle propulsion systems; communication components and subsystem development; disruptive tolerant networking; and flight and ground communication terminals.
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