Procurement Instrument Identifier:
80NSSC18C0028
Award Type:
DEFINITIVE CONTRACT
Action Obligation:
749999.00
Base And Exercised Options Value:
749999.00
Base And All Options Value:
749999.00
Awarding Agency Name:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Performance Start Date:
2018-05-16
Description:
IN ORDER TO ENABLE WIDESPREAD APPLICATION OF ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL (AFC) TECHNOLOGY ON COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT, ACTASYS, INC. (ACTASYS), IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIAL SYSTEMS AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (CAMMS-UCLA) , THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (UMICH), AND THE BOEING COMPANY (BOEING) INTEND TO BUILD UPON THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK IMPLEMENTED IN PHASE I TO DEVELOP AND PREPARE FOR FLIGHT TESTS A MODULE CONTAINING AN ARRAY OF SYNTHETIC JET ACTUATORS (SJA). OVER A PERIOD OF 18 MONTHS, THE PROJECT WILL BE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS. THE FIRST PART WILL BE DEDICATED PRIMARILY TO IMPROVING ACTUATOR POWER OUTPUT AS WELL AS PREPARING A MODULE PROTOTYPE. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE REQUIRED SJA PERFORMANCE LEVELS, SYSTEM PROPERTIES, AND FUNCTIONALITY AS DETERMINED BY BOEING, THE TEAM SHALL USE THE COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH DEVELOPED IN PHASE I COUPLED WITH INVESTIGATIONS INTO NEW ACTIVE MATERIALS. IN THE SECOND PART, ACTASYS AND BOEING SHALL COLLABORATE ON TESTING THE PROTOTYPE IN ORDER TO DETERMINE FLIGHT TEST READINESS. ACTASYS POST PHASE II PLANS INCLUDE TESTING SJA MODULE PERFORMANCE ON A BOEING 757 COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT TO DEMONSTRATE TARGETED AERODYNAMIC IMPACT AND FUEL EFFICIENCY
Naics Code:
541715: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Product Or Service Code:
AR11: R&D- SPACE: AERONAUTICS/SPACE TECHNOLOGY (BASIC RESEARCH)
Procurement Instrument Identifier:
NNX17CL28P
Award Type:
PURCHASE ORDER
Action Obligation:
122467.00
Base And Exercised Options Value:
122467.00
Base And All Options Value:
122467.00
Awarding Agency Name:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Performance Start Date:
2017-06-09
Description:
IGF::OT::IGF IN ORDER TO ENABLE WIDESPREAD APPLICATION OF ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL (AFC) TECHNOLOGY ON COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTS, ACTASYS INC, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIAL SYSTEMS AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (CAMMS-UCLA) AND THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, INTEND TO DEVELOP A MODEL-BASED ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE VALIDATION OF AFC USING SYNTHETIC JET ACTUATORS (AFCSJ). THE CORE OF THIS APPROACH IS ESTABLISHING A FEEDBACK LOOP BETWEEN NEW COMPUTATIONAL MODELS, LAB TESTS AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN ORDER TO MATURE AFC ACTUATION SYSTEM DESIGN IN A TIME-EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE AND READY-IMPLEMENTABLE MANNER. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT ON THE CURRENT PREVAILING APPROACH OF ITERATIVE BUILD-AND-TEST FOR AFC DEVELOPMENT. PHASE I WILL RESULT IN COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR MODELING THE PERFORMANCE OF SYNTHETIC JET ACTUATORS (SJA) RESULTING IN OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE; CONTROL LOOPS WHICH INCREASE SYSTEM ENERGY EFFICIENCY; AND A DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (DMP) FOR TEST BED RESULT ANALYSIS. PHASE II WILL RESULT IN FULL- SCALE SYSTEM VALIDATION IN LAB AND FIELD TESTS. FIELD DEMONSTRATION OF THE SYSTEM CAPABILITIES WILL USE PHASE I OUTPUTS AND WILL BE PERFORMED USING A PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED FULL-SCALE TRACTOR-TRAILER TEST BED IN ORDER TO REDUCE RISK AND COST COMPARED TO FLIGHT-TESTING.
Naics Code:
541712: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)
Product Or Service Code:
AR11: R&D- SPACE: AERONAUTICS/SPACE TECHNOLOGY (BASIC RESEARCH)
