NASA ARC Solicitation: Low-speed Control – Thruster Demonstration Flight Experiment Using The Aeros 40-D Airship
Synopsis – Jun 24, 2008
Modification 01 – Posted on Jun 24, 2008 New!
General Information
Solicitation Number: NNA08062308
Posted Date: Jun 24, 2008
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Jun 24, 2008
Original Response Date: Jul 01, 2008
Current Response Date: Jul 01, 2008
Classification Code: A — Research and Development
NAICS Code: 336411 – Aircraft Manufacturing
Set-Aside Code: Total Small Business
Contracting Office Address
NASA/Ames Research Center, JA:M/S 241-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Description
NASA/ARC has a requirement for Low-speed Control – Thruster Demonstration Flight Experiment Using the AEROS 40-D Airship
Conventional control surfaces, such as fins and canards, have quite limited control capability when air vehicles fly at low speeds (e.g., take-off and landing) or hover. Utilizing the moment generated by thrust is an efficient way to solve this problem. As for the thrust source, compressed cold gas, micro turboprop, and ducted fan are possible solutions. Aeros has done the preliminary design of the thruster nozzle, and implemented basic ground test using compressed air as the thrust source. During this project, Aeros 40D airship will be used as the flight demonstrator to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed method to low-speed and hover flight. The major tasks are listed as follows.
*Complete the hardware design, including thruster assembly, air feeding system, and compressed air reservoir.
*Develop the pilot-in-loop control system, including control interface, inertial navigation system (INS), GPS, and controller.
*Develop flight data acquisition system to record real-time flight data, environment condition, and control commands.
*Identify necessary design modifications on Aeros 40D airship as the flight demonstrator.
*Integrate the experimental low-speed control system with Aeros 40D airship.
*Perform flight experiment to collect real-time data for further analysis.
*Analyze data to study the vehicle behavior with different thrust sources, and establish the design requirements for automatic low-speed control. Deliverables: -White paper with technical justification for thruster selection for test -40-D low-speed experiment plan (include test matrix) – part 1 -40-D low-speed control thruster experiment report – part 2
NASA/ARC intends to purchase the items from Worldwide Aeros Corporation by authority of 10 USC 2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements.
The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26.
Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort in writing to the identified point of contact not later than 4:30 p.m. local time on July 1, 2008. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the government.
Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.
All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.
An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note “B”.
Any referenced notes may be viewed at the following URLs linked below.
Point of Contact
Name: Jeffrey S. Brown
Title: Contracting Officer
Phone: 650-604-4696
Fax: 650-604-0912
Email: jeffrey.s.brown@nasa.gov
