SOLICITATION NOTICE
C -- RECOVERY ACT - ARTIFICIAL ICE SHAPE DESIGN FOR LOSS OF CONTROL PREVENTION ANDMITIGATION
- Notice Date
- 3/15/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- NNC10E401T
- Response Due
- 3/20/2010
- Archive Date
- 3/15/2011
- Point of Contact
- Lori A Conroy, Contract Specialist, Phone 216-433-3086, Fax 216-433-5489, Email lori.a.conroy-1@nasa.gov - Ronald W. Sepesi, Chief - Institutional Services Branch, Phone 216-433-2792, Fax 216-433-5489, Email Ronald.W.Sepesi@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Lori A Conroy
(lori.a.conroy-1@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Competitive 8(a)
- Description
- RECOVERY ACT - THE NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER (GRC) HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED UNDER THEAMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 TO ISSUE A TASK ORDER FOR ENGINEERINGSUPPORT SERVICES UNDER THE PREVIOUSLY AWARDED, COMPETITIVE 8(a) CONTRACT NNC06BA07B WITHASRC AEROSPACE CORPORATION. THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. BACKGROUND: NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) has committed support for specific effortsunder the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The specific area ofsupport for this task, per NASAs Recovery Act Program for Aeronautics Research, is toextend flight research of adaptive control technologies to prevent loss-of-control. Aircraft Icing is specified in the Aviation Safety Programs Integrated ResilientAircraft Control project as one of several adverse conditions that would likely lead toreduced aircraft control effectiveness or possibly loss of control. Such conditionscould be addressed through the application of advanced aircraft control methods. Currentautomated aircraft control methods do not account for degraded aircraft performance andoperation due to icing.In order to develop, verify, and validate the advanced control methods that might beemployed to mitigate the hazardous effects of aircraft icing, simulations of aircraftflight in icing conditions must be conducted.NASA GRC intends to issue a task order under existing contract NNC06BA07B to procureengineering services to support the design efforts for artificial ice shapes to be usedin a wind tunnel test to determine aerodynamic effects of ice accreted on an aircraftmodel.Aerodynamics is the motion of air as it interacts with an aircraft in flight. Toobtain the iced-aircraft aerodynamics for the simulations, a plan has been developed toconduct wind tunnel experiments using a subscale model aircraft appropriately fitted withartificial ice shapes.These artificial ice shapes must be expertly designed, built,attached to the subscale model aircraft, and verified.Experience and specializedknowledge of the effects of icing on aerodynamics is required to perform this task. Iceaccumulated on an aircraft during flight through clouds at certain conditions disruptsthe air flow around the aircraft. This task will require the design of artificial iceshapes for the leading edges of the main wings, the horizontal tailplane, and thevertical tailplane. Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice. This announcement will not result in a Request for Proposal; this announcement is forinformational purposes only. All questions and/or concerns must be submitted in writingto points of contact contained herein. An Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA Specific Note 'B'.
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