AWARD
A -- RECOVERY - SONIC BOOM FOCUSING
- Notice Date
- 7/26/2010
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton,VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNH09ZEA001N-A
- Archive Date
- 7/21/2010
- Point of Contact
- LaShonda P. Jacobs-Terry, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-2359, Fax 757-864-9775, Email Lashonda.P.Jacobs-Terry@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
LaShonda P. Jacobs-Terry
(Lashonda.P.Jacobs-Terry@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- NNL10AB94T-A
- Award Date
- 6/21/2010
- Awardee
- Wyle Laboratories 128 Maryland Street El Segundo, CA 90245
- Award Amount
- 407138
- Description
- RECOVERY-This notice is provided for information purposes only. NASA LaRC awardeda fixed-price contract to Wyle Laboratories, Inc. entitled Sonic Boom Focusing. Thiscompetitive action is funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). Thisaward results from a competitive selection under the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA) Headquarters released NASA Research Announcement (NRA) forfoundational research in support of the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD),entitled 'Research Opportunities in Aeronautics (ROA) 2009 under NNH09ZEA001N, Amendment4, A.4 Supersonics Project (SUP1) (Recovery Act Funds) Sonic Boom Modeling.TheSupersonics Project is aligned with the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD)principles of maintaining intellectual stewardship of aeronautical core competencies forthe nation in supersonic flight technologies and research appropriate to NASAs uniquecapabilities. The Project supports the Fundamental Aeronautics Program strategy ofdeveloping systems level multidisciplinary capabilities (e.g., airframe design, enginedesign, airspace modeling and simulation) for supersonic civilian and militaryapplications. The Supersonics Project is a broad-based effort designed to developknowledge, capabilities and technologies that support vehicles that fly supersonic byeliminating the efficiency, environmental and performance barriers to practicalsupersonic cruise vehicles. The Project has identified a set of key Technical Challengesthat are barriers to success for this vehicle type. This effort will address the SonicBoom Modeling Technical Challenge.Successful supersonic civil aircraft must be capable of supersonic flight over land.However, the sonic boom that occurs when aircraft travel at speeds greater than sound isperhaps the most significant environmental barrier to supersonic commercial flight. Inthe near term, the Supersonics project is emphasizing understanding and overcoming thisbarrier, both through the development of approaches to reducing sonic boom noise andimproving understanding of the impact of these reduced noise booms.The Supersonics Project is developing technologies that potentially will lower a sonicboom to levels acceptable to the general community. There is very little data on theeffects of such booms, and the project therefore has adopted a three-pronged approach tostudying the atmospheric effects, transmission into structures (living area of a typicalresidence and a large multi-cubical office environment), and human reaction to thesebooms. The Projects goal is to develop software to accurately predict the location andintensity of these focused sonic booms to help design new supersonic aircraft that willbe acceptably quiet for overland operation. This effort will seek validation of newsoftware codes by comparison to measurements of actual focused sonic booms, refinementfor best performance, and then assessment for their use with future quiet supersonicaircraft designs (also called low-boom aircraft).
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