Small Business Forum

One of the most important elements of the NSMMS & CRASTE is the Small Business Forum and associated opportunities to network. We invite you to engage and maximize your opportunities to team with other companies and do business with the government.

The goal of this forum is to facilitate the interaction of small businesses and universities with larger "prime" contractors based on similar interests that relate to specific materials/performance metrics relevant to NASA and the Department of Defense. Additionally, we will provide you connections and resources within the government SBIR agencies in order for you to start your interaction with or assist you along the path of meaningful interactions with a variety of the SBIR offices. We are confident you will make the correct contacts with regard to technology needs and transfer, in order to foster future communication, innovation, and partnerships.

Small businesses and universities attending the forum will have the opportunity to explore the potential for aligning their capabilities with Prime and with NASA/DoD needs, as well as extend their own research efforts to areas essential to next generation space and missile applications. To facilitate the exchange of information between the small businesses and the primes, we have arranged for 15 minute "one-on-one" sessions. As the session with the primes will only be 15 minutes in length, small business representatives should be prepared to provide appropriate literature that clearly describes their capabilities, POC information, and any other information that might be useful for forging collaborations. Preference will be given in one-on-one sign-ups to those who fill out and return the one-on-one prep sheet. Completed prep sheets should be sent to Amy Walker at awalker@blue52productions.com by 6 June. You will be contacted a week or two before the event with your schedule. Please note that the forum will be held on Monday this year so please plan your travel accordingly.

Prime Agency Participants

The following Prime agencies have confirmed:

Aerojet Rocketdyne
Web Address: http://www.rocket.com
Materials, composites, manufacturing techniques, and analytical techniques involved with advanced materials for solid, liquid, hypersonic, and electric propulsion.
Examples Include: Erosion resistant materials for oxidizing and aluminized propellants; advanced insulators, structural materials, coatings, carbon-carbon, ceramic matrix composites, ceramics, advanced refractory metals, superalloys, light metals, corrosion resistance, elastomers, properties generation for advanced materials, and analytical techniques for complex composites.

Ball Aerospace
Web Address: https://www.ball.com/aerospace
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. provides imaging, communications and information systems, products, software, and services to government and commercial aerospace customers.

The Boeing Company
Web Address: https://www.boeing.com
EO&T enhances Boeing's growth and productivity by driving technical and functional excellence across the enterprise. Its primary objectives are to support the company's business units by delivering competitively protected and environmentally progressive technology that is ready when needed, providing highly disciplined and efficient engineering and operations and supplier management support that ensures program success. The organization pays particular attention to ensuring the success of development programs, and strives to attract, develop and retain a world-class technical and functional work force.

Kratos
Web Address: https://www.kratosdefense.com/
Kratos Space & Missile Defense Systems is an industry leader in responsive and affordable space launch vehicles, services and components for the U.S. Government and its allies, specializing in ballistic missile defense targets, re-entry system evaluators, hypersonic experimentation, and atmospheric science and research. Boasting a team of the most highly trained and experienced launch vehicle engineers and technicians in the industry, Kratos supports customer launches all over the world. With a typical cycle time of six to nine months from requirement to launch and over 120 successful launches during the past two decades, Kratos is Ready for What’s Next.

Lockheed Martin
Web Address: https://www.lockheedmartin.com
Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC) is one of the world’s largest defense and aerospace contractors, and manufactures many high-technology fielded systems for the U.S. defense establishment. The companies of LMC develop and integrate materials, processes, and advanced manufacturing technologies for aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and ground-based systems

Northrop Grumman
Web Address: https://www.northropgrumman.com/who-we-are/defining-possible-innovation-and-advanced-technology/#/intro
As a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, Northrop Grumman, builds and delivers space, defense and aviation-related systems to customers around the world both as a prime contractor and as a merchant supplier. Our main products include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; satellites and associated components and services; composite aerospace structures; tactical missiles, subsystems and defense electronics; Military Aircraft; and precision weapons, armament systems and ammunition.