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 and government SBIR agencies based on similar interests that relate to specific materials/performance metrics relevant to NASA and the Department of Defense. 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. By participating, we will provide you connections and resources within the primes and government SBIR agencies in order for you to start your interaction with or assist you along the path of meaningful interactions with these organizations.
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 aaw@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 so please plan your travel accordingly.
Aerojet Rocketdyne, An L3Harris Technologies Company
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.
Space & Mission Systems - BAE Systems, Inc.
Web Address: https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/our-company/inc-businesses/space-and-mission-systems
Space & Mission Systems provides: Imaging, Communications and Information Systems, Software, and Services to National Defense and Civil Space government and commercial space customers. Space & Mission Systems also provides Terrestrial Tactical Solution programs. Space & Mission Systems is always actively looking to partner for the systems listed above as well as Thermal, Optical, Mechanical, Electrical, and Material solutions to our most challenging needs.
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 Defense & Security Solutions develops and fields transformative, affordable systems, platforms and products for national security, defense and communications. We are a recognized industry leader in responsive and affordable space launch vehicles, services, and components for the U.S. Government and its allies, specializing in missile defense targets, re-entry system evaluators, hypersonic test platforms, and atmospheric science and research. Kratos is accelerating innovation in the defense market using proven commercial technologies, proactive research and streamlined development in areas that show promise as force-multipliers such as hypersonics, unmanned systems, advanced satellite communications, C5ISR and combat systems.
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.
Missile Defense Agency Technology Maturation
Web Address: https://www.mda.mil/business/SBIR_STTR_programs.html
MDA Technology Maturation (MDA/DVR) administers MDA's SBIR and STTR programs, which are the fourth largest in the Department of Defense. The agency's focus for the SBIR and STTR programs is to pursue technologies that could spur a revolutionary leap or enhancement, decrease the time required to transform them into actual applications for insertion into the Missile Defense System (MDS), and benefit from commercialization of the technology.
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.
RTX
Web Address: https://www.rtx.com/
Like other organizations RTX has a broad range of interests for materials. Thermal management and structural materials enhancements that allow reduced mass for improved performance ranges. High temperature materials of all types that support high thermal performance of electrical systems, polymers, metals and ceramics are areas of interest. This includes support for all types of applications including structural, electrical and manufacturing.
Sierra Space
Web Address: https://www.sierraspace.com/
Sierra Space is a leader in developing and testing liquid and hybrid rocket engines and systems using a wide variety of propellants, including small in-space propulsion and upper-stage engines. Complete facilities for design, manufacture and testing rocket engines at thrust levels from one pound-force thrust up to 150,000 pound-force thrust, where configured test cells have the option of using nitrous oxide, methane, peroxide and other propellants.
If you would like to participate, please use the form below to select the companies you would like to meet with. Please select your top five picks in ranked order and we will schedule them as space allows.