The potential for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion

NASA will lead a meeting next month that will perform a market assessment of U.S. industry leaders regarding the potential for electrified aircraft to include electric drive train, power distribution, and energy storage concepts to be used, in whole or in part, as primary propulsion for fixed-wing passenger-carrying transport aircraft.

The Industry Day meeting, scheduled for Dec. 6, will be held at the Logistics Management Institute in Tysons, Va. The event is being organized by the Associate Director for Flight Strategy, Integrated Aviation System Program at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. There will be up to eight one-hour briefing slots allocated to the industrial base during the meeting.

Virginia-based AMA awarded NASA contract option

NASA has exercised the third option of its Technology, Engineering, and Aerospace Mission Support 2 contract with Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. (AMA) of Hampton, Va. AMA will continue providing engineering support to the agency's Langley Research Center.

The potential value of the contract, including the approximately $50 million one-year option that starts Oct. 1, is $341.3 million. This is a cost-plus award-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.

Under the contract, AMA will support research and technology on complex, long-term NASA missions. This includes scientific research; engineering design, analysis, and development; and technology readiness level advancement of work associated with evolving NASA missions. The company also will implement technology programs, tests, operations, systems analysis and conceptual design, as well as provide program and project management support.

NASA awards aircraft engine contract to Pratt & Whitney

NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., has awarded Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc. a $168,693.50 contract for a replacement aircraft engine on the agency's UC-12B. Pratt & Whitney is the original manufacturer and sole provider of the PT6-41 aircraft engine for the NASA UC-12B. NASA announced the contract award on Friday.

The UC-12B is fitted with a variety of instruments and sensors that collect data on earth science investigations.

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