NASA 2020 STTR Program Phase I Selections - Research Institution List

Proposals Selected for Negotiation of Contracts

Alabama A&M University
4900 Meridian Street North
Huntsville, AL 35811
Streamline Automation, LLC
3100 Fresh Way Southwest
Huntsville, AL 35805
Alton Reich (256) 713-1220
20-1-T6.05-5155 LaRC
Testing of COTS Systems in Space Radiation Environments [1]
Arizona State University
699 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281
Alphacore, Inc.
304 South Rockford Drive
Tempe, AZ 85281
Andrew Levy (503) 320-5466
20-1-T8.04-5368 GSFC
Metamaterials [2]
Arizona State University
699 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281
Cactus Materials
7700 South River Parkway
Chandler, AZ 85284
Mohammed Rafiqul Islam (480) 213-4704
20-1-T6.06-5608 JSC
Long Term Uses of Potable Water Containing Silver Disinfectant in High Surface to Volume Ratio Metallic Surfaces [3]
Auburn University
23 Samford Hall
Auburn, AL 36849
Physical Sciences, Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 1810
B. David Green (978) 689-0003
20-1-T13.01-5309 SSC
Intelligent Sensor Systems for Rocket Propulsion Testing [4]
Auburn University
23 Samford Hall
Auburn, AL 36849
Research in Flight
1919 North Ashe Court
Auburn, AL 36830
Roy Hartfield (334) 444-8523
20-1-T15.04-4887 AFRC
Early-Design Aeroacoustics Prediction for Distributed Electric Propulsion Vehicles using FlightStream [5]
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign)
1901 South First Street, Suite A
Champaign, IL 61820
Physical Sciences, Inc.
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 1810
B. David Green (978) 689-0003
20-1-T5.04-5470 GRC
Doppler-Compensated Integrated Photonic Time-Bin Entanglement Transceiver [6]
California State University-Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330
Rocket Studios
16037 Bassett Street
Lake Balboa, CA 91406
Daniel Sinor (310) 990-5079
20-1-T4.03-6408 JPL
Hierarchical State Machine Visualization in Multi-Robot System [7]
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Edge Case Research, Inc.
3485 Butler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Brendon Ouimette (412) 455-5444
20-1-T4.01-6224 ARC
Robust Visual Perception Techniques for Intelligent and Adaptive Space Robotics [8]
Cornell University
410 Thurston Avenue
Ithaca, NY
Aegis Technology, Inc.
12630 Westminister Avenue, Suite G
Santa Ana, CA 92706
timothy lin (714) 554-5511
20-1-T15.03-5735 GRC
Solid-State Lithium-ion Batteries for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion Energy Storage [9]
Curators of the University of Missouri on Behalf of UMSL
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
SPEC Sensors LLC
8430 Central Avenue
Newark, CA 94560
David Peaslee (510) 574-8300
20-1-T4.04-5080 ARC
Autonomous Environmental Monitoring and Management Platform for Remote Habitats [10]
Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering
5700 Rivertech Court, Suite 210
Riverdale, MD 20737
Orbit Logic, Inc.
7852 Walker Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Ella Herz (301) 982-6234
20-1-T11.03-6321 MSFC
SCRAMBL (Space Communication Reconstruction and Mapping with Blockchain Ledgering) [11]
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (dba SPEC Innovations)
10440 Balls Ford Road, Suite 230
Manassas, DE 20109
Steven Dam (540) 272-0013
20-1-T11.04-5376 LaRC
Analytic Standard Operating Procedure Digital Assistant (ASOPDA) [12]
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
205 14th Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30318
Soar Technology, Inc.
3600 Green Court, Suite 600
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Lindsay Bayles (734) 887-7609
20-1-T11.04-4665 LaRC
Ada Phase I [13]
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
250 14th Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30318
TDA Research, Inc.
12345 West 52nd Avenue
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
John D. Wright (303) 940-2347
20-1-T2.05-5396 GRC
A New Oxygen Recovery Process to Reduce Waste from Propellant Tanks [14]
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 21044
TRACLabs, Inc.
100 North East Loop 410, Suite 520
San Antonio, TX 78216
David Kortenkamp (281) 461-7886
20-1-T4.01-5037 ARC
Integrating ROS 2 with the Core Flight System [15]
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144
CTEN Global Strategies, LLC
8415 Southwest 28th Place
Gainesville, FL 32608
Cason Chatham (770) 633-9169
20-1-T11.03-6333 GSFC
Hedera Hashgraph based Distributed Ledger for Aerospace Applications [16]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 2139
ADVR, Inc.
2310 University Way, Building 1-1
Bozeman, MT 59715
Betsy Heckel (406) 522-0388
20-1-T5.04-5429 GRC
High-purity, high-rate, photon pair source for space-based entanglement distribution [17]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 2139
Docugami, Inc.
3500 South Dupont Highway
Dover, DE 19901
Sandy Moritz (425) 968-2380
20-1-T11.04-6527 LaRC
Next Generation AI-Based Assisted Document Authoring, Recommendation and Understanding [18]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 2139
Little Prairie Services
14 Dunkin Road
Edgewood, NM 87015
Roger Lenard (505) 220-8029
20-1-T2.04-6118 MSFC
NTR Fuel Testing in MIT Reactor Facilities [19]
Montana State University
Office of Sponsored Programs, PO Box 172470
Bozeman, MT 59717
Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.
1650 South Amphlett Boulevard, Suite 300
San Mateo, CA 94402
Nate Henke (650) 931-2719
20-1-T4.04-5249 ARC
Gateway Management through Adaptive, Autonomous, Fault Identification & Diagnosis and Reconfiguration/Replanning/Rescheduling Optimization [20]
New Mexico State University-Dona Ana
1780 East University Avenue
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Formalloy Technologies, Inc.
2830 Via Orange Way, Suite H
Spring Valley, CA 91978
Melanie Lang (619) 377-9101
20-1-T12.06-6599 JPL
Data-Driven Modeling of Directed Energy Deposition (DED) for Defect-Free Builds using Real-Time Monitoring Approaches [21]
Northwestern University
633 Clark Street
Evanston, IL 60208
QuesTek Innovations, LLC
1820 Ridge Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Kevin Creely (847) 425-8226
20-1-T12.06-5463 JPL
Improved Part-Scale Modeling of Additive Manufacturing Processes [22]
Oregon State University
153 Gilbert Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Nanovox, LLC
15985 Northwest Schendel Avenue, Suite 201
Beaverton, OR 97006
Debra Ozuna (503) 260-6869
20-1-T12.05-6182 JSC
Additive-Manufactured Ablative Thermal Protection Systems [23]
Oregon State University
153 Gilbert Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
CubCrafters Inc.
1918 South 16th Avenue
Yakma, WA 98903
Pat Horgan (509) 895-9465
20-1-T15.04-5017 AFRC
ELAS, Electric Lift Augmenting Slats [24]
Regents of the University of Michigan
3003 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Design Analysis & Research Corporation
910 East 29th
Lawrence, KS 66046
Willem Anemaat (785) 832-0434
20-1-T15.04-5958 AFRC
Open Source Distributed Electric Propulsion MDAO Tool [25]
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
501 East Saint Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701
VRC Metal Systems
600 North Ellsworth Road
Box Elder , SD 57719
Terree Matson McCoy (605) 716-0061
20-1-T2.04-6822 MSFC
Additive Manufacturing by High-Pressure Cold Spray [26]
Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra Road
San Antonio, TX 78238
Southwest Sciences, Inc.
1570 Pacheco Street, Suite E-11
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Alan Stanton (505) 984-1322
20-1-T6.07-5408 KSC
Real Time Ethylene Monitor for Plant Growth Management [27]
Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra Road
San Antonio, TX 78238
Elder Research, Inc.
300 West Main Street, Suite 301
Charlottesville, VA 22903
William Goodrum (434) 973-7673
20-1-T12.06-4917 JPL
RAMBO: Rapid Additive Manufacturing Build Outcomes [28]
Stanford University
450 Serra Mall
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Particle Matters, Inc.
2324 Venndale Avenue
San Jose, CA 95124
Sergey Gimelshein (818) 527-5432
20-1-T2.04-5261 MSFC
Advanced Design Tools for Electrosail Propulsion Systems [29]
Stanford University
450 Serra Mall
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Intelligent Automation, Inc.
15400 Calhoun Drive, Suite 190
Rockville, MD 20855
Mark James (301) 294-5221
20-1-T15.04-5315 AFRC
Integrated Vehicle-Propulsion-Control Design for DEP-Enabled Aircraft (IDEA) [30]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
7607 Eastmark Drive
College Station, TX 77840
ATSP Innovations
60 Hazelwood Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Jacob Meyer (217) 778-4400
20-1-T12.01-4984 LaRC
Creep-Resistant Aromatic Polyester Thermosets for Thin-Ply Composites [31]
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc.
9063 Bee Caves Road
Austin, TX 78733
Megan Lietha (512) 615-4444
20-1-T12.05-5304 JSC
Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Thermal Protection Systems (TPSs) Using Preceramic Polymer Resin [32]
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive, Box #5157
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Geocent, LLC
111 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 1600
Metairie, LA 70005
Jeff Tomeny (504) 831-1900
20-1-T13.01-5600 SSC
Intelligent Sensor Systems - 2020 [33]
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 West Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080
Nanohmics, Inc.
6201 East Oltorf Street, Suite 400
Austin, TX 78741
Mike Mayo (512) 389-9990
20-1-T8.06-5681 GSFC
On-Demand Single-Photon Sources for Correlated Calibration of Single Photon Detectors [34]
Union College
807 Union Street
Schenectady, NY 12308
Vistex Composites, LLC
11 Opus Boulevard, Suite B
Schenectady, NY 12306
Jaron Kuppers (508) 340-7873
20-1-T12.01-6578 LaRC
OOA Process for Manufacture of Large Thin Gauge Composites [35]
University of California - Santa Barbara
Office of Research - 3227 Cheadle Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Amethyst Research, Inc.
123 Case Circle
Ardmore, OK 73401
Robert Kuester (580) 657-2575
20-1-T5.04-6397 GRC
Ultra-Efficient Integrated Photonic Quantum Transceiver for High-Speed Quantum Communications [36]
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32816
AnalySwift
5413 Crus Corvi Road
West Jordan, UT 84081
Allan Wood (801) 599-5879
20-1-T12.01-5412 LaRC
Modeling Nonlinear Viscoelasticity and Time-Dependent Yielding of Thin-Ply Composites [37]
University of Colorado Boulder
1111 Engineering Drive
Boulder, CO 80309
Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.
1650 South Amphlett Boulevard, Suite 300
San Mateo, CA 94402
Nate Henke (650) 931-2719
20-1-T4.04-5250 KSC
Autonomous Payload Operations on the Lunar Gateway [38]
University of Colorado Boulder
1111 Engineering Drive
Boulder, CO 80309
Orbit Logic, Inc.
7852 Walker Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Ella Herz (301) 982-6234
20-1-T4.03-5760 JPL
IN-PASS: Intelligent Navigation, Planning, and Autonomy for Swarm Systems [39]
University of Connecticut
438 Whitney Road Extension, U-1133
Storrs, CT 6269
Precision Combustion, Inc.
410 Sackett Point Road
North Haven, CT 6473
Anthony Anderson (203) 287-3700
20-1-T2.05-5203 GRC
Pressure and Low Temperature Tolerant, High Current Density Solid Electrolyte for Propellant Grade Reactants [40]
University of Connecticut
438 Whitney Road Extension, U-1133
Storrs, CT 6269
Combustion Research and Flow Technology
6210 Keller's Church Road
Pipersville, PA 18947
Neeraj Sinha (215) 766-1520
20-1-T2.05-4812 GRC
Design of Spray Cooling Systems for Chilldown of Propellant Tanks [41]
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469
Applied Optimization, Inc.
3040 Presidential Drive, Suite 100
Fairborn, OH 45324
Barbara Krivian (937) 431-5100
20-1-T8.04-6260 JPL
Tunable, Reconfigurable Metamaterials Using Liquid Crystal Medium [42]
University of Delaware
210 South College Avenue
Newark, DE 19716
KAI, Inc.
6402 Needham Lane
Austin, TX 78739
Penelope Koo (512) 301-4170
20-1-T12.05-4930 JSC
Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Carbon Fiber Reinforced Phthalonitriles for Thermal Protection [43]
University of Hawaii
2440 Campus Road, Box 368
Honolulu, HI 96822
Interstel Technologies, Inc.
91-1036 Waiilikahi Street
Ewa Beach, HI 96706
Miguel Nunes (808) 388-1176
20-1-T4.03-5557 JPL
Cooperative Control and Localization of Multiple Spacecraft using a Multi-Agent Mission Operations System [44]
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2500 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Goodman Technologies, LLC
9551 Giddings Avenue Northeast
Albuquerque, NM 87109
William Goodman (505) 400-8169
20-1-T12.05-5275 JSC
Moldable and Curable Silicon Carbide Prepreg For Hypersonic Thermal Protection Systems [45]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1901 South First Street, Suite A
Champaign, IL 61820
ADVR, Inc.
2310 University Way, Building 1-1
Bozeman, MT 59715
Betsy Heckel (406) 522-0388
20-1-T8.06-5430 GSFC
Tunable Narrow-Band Bi-Photon Source in IR Spectral Region for Calibration of High-Performance Transition-Edge Sensors [46]
University of New Mexico-Main Campus
1700 Lomas Boulevard Northeast
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Prewitt Ridge, Inc.
1610 West 7th Street, Unit 501
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Steven Massey (314) 591-7618
20-1-T11.03-6433 MSFC
Trusted Working Copies for Distributed Systems Engineering [47]
University of Puerto Rico
14, 2534 Avenue Universidad Suite 1401
San Juan, PR 925
TDA Research, Inc.
12345 West 52nd Avenue
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
John D. Wright (303) 940-2347
20-1-T6.06-5500 JSC
High Capacity Sorbents for Removal of Problematic Contaminants from Processed Wastewater [48]
University of Tennessee Space Institute
411 B.H. Goethert Parkway
Tullahoma, TN 37388
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories, LLC
112 Mitchell Boulevard
Tullahoma, TN 37388
Paul Gloyer (931) 455-7333
20-1-T2.05-4862 GRC
Standards for Impure Propellants [49]
University of Utah
201 Presidents Circle, Room 201
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Innosense, LLC
2531 West 237th Street, Suite 127
Torrance, CA 90505
Kisholoy Goswami (310) 530-2011
20-1-T6.07-5335 KSC
In-Space Plant Nutrient: Acicular Surface Modified Polymers for Aiding Faceted Sodium Chloride Separation from Urine [50]
University of Washington
4333 Brooklyn Avenue Northeast, Box 359472
Seattle, WA 98195
Convergent Manufacturing Technologies US
1101 North Northlake Way, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98103
Brian Coxon (206) 434-1976
20-1-T12.01-4586 LaRC
Process Simulation & Optimization for Thin-Ply Composites [51]
UNLV
4505 South Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154
Geisel Software, Inc.
67 Millbrook Street
Worcester, MA 1606
Brian Geisel (508) 936-5099
20-1-T4.03-6090 JPL
Robot Simulation Platform for Source Search and Mapping [52]
Vanderbilt University
2101 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37235
Busek Company, Inc.
11 Tech Circle
Natick, MA 1760
Judy Budny (508) 655-5565
20-1-T6.05-6533 LaRC
Radiation Modeling of COTS Power Converters in a Highly Shield Space Environment [53]
Virginia Tech
925 Prices Fork Road
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Altius Space Machines, Inc.
3001 Industrial Lane, Unit #5
Broomfield, CO 80020
Jonathan Goff (801) 362-2310
20-1-T4.03-5435 JPL
Autonomous In-space Assembly of Modular Structures [54]
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Boulevard
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Adelphi Technology, LLC
2413 Nashville Road, Suite B8
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Charles Gary (650) 575-4555
20-1-T6.07-5715 KSC
Compact Ethylene Monitor for NASA Space Missions [55]
Wichita State University
1845 N. Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260
Electro Magnetic Applications
7655 West Mississippi Avenue, Suite 300
Lakewood, CO 80226
Emily Hennerberg (720) 974-1215
20-1-T5.03-5050 KSC
Numerical Simulation of Fields in Cavities with Detailed Antenna Modeling [56]
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 50883
Giner, Inc.
89 Rumford Avenue
Newton, MA 2466
Cortney Mittelsteadt (781) 529-0529
20-1-T15.03-5033 GRC
Enabling High Energy Density Li-ion Battery Using Solid Electrolytes [57]
Yale University
206 Elm Street
New Haven, CT 6520
Innosense, LLC
2531 West 237th Street, Suite 127
Torrance, CA 90505
Kisholoy Goswami (310) 530-2011
20-1-T6.06-4928 JSC
Nanomaterials Based In-Line Sensor for Ionic Silver in Spacecraft Potable Water Systems [58]

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Proposals Selected for Negotiation of Contracts

Alabama A&M University

Streamline Automation, LLC

Arizona State University

Alphacore, Inc.

Arizona State University

Cactus Materials

Auburn University

Physical Sciences, Inc.

Auburn University

Research in Flight

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign)

Physical Sciences, Inc.

California State University-Northridge

Rocket Studios

Carnegie Mellon University

Edge Case Research, Inc.

Cornell University

Aegis Technology, Inc.

Curators of the University of Missouri on Behalf of UMSL

SPEC Sensors LLC

Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering

Orbit Logic, Inc.

George Mason University

Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (dba SPEC Innovations)

Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

Soar Technology, Inc.

Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

TDA Research, Inc.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC

TRACLabs, Inc.

Kennesaw State University

CTEN Global Strategies, LLC

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ADVR, Inc.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Docugami, Inc.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Little Prairie Services

Montana State University

Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.

New Mexico State University-Dona Ana

Formalloy Technologies, Inc.

Northwestern University

QuesTek Innovations, LLC

Oregon State University

Nanovox, LLC

Oregon State University

CubCrafters Inc.

Regents of the University of Michigan

Design Analysis & Research Corporation

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

VRC Metal Systems

Southwest Research Institute

Southwest Sciences, Inc.

Southwest Research Institute

Elder Research, Inc.

Stanford University

Particle Matters, Inc.

Stanford University

Intelligent Automation, Inc.

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

ATSP Innovations

Texas State University

Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc.

The University of Southern Mississippi

Geocent, LLC

The University of Texas at Dallas

Nanohmics, Inc.

Union College

Vistex Composites, LLC

University of California - Santa Barbara

Amethyst Research, Inc.

University of Central Florida

AnalySwift

University of Colorado Boulder

Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.

University of Colorado Boulder

Orbit Logic, Inc.

University of Connecticut