SBIR/STTR Research Award
UAM Design Space Exploration Framework with Embedded Version Control
Award amount
$149,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2024Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- M4 ENGINEERING, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2024-08-08
- Contract end date
- 2025-02-06
- UEI
- DM3EW67JLQM1
- Solicitation number
- SBIR-2024-Phase 1
- Topic code
- A1
Research abstract
There are no tools available to NASA that are capable of managing UAM design space exploration. The framework proposed here seeks to address that need. The framework will rely on external analysis tools, such as VSPAERO, to provide disciplinary analysis. It will also rely on external optimization frameworks, such as OpenMDAO, to perform multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization. The framework proposed here will feature a JSON-based vehicle architecture designed around multi-model UAM concepts. Additionally, the framework will have a version control system embedded in it to handle vehicle version management. This is made possible by the text-based nature of the JSON format.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Hypersonic Computational Fluid Dynamics Heat Flux Sub-Models
- PyFoil81: Rotorcraft Design Tool Airfoil Table Generator
- High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions in Hypersonic Air-Breathing Systems
- UAM Design Space Exploration Framework with Embedded Version Control
- Low Cost Carbon-Carbon Development for Hypersonic Flight Systems
Research funding history
83 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2026). Reported award amounts total $30,097,301. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration