Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2022)
Recipient: THE BOEING COMPANY
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2014-07-22 to 2016-10-12
Current total value of award: $4996974
Description: TRUSS BRACED WING DESIGN AND TEST AS PART OF THE NASA FUNDAMENTAL AERONAUTICS PROGRAM, THE FIXED WING PROJECT IS PERFORMING RESEARCH INTO CONCEPTS, TECHNOLOGIES, AND TOOLS THAT WILL ENABLE DRAMATIC REDUCTIONS IN NOISE, EMISSIONS AND INCREASE THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSONIC/TRANSONIC FIXED WING AIRCRAFT. THE FW PROJECT PURSUES A MULTI-GENERATIONAL APPROACH ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF TODAY BUT WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ESTABLISHING THE TECHNOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS NECESSARY TO ENABLE THE CAPABILITIES NEEDED IN THE DECADES AHEAD.