Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration   4

To secure the services required to support NASA in investigating the utilization of flight demonstrations to rapidly mature Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) technologies and associated EAP-based vision systems for introduction into the US fleet no later than 2035. The objective of this requirement is to assist NASA Aeronautics Level Goals to accelerate the introduction of Megawatt (MW) class EAP systems into future aircraft products by U.S. industry. This effort helps to identify certification gaps, and address gaps through ground test and flight tests.

This is a hybrid Firm-Fixed Price/Cost-Share contract. Due to nature of the work to be performed under this acquisition, NASA is unable to define its requirements sufficiently to pursue a totally fixed-price type contract vehicle. In addition, uncertainties involved in contract performance do not permit costs to be estimated with sufficient accuracy to use any type of fixed-price contract vehicle for the entire acquisition.