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Emergent Space Technologies, LLC

Federal contracting record: $12M obligated across 29 awards from 4 agencies, FY 20162024.

$12M
Total Obligated
29
Award Records
4
Agencies Served
4
NAICS Codes

Company Profile

UEI (Unique Entity Identifier)

NEADND7P5QX7

CAGE Code

3A2W3

Parent Organization

Emergent Space Technologies, LLC

Address

7901 SANDY SPRING RD STE 511, LAUREL, MD, 207073589

First Federal Award

Feb 11, 2016

Most Recent Award

Dec 29, 2023

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Top Federal Agencies

  • Department of Defense

    62.5% of total obligations

    $7.7M
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    37.8% of total obligations

    $4.7M
  • General Services Administration

    0.0% of total obligations

    $0
  • U.S. Agency for Global Media

    -0.3% of total obligations

    -$33K

Top NAICS Activity

  • 541715

    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY)

    18 awards

    $10M
  • 541712

    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)

    6 awards

    $1.8M
  • 541330

    ENGINEERING SERVICES

    3 awards

    $175K
  • 541511

    CUSTOM COMPUTER PROGRAMMING SERVICES

    2 awards

    $163K

Recent Federal Awards

DateAgencyNAICSDescriptionAmount
Sep 27, 2022Department of DefenseSPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY541715SBIR PHASE 2 FOR THE INTEGRATED FLIGHT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR SPACE MESH NETWORKING PROGRAM.$1.7M
May 17, 2022National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715PLAN GENERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS SMALL SPACECRAFT SWARMS$125K
May 4, 2022National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715E014042 SBIR PHASE II PLAN GENERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS SMALL SPACECRAFT SWARMS$750K
Sep 20, 2021National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715AUTOPILOT COMMANDER CONJUNCTION-ASSESSMENT ENABLING A STARLING AND A SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGE AND DECONFLICTION$998K
May 18, 2021National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715PLAN GENERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS SMALL SPACECRAFT SWARMS$125K
May 12, 2021National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715MACHINE LEARNING-ACCELERATED GRID ENVIRONMENT$125K
Apr 12, 2021Department of DefenseFA8649 USAF SBIR STTR CNTRCTNG AFRL541715USER INTERFACE FOR THE DESIGN OF MULTIAGENT AUTONOMOUS MISSIONS$50K
Jul 24, 2020Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK541715RENDEZVOUS AND PROXIMITY OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR (RAPID)$1.5M
Dec 6, 2019Department of DefenseFA8818 ASSRD ACS TO SPC SSC/AAK-KT541511LONG DURATION PROPULSIVE TELEMETRY SPLITTER$195K
Aug 19, 2019National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715PROCESSOR REDUNDANCY ENABLED SOFTWARE EVENT RECOVERY WITH VOTING (PRESERV)$125K
Aug 19, 2019National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES (EMERGENT) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP ROBOT, THE RULES ORIENTED BLOCKCHAIN OPERATIONS TRANSACTOR.$125K
Apr 25, 2019National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES HAS CONTINUED DEVELOPING THE OPENFRAMES APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) AS A CORE COMPONENT OF OUR ONGOING NASA PHASE II-X SBIR (NNX16CG16C). OPENFRAMES ALLOWS 3RD-PARTY APPLICATIONS TO DISPLAY HIGH-FIDELITY INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS WITHOUT HAVING TO DIRECTLY WRITE ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS CODE. AS A KEY COMPONENT OF OUR SBIR WORK, WE DEVELOPED THE OPENFRAMESINTERFACE PLUGIN FOR GMAT, WHICH USES OPENFRAMES TO DISPLAY A LARGE VARIETY OF SPACECRAFT AND MISSION INFORMATION IN 3D. FOR THIS TASK, WE WILL FURTHER ENHANCE THE OPENFRAMESINTERFACE WITH SUPPORT FOR ADVANCED SPACECRAFT VISUALIZATIONS, SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO REALTIME RENDERING. THIS NEW CAPABILITY WILL ALLOW THE OPENFRAMESINTERFACE PLUGIN TO VISUALIZE SPACECRAFT TELEMETRY EITHER IN REAL TIME, OR IN SIMULATED PLAYBACK TIME, AND ADD ADDITIONAL VISUALIZATION COMPONENTS.$130K
Apr 15, 2019Department of DefenseFA8814 SPACE DEV TEST PLAN PKT LA541715SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AUTOMATION OF MULTI-SATELLITE SYSTEMS CONTRACT$1.8M
Jan 30, 2019Department of DefenseNAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV541715RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT$995K
Sep 5, 2018Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK541715AUTOMATED REMOTE SENSOR TASKING$748K
Jul 5, 2018National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715INCREASING THE LEVEL OF SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY FOR ANY FUTURE SPACE MISSION WILL MAKE IT MORE AFFORDABLE AND CAPABLE, ALLOWING NASA TO DO MORE SCIENCE WITH LESS OPERATIONS COSTS. FOR FUTURE DISTRIBUTED SPACE MISSIONS (DSMS) HOWEVER, SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY IS CRITICAL TO REDUCING COSTS TO MAKE THE MISSIONS AFFORDABLE AND PRACTICAL. THE USE OF MULTIPLE SATELLITES TO SIMULTANEOUSLY SAMPLE SCIENCE OBSERVATIONS IN MULTIPLE SPATIAL, SPECTRAL, ANGULAR, AND TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS IS FEASIBLE ONLY IF THE MISSION OPERATIONS COSTS DO NOT SCALE UP WITH THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES IN THE CONSTELLATION. ACCORDINGLY, FLIGHT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY THAT ENABLES SAFE, COST-EFFICIENT ON-BOARD OPERATION OF SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS IS REQUIRED. IN PHASE I OF THIS PROJECT, EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (EMERGENT) FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHLY CAPABLE EXECUTIVE FOR AUTOMATING ON-BOARD SATELLITE OPERATIONS AND COORDINATING OPERATIONS BETWEEN DSM SATELLITES. CALLED DISTRIBUTED AUTOMATION SUITE FOR HEURISTIC EXECUTION AND RESPONSE (DASHER), THE EXECUTIVE IS COMPATIBLE WITH NASA S CORE FLIGHT SOFTWARE (CFS) SUITE TO LEVERAGE EXISTING FLIGHT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN ON MISSIONS SUCH AS LRO, MMS AND GPM AND EXTEND IT TO DSMS. IN PHASE I, WE SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED AN AUTONOMOUS EXECUTIVE. IN PHASE II, WE EXTEND THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TO PROVIDE A FULL CFS-BASED DSM AUTONOMY FRAMEWORK THAT INCLUDES MULTIPLE PLANNING AGENTS, SCHEDULING AT THE DSM LEVEL AND AT THE SATELLITE LEVEL, AND FAULT DETECTION, ISOLATION, AND RECOVERY (FDIR). DSMS USING THIS FRAMEWORK WILL BE ABLE TO AUTONOMOUSLY PLAN, SCHEDULE, AND EXECUTE ACTIVITIES USING SHARED RESOURCES. WE DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNOLOGY IN A REALISTIC HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION FOR CONCEPTUAL DSM MISSIONS TARGETED AT EARTH REMOTE SENSING.$750K
Jun 20, 2018National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541330ENGINEERING SERVICE$100K
Apr 19, 2018National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541712IGF::OT::IGF TODAY'S MISSION DESIGNERS RELY ON STATE OF THE ART TOOLS WITH MODERN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) ELEMENTS AND REAL-TIME 3D INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS TO VISUALIZE THEIR TRAJECTORIES AND ORBIT CONTROL STRATEGIES. NASA GSFC'S GENERAL MISSION ANALYSIS TOOL (GMAT) OFFERS ADVANCED MISSION DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION CAPABILITIES WITH A FLEXIBLE GUI, BUT ITS 3D GRAPHICS ARE LACKING IN BOTH THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF ITS GRAPHICAL COMPONENTS AS WELL AS THE MATURITY OF ITS VISUALIZATION SUBSYSTEM. EMERGENT WILL THEREFORE MODERNIZE GMAT WITH WORLD-CLASS VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES VIA A GRAPHICS ARCHITECTURE THAT CAN ADAPT TO FUTURE VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES BY REPLACING THE EXISTING BASIC GRAPHICS CODE WITH THE OPENFRAMES VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE. OPENFRAMES IS AN OPEN SOURCE API THAT ALLOWS SIMULATIONS TO INCORPORATE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS WITHOUT REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE EXISTING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE. WE WILL UTILIZE THE MISSION DESIGN VISUALIZATION REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPED IN PHASE I TO FULLY INTEGRATE OPENFRAMES INTO GMAT AND DEMONSTRATE HOW IT ENABLES NEW AND INNOVATIVE MISSION DESIGN APPLICATIONS SUCH AS VISUAL INTERACTIVE TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED SIMULATION AND MODELING. AS A RESULT, THIS RESEARCH WILL NOT ONLY BRING GMAT VISUALIZATIONS UP TO PAR WITH COTS MISSION DESIGN TOOLS SUCH AS STK/ASTROGATOR, BUT WILL ALSO ENABLE IT TO BE VIABLE FOR USE IN VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS THE OCULUS RIFT. MODERNIZED VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY WILL INCREASE GMAT'S USER BASE AND ENHANCE ITS UTILITY FOR FUTURE NASA DISCOVERY AND HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT MISSIONS THAT REQUIRE HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS PAIRED WITH TRULY INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS.$300K
Apr 19, 2018National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715WE WILL ADDRESS THE STATEMENT OF WORK WITH THE SINGLE HIGH-LEVEL TASK 1: TO DEVELOP AND TEST UPDATES TO THE EXISTING OPENFRAMESINTERFACE THAT ENABLE REALTIME RENDERING OF SPACECRAFT POSITION AND ATTITUDE. WE WILL ACCOMPLISH THIS TASK WITH TWO SUBTASKS, EACH OF WHICH RESULTS IN A DEMONSTRATION AND UPDATED VERSIONS OF THE OPENFRAMES API AND OPENFRAMESINTERFACE PLUGIN. NOTE THAT FOR BOTH SUBTASKS, WE WILL WORK WITH THE COR TO OBTAIN SAMPLE DATA THAT WILL BE USED FOR TESTING AND DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES. SUBTASK 1.1: OPENFRAMES ENHANCEMENTS OUR FIRST SUBTASK WILL FOCUS ON ENHANCEMENTS NEEDED IN THE OPENFRAMES API IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY DISPLAY REALTIME DATA. EXAMPLES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: DISPLAYING VECTORS BETWEEN CELESTIAL BODIES, SPACECRAFT, OR GROUND STATIONS OBTAINING SPACECRAFT POSITION/ATTITUDE DATA FROM DISPARATE SOURCES EXPANDING THE OPENFRAMES TRAJECTORY OBJECT S FLEXIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO SPECIFYING ATTITUDE POINTS SEPARATELY FROM POSITION POINTS WE WILL WORK WITH THE COR TO IDENTIFY AND PRIORITIZE ALL NECESSARY GRAPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS, THEN RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENT THEM OPENFRAMES. SUBTASK 1.2: REALTIME PROPAGATION SUPPORT IN OPENFRAMESINTERFACE OUR SECOND SUBTASK WILL FOCUS ON UPDATING THE OPENFRAMESINTERFACE GMAT PLUGIN WITH SUPPORT FOR A REALTIME DATA ANIMATION MODE. CURRENTLY THE PLUGIN CAN ANIMATE THE SCENE IN REAL TIME, HOWEVER THE DATA USED FOR ANIMATION IS ASSUMED TO BE PRE-COMPUTED. WE WILL WORK WITH THE COR TO DEFINE USE-CASES FOR ANIMATING DATA THAT CHANGES IN REALTIME, SUCH AS ATTITUDE TELEMETRY. THIS TASK WILL REQUIRE INTEGRATION WITH REALTIME PROPAGATORS THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED FOR GMAT, AND WE WILL COORDINATE THESE ACTIVITIES WITH THE COR AND GMAT STAKEHOLDERS. WE WILL ALSO MODIFY THE OPENFRAMESINTERFACE GUI TO EXPOSE THE NEWLY-ADDED OPENFRAMES CAPABILITIES FROM SUBTASK 1.1, SO THAT USERS HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO ENABLING/DISABLING VISUALIZATION COMPONENTS.$65K
Feb 8, 2018National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541715EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES HAS DEVELOPED THE OPENFRAMES APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) AS A CORE COMPONENT OF OUR ONGOING NASA PHASE II SBIR (NNX16CG16C). OPENFRAMES ALLOWS 3RD-PARTY APPLICATIONS TO DISPLAY HIGH-FIDELITY INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS WITHOUT HAVING TO DIRECTLY WRITE ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS CODE. AS A PART OF OUR PHASE II WORK, WE ENABLED THE VISUALIZATION OF MASSIVE POINT CLOUD DATA IN VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) WITH OPENFRAMES, WHICH HAS MADE IT PARTICULARLY USEFUL TO THE NASA GSFC VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES PROJECT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES PROJECT BY DEVELOPING THE ABILITY TO RENDER INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE (UI) ELEMENTS IN OPENFRAMES, AS DETAILED IN THIS PROPOSAL.$10K
Nov 22, 2017Department of DefenseFA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZL541715IGF::OT::IGF DISTRIBUTED IN FIGHT SENSOR CONTROL INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SOFTWARE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTED SENSIN$150K
Sep 27, 2017National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541330IGF::OT::IGFSOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPENFRAMES API$75K
Aug 25, 2017Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK541712IGF::OT::IGF GODDARD MISSION SERVICES EVOLUTION CENTER (GMSEC)-JOINT MISSION SYSTEM (JMS)$150K
Jun 8, 2016National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541712IGF::OT::IGF DISTRIBUTED SPACECRAFT MISSIONS (DSM) HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT IN THE EFFORT TO EXTEND THE CAPABILITIES OF INSTRUMENTS TO GATHER CRITICAL EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE DATA. DSMS, WHICH INCLUDE CONSTELLATIONS, FORMATIONS AND CLUSTERS, HAVE ALREADY BEEN EMPLOYED AND HAVE BEEN PROPOSED FOR SEVERAL FUTURE SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS. THE MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTISCALE (MMS) MISSION IS A CURRENT SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PROBE MISSION COMPRISING FOUR IDENTICALLY INSTRUMENTED SPACECRAFT FLYING IN A RELATIVELY CLOSE FORMATION TO STUDY THE EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE. ALTHOUGH THEY OPEN UP NEW SCIENCE FRONTIERS AND NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR SATELLITE DESIGN, CONSTELLATIONS WILL BE LIMITED IF THEIR OPERATIONS COSTS SCALE WITH THE NUMBER OF SATELLITES. A KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR FUTURE DSMS WILL BE THEIR ABILITY TO OPERATE WITH A LEVEL OF AUTONOMY TO LEVERAGE THE CAPABILITIES OF A STANDARD-SIZED TEAM OF SATELLITE OPERATORS TO SAFELY OPERATE A FLEET OF SATELLITES. OUR INNOVATION IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CFS APP SUITE, CALLED THE DISTRIBUTED AUTOMATION SUITE FOR HEURISTIC EXECUTION AND RESPONSE (DASHER), WHICH EXTENDS THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART IN ONBOARD AUTOMATION FOR SPACECRAFT FLIGHT SOFTWARE. THE MAIN COMPONENT OF DASHER IS A MISSION MANAGER THAT CAN EXECUTE SCIENCE OBSERVATION AND ENGINEERING PLANS INTELLIGENTLY. DASHER USES A COMMON PLANNING LANGUAGE TO INTELLIGENTLY EXECUTE PLANS.$125K
Apr 20, 2016National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER541712IGF::OT::IGF TODAY'S MISSION DESIGNERS RELY ON STATE OF THE ART TOOLS WITH MODERN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) ELEMENTS AND REAL-TIME 3D INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS TO VISUALIZE THEIR TRAJECTORIES AND ORBIT CONTROL STRATEGIES. NASA GSFC'S GENERAL MISSION ANALYSIS TOOL (GMAT) OFFERS ADVANCED MISSION DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION CAPABILITIES WITH A FLEXIBLE GUI, BUT ITS 3D GRAPHICS ARE LACKING IN BOTH THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF ITS GRAPHICAL COMPONENTS AS WELL AS THE MATURITY OF ITS VISUALIZATION SUBSYSTEM. EMERGENT WILL THEREFORE MODERNIZE GMAT WITH WORLD-CLASS VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES VIA A GRAPHICS ARCHITECTURE THAT CAN ADAPT TO FUTURE VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES BY REPLACING THE EXISTING BASIC GRAPHICS CODE WITH THE OPENFRAMES VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE. OPENFRAMES IS AN OPEN SOURCE API THAT ALLOWS SIMULATIONS TO INCORPORATE HIGH-PERFORMANCE INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS WITHOUT REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE EXISTING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE. WE WILL UTILIZE THE MISSION DESIGN VISUALIZATION REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPED IN PHASE I TO FULLY INTEGRATE OPENFRAMES INTO GMAT AND DEMONSTRATE HOW IT ENABLES NEW AND INNOVATIVE MISSION DESIGN APPLICATIONS SUCH AS VISUAL INTERACTIVE TRAJECTORY DESIGN AND VIRTUAL REALITY-BASED SIMULATION AND MODELING. AS A RESULT, THIS RESEARCH WILL NOT ONLY BRING GMAT VISUALIZATIONS UP TO PAR WITH COTS MISSION DESIGN TOOLS SUCH AS STK/ASTROGATOR, BUT WILL ALSO ENABLE IT TO BE VIABLE FOR USE IN VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS THE OCULUS RIFT. MODERNIZED VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY WILL INCREASE GMAT'S USER BASE AND ENHANCE ITS UTILITY FOR FUTURE NASA DISCOVERY AND HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT MISSIONS THAT REQUIRE HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATIONS PAIRED WITH TRULY INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATIONS.$750K

Subawards Received

Emergent Space Technologies, LLC also receives subaward dollars from other prime contractors. Aggregated from USAspending sub-award reporting (FY2016-FY2026).

$20M
Total Received
15
Sub Awards
7
Distinct Primes

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