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May 20, 2015 By AMK

AF Space & Missle Command awards GTRI $7.8 million contract

A $7,857,568 contract awarded this week to the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) from the Air Force Space and Missile Command will enable three Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering faculty to develop design tools that will assist the United States in predicting combustion instability in its spacecraft.

Air Force Space & Missle Command“Ultimately, this will enable the United States to stop using Russian combustion technology,” said Georgia Tech Regents’ Professor Krish Ahuja, the project’s principal investigator. “We are very excited about this important project, and deeply grateful for the opportunity to make direct contributions to the rocket propulsion industry in the United States.”

Joining Ahuja in this 2-year research enterprise will be William R.T. Oakes Professor and School Chair Vigor Yang, Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute Director and Aerospace Professor Timothy Lieuwen, and Professor Bill Anderson from Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The group will focus on developing a suite of software-based design tools for predicting and analyzing stability characteristics of combustion devices based on hydrocarbon-fueled, oxidizer-rich staged combustion rocket engine cycles. Their research is expected to be completed in 2017.

Source: http://gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/air-force-smc-awards-gtri-78-million-contract

Filed Under: Georgia Tech News Tagged With: AF, GTRI, research

February 24, 2015 By AMK

AF lifts suspension of reverse auctioneer FedBid

Just a few weeks after the Air Force suspended contracts with FedBid, a Vienna, Va. reverse-auction company and requested the company’s debarment, the service lifted the suspension after reaching an administrative agreement, according to a Feb. 20, 2015 Air Force document.

The suspension stems from a Veterans Affairs Department inspector general report that said Susan Taylor, Veterans Health Administration deputy procurement officer, pressured staff repeatedly in emails to speed up the acquisition process and pick FedBid for the reverse auction contracts.

The IG report says Taylor, “improperly disclosed non-public VA information to unauthorized persons, misused her position and VA resources for private gain, and engaged in a prohibited personnel practice when she recommended that a subordinate senior executive service employee be removed from SES during her probation period.”

The agreement will end both the suspension and debarment proceedings as long as FedBid “maintains the business honesty and integrity required of a government contractor and that the company operates in strict compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and terms of its governance contracts and subcontracts.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/air-force-lifts-suspension-fedbid/2015-02-23

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: AF, Air Force, business integrity, debarment, FedBid, IG, reverse auctions, suspension, VA

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