MICHIGAN AEROSPACE CORP
Atmospheric LiDAR instrument for urban wind and aerosol measurement
- Sector
- Aerospace
- Headquarters
- Ypsilanti, MI
- Total capital
- $42.6M
- Federal grants
- $5.2M
- 12 awards · 2015–2023
- Rank in peer group#78 of 155
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $37.3M
- 52 awards · NASA, Defense, Commerce
- Rank in Aerospace#99 of 1335
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase II · DroN2O: A Drone-Based System for Measuring Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agricultural Fields$1.7M
- Federal grantEnergy · Phase I · Pigeon - An Urban Atmospheric LiDAR$200K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · PLUMESIGHT: LIDAR-Based Plume Classification$550K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II To Develop A Prototype Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Engine Using The Process Developed And Demonstrated Under The Phase I Study.$1.1M
- Federal contractEnvironmental Prot · Epa SBIR FY21-22 Phase I - Egret - A LIDAR Sensor For Storm Water Monitoring$100K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Miniaturized Nightglow Interferometer for Monitoring Emissions from a CubeSat$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Kick-off Briefing Materials & Fwa Cert.$140K
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- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · PlumeSight: A machine learning based plume identification and classification method for LIDAR instrument data$167K
- Federal contractNASA · Miniaturized Nightglow Interferometer For Monitoring Emissions From A Cubesat$125K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · AGILE Etalon Filter for Differential Absorption LIDAR$115K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Speed Sensor for Planetary EDL: "SPRY"$739K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Maritime Atmospheric State (MASt) LIDAR$80K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Agile Etalon Filter for Differential Absorption LIDAR$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Goal Of This Phase I And Phase II Efforts Is To Develop A Micro Atmospheric Data Sensor Suitable For Planetary Entry, Descent, And Landing (edl) Maneuvers, In Response To Nasa?s S4.01 Planetary Entry Descent And Landing. Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) Is Proposing To Develop A Compact, Rugged Optical Atmospheric Data Sensor Capable Of Measuring Free Stream Velocity During Edl; This Sensor Will Use A Novel Microresonator Approach As Part Of Its Light Processing Path, Allow$125K
- Federal contractCommerce · Igf::ot::igf "other Functions" - This Award Is For The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I For FY2016'S Program Announcement For The Technology Partnerships Office Under The Office Of Atmospheric Research In Silver Spring, Md. This Award Is For Proposal 16-1-104 A Project Titled "pequod: An Oceanic Profiler Of Temperature, Salinity, Dissolved Oxygen, Chlorophyll Biomass, And..."$120K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Differential Characterization of Atmospheric Turbulence System (DCATS)$541K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Differential Characterization Of Atmospheric Turbulence System (dcats)$749K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · eVADE: Volcanic Ash Detection Raman LIDAR$125K
- Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Improved Forecasts of Solar Particle Events using Eruptive Event Generators based on Gibson-Low and Titov-Demoulin Magnetic Configurations$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Custom Replacement Components For An Etalon Plate For The Cloud-aersol Transport System (cats) LIDAR Instrument. Qty., 1 Each.$38K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Differential Characterization Of Atmospheric Turbulence System (dcats)$150K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Inflight Icing Of Engines And Airframe Presents A Significant Hazard To Air Transport, Especially At Lower Flight Elevations During Take-off Or On Approach. Ice Accretions On The Wings Affect The Smooth Flow Required For Proper Lift. A Thin Layer Of Coarse Ice Can Reduce The Lift By 30 Percent And Increase Drag By Up To 40 Percent. In Addition, Accretions Can Also Reduce The Air Intake In Engines And Affect Readings From A (heated) Pitot Tube. Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) P$750K
- Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Ph I Research&development - "combined High-altitude Raman LIDAR Evaluation System (charli)"$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Etalon Controller Card (1 Each)$9K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Volcanic Ash Is A Significant Hazard To Aircraft Engine And Electronics And Has Caused Damage To Unwary Aircraft And Disrupted Air Travel For Thousands Of Travelers, Costing Millions Of Dollars. Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) Proposes To Demonstrate The Concept Feasibility Of A Raman Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) System To Obtain Real-time Information From Volcanic Ash Clouds, To Be Named Vader (volcanic Ash Detection Raman LIDAR). The Instrument Will Be Designed To Ope$124K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Michigan Aerospace Corporation Proposes To Develop An Integrated LIDAR Instrument Capable Of Identifying Icing Conditions While Also Providing Air Data Sensing Capabilities. The Resulting Raman Icing Detection System (rides) Will Be An Integrated Air Data Sensing And Icing Condition Detection Instrument, Providing A Backup To The Pitot Tubes Potentially Affected By Icing, Thus Providing Redundancy For Critical Information. The Proposed Solution Will Operate Without Protrusions Into$124K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Successful Landing Of The Large Mars Rover Curiosity On August 5, 2012 Outlined The Increasing Complexity Of Safely Landing Large Rovers On The Planet. A Precise Knowledge Of The Spacecraft Speed Is Required In Order To Initiate The Landing Sequence Near 900 Mph; The Present Method Uses Imus To Determine The Position And Speed Of The Craft, Which Is Prone To Drift And Highly Sensitive To Initial Conditions. The Proposed Mars Velocity Sensor (marvy) Is A Short Range Air Data Sen$124K
- Federal contractDefense · Base Award Halas - Phase 1$16.3M
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Etalon Spi Interface Modification. For Additional Testing And Modification For An Optical Subsystem (etalon) That Was Previously Delivered. Goddard Space Flight Center (gsfc) Requires Additional Elements To Be Incorporated Into The Fabry-perot Interferometer That Was Previously Delivered By Michigan Aerospace Corporation. The Fabry-perot Interferometer Is A High Fidelity Optical Device Used In The Cloud-aerosol Transport System (cats) LIDAR Instrument. The Control Electronics Fo$18K
- Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Other Functions: Testing/modification Of Optical Subsystem To Include (1) Mounting Of Electronics To Nasa-supplied Mounting Plate, (2) Environmental Testing Of The Interferometer And Electronics, And (3) Implementation Of Two-fault Tolerant Logic In The Electronics Firmware.$35K
- Federal contractDefense · Rapid Innovation Funds Program$3M
- Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I$100K
- Federal contractNASA · During This Phase I, Michigan Aerospace Corporation Will Adapt The Design Of An Optical Mems Seismometer For Lunar And Other Planetary Science Instrumentation. The Optical Mems Based Seismometer Takes Advantage Of The High Q Of Morphological Dependent Resonances And Can Be Sensitive To A Few Nano-g With A Proof Mass Under 80 Grams. The Three-axis Seismometer, Originally Designed For Field Applications, Will Be Rugged, Compact And Low Power (<160 Mw Per Channel). During The Phase I Effort, Mac Wi$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) Proposes To Advance Nasa's Nonintrusive Spatially- And Temporally-resolved Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering (irs) Technology To Perform Additional Multiple Properties Measurements In High-speed Flows. In Particular, An Instantaneous Nonintrusive Optical Mach Probe (omp) To Obtain The Mach Number And The Flow Angularity Among The Flow Density, Translational Temperature, And The Bulk Velocity Is Proposed. Other Turbulence-specific Parameters, Such As Compone$125K
- Federal contractNASA · Under A NASA SBIR Phase-ii Program Award, Michigan Aerospace Corp. (mac) Has Designed A Silicon Carbide Etalon Mount And Developed The Digital Control Electronics To Operate The Piezoelectric Motors And Capacitance Feedback That Control The Etalon Spacing. Goddard Space Flight Center Requires A Fabry-perot Interferometer And Associated Electronics For Use In The Cloud-aerosol Transport System (cats) LIDAR Instrument On International Space Station. The Associated Control Electronics Shall Be Digi$352K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase III Nspect$1.1M
- Federal contractNASA · Clear Air Turbulence (cat), Often Referred To As "air Pockets," Is Attributed To Kelvin-helmholtz Instabilities At Altitudes Usually Above 18,000FT, Often Without Visual Cues (clouds, Etc.), Making It Difficult To Avoid. The Vortices Produced When Atmospheric Waves "break" Can Have Diameters Of 900-1200FT And Tangential Velocities Of 70-85 Ft/sec. Cat Is Dangerous To Aircraft, Recently Demonstrated By United Flight 967 From Washington-dulles To Los Angeles On July 21, 2010, Which Encountered Sev$600K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineering, And Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)$661K
- Federal contractNASA · Clear Air Turbulence (cat), Often Referred To As "air Pockets," Is Attributed To Kelvin-helmholtz Instabilities At Altitudes Generally Above 18,000FT, Often In The Absence Of Any Visual Cues Such As Clouds, Making It Difficult To Avoid. The Vortices Produced When Atmospheric Waves "break" Can Have Diameters Of 900-1200FT And Tangential Velocities Of 70-85 Ft/sec. Cat Is Dangerous To Aircraft, Recently Demonstrated By United Flight 967 From Washington-dulles To Los Angeles On July 21, 2010, Which$100K
- Federal contractDefense · R&d SBIR Topic N07-039$750K
- Federal contractDefense · The Contractor Shall Provide Advanced Research For SBIR 2$750K
- Federal contractDefense · STTR (phase I) Skin-friction Sensor For Hypersonic Flows$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Other Defense (basic)$1.4M
- Federal contractNASA · Clear Air Turbulence (cat), Often Referred To As "air Pockets," Is Attributed To Kelvin-helmholtz Instabilities At Altitudes Generally Above 18,000FT, Often In The Absence Of Any Visual Cues Such As Clouds, Making It Difficult To Avoid. The Vortices Produced When Atmospheric Waves "break" Can Have Diameters Of 900-1200FT And Tangential Velocities Of 70-85 Ft/sec. Cat Is Dangerous For Commercial And Military Aviation, Most Recently Demonstrated By Continental Flight 128 From Rio De Janeiro To Hou$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development In The Physical, Engineer$70K
- Federal contractDefense · Final Bi-monthly Report/payment - For Universal Signal Matching For RF Threat Classification.$150K
- Federal contractNASA · Piezo Actuators For Etalon.$11K
- Federal contractNASA · Fabry-perot Based Ranging Interferometer Receiver For High Spectral Resolution LIDAR Technical Abstract: Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) Is Pleased To Present The Following Phase II Proposal For A Fabry-perot Based Interferometer Receiver For The High Spectral Resolution LIDAR (hsrl) System. Under The Phase I Work, Mac Successfully Developed Instrument Models And Created A Conceptual Design For An Aircraft-qualified Receiver That Can Be Used With The Current Hsrl Collection Optics. This De$600K
- Federal contractNASA · Vehicle Health Management And The Space Vehicle Lifecycle In A Successful Phase 1 Project For NASA SBIR Topic A1.05, "data Mining For Integrated Vehicle Health Management," Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) Demonstrated Its Spade Anomaly Detection Software To Key Personnel In Nasa's Intelligent Systems Division (isd) And With Data From Our Partners At Boeing, Spacex And Gmv Space Systems. The Feedback From These Demonstrations Was Used To Establish Future Development Directions For Phase 2. $600K
- Federal contractDefense · First Status Report$70K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase II$749K
- Federal contractNASA · Piezo-tunable Fabry-perot Etalon Optical Head - (gay)$93K
- Federal contractNASA · Three Channel Programmable Digital Electronic Capacitive Feedback Controller.$31K
- Federal contractDefense · R & D Phase II Topic N07-039$1.0M
- Federal contractDefense · Bio-spectral Instrument (bsi) Troubleshooting$22K
- Federal contractCommerce · SBIR Phase I Award$90K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Topic N08-014$80K
- Federal contractNASA · 355NM Photon-recycled Fringe Imager For Hsrl$100K
- Federal contractNASA · In Response To NASA SBIR Topic A1.05, Data Mining For Integrated Vehicle Health Management Michigan Aerospace Corporation (mac) Asserts That Our Unique Spade (sparse Processing Applied To Data Exploitation) Technology Meets A Significant Fraction Of The Stated Criteria And Has Functionality That Enables It To Handle Many Applications Within The Aircraft Lifecycle. Spade Distills Input Data Into Highly Quantized Features And Uses Mac's Novel Techniques For Constructing Ensembles Of Decision Trees$100K
- Federal contractDefense · Optical Depth Requirement$209K
- Federal contractDefense · Threat Assessment And Validation Toolset$737K
- Federal contractDefense · 200512!464182!1700!N00167!NAVAL Surface Warfare Center !N0016705C0024 !a!n! !N!N0016705C0024! !20050930!20040929!969868298!969868298!969868298!N!MICHIGAN Aerospace Corp !1777 Highland Dr Ste B !ann Arbor !MI!48108!03000!161!26!ANN Arbor !washtenaw !michigan !+000000600000!N!N!000000080991!AC63!RDTE/ELECTRONICS & Communication Eq-adv Tech Dev !A3 !ships !000 !* !541710!E! !3! ! ! ! ! !202$2.2M
- Federal contractDefense$93K
- Federal contractNASA · SBIR II/3-D Docking Sensor Algorithms$750K
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- Federal grants#78 · top 50%
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Regulatory activity · Aerospace
- Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of NASA-Effectuation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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