METIS DESIGN CORPORATION — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: AF21S-TCSO1
METIS DESIGN CORPORATION — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
Phase I STTR feasibility signal
- Phase I awards fund proof-of-concept work. For capture teams, they mark early interest from Department of Defense in a technical approach.
- Watch for Phase II follow-ons from the same firm/topic family — that conversion path is where budgets and transition pressure rise.
- Obligated amount $250,000. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
- Topic code AF21S-TCSO1 links this award to a solicitation family — search the same topic stem for incumbents and recompete timing.
- Amount
- $250,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Air Force
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- AF21S-TCSO1
- Solicitation
- X21.S
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2022-07-05 → 2022-12-05
Description
Resident Space Object (RSO) acquisition is critical to future USSF operations. Orbiting objects will need to be serviced, repaired, refueled, decommissioned or brought into a different orbit. There are several concepts being investigated where RSO would b