Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC23M0001

This federal contract award is for the development of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Reflectometer Instrument for Bi-static Synthetic Aperture Radar (GRIBSAR) measurements of Earth. The $1,500,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded to Bluehalo Labs, LLC, doing business as Intelligent Automation, a small business subchapter S corporation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract aims to exploit GNSS reflected signals as a...

This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to M42 Technologies LLC, a small business contractor. The contract, valued at $124,932.00, is for the development of a radio frequency-based crosslink system with relative navigation and time transfer capabilities. This system is intended to enable autonomous precision formation flying of spacecraft as small as nanosatellites (1 to 10 kg) for human and robotic...

This federal contract award to Advanced Space LLC, a small business, is for the development of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS), an innovative in-space navigation technology based on Linked Autonomous Interplanetary Satellite Orbit Navigation (LIAISON). LIAISON enables autonomous, absolute navigation of satellites using only relative satellite-to-satellite tracking data, eliminating the need for ground tracking. The $124,991 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Space LLC, a software and services company based in Boulder, Colorado. The contract has a firm fixed price of $1,124,716.00 and a completion date of May 15, 2023. The contract is focused on addressing the increasing congestion in future missions operated by NASA, commercial entities, and international agencies due to...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to Ksat Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for CIS capability studies for NASA's communications and navigation network direct-to-Earth (DTE) and lunar space relay (LSR) commercialization. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Firm Fixed Price of $161,638.74 and has a completion date of March 2, 2023. The contract is not set aside and is associated with the Next...

This $88,653.72 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado) aims to quantify the accuracy and reliability of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data for space weather monitoring and atmospheric retrievals. The University will evaluate how the GNSS vendor treats ionospheric contributions to excess phase, which serves as a remote diagnostic of space weather. Key...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Novatel Inc., a Canadian-based manufacturer of precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) components, for one PwrPak7-E2 high-speed navigation system valued at $28,302.46. The contract was awarded on December 5, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 26, 2025, using sole source procurement authority under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), as NASA determined that Novatel is the sole provider of this specific...

The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a $262,036.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) receiver tracking and ionospheric irregularities localization algorithms, as well as high resolution polar ionospheric imaging and analysis. The work, which has a completion date of January 30, 2020,...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Space LLC, a small business based in Westminster, Colorado. The contract, valued at $124,904.00, is for the development of a robust navigation filter optimized for highly dynamic spacecraft environments such as lunar libration orbits, orbits about small bodies, and orbits driven by low-thrust propulsion. The filter will be designed to be open-source...

This is a Phase II SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to M42 Technologies LLC, a small business, for the continued development of an RF-based crosslink with relative navigation and time transfer capabilities to enable autonomous precision formation flying of spacecraft as small as nanosatellites. The solution consists of a multi-channel software defined radio (SDR) and innovative signaling and processing to enable centimeter to...