This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to Orbital Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract, valued at $249,997.00, is for Orbital Sciences to provide resources and skills to perform and manage tasks related to the FOXSI ground station and spacecraft systems design as part of the FOXSI Phase A Concept Definition under the 2016 Small Explorer Announcement of Opportunity #NNH16ZDA005O....
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Goddard Space Center to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in the amount of $84,873.00. The contract supports the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) Phase A and Bridge Phase B efforts under the 2016 Small Explorer Announcement of Opportunity. SwRI will provide resources and skills to perform and manage tasks related to the FOXSI instrument high voltage power supply, as well as serve as a liaison to the Polish Academy of Sciences for the...
This is a $100,000 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. (Oksi), a small business, to continue work on a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project related to heat shield recession measurements using remote spectral sensors. The project was successful in the prior SBIR Phase I and the Orion program has expressed interest in implementing this technology on the Exploration Mission-1...
This is a $973,957 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Thinkorbital Inc., a small for-profit business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of technologies for the penetration x-ray inspection of spacecraft. This Phase II SBIR project builds on earlier work and aims to advance capabilities in areas such as x-ray tomographic inspection of adversary spacecraft and on-orbit...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) multi-award IDIQ contract. The $44,227,122.00 contract is for the provision of SPACE SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS AND EXPERIMENTAL PAYLOADS SSIEP2 services, with a period of performance through September 1, 2024. The prime contractor is KBR Wyle Services, LLC, doing business as Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT), a large business. The...
This is a $749,893 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components and subsystems based in Goleta, California. The contract supports the development of a hybrid integration platform that combines high-performance active optical components from Freedom Photonics with low-cost silicon photonics components, enabling advanced photonic system-in-package...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to HX5 Sierra LLC, a small business, on December 15, 2015. The contract has a ceiling value of $5,617,547.25 and a period of performance through September 30, 2017. It is a task order under the TFOME-II contract vehicle, which provides Orion spacecraft support for the Exploration Systems and Technology Advancement (E-STA) program. The contract was...
This federal contract award is for "Advanced X-Ray Tomographic Inspection and Adversary Spacecraft Characterization" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to the small business Thinkorbital Inc. The firm fixed-price purchase order has a potential value of $62,997 and a completion date of March 15, 2024. The contract is set aside for small businesses. This SBIR Phase I research and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components and systems located in Goleta, California. The $149,958.00 contract is for the development of Fiber Optic Sensing Systems (FOSS) to support expendable launch vehicles. As a prime contractor, Freedom Photonics has experience providing specialized photonics technologies...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Optimax Systems, Inc. to manufacture a monolithic freeform telescope. The contract aims to prove the feasibility of Optimax's optics manufacturing process to produce a freeform optical telescope system with a high-precision freeform surface. This capability enables more compact designs, larger fields of view, and better-performing unobscured systems for space-based...