Definitive Contract 80HQTR26C0001

NASA awarded Arizona State University (ASU) a definitive firm fixed-price contract valued at $39.7 million, with a completion date of March 31, 2026, to develop and deliver the ShadowCam scientific instrument for the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). Awarded June 15, 2017, this contract supports NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division initiative to characterize lunar water ice and volatile resources in permanently shadowed regions on the Moon—critical data for sustaining human...

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL), a premier federally funded research and development center based in Laurel, Maryland, was awarded a delivery order valued at $82.4K by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for the Autonomous Navigation Optical Flight Experiment on the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Demonstration (CAPSTONE) mission. This cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order, issued on February 11, 2026, with a completion deadline of June 30,...

This delivery order contract awards $8.07 million to the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for development and delivery of the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument for the Operationally Responsive Space-2 (ORS-2) mission. The contract is funded by the Air Force Sustainment Center under a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structure and runs through December 31, 2025. JPL will serve as the prime contractor, leveraging its designation as a federally...

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) was awarded a $3.86 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by U.S. Special Operations Command on June 8, 2020, for a Commercial Global Navigation Satellite System – Radio Occultation Data Pilot utilizing PlanetIQ data. The contract, which was completed by August 31, 2021, was performed at APL's facility in Laurel, Maryland, with no set-aside designation applied. This service contract reflects APL's specialized...

This federal contract award is for the DUAL-PURPOSE LUNAR-BASED CAMERA (L-CAM) DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, which was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to the prime contractor Astronetx PBC. The $3,529,062.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for the research and development of a lunar-based camera system under the STTR Phase III program. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 27, 2026 and does not utilize any set-aside designation. The contract is related to the...

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) was awarded a $13.0 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on August 14, 2020, to conduct bi-static synthetic aperture radar observations of the lunar surface. Under this contract, APL will operate the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) synthetic aperture radar instrument team, utilizing NASA's Deep Space Network DSS-13 aperture as the X-band transmission source. The contract extends...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $58,465 firm fixed-price purchase order to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC on February 28, 2025, for testing of an LRT-2 HgCdTe APD Gated Camera. The contract, issued as a sole source procurement under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), represents specialized camera testing services for potential integration into 3-D imaging lidar systems for the Lunar Exploration and Science Orbiter (LExSO) mission. The testing effort will be conducted over 16 weeks and...

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) was awarded a $35.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order on June 25, 2021, under the Aerospace Research, Development and Engineering Support (ARDES) II indefinite delivery contract (80MSFC20D0004) from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. This delivery order, titled "Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM)," supports lunar exploration objectives with performance of work based in...

This federal contract award is for the procurement of 6-10 flight units and a similar number of engineering units of compact, lightweight, and low-power camera systems capable of imaging terrain hazards on the lunar surface for a lunar rover mission led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center. The award, valued at $6,402,059.93, was made to Micro-Cameras & Space Exploration S.A., a for-profit limited liability company based in Switzerland. The cameras...

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) was awarded a delivery order valued at $64,753.54 by NASA's Ames Research Center on July 17, 2017, for preliminary design work on the Aeolus Mission Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer. Under this cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Draper is providing high-fidelity optical and mechanical design services, including thermal effects modeling, mechanical design for optical housing, straw-man electronics specifications at the block diagram level with key...