Cosm Advanced Manufacturing Systems LLC has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $4.96 million by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver an electron beam delivery system with in-situ metrology and real-time closed loop process control for metal 3D printing and welding of large components to high accuracy and verifiable quality. The contract is being awarded under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ultramet, a for-profit manufacturer of advanced materials solutions. Under this $890,000.00 Firm Fixed Price contract, Ultramet is developing a 3D laser-directed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) additive manufacturing system to build free-form refractory metal components for liquid rocket propulsion systems. The system will be able to deposit successive...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract worth $999,790.68 to Coherent Aerospace & Defense, Inc. for optical power transmission with adaptive beam shaping research and development. This definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is set aside for small businesses. The prime contractor, Coherent Aerospace & Defense, Inc., is a division of the parent company Coherent Corp, a...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Coolcad Electronics, Inc., a small for-profit semiconductor company specializing in advanced technologies like silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop radiation-tolerant high-voltage and low on-resistance SiC power devices to meet NASA's capability and performance goals for upcoming missions such as the Io Observer, Saturn Probe, and Europa...
This is a Phase II SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Coolcad Electronics, LLC, a small business that specializes in semiconductor design and manufacturing. The contract, valued at $1,125,000.00, is focused on the development of silicon carbide (SiC) opto-electronic integrated circuits, including photodetectors, focal plane arrays, and high-temperature electronics. The company will design, fabricate, and test these SiC components in-house, with...
This is a $1,247,703.00 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cosm Advanced Manufacturing Systems LLC, a small business located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The contract is part of NASA's SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II and is focused on developing new methods for in-situ metrology and process control for Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication (EBF3) additive manufacturing. The proposed innovation aims...
This is a NASA SBIR Phase II contract awarded to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer specializing in advanced photonics and engineering services. Under this $2,581,999.00 contract, Fibertek will design, build, and test a hardened version of a single-frequency, end-pumped laser with an optical-to-optical efficiency of X%. The contractor will also perform breadboard amplifier tests to demonstrate energy scaling to "X" MJ/pulse and ultraviolet (UV) output to "X" W...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Plasma Processes, LLC, a limited liability company based in Huntsville, Alabama. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is focused on developing techniques to reliably join advanced ceramic composites to metallic structures for use in the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle's Launch Abort System (LAS). The key requirement is to find a solution that can...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Cross Trac Engineering, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The $1,074,886 contract supports the development of a free space optical communications and ranging system with precision pointing capabilities for 3U and larger CubeSats. The system is designed to enable CubeSat swarm and constellation missions by enabling...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Optipro Systems, LLC, a manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The $124,961 award will support the design, manufacture, and testing of a precision rotary axis for Optipro's Ultraform Finishing (UFF) optical fabrication platform. The goal is to improve the capability to rapidly remove residual grinding and machining marks, as well as sub-surface damage, on X-ray optical...