Definitive Contract 80NSSC17C0076
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- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $124,909, aims to develop a new manufacturing approach for deformable mirrors (DMs) by batch fabricating the stack actuator array. This innovation leverages Microscale's experience in developing stack actuator DM systems with integrated ASIC driver electronics, enabling...
- This SBIR Phase I contract, valued at $124,798.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract aims to develop an innovative batch fabrication technique to create low-cost, high-performance single crystal PMN-PT stack actuator deformable mirrors (DMs) that can be seamlessly integrated with a novel low-power, high-voltage amplifier-based driver application-specific integrated circuit...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business. The $124,738.00 firm fixed-price contract aims to improve the mirror quality of the PZT stack actuator deformable mirrors (DMS) for NASA. The contract has a completion date of February 18, 2020. This SBIR Phase I project will verify the DM performance in terms of key parameters such as...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $749,967 contract aims to develop innovative manufacturing methods for batch fabrication of single crystal PMN-PT stack actuator deformable mirrors (DM) at low cost, up to one order of magnitude reduction compared to current state-of-the-art techniques. The methods are proposed to...
- This is a $749,771 firm fixed price contract awarded by NASA to Sunlite Science & Technology, Inc., a minority-owned small business manufacturer located in Lawrence, Kansas. The contract is for the development of a 32x32-channel multiplexing application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) driver with 16-bit or higher voltage resolution. This ASIC driver can reduce power consumption and will be designed with radiation resistance for use in space-based telescopes with advanced adaptive optics...
- This is a $375,000.00 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Pacific Microchip Corp., a small business Subchapter S corporation. The contract is for the development of a low-power, radiation-tolerant 4GHz bandwidth 16K channel spectrometer Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. This specialized ASIC is intended to support NASA's scientific research...
- This contract award to Pacific Microchip Corp., a small business entity, is for the development of a low-power, radiation-tolerant Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) based spectrometer under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The ASIC aims to achieve a 4GHz bandwidth and 8192 usable frequency bins while consuming less than 1.5 watts of power, providing significant improvements over the field programmable arrays, analog-to-digital converters, and other discrete...
- This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for NASA's microwave correlation radiometers used in space and airborne Earth sensing applications. The ASIC will replace analog signal processing with digital signal processing to reduce the...
- This is a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III for the development of a low-power radiation-tolerant 4GHz bandwidth 16K channel spectrometer Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). The contract, valued at $156,000.00, is set aside for small businesses. Pacific Microchip Corp. has...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $755,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Pacific Microchip Corp. to develop an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for use in NASA's microwave correlation radiometers. The ASIC will digitize and process the radio frequency (RF) signals from radiometer front-ends, replacing bulky and power-hungry analog signal processing components. Key innovations include programmable digital signal...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The $219,931 Firm Fixed Price contract is for Phase III of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort to continue developing a Phase II Driver ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) technology. This ASIC is intended to be integrated with Deformable Mirrors (DMs) for NASA's exoplanet exploration missions, providing advantages in mass, volume, power, and reliability compared to current wired connections. The contract will help address technology gaps identified in NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program, advancing the Driver ASIC to a higher Technology Readiness Level (TRL) through integration and scaling efforts. The contract is set aside for small businesses.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00001 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 6/3/18 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $219.9k | 9/28/17 |