This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Dallas Optical Systems Inc., a for-profit, veteran-owned manufacturer. The goal of this $124,876.00 firm-fixed-price contract is to develop solutions and methods for fabricating a very low-cost, very lightweight large aperture aluminum alloy mirror. The contract has a small business set-aside designation and was awarded on May 19, 2021...
This is a $124,887 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Dallas Optical Systems Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer. The contract is for the fabrication of lightweight, diamond-turned aspheric mirrors using additive manufacturing techniques such as selective laser melting and direct metal laser sintering. The mirrors are intended for use in various applications. This contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of a civilian federal agency. The prime contractor, Optimax Systems, Inc., will develop a process for manufacturing lightweight, stable mirror substrates using additive manufacturing (3D printing) techniques. The goal is to produce mirror substrates suitable for use in space and flight applications, with a focus on demonstrating the feasibility of the manufacturing process and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is to demonstrate the feasibility of using selective laser melting (SLM) to produce a 3-meter symmetrical radius of curvature isogrid mirror substrate for use in ultraviolet, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) telescopes....
This is a $124,840.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a limited liability company. The contract is for the research and development of 3D printed silicon carbide mirror segments that could be used for the primary mirror of a Far-Infrared (FIR) Surveyor space telescope mission, such as the proposed Origins Space Telescope (OST) or Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR). The...
This is a firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged, Asian-Pacific American-owned manufacturing business. The contract, valued at $124,798.00, is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project to continue the manufacturing optimization of mirror quality for piezoelectric stack actuator deformable mirrors (DMs) and next-generation single-crystal...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Welch Mechanical Designs, LLC, a small business manufacturer of custom, high-precision optics and provider of diamond turning services. The $97,821 fixed-price contract is for the development of an innovative and cost-effective process to directly polish the substrate of high-performance optical-quality metal mirrors, eliminating the need for nickel...
This is a $124,967.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Polaronyx Inc., a small business manufacturer of laser 3D manufacturing solutions and other laser micro structuring technologies. The contract is for the development of a cost-effective laser additive manufacturing system for SiC mirror support architecture, with integrated functions of additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, in-process...
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 federal contract award, valued at $124,844.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optimax Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-precision optical components. The contract supports a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort to develop a monolithic freeform telescope system, which could enable more compact, higher-performing, and less-vibration-prone telescope designs for space applications. The contract is for the...