This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SK Infrared LLC, a small minority-owned business based in Albuquerque. The $124,999 firm-fixed-price contract is for a feasibility study to develop a prototype of a single-pixel, field-programmable, short-wave infrared (SWIR) photodetector using antimonide-based type II superlattice materials. The goal is to produce a detector that can operate at...
This is a $749,980.00 Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Qmagiq LLC, a small business located in Nashua, NH. The contract is for the development of antimony-based focal plane arrays (FPAs) for NASA's imaging and spectroscopy applications in the spectral band from visible to shortwave-infrared (SWIR), with a focus on wavelengths from 0.5 - 2.5 microns. The goal is to extend the performance and cost benefits of Qmagiq's existing MWIR and LWIR FPA technology into the SWIR...
This is a $749,999.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Qmagiq LLC, a small business vendor, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for the development and delivery of a 1280x1024 dual-band infrared focal plane array (FPA) integrated in a compact dewar cooler assembly (IDCA) and camera. The FPA leverages type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiode technology to provide...
This federal contract award, valued at $125,000.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit small business. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I and is focused on advancing the ga-free InAs/InAsSb type II superlattice (T2SL) materials technology for very long wavelength infrared (VLWIR) focal plane arrays (FPAs). The key objectives are to compute and...
This is a $125,000 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced infrared detector materials. The contract is for the development of high-performance infrared epitaxy materials based on Type II strained layer superlattice (SLS) technology for large-format space-based sensor applications. The goal is to achieve at least 40% quantum...
This is a $746,249 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Banpil Photonics, Inc., a minority-owned small business located in Santa Clara, California. The contract is for the development of a broadband uncooled infrared detector based on nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) technology under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract has a total small business set-aside...
This is a $149,794 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SK Infrared Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contract is for the SBIR Phase I "Hyperspectral Sparse Array Digital Imaging" research and development effort, which is part of DARPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract has a completion date of July 31, 2016 and is set aside for small...
This is a prime contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of specialized infrared detector materials, valued at $750,000. The contract was awarded under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III program to mature Intelliepi IR's type II strained layer superlattice infrared photodetector technology for commercial, military, and NASA focal plane array applications. The contract has a small...
This is a $123,214 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to the small business Voxtel, LLC. The contract is for the development of a low-cost, high-pixel-density avalanche photodiode detector array technology sensitive in the 0.9-1.7 micron spectral range that can achieve near-single-photon sensitivity at room temperature. This technology is intended to address NASA's need for space-hardened planetary entry, descent, and landing (EDL) and proximity-operations sensors. The...
This is a $125,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc., a small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the design and development of high-performance, high-gain Gallium Nitride/Aluminum Gallium Nitride ultraviolet avalanche photodiode (UV APD) arrays to support future NASA missions, including Explorers, Discovery, Cosmic Origins, Vision Missions, Earth...