This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Gigajot Technology, Inc., a for-profit organization. The $124,995.00 award is for the development of a novel Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) platform, which is a large-format, visible-blind CMOS UV/EUV photon-counting sensor with accurate photon-counting capabilities. This sensor technology is intended to benefit future NASA missions such as the ESA-NASA Solar...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective is to develop a 1550-nanometer sensitive photon-counting detector array with integrated time-tagging electronics, suitable for free-space optical communications in NASA missions such as the Lunar Laser Communication...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Senseeker Engineering of Goleta, California. The firm-fixed-price purchase order, with a potential value of $149,974, is for the development of a high dynamic range digital pixel readout integrated circuit to support NASA programs. Under this contract, Senseeker Engineering will deliver the requested integrated circuit prototype...
This is a $1,124,593.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components, modules, and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract is to develop a monolithic, multichannel, photon counting readout integrated circuit (ROIC) that can interface with microchannel plate photomultiplier...
Copious Imaging LLC was awarded a $749,769 firm fixed price definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver Computational Pixel Imager readout integrated circuits under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. The research and development effort will support NASA's goal of developing next generation high performance and low size, weight, and power sensors. As a total small business set aside, the contract...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business, on August 31, 2020. The contract is for the development of a "High Efficiency Wide Bandwidth Balanced Detector/Preamplifier at 2 Micron Wavelength" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The potential value of the contract is $124,982.00, and the period of performance is from the award...
Photon Systems, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed price definitive contract valued at $1,118,379 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to address the need for spacecraft microbial monitoring for long duration human missions. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract builds upon a previous Phase I proposal and will result in the development of a near-real-time, in-situ, reagentless sensor for use on the International Space Station and future spacecraft...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics company. The $849,673 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development and production of a photon counting sensor to support in-space debris detection. Axiom Optics Inc., a specialized optical and imaging equipment supplier in Somerville, Massachusetts, was awarded two subcontracts to develop...
This is a $749,997.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Photon Sciences, Incorporated, doing business as Photon Sciences Inc. The contract is for the development of a low-cost, low-power, low-latency 1602 nanometer 100 gigabits per second non-return-to-zero (NRZ) laser electro-absorption modulator (EAM) for a 7.2 terabits per second transmitter. As an SBIR Phase II award,...
This federal contract award to Coolcad Electronics, Inc. is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the design and fabrication of a large-area silicon-carbide (SiC) based active pixel sensor. This sensor will comprise a very large-area SiC ultraviolet (UV) photodiode with a monolithically-integrated readout circuit. The objective is to develop SiC photodiodes larger...