This is a $723,274 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Cosmic Microwave Technology, Inc., a woman-owned small business. The contract is for the development of a low noise, low power, cryogenic differential amplifier to reduce timing jitter in superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. Cosmic Microwave Technology has previously provided specialized electronic components such as cryogenic amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, and bias supplies to NASA,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Cosmic Microwave Technology, Inc., a woman-owned small business. The $149,706.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of low-noise, low-power cryogenic amplifiers suitable for radio astronomy arrays and quantum applications, combining Indium Phosphide (InP) and Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technologies. This SBIR Phase I contract is set...
This is a $124,997.00 firm-fixed-price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Oewaves, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the SBIR Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of a Cryogenic Microphotonic Accelerometer, which supports NASA's research and development efforts in areas such as precision metrology, quantum sensing, integrated photonics, and radio frequency signal processing. Oewaves has...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded to Space Micro Inc., a small business engineering firm, by NASA's Shared Services Center. The contract, valued at $125,000.00, is to demonstrate a low-power, radiation-hardened readout system for frequency multiplexing of large-format arrays of kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs). KIDs are a leading technology for future NASA astrophysics missions, as described in the agency's recent roadmap. This SBIR Phase I...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Diodes, Inc., a manufacturer of millimeter wave and terahertz devices. The $124,913 fixed-price contract is responsive to a NASA SBIR subtopic focused on developing frequency multipliers that can operate in the 200-400 GHz range with greater than 30% efficiency and input powers up to 1 watt. The contract will employ three key innovations: optimizing...
This is a $124,699 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Micro Harmonics Corporation, a for-profit subchapter S corporation, for the development of high-frequency isolators optimized for cryogenic temperatures. The isolators are intended to address the challenges of standing waves and high insertion loss in millimeter-wave (MMW) and terahertz (THz) systems, which are critical components in NASA...
This is a $749,610 firm-fixed price contract awarded by NASA to Micro Harmonics Corporation, a small business, for the development of a line of cryogenic isolators operating across multiple waveguide bands. The primary objective is to extend Micro Harmonics' room temperature millimeter-wave isolator technology to work at cryogenic temperatures for use in NASA's cryogenic systems. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract will deliver prototype cryogenic isolators in...
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...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Culver City, California. The contract, valued at $900,000, is for the development of a radiation-hardened analog-to-digital converter (ADC) specifically designed for use in fluxgate magnetometers for various NASA space physics missions, such as ICON, GOLD, Solar...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Spectrum Magnetics LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned, for-profit limited liability company that manufactures goods. The $124,828.00 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of an innovative sub-millimeter wave/terahertz noise chip using photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology. The contract has a...