The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Lightspin Technologies Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop a new generation of Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array devices for deep space optical communications. The $124,999.00 firm fixed-price contract aims to produce a photomultiplier chip SPAD array device capable of precision detection of single photons with sub-100 picosecond timing...
This $149,999 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded to Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business, by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The contract is for the FY24 SBIR Phase I development of high-sensitivity ultraviolet solid-state photon-counting devices and arrays, which will support space exploration and Earth science programs....
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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $102,134.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Espylux LLC, a small disadvantaged business, to develop a receiver system for use in lidar. The proposed system consists of an optical filter and optical spectrometer that utilize two-photon absorption in atomic rubidium to create a birefringent medium capable of detecting Doppler shifts. This will enable superior spatial resolution of wind and...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $149,782 Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase I contract to 2PI Inc., doing business as 2PI Optics, a for-profit technology company based in Newton, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of a chip-scale, large-aperture, ultra-wide-angle LIDAR system. This is a Firm Fixed Price contract with a completion date of September 2, 2024. The contract was a total small business set-aside, indicating the...
This federal contract award for NNX17CL58P was made by NASA's Shared Services Center to the small disadvantaged business Discovery Semiconductors, Inc. The $100,000 firm fixed price contract is for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a universal LIDAR system. The proposed LIDAR will operate at 2050 nm wavelength with programmable pseudorandom modulation to provide tunable resolution and sensitivity, enabling diverse NASA applications such as rocket plume...
This is a firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Prime Photonics, LC, a small disadvantaged business manufacturer. The contract, valued at $124,860.00, is for the non-intrusive thermo-structural characterization of water-ice clouds under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract was set aside for a small business. Prime Photonics has previously provided research, development, and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $124,738 firm-fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Advalue Photonics Inc., a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business, to develop a compact and rugged single-frequency pulsed ultraviolet (UV) laser for use in atmospheric measurements. The goal is to demonstrate a high-power, fast-tuning, single-frequency pulsed UV laser near 308 nanometers to support NASA's...
This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components and modules. The $749,981 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of high-reliability, space-qualified LIDAR source packages under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III program. Freedom Photonics, a subsidiary of Luminar Technologies, Inc., specializes...
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, for the development of a long-range compact economical lidar system for wind profiling under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The total potential value of the contract is $149,986.00, and the period of performance is from the award date of August 3, 2023, to the completion date of February 2, 2024....