This is a $124,893.00 Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Ultra-Low Loss Technologies, Inc., a small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the development of a broadband arrayed waveguide grating with a microwave kinetic detector array to create a fully integrated high-resolution photonic spectrograph. This contract is part of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, which enables...
This is a $1,250,000.00 Firm Fixed Price definitive contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Ultra-Low Loss Technologies, Inc., a for-profit small disadvantaged business. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II and will demonstrate the requirements through the fabrication and test of a prototype transmitter with a heterogeneously integrated silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platform, optical modulator, and...
This $849,408 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to New Integration Photonics, a small business Subchapter S corporation based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The contract is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for the development of an "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION". This contract follows a...
Longwave Photonics LLC has been awarded a $150,000 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research under Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The work involves deep space navigation of distributed small spacecraft using occultations of celestial x-ray sources, advancing NASA's goals of exploring the solar system. As a total small business set-aside, the contract provides...
Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems, was awarded a $124,992 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract, which is set aside for small businesses, aims to develop a hybrid integration platform that combines high-performance active optical components with low-cost silicon photonics for space-based photonic applications. This work will be performed in...
This is a $774,999.00 Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Lytechip Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business based in Newton, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of a high-performance on-chip spectrometer for space applications. The award is set aside for small businesses and has a period of performance through January 31, 2025. This contract supports NASA's broader research and development...
This is a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Luna Innovations Incorporated, a small business specializing in fiber optic sensing and advanced optical technologies. The contract is for the development of a "Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics Magnetometer and Laser System-on-Chip". As a subcontractor, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will support the design, fabrication,...
The U.S. government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,993.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Light Integration Technologies LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project. The contract, set aside for small businesses, is to develop a low size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C), narrow-bandwidth, and high-channel-density radio frequency (RF) photonic integrated channelizer based on...
New Integration Photonics has been awarded a $148,913 firm fixed price purchase order as the prime contractor for SBIR Phase I research titled "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION." The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center is the funding agency for this contract, which has a total small business set aside designation. The research will be conducted by New Integration...
Lytechip Inc. was awarded a $48,086 firm fixed price definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I program. The contract calls for Lytechip to develop a high-performance on-chip spectrometer for space applications over a 6-month period of performance ending January 2022. The work will be conducted in Newton, Massachusetts under a total small business set aside....