This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center is for the development of an interferometric star tracker. The $149,333.00 firm fixed price contract was awarded to Optical Physics Company, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, on November 17, 2017. The work is to be performed in Simi Valley, CA and has a completion date of March 22, 2018. Optical Physics Company's R&D Division specializes in the design and manufacture of...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optical Physics Company (OPC) for the development of a compact, lightweight, high-accuracy interferometric star tracker system. The star tracker is intended to enable precise pointing of large space telescopes and autonomous navigation for future NASA space missions, providing milli-arcsecond class pointing accuracy. The total contract value is $748,175,...
This is a $1,459,099.35 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to Optical Physics Company, a small business subchapter S corporation, for the development of an interferometric tracker system capable of detecting and tracking geostationary and geosynchronous orbit objects. The contract, which is part of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II program, has a completion date of June 2, 2017. Optical Physics Company has previously received SBIR...
This is a $485,534.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency to Optical Physics Company, a for-profit Subchapter S corporation located in Simi Valley, California. The contract is for research and development of a "Miniature Interferometric Star Tracker for Harsh Space Environments." This indicates Optical Physics is providing the government with the development and prototype manufacturing of an advanced...
Optical Physics Company, a Simi Valley, California-based provider of advanced optical systems, has been awarded a $2,020,384 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Department of the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command to conduct research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is designated as a total small business set aside and will support continued work on an interferometric star tracker system through April 2024. As the prime...
This is a $1,496,443.29 federal contract awarded by the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command to Optical Physics Company, a Subchapter S Corporation, for research and development work related to an interferometric tracker for CubeSats under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract was set aside for small businesses and is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with a completion date of December 31, 2018. Through this SBIR Phase II contract,...
This federal contract award, FA945110C0194, is a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II contract awarded to Optical Physics Company, a small business subchapter S corporation. The $199,977.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded on September 2, 2010 by the Air Force Research Laboratory, a defense agency, for research and development related to an interferometric star tracker system. The work is to be performed in Simi Valley, CA and the contract has a completion date of...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optical Physics Company, a small business, for $82,783. The contract is for ground-based field testing of a calibrated and assembled Phase II prototype laser communications pointing sensor (LPS) system using retrosatellites. The overall objective is to develop and demonstrate an interferometric star tracker-based LPS for deep space beaconless pointing to enable higher data rates for...
The Department of the Navy, through the Office of Naval Research, has awarded Optical Physics Company a $493,741 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract set aside for total small businesses. The contract is associated with the 2008.1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) solicitation and will support Phase II of the company's research into an Optical Celestial Navigation System for High Mach High Altitude Operation. As the prime contractor, Optical Physics Company will leverage its expertise in...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to G.a. Tyler Associates, Inc. (doing business as The Optical Science Company), a small business located in Santa Ana, California. The contract, valued at $124,966.00, is for the development of a long-range laser communications system for spacecraft in the solar system. The effort involves two components: (1) a spacecraft-based transceiver using small size, weight, and power (SWAP)...