This is a $124,994.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optimax Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-precision optical components. The contract is for the "FORCE RESPONSIVE MANUFACTURING FOR LIGHT-WEIGHTED OPTICS" and was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract has a completion date of March 1, 2021. As a prime contractor, Optimax has previously provided...
This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The $749,999 contract supports the development of a new class of three-dimensional freeform optics to improve the focus and reduce aberrations in NASA's dual freeform mirrored optical systems for satellite applications. The optics will be designed to address NASA's need for...
This is a contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business, to provide research, development, testing, and production of specialized electro-optical equipment and components, primarily to support atmospheric monitoring and analysis applications. The contract, valued at $316,382.00, is a Definitive Contract under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. It calls for enhancements to an existing SBIR...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,844.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optimax Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-precision optical components. The contract supports a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort to develop a monolithic freeform telescope system, which could enable more compact, higher-performing, and less-vibration-prone telescope designs for space applications. The contract is for the...
This NASA SBIR Phase I contract was awarded to Optimax Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-precision optical components, to determine the feasibility of using non-contact areal optical sensors to measure the surfaces of freeform optics. The $124,882 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop a metrology method that can rapidly provide feedback on surface condition during the manufacturing of precision freeform optical components, which are in high demand by NASA and other...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Definitive, Firm Fixed Price contract valued at $749,970.00 to Freedom Photonics LLC for the development of a novel, inexpensive semiconductor-based widely tunable laser under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract aims to replace the expensive, bulky, and mechanically tuned swept laser technology currently used in the Fiber Optic Smart Structures (FOSS) sensor...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $150,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Optipro Systems, LLC, a manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The contract, which is a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order, is for research and development related to "Ultrahigh Precision CTE Measurements". As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract is set aside for small businesses. Optipro Systems has...
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 is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of goods and R&D services. The contract, valued at $124,996.00, is for the development of compact, high-degrees-of-freedom freeform beam-expander optics. This research is intended to support spaceborne lidar sensor and optics applications for NASA. Voxtel has previously conducted SBIR Phase I...
NASA has awarded a $124,960 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Optimax Systems, Inc. to develop a deflectometry system for improving the efficiency of manufacturing freeform optics. Freeform optics are an integral part of NASA's future optical systems, and reducing the cost of freeform manufacturing is crucial. The goal of this project is to create a multi-camera, multi-monitor deflectometry system that can be integrated into the manufacturing process to...