Definitive Contract 80NSSC22CA227

This is a federal grant award from NASA to DRS Advanced ISR LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian defense company Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, for the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective is to demonstrate that low-cost, large-area microbolometer focal plane arrays can provide radiometrically accurate imaging in 8 LWIR bands for Earth science applications such as land surface climatology, soil moisture, ecosystem dynamics, volcano monitoring, and geology. The $800,000 grant will...

This is a $49,574 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Elphel, Inc., a small business technology company, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a 3D thermal imaging system for autonomous navigation, titled "THERMAL3D PERCEPTION FOR AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION- 3D THERMAL IMAGING OVER AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THERMAL IMAGING AND ENABLE LONG-RANGE 3D PERCEPTION WITH...

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. (PSI), a veteran-owned small business, to develop a microwave photonic imaging radiometer technology for spaceborne remote sensing applications. The $124,723 effort aims to dramatically reduce the size, weight, and power requirements of the sensor through the use of distributed aperture imaging and optical upconversion techniques. This will enable the...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,875,365.71 grant to DRS Advanced ISR LLC, a division of DRS Technologies, Inc. and subsidiary of the Italian defense company Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, to develop an uncooled microbolometer-based Multi-Band Uncooled Radiometer Imager (MURI) under the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective is to demonstrate the use of low-cost microbolometers to provide radiometrically accurate imaging in 8 long-wave infrared...

Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems Inc. was awarded a $367,288 purchase order by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command to deliver two infrared imaging systems. The systems are required to upgrade an existing multi-spectral imaging system at Arnold Air Force Base, with one operating in the midwave infrared spectral region and one in the longwave infrared region, to meet specified radiometric performance requirements. Delivery of both systems to Arnold Air Force Base within 90 days is...

The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Senseeker Corp, a small business based in Goleta, California, for an IR Focal Plane Array Testing System. The $201,310 contract has a completion date of March 18, 2025 and is a total small business set-aside. The system must interface with and read out 640x512 pixel analog InSb focal plane arrays bonded to a Teledyne FLIR ISC0403 ROIC. As a prime contractor, Senseeker has previously received...

This federal contract award to Qmagiq LLC, a small business, is for the development of megapixel long-wave infrared strained-layer superlattice focal plane arrays (SLS FPAs) to support NASA's Earth observation missions. The $124,996 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract aims to increase the spatial resolution of instruments like the Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor (LDCM-TIRS) from 100 meters to the desired 30 meters by expanding the number of detector pixels. In Phase I,...

Qmagiq LLC, a small business, was awarded a $749,882 firm-fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop 2048x2048 strained-layer superlattice (SLS) focal plane arrays (FPAs) for high-spatial resolution earth observing missions. The objective is to increase the pixel resolution of thermal infrared sensors from the current 640x512 to 2048x2048 while improving quantum efficiency and operating...

This is a firm fixed price definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Attollo Engineering, LLC, a small business based in Camarillo, CA. The $749,230.00 contract is for the development of a high-definition mid-wave infrared (MWIR) sensor as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract aims to advance multi-spectral imaging capabilities for military applications across the visible, short-wave...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $3,144,473.01 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Albedo Space Corp., a small business manufacturer located in Sheridan, Colorado. The contract is for the provision of thermal infrared (long wave infrared) imagery for nighttime imaging under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, Phase II. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by November 18, 2025. Albedo...