Definitive Contract 80NSSC23CA021

This federal contract was awarded by NASA to Applied Sciences Inc., a small business, for the development of a unique solution to reduce the impact of stray visible light on space-based telescopic imagery. The solution leverages nano-structured polymer coatings and carbon nanotubes to create a highly effective, low-cost, and scalable light trapping surface. This innovation aims to address a key limitation in current treatments for mitigating the deleterious effects of stray light on the...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Applied Sciences Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract is for the development of affordable and practical spray-coated carbon nanotube (SCCNT) materials to provide stray light suppression for aerospace applications, such as telescopic imagery. The contract has a potential value of $749,762 and was awarded as a definitive, firm-fixed-price...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lambda Consulting, a small disadvantaged business. The $124,954 contract funds the development of an integrated optical stack incorporating carbon nanotubes for use in reflective nulling coronagraphs. The goal is to advance the state of the art in stray light control and optical surface quality for scientific instrumentation to support...

This is a $11,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Nanophotonics, LLC, a small business operating under the trade name Lambda Consulting. The contract is for the delivery of carbon nanotube masks, also known as apodizer mirrors, for use in advanced imaging systems for exoplanet and Earth observations. This award is a follow-on to previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts...

Advanced Nanophotonics, LLC, operating as Lambda Consulting, has been awarded an $899,871 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. This total small business set-aside contract, awarded on August 3, 2024, supports the development of next-generation components for exoplanet detection and characterization technologies. The work will be performed in Harwood, Maryland, with an ultimate completion...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Faraday Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Physical Sciences Inc. The $754,996.00 contract is for the development and demonstration of a scalable approach to applying carbon nanotube-based black coatings to large surface areas. The coatings are intended to suppress scattered light, withstand launch conditions, and resist radiation effects and atomic oxygen...

This is a $123,634 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Semplastics EHC LLC, a small business, to develop an ultra-low cost, lightweight, molded, chalcogenide glass-silicon oxycarbide composite mirror component. The goal is to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in areal cost (cost per square meter of collecting aperture) over current technologies for future NASA space mirror requirements. Semplastics will leverage its in-house technologies to produce a molded bulk...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a rapid growth nanocomposite ecosystem platform company. The contract, valued at $729,935, is focused on the development and demonstration of 3D printed and additively manufactured silicon carbide (SiC/SiC) composite and reaction bonded SiC materials for ultra-lightweight and low-cost mirror and telescope structure applications....

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center (NASA SSSC) to Hagopian John G, doing business as Lambda Consulting and Technology Division, a small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $1,126,767.00, is for the continued development and delivery of critical optical components, including Lyot stops and apodization masks, for use in coronagraphic instruments on future NASA missions...

Goeppert LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $174.5K Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by NASA's Shared Services Center. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside, supports research and development of the Scalable Optically-Tuned Lamellar Ceramic Reflective Intra-Heliospheric Sail (SOLARIS) technology. The work will be performed in Middle City West, Pennsylvania, with an ultimate...