This is a federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Axometrics Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project to develop a "Retardation Mapping System for Astronomical Mirrors." The contract, valued at $149,694, is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of February 6, 2025. The contract is set aside for small businesses. This SBIR Phase I award is part of NASA's broader...
This federal contract award is for a Phase II SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) project with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract was awarded to Dallas Optical Systems Inc., a for-profit, veteran-owned business that manufactures goods. The innovation being developed under this contract is a method for fabricating a very low-cost, lightweight, large-aperture aluminum alloy mirror using a combination of 3 manufacturing processes: additive manufacturing...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Dallas Optical Systems Inc., a for-profit, veteran-owned manufacturer. The goal of this $124,876.00 firm-fixed-price contract is to develop solutions and methods for fabricating a very low-cost, very lightweight large aperture aluminum alloy mirror. The contract has a small business set-aside designation and was awarded on May 19, 2021...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to A-Z Innovative Solutions LLC of Hudson, Massachusetts. With a potential value of one hundred twenty-six thousand six hundred seventy dollars, this firm fixed price purchase order supports research and development efforts towards low-cost, ultra-high precision x-ray mirror surface deterministic finishing. As a total small...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a definitive contract valued at $747,554 to Momentum Optics Inc. as part of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for EO14042 SBIR Phase II Laser Fabrication with Integrated Metrology for Low-Cost Free-Form Optics and will be performed in Longmont, Colorado over a period of approximately two years concluding on April 13, 2024. The contract has a firm fixed price and was set aside for...
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 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged, Asian-Pacific American-owned manufacturing business. The contract, valued at $124,798.00, is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project to continue the manufacturing optimization of mirror quality for piezoelectric stack actuator deformable mirrors (DMs) and next-generation single-crystal...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $749,967 contract aims to develop innovative manufacturing methods for batch fabrication of single crystal PMN-PT stack actuator deformable mirrors (DM) at low cost, up to one order of magnitude reduction compared to current state-of-the-art techniques. The methods are proposed to...
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...
<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $799,976 firm fixed price contract to Nanohmics Inc. of Austin, Texas under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The period of performance is from March 28, 2022 through September 27, 2024. The purpose of this total small business set aside contract is for Nanohmics Inc. to conduct research on Adaptive Optics for Low-Cost CubeSat Optical Systems. No applicable subcontractors were identified.</p>