The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $109,447 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract to Neuron Space Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of high-speed, mini laser terminals to support the United States Space Force's real-time exploitation of commercial earth observation data. The contract has a completion date of March 14, 2024 and is set aside for small businesses. Neuron Space Corporation is a California-based company specializing in...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $40,160.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Swarm Technologies, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for research and development focused on satellite communications capabilities and solutions to enhance communications resiliency for the Department of the Air Force. Swarm Technologies has previously delivered discreet...
Spaceworks Enterprises Inc. Engineering Division, doing business as Spaceworks, has been awarded a $179,994 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct a quantitative analysis of alternatives to select critical enabling technologies for the Space Force's planned and future cislunar navigation missions. The Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I contract is set aside for total small businesses. Spaceworks will...
This is a $1,783,509 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Trusted Space Inc., a small business Subchapter S corporation located in Leesburg, Virginia. The contract is for the design and development of a shielded deep reinforcement learning approach for decision-making in a small swarm of spacecraft performing search and tracking missions. This contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II action, with a total small...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Infinity Labs LLC, a veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Xenia, Ohio. The $179,924 firm-fixed-price contract is to advance the state of the art for satellite cyber defense systems on U.S. Space Force (USSF) satellites, utilizing the human immune system as inspiration. This contract is set aside for small businesses. Infinity Labs is a prime...
This is a $6,750,000.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Swarm Technologies, Inc., a small business manufacturer of goods. The contract is for the delivery of innovative satellite solutions to enable space-based communications for Air Force Satellite Communications (SATCOM) resiliency, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract has a total small business set aside designation. Swarm Technologies...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center awarded a $3.9 million delivery order contract to The Aerospace Corporation to provide engineering and scientific services in support of spectrum management for the United States Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center Directorate of Cyberspace and Information. The Aerospace Corporation will perform the work under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract structure through January 2025 in El Segundo, California. As the prime...
This is a $1,553,337.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Space and Missile Systems Center of the U.S. Air Force to Swarm Technologies, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods, to provide a discreet communications payload to enhance resiliency for critical on-orbit assets. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Swarm Technologies has previously received other Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I and II awards from the Air Force focused on satellite...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Vissidus Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small business, to demonstrate the feasibility of coordinating and controlling a low-cardinality (12 satellites) swarm of small satellites that can realize a distributed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system in low Earth orbit. The $116,460.00 Firm Fixed Price contract aims to develop algorithms for swarm aggregation,...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $49,915.00 to Redwire Space Inc., doing business as Made In Space, for a Deployable Space Radar System Feasibility Study for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The contract is a Phase I SBIR action, which is research and development focused on evaluating the feasibility of the proposed technology. As a for-profit small business, Redwire Space...