Definitive Contract FA865014C1813

This federal contract award to Alphacore Inc., a small business, provides $124,969 in funding for the development of a low-power application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigating receiver backend that can be incorporated into NASA's existing and future radiometer designs. The ASIC is designed to provide significant size, weight, and power (SWAP) reduction and better radiation hardness compared to current board-level systems using commercial...

This is a $1,385,523.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Linearizer Technology Inc., a small business, under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of "GAN TECHNOLOGY FOR GPS L-BAND SPACE POWER AMPLIFICATION", which is a research and development effort focused on amplification technology for GPS signals in the L-band frequency range. The contract has an ultimate completion...

L3Harris Interstate Electronics Corporation, a division of L3Harris Technologies, Inc., was awarded a definitive contract by the Space and Missile Systems Center on November 6, 2020, for the Global Positioning System Military Users Equipment Miniature Serial Interface Receiver Card Program with Next Generation Application Specific Integrated Circuit Increment. This cost-plus-incentive contract, with no set-aside designation, carries a ceiling value of $267.3 million and is scheduled for...

This is a $149,999.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Silicon Technologies Inc., a small business prime contractor, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of an advanced analog-to-digital converter for use in Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Silicon Technologies Inc. specializes in analog and mixed-signal design, particularly in the area of...

This contract award to Pacific Microchip Corp., a small business entity, is for the development of a low-power, radiation-tolerant Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) based spectrometer under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The ASIC aims to achieve a 4GHz bandwidth and 8192 usable frequency bins while consuming less than 1.5 watts of power, providing significant improvements over the field programmable arrays, analog-to-digital converters, and other discrete...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $755,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Pacific Microchip Corp. to develop an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for use in NASA's microwave correlation radiometers. The ASIC will digitize and process the radio frequency (RF) signals from radiometer front-ends, replacing bulky and power-hungry analog signal processing components. Key innovations include programmable digital signal...

The U.S. government awarded a $899,949 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Pacific Microchip Corp., a small business specializing in advanced microelectronics for aerospace and defense applications. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside, supports the development of a signal frequency channelizer application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). Pacific Microchip Corp., located in Culver City, California, will perform the work under a firm...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded to First RF Corporation, a small business, by the Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S) within the U.S. Army. The $876,944.10 contract supports the Phase II portion of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, with the objective of developing a "pseudo-satellite antenna for Global Positioning System (GPS) signal rebroadcast." First RF Corporation, based in Boulder,...

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Custom MMIC Design Services, Inc. (now part of Qorvo Texas, LLC) to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) technologies for future space communications and sensor applications. The contract, valued at $692,131.00, focuses on the design and development of high-efficiency, high-linearity 10 to 20 watt solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) operating in the Ka-band frequency range. The goal is to produce...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Pacific Microchip Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for NASA's microwave correlation radiometers used in space and airborne Earth sensing applications. The ASIC will replace analog signal processing with digital signal processing to reduce the...