Infrared Imaging, LLC was awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order for $153,400 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide a high-speed mid-wave infrared camera and associated equipment. The award was made under a total small business set-aside competitive solicitation to acquire a high-speed mid-wave infrared camera, power supply, cabling, software development kit, and one-year warranty. The camera will support the Optical Measurements Group's efforts to develop new...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract awarded by the Air Force to Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor company in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. The $526,779.37 contract is for the development of uncooled mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging systems using non-degenerate two-photon absorption with custom InAlGaAs detector arrays. The contract supports the Air Force's research and development efforts related to advanced...
This is a $11,631,703.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to HRL Laboratories, LLC, a research and development company jointly owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. The contract's scope is to create a process to aggressively curve large-format, high-performance infrared focal plane arrays. No set-aside was used for this award. Major subcontractors include Thales Cryogenics B.V. for cryogenic coolers and...
HRL Laboratories, LLC was awarded a $10.56 million definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a prototype midwave infrared detector with an extreme 12.5mm radius of curvature fully meeting the requirements for curved infrared imagers. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Work will be performed in San Diego, California with an expected completion date of November 21, 2024. Major subcontractors include Intelligent Epitaxy...
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...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Test Center (AFTC) to Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Flir LLC. The $127,230 contract is for the delivery of a WINDOWING FOCAL PLANE ARRAY (FPA) MID-WAVE INFRARED (MWIR) IMAGING SYSTEM, with a completion date of August 11, 2024. This award does not have a set-aside designation. Teledyne Flir LLC is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of advanced thermal imaging and infrared...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $31,850 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Optotherm, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, for an Uncooled Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) Microbolometer Camera System and associated software. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 2, 2024. The original solicitation notice indicated this was a proposed sole-source procurement for a camera system with specific technical requirements, including sensitivity over...
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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $250,000 purchase order to DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC for an integrated detector cooler assembly with a 2x8 pixel mercury cadmium telluride avalanche photodiode array. DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC will deliver a second integrated detector cooler assembly with the specified detector array to support the detection of single photons at 1030 and 1550 nanometer wavelengths with linear mode photon counting outputs. The...
Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $749,998 by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver a midwave/longwave infrared detector with electronically-tunable bandwidth capabilities. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract supports the laboratory's research efforts and will provide the requested infrared detection technology over a two-year period of performance based in Bolingbrook, Illinois. The...