Definitive Contract FA945308C0081

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Irvine Sensors Corporation, a small business prime contractor. The contract, valued at $748,360, is for the design and development of a flight prototype of an eye-safe 3D LIDAR sensor system for use on unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The sensor, called the Active Continuous Awareness Surveillance System (ACASS), will detect nearby aircraft and enable avoidance maneuvers, providing a detect-and-avoid...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics company. The $849,673 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development and production of a photon counting sensor to support in-space debris detection. Axiom Optics Inc., a specialized optical and imaging equipment supplier in Somerville, Massachusetts, was awarded two subcontracts to develop...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optical Physics Company, a small business, for $82,783. The contract is for ground-based field testing of a calibrated and assembled Phase II prototype laser communications pointing sensor (LPS) system using retrosatellites. The overall objective is to develop and demonstrate an interferometric star tracker-based LPS for deep space beaconless pointing to enable higher data rates for...

Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC, doing business as Advanced Scientific Concepts, was awarded a $749,993.98 definitive contract by the United States Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver a 3D ranging and fused imaging sensor for local space-based situational awareness applications. The firm fixed price contract is being funded through Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program and will run from May 2021 through August 2023. The research and development effort...

This federal contract award, valued at $468,381.00, was issued by the Space and Missile Systems Center, a Defense agency, to Orbital Sciences LLC for an initial design study on space-based environmental monitoring electro-optic/infrared capabilities. The contract is a definitive, firm-fixed price award with no set-aside designation. Orbital Sciences LLC has subcontracted portions of the work to SES Space & Defense, Inc. and L3Harris Technologies, Inc. to provide engineering services. SES...

This is a $124,381 firm fixed price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by NASA to Sibelloptics, a veteran-owned small business located in Lafayette, Colorado. The contract is for the conceptual design of a compact, efficient, and reliable LIDAR system that can be deployed on various platforms such as balloons, small satellites, CubeSats, and ground-based exploratory systems. The goal is to develop a coherent LIDAR system for wind measurement that can meet the size, weight, power, and reliability...

G.a. Tyler Associates, Inc., doing business as The Optical Science Company, was awarded a $149,992.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop an adaptive optics prototype for a meter-class telescope used for space surveillance. The contract was set aside for small businesses and is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Through this Phase I SBIR contract, G.a. Tyler Associates, Inc. will...

The U.S. government agency Shared Services Center awarded a $131,412.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer of optical sensing technologies. The contract is for the development of an "ADAPTIVE, VELOCITY-SENSING RECEIVER FOR IN-LINE INSPECTION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED AEROSPACE PARTS" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. Intelligent Optical Systems specializes in optical sensors, monitoring...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective is to develop a 1550-nanometer sensitive photon-counting detector array with integrated time-tagging electronics, suitable for free-space optical communications in NASA missions such as the Lunar Laser Communication...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc., doing business as Oksi, a small business provider of advanced electro-optical sensor systems and technologies. The $125,000 Firm Fixed Price contract requires Oksi to design an optical system to support assisted or automated precision approach of fixed or rotary wing aircraft under diverse weather conditions. The Infrared...