Definitive Contract FA945311C0186

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation a $655,815 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to provide one-year of sustaining engineering support for the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) program. Under the order, Ball Aerospace will deliver payload sustaining engineering and analysis in support of the ongoing CALIPSO satellite mission, with subcontractor Space Science...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center (NASA) awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a $545,551.00 delivery order contract to provide sustaining engineering support necessary to support the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission from November 23, 2021 through November 22, 2022. As the prime contractor, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will leverage its civil space systems, defense hardware and...

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...

This is a $124,973 firm fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Biospherical Instruments, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced optical instrumentation for environmental monitoring. The contract is part of NASA's "14-DECADES CALIBRATION IN AIRBORNE DETECTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (14DECADES)" program and aims to develop a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) multiwaveband...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The $894,520.72 contract is for the development of a custom linear mode photon counting HgCdTe electron-avalanche photodiode (e-APD) system with an integrated high-speed and low-noise preamplifier. This system is intended to support the Lidar Surface Topography (LIST) mission, which is developing a multi-beam...

This is a $150,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Sensing Strategies, Inc., a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The contract is for on-orbit calibration of staring imaging sensors. Sensing Strategies, Inc. is a scientific consulting and research and development firm specializing in advanced sensor technologies for defense and aerospace applications. The company has established itself as a key...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Biospherical Instruments, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in San Diego, California. The $737,551 firm fixed price contract is for the development and demonstration of a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) multiwaveband sensor pair (radiance and irradiance) for airborne and shipboard sensing of ocean color in low-light conditions. The new...

This federal contract award to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, is for CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATION (CALIPSO) SUSTAINING ENGINEERING PAYLOAD ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES. The $2,079,993 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center in providing payload engineering services for the CALIPSO satellite mission, which is focused on Earth...

Sciglob Instruments & Services LLC, a small disadvantaged business, was awarded a $382,259 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to maintain and enhance the in-flight calibration of the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the Landsat 8 satellite. This work aims to ensure high-quality EPIC Level 1 data, which is the basis for critical Level 2 science products such as ozone, cloud, and vegetation maps. The grant supports three work packages: calibration and...

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...