This is a $710,321.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Seakr Engineering, LLC for the development of "ROUTING FOR IP-BASED SATELLITE AD-HOC NETWORKS" under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II research program. Seakr Engineering has subcontracted with The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) to provide IP routing solutions, and with Iridium Satellite LLC to conduct a...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $145.99 million definitive contract to Seakr Engineering, LLC for the Blackjack Program Phases 2 and 3 on March 12, 2021. The contract is cost-plus-fixed-fee with no set-aside. Blackjack is an architecture demonstration intended to show the high military utility of global low Earth orbit constellations and mesh networks of smaller, lighter-weight spacecraft nodes. The originating pre-solicitation, posted in February 2019, sought proposals...
This is a $35,673,788.54 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force to Seakr Engineering, LLC, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies), for the development of Small Autonomous Reconnaissance and Surveillance Experimental (SABRE) capabilities in support of the Air Force's Blackjack program. Blackjack is an architecture demonstration intended to show the military utility of global low Earth orbit constellations and mesh networks of smaller,...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I action awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Eridan Communications Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer. The $149,687 firm-fixed-price contract is for research and development of "Next Generation Small Satellite Technologies" under the AFRL's Space Platforms portfolio. The contract has a completion date of September 11, 2019 and was awarded on December 12, 2018. This SBIR Phase I award...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1.5 million definitive contract to Space Micro Inc. for Agile Space Radio (ASR) technology under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. As a total small business set-aside, the firm fixed price contract tasks Space Micro's San Diego division with advancing ASR capabilities to support the Air Force's space-related research and development efforts. No major subcontractors or additional...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Wafer, LLC a $7.83 million firm fixed price Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract for the Rapid Deployment Terminal (RAD-T) program, focused on NorthRing Low Earth Orbit satellite terminals demonstration and deployment. The contract, awarded on August 8, 2019, with an ultimate completion date of February 21, 2025, is designated as a total small business set-aside. Work will be performed in Danvers, Massachusetts. This Phase II SBIR...
This $50,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rincon Research Corporation (RRC), a small business manufacturer of radio frequency and digital signal processing products and services. The contract is for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a low-cost, passive radio frequency-based system that generates high-accuracy tracking observations using signals broadcast by active satellites. RRC has...
The Air Force awarded a $2,999,997.47 definitive contract to Innovative Signal Analysis Inc. on April 13, 2026, for development of a radar warning receiver payload for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office under a total small business set-aside. The originating SBIR proposal (Topic SF251-D1101, Proposal F2D-19766) addresses radar warning receiver payload development for rapid space capabilities. Place of performance is Richardson, TX. The contract carries firm fixed price terms with an ultimate...
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $1,899,642 definitive contract to Spacerake, Inc. for advanced optical communication technologies supporting the proliferated warfighter space architecture on August 21, 2025, under a total small business set-aside. The contract is firm fixed price with an ultimate completion date of February 20, 2027. Place of performance is Cambridge, MA. The solicitation seeks to advance affordable, resilient, and interoperable technologies within the proliferated...
Spectronn, Inc., a small business, was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on August 1, 2025, with a ceiling value of approximately $180K. The contract requires the company to conduct realistic feasibility studies to evaluate the viability of a multipath resilient networking software-defined networking (SDN) software stack designed to support real-time enterprise space data transport and computing...