The Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded a $500,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order to PHDS CO., a for-profit company that specializes in manufacturing High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors for identifying and quantifying radioactive materials. The contract is for the procurement of four LoPro HPGe Special Prototyping Kits, which support the agency's efforts in areas such as weapons of mass destruction threat reduction and environmental detection and analysis. This is a sole source...
The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command Engineering Logistics Office awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Phds CO., a company that specializes in manufacturing high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors for identifying, locating, and quantifying radioactive materials. The contract is for a Fulcrum-S 40% HPGe gamma-ray detection system, with a potential value of $219,620.00. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under simplified acquisition procedures and does not...
This is a $134,090.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, to Phds CO. for the delivery of an HPGE gamma imaging camera. The contract has no set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by January 31, 2025. Phds CO. is a for-profit company that specializes in manufacturing high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors and related radiation detection equipment. The company has previously...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded a $749,548 firm fixed price definitive contract to Fieldline Inc. to develop an atomic tensor gradiometer. The work will be performed in Boulder, Colorado over a two-year period ending in May 2022. As part of the DOD's efforts to advance technologies supporting nuclear nonproliferation and reduction initiatives, this contract leverages the contractor's expertise in precision measurement devices to deliver capabilities for detecting nuclear materials....
This is a $174,000.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to H3D, Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance imaging spectrometers. The contract is for the development of perovskite radiation detectors under the SBIR program. H3D has previously received federal funding for research and development related to nuclear detection technologies, including under grants from the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and...
This is a $1,099,991.82 STTR Phase II contract issued by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD), a subsidiary of Dynasil Corporation of America. The contract is for the development of a detector technology for nuclear security and defense that will supersede existing gamma-ray and neutron detectors. Specifically, the goal is to develop mixed elpasolite scintillators. This contract is set aside for small businesses. RMD is a leading provider of...
This is a $149,979 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), a small business based in Andover, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of a machine learning-based capability for radioactive and nuclear threat detection and identification under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. This Phase I research contract supports the agency's mission to counter weapons of mass destruction....
This is a $1,499,500.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to Proportional Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a small business manufacturer. The contract is for the development of a portable, fieldable, non-helium-3 based neutron multiplicity counter, which aligns with DTRA's mission to address nuclear detection capabilities. PTI has previously conducted SBIR Phase I and Phase II research and development...
This is a $149,653 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to Proportional Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. The contract is for the development of a portable, fieldable, non-helium-3 based neutron multiplicity counter. PTI has previously received SBIR Phase II awards from DTRA and the Department of Energy to develop advanced radiation detection and...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded Cantada, Inc. a $8.2 million definitive contract to develop an automated analytical tool to examine and define items of interest in order to enable rapid development of additional end user capabilities. The prime contractor will deliver the tool under a cost plus fixed fee contract over a five year period ending in December 2025. This award responds to the agency's solicitation seeking a high-purity germanium gamma ray spectrometer system weighing less...