Qmagiq LLC, a small business, was awarded a $749,882 firm-fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop 2048x2048 strained-layer superlattice (SLS) focal plane arrays (FPAs) for high-spatial resolution earth observing missions. The objective is to increase the pixel resolution of thermal infrared sensors from the current 640x512 to 2048x2048 while improving quantum efficiency and operating...
This is a $150,000 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced infrared detector materials and components. The contract is to develop Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs) for Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) applications that can operate at temperatures above 200 Kelvin using III-V semiconductor...
This is a federal contract award from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Epir, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business manufacturer located in Bolingbrook, Illinois. The $124,996.00 fixed-price contract is part of the SBIR Phase I program for the "Next Generation HgCdTe FPAs for High Frame Rate Characterization of Thermal Protective Systems." The contract aims to demonstrate a proof-of-concept architecture for high-speed infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs)...
This is a $749,999.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Qmagiq LLC, a small business vendor, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for the development and delivery of a 1280x1024 dual-band infrared focal plane array (FPA) integrated in a compact dewar cooler assembly (IDCA) and camera. The FPA leverages type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) photodiode technology to provide...
This is a $749,980.00 Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Qmagiq LLC, a small business located in Nashua, NH. The contract is for the development of antimony-based focal plane arrays (FPAs) for NASA's imaging and spectroscopy applications in the spectral band from visible to shortwave-infrared (SWIR), with a focus on wavelengths from 0.5 - 2.5 microns. The goal is to extend the performance and cost benefits of Qmagiq's existing MWIR and LWIR FPA technology into the SWIR...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the U.S. Department of the Army to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a small business manufacturer specializing in advanced infrared detector materials. The contract, valued at up to $2,000,000.00, is for the development of a "Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) Dual Band Focal Plane Array in High Definition Format". The original solicitation was part of the Department of the Navy's DoD SBIR 24.4 Program Broad Agency...
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...
This federal contract award to Qmagiq LLC, a small business, is for the development of megapixel long-wave infrared strained-layer superlattice focal plane arrays (SLS FPAs) to support NASA's Earth observation missions. The $124,996 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract aims to increase the spatial resolution of instruments like the Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor (LDCM-TIRS) from 100 meters to the desired 30 meters by expanding the number of detector pixels. In Phase I,...
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $201,310.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Senseeker Corp, a small business, for an IR Focal Plane Array Testing System. This contract was awarded under a total small business set-aside solicitation seeking a commercial item to interface with and read out 640x512 pixel analog InSb focal plane arrays. The system must be brand name or equal, and the awardee must be an authorized distributor. The place of performance is Goleta,...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Qmagiq LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract has a potential value of $124,999.00 and is for the development of a broadband infrared focal plane array (FPA) with a spectral response range from 1.5 to 12 microns to enable NASA's mission of remotely analyzing the chemical composition of fires and burning...