This is a $26,579,196.00 firm fixed price definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Analog Photonics LLC, a Boston-based high technology company specializing in advanced silicon photonics. The contract is for the Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks (MOABB) and Arrayed Rapid Gigascale Optical System (ARGOS) programs, which are focused on developing optical technologies, including silicon photonic phased arrays, optical sensing, free space optical...
This is a $7,489,990.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute. The contract is for the Heterogeneous Adaptively Produced Photonic Interfaces (HAPPI) program, which aims to create a 1000x increase in information transmission density within a microsystem by exploiting photonic signaling. The award has a March 2025 start date and a March 2028 completion date. There is no...
This is a $149,956.19 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Quantum Semiconductor LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for a DARPA SBIR Phase I effort titled "NEAR-PHOTON-COUNTING, HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE, PASSIVE VISION DETECTOR ARRAYS." The contract has a completion date of August 23, 2017 and was awarded on November 23, 2016. As an SBIR Phase I contract, this award is part of DARPA's Small Business...
This is a $7,810,229.00 definitive Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Analog Photonics LLC, a Boston-based high technology company specializing in advanced silicon photonics technologies. The contract is for the Optical Phased Arrays at Scale (OPAS) project, which will manufacture optical phased arrays and integrated lidar demonstrators at a domestic, advanced node photonics fabrication facility. The contract has an ultimate...
This is a federal contract award to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The $2,284,001.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is for the development of a "Fast and Coherent Widely Tunable Optical Source." The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime contractor, Freedom Photonics has received numerous awards from...
This is a federal contract award made by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Aurrion, Inc., a small business, for an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II research project on an "Integrated Optical Thresholder Function". The contract has a total ceiling value of $749,641.00 and is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Definitive Contract with a completion date of June 30, 2017. The contract is set aside for small businesses. No additional subcontractor information is provided.
This is a $333,613 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Nexus Photonics Inc., a for-profit small business based in Goleta, California. The contract is for the "EMBEDDED ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE" and has an ultimate completion date of December 12, 2024. Nexus Photonics will provide photonic integrated circuit platforms, lasers, optical systems, and related solutions to support DARPA's innovation initiatives across defense,...
This is a $1,383,696.74 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Optical Physics Company, a small business, for a DARPA SBIR Phase II effort titled "Conformal Random Access Beam Steering." The contract runs from May 2016 through May 2019 and is a definitive contract, meaning it is a complete, stand-alone agreement. Optical Physics Company, which specializes in advanced optical systems for tracking, imaging, filtering, and beam...
This is a $766,711 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a not-for-profit research and development organization. The contract, titled "OPTICAL ENERGY TRANSFER EFFICIENCIES," has a completion date of March 12, 2022. The contract was awarded under a DARPA solicitation seeking proposals to enable disruptive capabilities across multiple defense domains, including unmanned systems,...
This is a $1,250,000.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee Definitive Contract awarded to Glint Photonics, Inc., a small business, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II research and development project. The contract runs from September 2023 through December 2025. Glint Photonics is a lighting products company that has received multiple SBIR, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), and cooperative agreement awards from federal...