Definitive Contract HR001115C0006

Photon Systems, Inc., a small business, received a $872,984 grant from NASA to develop a deep ultraviolet (DUV) light emitting triode (LET) source emitting in the 230-240 nm spectral range. This DUV-LET technology is intended to enable new compact trace organic and water ice detection instruments for future NASA lander missions to ocean worlds, primitive bodies, and asteroids. The DUV-LET source, which is over 250 times smaller and lighter than the DUV laser currently used on the Mars 2020...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $221,667.64 to Coherent NA, Inc. for a Continuously Tunable Pulsed Laser. This laser will be used by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) for their ELS3D project in the photonics lab. The contract has specific performance requirements for the laser, including a tunable range of 600 nm to 2600 nm, adjustable pulse width from 100s of femtoseconds...

Ultra-Low Loss Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $4.4 million firm fixed price definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop lasers for universal microscale optical systems (LUMOS) under the agency's Microsystems Technology Office program. The contract aligns with DARPA's solicitation seeking innovative research proposals to develop heterogeneous photonic integrated circuit platforms incorporating on-chip optical gain across three technical areas. Work...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $254,626 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Amplitude Laser, Inc. High Energy Division to deliver a compact neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet high energy pulsed laser system with custom beam shaping optics. The laser and associated installation, setup and testing services will be performed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland within 16 weeks, as requested in the solicitation. This total small...

This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced photonics and engineering services. The objective is the development of a single-frequency 1064 nm pump laser transmitter required for the GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk) instrument. The pump laser will be frequency converted to provide 532 nm and 355 nm outputs needed for the GOLD system, and will also be used to pump the...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) to Nuphoton Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned manufacturer of fiber lasers and amplifiers. The contract has a ceiling value of $38,370.00 and a completion date of November 15, 2024. It is for the procurement of a 1064 nm pulsed fiber laser that meets specific requirements to support GRL's ELS3D project, which aims to design and...

This federal contract was awarded by the Defense Contract Management Agency to BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. to develop and demonstrate a high energy kHz mid-infrared transmitter laser. The $1,392,619.00 contract is a delivery order issued under the Advanced Technology Support Program III (ATSP3) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As the prime contractor, BAE Systems is responsible for...

This is a $150,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of "HIGHLY DOPED GLASS ENABLED HIGH REPETITION RATE, HIGH AVERAGE POWER USPL SOURCES", which are specialized ultrafast pulsed laser systems. The prime contractor is N.p. Photonics, Inc., a small business fiber laser company based in Tucson, Arizona. This SBIR Phase I research contract...

The Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service awarded a $625,050 firm fixed price purchase order to Ekspla-USA Inc. of Bozeman, Montana. This award, set aside for the Small Business Administration's 8(a) Business Development Program, will provide one high energy nanosecond pulsed laser system capable of producing at least 10 joules per pulse at 1064 nanometers with a repetition rate of 10 Hertz. The laser and additional items including a standalone chiller, end user serviceable...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center to Tphotonics, Inc., a for-profit small business organization. The contract is for the development of a compact ultraviolet (UV) laser emitter in the 320-355 nanometer (nm) spectral range, as described in SBIR topic N161-005. The contract has a firm fixed price of $149,478.80 and a completion date of June 4, 2017. As an SBIR Phase I contract, this award is specifically set aside for small...