Definitive Contract HR001115C0057

This is a $11,224,020 federal contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) for the Direct On-Chip Digital Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) program. The goal of the DODOS program is to develop a compact, low-power, direct on-chip digital optical synthesizer that can convert radio frequency (RF) to optical frequency with unprecedented frequency resolution of one part in 10^14. The contract seeks to enable a...

This $11,141,206.13 federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a Direct On-Chip Digital Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) that can convert radio frequency (RF) to optical frequency with high precision. The objective is to create a compact, low-power optical synthesizer with programmable frequency resolution of one part in 10^14. MIT is the prime contractor, with several subcontractors including...

Digital Optics Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $167,462 firm fixed price definitive contract by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command. The contract is set aside for total small businesses and supports research under the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I effort entitled "Anomalous Dispersion Enhanced Inertial Sensors Using Raman Depletion Resonance." To be performed in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, the work involves...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,925 grant to the University of Southern California (USC) to design a chip-scale optoelectronic synthesizer that can generate extremely high frequency (EHF) signals from 30-300 GHz with high spectral purity. The three-year research project will involve developing a mode-locked laser testbed, fabricating photonic integrated circuit (PIC) components for optical filtering and pulse shaping, and demonstrating the generation of...

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 $6,008,719 firm-fixed-price contract awarded to Hqphotonics Inc., a for-profit company based in Pasadena, California, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract is for the development of compact, low-noise microwave frequency synthesizers to enable advanced sensing and communication applications under DARPA's Generating RF with Photonic Oscillators for Low Noise (GRYPHON) program. The contract has a period of performance through September 11, 2026. This...

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 contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Digital Optics Technologies Inc., a small business corporation, for the development of a chip-scale superluminal inertial measurement unit (IMU) using rubidium and integrated photonics. The $749,989.00 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program, with a completion date of January 31, 2025. The contract is set aside for small businesses. Digital Optics...

This is a $147,130.17 firm fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Analog Photonics LLC, a small business based in Boston, MA. The contract is for the development of a "Silicon Photonics Optogenetic Transceiver System (SPOTS) for Rapid Cortical Pattern Generation" under DARPA's SBIR program. As a prime contractor, Analog Photonics has previously been awarded federal contracts from agencies including the Department of the...

This is a $344,887 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Optalysys LTD, a for-profit organization based in Great Britain, United Kingdom. The contract falls under DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Seedling program and aims to apply groundbreaking optical processing technology to solve partial differential-style equations that form the basis of large-scale simulations used in earth systems modeling. The contract does not have a set-aside...