Definitive Contract HR001115C0058

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,972.64 grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to design and test a prototype chip-based, centimeter-scale, metasurface optical antenna with 4 pi steradian electronic beam steering capability operating in the C-band. The design is based on gate-tunable plasmonic reflectarray metasurfaces that enable beam steering of 1550 nanometer light reflected from a tunable phased array metasurface. Tunability arises...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded Eospace Inc. a $3.7 million other transaction agreement to develop prototype transmit and receive modules for a microwave phased array antenna under the Cornerstone Consortium. The modules will optically control the amplitude and phase of multiple radio frequency signals. Eospace will perform the work in Redmond, Washington over a 30-month period concluding in October 2022. No set aside...

This is a $6,440,712.27 definitive, firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Cesiumastro Inc. for the design and construction of a medium-sized Ka-band active phased array (APA) satellite communications (SATCOM) terminal. The contract has no set-aside designation and is expected to be complete by April 17, 2027. Cesiumastro Inc. is a for-profit manufacturer of communications modules, payloads, and satellites, with expertise in developing...

This contract, awarded by the Defense Microelectronics Activity, is for the design, development, testing, evaluation, and fabrication of a shared aperture (antenna) and twist reflector antenna capability. The capability includes programmable low-power radio frequency (RF) input, parametric recording, high-power RF amplification, and cockpit and remote control of the system. The contract has a potential value of $38,062,268.00 and was awarded to BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems...

NASA awarded a $658,452 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Nuvotronics, Inc., a small business manufacturer, to leverage the design of a broadband feed developed under prior NASA programs and a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. The purpose is to provide a line array to the Goddard Space Flight Center to demonstrate a compact antenna feed reflector pattern synthesis method in their electromagnetic anechoic chamber. This contract is a Phase III SBIR action, continuing the...

This is a federal contract award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex to CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of satellite communications equipment and components located in Plano, Texas. The contract, valued at $1,580,027.00, is for the delivery of a SUBREFLECTOR in support of the Federal Supply Schedule (FSSMI) contract. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Firm Fixed Price pricing type, and the period of...

This is a $11,853,352.65 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Rockwell Collins, Inc. (a subsidiary of RTX Corporation) for the ARRAYS AT COMMERCIAL TIMESCALES (ACT) program. Under this contract, Rockwell Collins will develop a common beam forming module technology base for disparate array systems, departing from traditional highly-specialized and time-consuming array design methodologies. The goal is to create electromagnetic...

The United States Marine Corps awarded a $250,000 firm fixed price purchase order to CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc. of Plano, Texas for the delivery of antenna reflectors. As the prime contractor, CPI Satcom will supply 8507960300 REFLECTOR,ANTENNA products to the Department of Defense Navy under this contract, which runs from February 4, 2021 through September 13, 2021 and allows for performance at the contractor's Plano facility. No subcontractors or set aside designations were...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $5,801,063.35 Other Transaction Agreement to Cesiumastro Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of communications modules, payloads, and satellites. The contract is for the development of an L-band multiband/interleaved electronically scanned array (ESA) antenna, with a completion date of December 23, 2025. This contract is not set aside and is part of AFRL's efforts to advance communications systems, sensing capabilities, and related hardware...

This SBIR Phase II contract with a ceiling value of $785,000.00 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business. The goal is to develop a deployable, offset-fed paraboloidal mesh reflector antenna that can operate onboard small, low-cost satellites like CubeSats at frequencies up to 100 GHz. The contract aims to fully test the performance characteristics of a prototype antenna with an aperture...