This is a $1,294,861.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Southampton, a non-profit organization located in the United Kingdom. The contract supports research and development for DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, with the overall goal of exploiting emerging developments in toroidal electrodynamics to develop novel spectroscopic tools and information/energy transfer schemes. This contract was awarded under a...
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 $1,383,696.74 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...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Washington Headquarters Service awarded a $179,270.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Chromacity Limited, a for-profit manufacturer located in the United Kingdom. The contract is for the delivery of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based laser system with associated components and training. This award was made under a sole-source justification, as Chromacity Limited was determined to be the only source capable of meeting the specific technical...
The University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants Division has been awarded a $673,342 cost-no-fee definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct research in scalable all-optical processing remotely. This award is in response to DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals across multiple topic areas including artificial intelligence, data science, symbiosis, analytics, and cybersecurity....
<p>This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the EXTREME PROGRAM to deliver novel ENMAT-based optical architectures. The contract has a ceiling value of $250,000.00 and was awarded on January 18, 2018 with a final completion date of January 18, 2021. The awardee is David Shafer, doing business as David Shafer Optical Design. This contract was not set aside for any specific business type.</p>
This is a $1,505,186.92 Firm Fixed Price, Definitive Contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Ocius Technologies LLC, a Small Disadvantaged Business, for the development of Analog Co-Processors for Complex System Simulation and Design. The contract is a STTR Phase II award, indicating it builds upon prior research and development work. The contract has a period of performance through November 30, 2020 and was awarded on August 31, 2017. This award is not...
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 $2,249,992 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), a small business, to develop the designs of the objective and eyepiece optical systems and the design and layout of individual flat optics. The contract has a completion date of May 19, 2026. As a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II effort, this contract builds on prior feasibility research. Boston University is a major...
This is a $149,995.76 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Physical Optics Corporation, a small business division of Mercury Systems Inc. The contract is for the development of a "DEEP EXPLAINER OF NEURAL NETWORKS" and has a firm-fixed price. Physical Optics Corporation is a provider of advanced technology solutions, specializing in optical systems, avionics, electronic warfare, and communications...