This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Optimax Systems, Inc. to manufacture a monolithic freeform telescope. The contract aims to prove the feasibility of Optimax's optics manufacturing process to produce a freeform optical telescope system with a high-precision freeform surface. This capability enables more compact designs, larger fields of view, and better-performing unobscured systems for space-based...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. for the James Webb Space Telescope project. The $66,361,364.00 contract covers the design, development, fabrication, assembly, integration, and testing of the Aft Optics System (AOS) Source Plate Assembly (ASPA), Tinsley closeout, optical integration and testing, and special studies. The contract work supports the James Webb Space Telescope, a major NASA observatory...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,844.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optimax Systems, Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-precision optical components. The contract supports a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort to develop a monolithic freeform telescope system, which could enable more compact, higher-performing, and less-vibration-prone telescope designs for space applications. The contract is for the...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Optipro Systems, LLC, a manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The $124,961 award will support the design, manufacture, and testing of a precision rotary axis for Optipro's Ultraform Finishing (UFF) optical fabrication platform. The goal is to improve the capability to rapidly remove residual grinding and machining marks, as well as sub-surface damage, on X-ray optical...
This is a $124,975 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Optipro Systems, LLC, a small business manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and covers research, development, and fabrication of advanced optical systems and enabling technologies for extreme ultraviolet (EUV), optical, and infrared (IR)...
The U.S. Goddard Space Center (NASA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order contract valued at $544,140.00 to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. to conduct an "ADVANCED TELESCOPE FOR HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS (ATHENA) CRYOCOOLER DEMONSTRATION MODEL STUDY". This contract was issued under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle. BAE Systems is serving as the prime...
G.a. Tyler Associates, Inc., doing business as The Optical Science Company, was awarded a $149,992.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop an adaptive optics prototype for a meter-class telescope used for space surveillance. The contract was set aside for small businesses and is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Through this Phase I SBIR contract, G.a. Tyler Associates, Inc. will...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $189,871 Firm Fixed Price contract to EO Solutions Corp, a for-profit manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for designing an advanced mobile and robust optical telescope system by leveraging the use of cutting-edge finite element analysis (FEA) tools and techniques. The statement of work is incorporated as an attachment. EO Solutions Corp has subcontracted a portion of the work to...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optical Physics Company, a small business, for $82,783. The contract is for ground-based field testing of a calibrated and assembled Phase II prototype laser communications pointing sensor (LPS) system using retrosatellites. The overall objective is to develop and demonstrate an interferometric star tracker-based LPS for deep space beaconless pointing to enable higher data rates for...
<p>The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract to C&L OC, Inc. (doing business as O P T), a for-profit small business organization, to provide an Optical Telescope. The contract was awarded on January 22, 2015, with a potential value of $231,512.00 and a completion date of September 18, 2015. The place of performance is Camp Pendleton North, CA 92054, USA.</p>