Definitive Contract NNA06AA03C

The U.S. government awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract with a ceiling value of $597,956.00 to Digitalspace Corporation, a small business located in Santa Cruz, CA. The contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is for the development of a "Simulation-Based Lunar Telerobotics Design, Acquisition & Training Platform for Virtual Exploration." This fixed-price contract was awarded on December 2, 2005 and has a...

This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA to Energid Technologies Corporation, a small business, in the amount of $124,996. The contract is for the development of a game-theory inspired simulation tool for testing and validating robotic lunar and planetary missions. The tool will apply Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic optimization to model sensor interactions and terrain factors, with the goal of maximizing performance metrics and identifying extreme...

Lunar Outpost Inc., a manufacturer of autonomous robotic systems and space technologies, was awarded a $49,103 SBIR Phase I contract by the U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory for the development of "MARS (MOBILE AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SWARMS) FOR CISLUNAR SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS". The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order and is designated as a Total Small Business set-aside. Lunar Outpost Inc. has been awarded numerous prime federal contracts,...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Traclabs Inc., a small business robotics and automation company. The $124,599 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of context-sensitive augmented reality technologies to support astronaut operations and training on the International Space Station (ISS) and Orion spacecraft. The contract aims to integrate Traclabs' Procedure Integrated...

This is a STTR Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Astrobotic Technology Inc., a Pittsburgh-based space robotics company. The $1,174,266 fixed-price contract is focused on developing autonomous exploration capabilities for robotic probes to access and analyze extreme terrain features on the Moon and Mars, such as recurring slope lineae, methane plumes, and permanently shadowed craters with water ice. The work aims to advance perceptual models and algorithms that enable robots to make...

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Traclabs Inc., a robotics and automation company that is a subsidiary of the woman-owned small business Metrica, Inc. The contract, valued at $749,729, aims to integrate augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies into NASA's existing mission operations tools to provide more autonomous support for astronauts on the International Space Station. The goal is to reduce the need for close collaboration...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract to Lunar Outpost Inc., a small business specializing in autonomous robotic systems and advanced space technologies. The $4,999,953.00 contract is for the development of Mobile Autonomous Robotic Swarms under the SBIR Program Phase II. This contract is set aside for total small business participation. The award is part of a larger Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract with NASA's Johnson Space...

This is a Phase II SBIR contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bluhaptics, Inc. (doing business as Olis Robotics), a small business. The goal of this $749,903 Firm Fixed Price contract is to develop and deliver a solution that enables intuitive tele-robotic control for future space missions that will increasingly rely on remote robotic systems. The work aims to address key challenges in robotic space operations by improving robotic function, cognition,...

This is a $749,977 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Protoinnovations, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development. The contract is focused on developing advanced algorithms and controls to improve the safety, speed, and rough-terrain access of wheeled planetary rovers, particularly for lunar exploration. Key technologies include traction control,...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $682,766.00 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract to Lunar Outpost Inc., a small business manufacturer, for SBIR Phase II research and development. The contract is for Lunar Outpost's continued work on autonomous robotic systems for assembly, manufacturing, and other applications in space and extreme environments. This contract builds on Lunar Outpost's prior SBIR and other federal research contracts to develop...