Definitive Contract NNG06LA09C

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of a civilian federal agency. The prime contractor, Optimax Systems, Inc., will develop a process for manufacturing lightweight, stable mirror substrates using additive manufacturing (3D printing) techniques. The goal is to produce mirror substrates suitable for use in space and flight applications, with a focus on demonstrating the feasibility of the manufacturing process and...

This is a $124,915.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded to Fantom Materials Inc., a woman-owned small business, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for the development of ultra-stable mirror support structures for exoplanet and infrared/far-infrared missions requiring large, cryogenic mirrors. The requested technology aims to achieve telescope wavefront stability on the order of 10 picometers RMS per...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Digital Optics Technologies Inc., a small business corporation, for the development of a miniature active fast light ring laser gyroscope and accelerometer (AFLOGA) system. The goal is to enhance the sensitivity and precision of inertial measurement devices through the use of the fast-light effect in a cavity, with potential applications in areas such as navigation sensors. The...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Boston Micromachines Corporation, a small business manufacturer, for $1,248,659.00. The contract is focused on developing high-precision, deformable mirrors and associated electronics to enable advanced wavefront control for space-based coronagraphs that can detect Earth-like exoplanets. The research aims to overcome manufacturing and lifetime challenges with current...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is to demonstrate the feasibility of using selective laser melting (SLM) to produce a 3-meter symmetrical radius of curvature isogrid mirror substrate for use in ultraviolet, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) telescopes....

This federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based mirror products. The $123,785.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract supports the development of a design and manufacturing approach for a small-stroke, high-precision deformable mirror scalable to 10,000 actuators. This effort aims to...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optipro Systems, LLC, a manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The $150,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a sub-nanometer coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for mirror surface metrology, with a targeted completion date of February 2, 2024. As a prime contractor,...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $749,967 contract aims to develop innovative manufacturing methods for batch fabrication of single crystal PMN-PT stack actuator deformable mirrors (DM) at low cost, up to one order of magnitude reduction compared to current state-of-the-art techniques. The methods are proposed to...

This contract award to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. is for the development of a programmable phase nulling interferometer that extends the capability of a computer generated hologram (CGH) to null test a range of meter class telescope mirrors. The $113,030.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requires the construction of a brassboard Twyman-Green interferometer system with a 512x512 spatial light modulator...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Digital Optics Technologies Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, for the theoretical and experimental investigation of the "fast-light effect" and its application in enhancing the sensitivity of various devices such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and fiber-optic sensors. The $124,916 firm-fixed-price contract,...