<p>This is a $599,825.00 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to L-3 Communications Ssg-Tinsley, Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the "COMPUTER CONTROLLED OPTICAL SURFACING OF BARE BERYLLIUM ASPHERIC OPTICS", with a period of performance ending on November 30, 2005. This contract is a set-aside for small businesses.</p>
This is a $124,840.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a limited liability company. The contract is for the research and development of 3D printed silicon carbide mirror segments that could be used for the primary mirror of a Far-Infrared (FIR) Surveyor space telescope mission, such as the proposed Origins Space Telescope (OST) or Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR). The...
This is a $849,999.00 Firm Fixed Price federal contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Photon Foils, a small business sole proprietorship based in Ventura, California. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and is designated as a total small business set-aside. The contract is for the development of large silicon carbide grids for X-ray microcalorimeter blocking filters, building...
<p>This is a $594,318.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to QED Technologies, a small business. The contract is for the "IMPROVED LARGE SEGMENTED OPTICS FABRICATION USING MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FINISHING" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract has a performance period ending on August 30, 2007 and was awarded on November 22, 2004.</p>
This is a $124,967.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Polaronyx Inc., a small business manufacturer of laser 3D manufacturing solutions and other laser micro structuring technologies. The contract is for the development of a cost-effective laser additive manufacturing system for SiC mirror support architecture, with integrated functions of additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, in-process...
This is a firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged, Asian-Pacific American-owned manufacturing business. The contract, valued at $124,798.00, is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project to continue the manufacturing optimization of mirror quality for piezoelectric stack actuator deformable mirrors (DMs) and next-generation single-crystal...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,835.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Outpost Technologies, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. The contract, with a performance period ending on January 25, 2023, is for the research and development of a "Low-Cost, High-Performance Metal Matrix Composite for Advanced Optical Systems." This SBIR Phase I action...
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 to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer, is focused on maturing advanced mirror and telescope assembly technology. The goal is to significantly reduce the cost of space mirrors from the current state-of-the-art of $6.4 million per square meter to less than $1.6 million per square meter, while maintaining low weight, high stiffness, and high performance for X-ray, neutron, and UV/optical applications. The $749,280 Small Business Innovation Research...
This is a $124,293.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Boston Micromachines Corporation, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) deformable mirrors to eliminate high-spatial-frequency topography due to print-through, which is applicable to optics research for space telescopes and related...