This is a $124,973 firm fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Biospherical Instruments, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced optical instrumentation for environmental monitoring. The contract is part of NASA's "14-DECADES CALIBRATION IN AIRBORNE DETECTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (14DECADES)" program and aims to develop a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) multiwaveband...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microtek Inc., a small, minority-owned, and disadvantaged business, in the amount of $124,670.00. The contract is to develop a compact, energy-efficient, and inexpensive multi-band spectrometer that can provide high spectral resolution comparable to a conventional Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, but in a much smaller size and weight, by leveraging...
This is a $124,997 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Resonon, Inc. for the exploration of potential improvements to the NASA ARCSTONE instrument. The key objectives are to investigate the use of total internal reflection optics for the fore-optics, which could reduce polarization and size, as well as the use of a single focal plane array for the entire 350-2,300 nm spectral range, which could reduce...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc., a minority-owned, for-profit small business. The $749,962 firm-fixed-price contract is for the construction and testing of a prototype compressive sensing-enhanced hyperspectral imager (CS-enhanced HSI) based on the company's prior Phase I research efforts. The contract includes developing a bill of materials, integrating...
This is a $149,990.00 SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Kent Optronics Inc., a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Hopewell Junction, New York. The contract is for the development of a "CELESTIAL NAVIGATION TEST BED" under the SBIR program, which supports small businesses in conducting research and development for the government. This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract with a completion date of...
This is a $1,099,831.00 SBIR Phase II research and development contract awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center to Kent Optronics Inc., a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Hopewell Junction, New York. The contract, which is set aside for total small businesses, involves the development of advanced electro-optical technologies for defense applications, including infrared scene projectors, optical filters, sensors, laser protection devices, displays, and...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nova Photonics Inc., a for-profit research and development company specializing in optics and photonics technologies. The $124,957 firm-fixed-price contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I project focused on the development of a high-throughput, pushbroom imaging spectrometer for planetary science applications. The contract leverages programmable,...
This is a $859,970.00 SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Resonon, Inc., a manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging systems and cameras. The contract will advance a new, smaller ARCSTONE instrument for calibrating lunar reflectance from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 to TRL 4. The goal is to reduce risk and set the stage for development of a flight system that will integrate into the NASA ARCSTONE program. This SBIR contract is a Firm...
This is a $849,994 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business located in Woburn, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of high-sensitivity ultraviolet solid-state photon-counting devices and arrays. This SBIR Phase II award builds on previous Phase I research efforts and is set aside for total small business participation. Magnolia Optical...
Omega Optics, Inc., a minority-owned small business in Austin, Texas, was awarded a $124,999 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Phase I research under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a monolithically integrated indium phosphide (InP) to silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) platform for a portable or handheld spectrometer operating in the 3-5 micron wavelength range. The objectives...