The Aerospace Corporation has been awarded a $64,789.92 delivery order against an existing contract vehicle to provide internal proposal development support for the Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) program at NASA's Glenn Research Center. As the prime contractor, Aerospace will leverage its expertise in space technologies and experience supporting NASA to assist the agency in advancing capabilities for radio frequency-based space communications and positioning, navigation and timing...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Innoflight, LLC, a small business limited liability company, on November 6, 2017. The contract has a firm fixed price of $631,494.00 and a completion date of August 6, 2019. The contract is for Innoflight to significantly expand the waveform capability of the SCR-104 software-defined radio (SDR) system. This will enable interoperability with NASA's Near Earth Network (NEN),...
This is a federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Zin Technologies, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The $24,057,993 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is part of NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) program, which is developing the next-generation open architecture for civilian space communications and navigation. The contract supports the SCAN program's Next Generation Relay Capability (NGC) project, led by the NASA...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Cesiumastro Inc., a manufacturer of communications modules, payloads, and satellites. The $2,729,208.00 contract continues the development of a software-reconfigurable and mechanically-adaptable tactical communications payload, based on Cesiumastro's previous SBIR Phase I work. The contract deliverables include a software-defined radio (SDR) module, two...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80HQTR21D0003|80HQTR21F0106, supports NASA's Space Communication and Navigation (SCAN) Division within the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) by providing engineering and technical analysis services. The $7,602,523.96 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order was awarded to Agile Decision Sciences, LLC, an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned, minority-owned, and small disadvantaged business. Agile Decision Sciences is an 8(a) certified small...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, through its Military Aircraft Systems division doing business as Aerospace Systems. The $154,322 contract is part of the larger Research and Technologies for Aerospace Propulsion Systems 2 (RTAPS2) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential of electronically steered or switched multiple beam antenna systems...
This federal contract award to Colorado State University, through its Sponsored Programs division, is for research and development focused on improving Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation techniques for investigating ionospheric irregularities. The objectives include developing robust multi-GNSS receiver algorithms to track scintillation signals, using data-driven physics-based methods to localize ionospheric irregularities, and performing mixed-scale multi-GNSS...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to M42 Technologies LLC, a small business contractor. The contract, valued at $124,932.00, is for the development of a radio frequency-based crosslink system with relative navigation and time transfer capabilities. This system is intended to enable autonomous precision formation flying of spacecraft as small as nanosatellites (1 to 10 kg) for human and robotic...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Space Micro Inc., a small business, for the development of improved radio communications technologies. The contract, valued at $124,993, aims to demonstrate innovations in channelization and network protocol development that will lead to more robust and energy-efficient data links and networks. The work will leverage Space Micro's existing software-defined...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Blue Sun Enterprises, Inc. The contract, valued at $119,187.00, is for the development of a "Plug-in Architecture for Software-Defined Radios" (PASDR) to enhance the capabilities of the Iris radio used for CubeSat communications in deep space. The PASDR system will include a Telecom Abstraction Layer (TAL) to implement NASA's Space...