This federal contract award to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), a small business, is for the development of an advanced optical imaging platform to comprehensively examine the eye's posterior segment (retina/choroid) using non-invasive techniques. The $124,991 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract is funded by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian agency. The platform will leverage Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and PSI's proprietary Confocal Line-Scanning...
This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Apre Instruments Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of optical metrology instruments. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an "innovative, low coherence probe for rapid measurement of free-form optical surfaces" using a novel spectrally controlled interferometry technique. The key innovations include a high surface slope acceptance angle up to 20 degrees (potentially 60 degrees) and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Leiden Measurement Technology LLC, a small R&D firm. The contract is for the design and development of the Fluorescence Lifetime Excitation-Emission Spectrometer (FLEXEMS), a compact, field-portable fluorescence spectrometer capable of detecting and identifying trace levels of organics. The instrument will use multiple LEDs to excite fluorescence in...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,792 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to Opticalx, LLC, a small disadvantaged and woman-owned business, for the development of a "Phase-Space Imager" product. This firm-fixed-price purchase order contract has an ultimate completion date of August 19, 2024. As an SBIR Phase I action, this award represents early-stage research and development work, with the potential for further SBIR Phase II funding...
Photon Systems, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed price definitive contract valued at $1,118,379 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to address the need for spacecraft microbial monitoring for long duration human missions. This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract builds upon a previous Phase I proposal and will result in the development of a near-real-time, in-situ, reagentless sensor for use on the International Space Station and future spacecraft...
This is a $100,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), a for-profit research and development company. The contract builds upon PSI's previous SBIR Phase II work on a novel ophthalmic imaging platform to characterize and monitor potential visual impairment observed in long-duration spaceflight. The Phase II-X program has two main objectives: 1) Demonstrate...
This award to Surface Optics Corporation, a small business manufacturer of specialized optical equipment, is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The contract, valued at $149,986.00, is for the development of an "Advanced Bio-Inspired Imaging System with Multiple Optical Sensing Modes." As an SBIR Phase I project, this effort is focused on the research and feasibility of a novel...
This federal contract award to Distant Focus Corp, a small business, is for the development of an ultra-thin folded optics microscope technology that will serve as the primary science instrument for NASA's PUFFER (Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robots) extreme-terrain exploration platforms. The $491,255.00 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center on December 1, 2015, with a completion date of September 30, 2018. The microscope technology is intended to enable low-cost...
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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optipro Systems, LLC, a small business manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The $900,000 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a "Wide Range Interferometric Probe" to support optics research and development. The contract is set aside for small businesses and the work will be performed in...