Definitive Contract W81XWH12C0262

Gatr Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has been awarded a $238,000 delivery order against the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract vehicle. The research and development effort will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama for the Air Force over a six-month period concluding in January 2021. As a SBIR Phase III award, this firm fixed price order builds upon earlier SBIR research to further the transition of innovative technologies into programs of record or...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Altius Space Machines, Inc. for the development of the Solar Cube Heliogyro, a cubesat propulsion system that uses solar pressure as its sole means of propulsion and attitude control. The $124,812 firm-fixed-price contract will fund the fabrication and feasibility testing of a blade assembly to demonstrate that a sail blade of sufficient area can stow and...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Extreme Diagnostics, Inc. to develop a CubeSat-based on-orbit validation system (CVS) that will provide performance and durability data for macro-fiber composite (MFC) piezocomposite actuators operating in low Earth orbit (LEO). The goal is to mature this precision deployment technology for space applications such as deployable telescopes. The $750,000...

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Qortek Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Linden, Pennsylvania. The contract, valued at $749,958, is for the development of a three-axis prototype of Qortek's Attitude Control Piezo Adaptor (ACPA) technology, which is targeted towards improving the pointing accuracy of CubeSat-class satellites. The Phase I program successfully demonstrated a...

This $754,918.00 firm fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Composite Technology Development, Inc. (CTD), a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of a 3-dimensional vector electric field instrument that can be accommodated in less than half of a 6U (10x20x30 cm) CubeSat. This instrument is enabled by CTD's deployable composite boom technology, which...

This SBIR Phase II contract with a ceiling value of $785,000.00 was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC, a small business. The goal is to develop a deployable, offset-fed paraboloidal mesh reflector antenna that can operate onboard small, low-cost satellites like CubeSats at frequencies up to 100 GHz. The contract aims to fully test the performance characteristics of a prototype antenna with an aperture greater...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $750,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Ultramet, a for-profit manufacturing company, for the development of a monopropellant CubeSats propulsion system. The contract, which is a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, was awarded on May 25, 2019 with a completion date of May 27, 2020. Ultramet has significant experience working on federal contracts, including past awards from...

Gatr Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has been awarded a $96,117 delivery order by the Department of the Air Force to provide equipment in support of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III. The firm fixed price order calls for Gatr to deliver DTech equipment, as specified under Exhibit C of an earlier solicitation, to Huntsville, Alabama. The Department of the Air Force SBIR Program supports innovative research and development of technologies to...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $149,970 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract to Hybrid Communications, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to develop a Rapid Vehicle Charge Hybrid Cube (Rapid VCC) for unmanned aerial vehicles and urban air mobility. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of June 3, 2021. Hybrid Communications has received additional awards from the Air Force...

This is a $125,000.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Composite Technology Development, Inc. (CTD), a small business. The contract is for the development of a high-power, flexible, and compact deployable solar array system called the Composite Beam Roll-Up Array (COBRA) for 6U CubeSat deep space applications. The COBRA is designed to generate at least 200 watts of power while achieving a very high specific...