This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Irvine Sensors Corporation, a small business prime contractor. The contract, valued at $748,360, is for the design and development of a flight prototype of an eye-safe 3D LIDAR sensor system for use on unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The sensor, called the Active Continuous Awareness Surveillance System (ACASS), will detect nearby aircraft and enable avoidance maneuvers, providing a detect-and-avoid...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nokomis, Inc., a small business located in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. The $119,571 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an anti-collision system to aid in the trajectory management and safe traffic flow of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. The contract supports the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) mandate to equip all...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Optimal Synthesis Inc., a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 contract is for the development of a vision-based automation system to enhance the safety and efficiency of aircraft taxi operations. This system aims to provide automated collision detection and avoidance, vision-based navigation for improved...
This is a $999,997.40 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Physical Optics Corporation, a small business prime contractor and subsidiary of Mercury Systems Inc. The contract is for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II development of a "Distributed Phased Array-Based Enhanced Sense and Avoid System" for the Physical Optics Corporation. As a subcontractor, Echodyne Corp was awarded $217,519...
This is a delivery order contract awarded to BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. by the PEO Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors, a defense agency, to procure the AN/AA-57 (V) Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) and associated parts and services. The contract has a total ceiling value of $6,539,858.26 and a completion date of September 30, 2019. It is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract type and does not have a set-aside designation. The prime contractor, BAE...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a not-for-profit research and development organization, for the development of collision avoidance algorithms for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS). The contract, with a potential value of $3,340,827.00, was awarded on September 10, 2018 with a completion date of January 10, 2022. The original...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Llc - doing business as APL - has been awarded a $2.1 million delivery order contract by the Department of Transportation to provide contractor support to the Federal Aviation Administration's implementation of the Airborne Collision Avoidance System X (ACAS X). Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, APL will support the FAA's efforts to develop and deploy the next generation of ACAS, a technology designed to reduce the risk of mid-air...
Rockwell Collins, Inc., a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, has been awarded a $163,260 firm fixed price delivery order contract for repair of traffic collision avoidance systems by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center. Work will be performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and involves fixing the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), which helps aircraft maintain safe separation in flight. The contract was awarded on June 15, 2021 and has an...
This federal contract award to Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc., doing business as Oksi, is a $749,999 Firm Fixed Price contract under the SBIR Program Phase II. The contract is for the development of an ultra-low cost passive low-swap spherical situation awareness sense/avoid system based on monocular stereo vision for small UAS platforms operating within the National Airspace System (NAS). This system is intended to detect obstacles in real-time and enable evasive maneuvers to avoid collisions...
This federal contract award is for the "Off Board Sensing Station Flight Demonstration" project, awarded by the U.S. Air Force to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. as the prime contractor. The contract has a ceiling value of $67,986,112.00 and is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type. There is no set-aside designation for this award. The contract involves the development and demonstration of autonomy technologies to enable various Air Force mission...