Delivery Order FA865108D0108-0025

This federal contract award is for the development of algorithms for image-based navigation of crewed spacecraft, which will be critical for future human spaceflight vehicles such as Orion and Artemis lunar exploration missions. The $635,320 cooperative agreement was awarded to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education associated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The objective is to reconsider the use of...

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., doing business as Draper, has been awarded a $510,037 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver a VISION BASED NAVIGATION WITH SENSOR TASKING (VISTA) system. Under this contract, Draper will develop technologies to enable vision-based navigation and sensor tasking capabilities for the Air Force over a performance period of one year and four months, from May 12, 2015 through...

Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (Esaero), a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $124,973 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a methodology for flight control algorithm design featuring distributed electric propulsion (DEP) on a modified Cirrus SR22T unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The study will leverage low-order aerodynamic simulation, dynamics modeling, wind tunnel testing, and flight testing...

This $149,507 firm fixed price research contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Vision Systems Inc., a small business, for the development of Bayesian inference techniques for spacecraft geometry and pose estimation. The contract is part of the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, which facilitates collaboration between small businesses and research institutions. Vision Systems Inc. is a small R&D firm in Providence, Rhode...

This contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Vision Systems Inc., a small research and development firm located in Providence, RI. The $249,361.00 contract is for the ACTIVEAPPROACH: ON-ORBIT INSPECTION OF SPACE-BASED TARGETS project, which is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research effort. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Firm Fixed Price pricing type and a completion date of January 11, 2023. Vision...

Assembly Guidance Systems, Inc., doing business as Aligned Vision, has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $92,305.00 by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) for the LASERGUIDE2 Multitasking Projector. The contract, executed on August 14, 2025, will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with an ultimate completion date of November 14, 2025. No set-aside designation was applied to this procurement. The LASERGUIDE2 represents advanced projection...

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Volair Technologies Inc. a $1.19M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract to develop artificial intelligence-enabled perception systems for GPS-denied approach-to-land navigation at austere landing sites. This Phase II action represents advancement from preliminary research into prototype development and demonstration, with completion targeted for March 2027. The contract, structured as a firm fixed-price purchase order,...

This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency to Control Vision, Inc., a for-profit, veteran-owned small business. The $149,863.68 contract is for SBIR/STTR Phase I research and development on a flight vehicle surface sensor network. The contract was set aside for small businesses. As a small business specializing in sensor technologies, Control Vision provides research, development, and testing services to support the Missile Defense Agency's...

The Missile Defense Agency awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer contract to Control Vision, Inc., a veteran-owned small business based in Tucson, Arizona, with a ceiling value of $1.6M. The contract, awarded May 8, 2018 with an ultimate completion date of August 3, 2023, supports research and development for fast inertial measurement unit autonomous alignment and improvements to gyroscope and accelerometer measurements through input...

This is a $493,544.29 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Corporation (Georgia Tech Research Corp), doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, to develop and test theories and algorithms for the inspection, geometric reconstruction, and tracking of a small celestial body, such as an asteroid, using various sensor modalities including passive cameras and active time-of-flight 3D sensors. The objective...