Delivery Order FA945115D0020-0001

The Army Research Laboratory's Advanced Solid-State Lasers Team awarded a $113.6K firm fixed-price purchase order to Leonardo Electronics US Inc.'s Laser Solutions division for eight high power, high brightness laser diode bar stacks. The award, made on September 30, 2025, with completion targeted for March 2, 2026, supports directed energy and protection initiatives within the Research, Development and Engineering Command. The procurement originated from a market research solicitation...

This federal contract award to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a subsidiary of Luminar Technologies, Inc., is for the delivery of high-power semiconductor lasers for high-temperature operation. The award, valued at $698,149.00, was made by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a defense agency, on September 21, 2018. The contract is a Delivery Order with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type, and it does not have a set-aside designation. Freedom Photonics, a manufacturer of advanced photonic...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Nlight Inc., doing business as Nlight, for the delivery of high-temperature (50°C) 200W diode laser pumps. The contract has a ceiling value of $596,525.00 and a period of performance ending on May 9, 2017. Nlight is a leading provider of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers for industrial, microfabrication, aerospace, and defense applications. The company frequently partners with the AFRL,...

The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground awarded a $7,300 firm-fixed price purchase order contract to Nuphotonics LLC for the delivery of one pump laser in the 405-488 nanometer wavelength range with over 1 watt of pumping power. This laser must meet specific technical requirements, including temperature control and compatibility with infrared thermography and thermoreflectance applications. The contract has a period of performance through January 21, 2025. The contract was...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Nlight Inc., a leading provider of high power semiconductor and fiber lasers for industrial, microfabrication, aerospace and defense applications. The contract, valued at $597,473.58, is for the design and fabrication of a diode pumped Er:YAG micro-chip laser capable of varied repetition rates and high pulse energies using a single emitter-based high brightness pump. This laser system is intended to...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components and subsystems based in Goleta, California. The $513,408.00 contract is for the development of high-power semiconductor lasers capable of operating at high temperatures, which can support various government research programs, including LIDAR remote sensing, quantum information processing, and high-energy...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Coolcad Electronics, Inc., a small for-profit semiconductor company specializing in advanced technologies like silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN). The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract aims to develop radiation-tolerant high-voltage and low on-resistance SiC power devices to meet NASA's capability and performance goals for upcoming missions such as the Io Observer, Saturn Probe, and Europa...

This is a $1,002,181.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to NLight Inc., a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers. The contract is for the development of high-efficiency, low-swap 793-nanometer diode lasers to pump thulium fiber amplifiers, as well as low quantum defect and low multi-kilowatt fiber amplifiers. NLight has extensive experience as a prime contractor providing laser components to the Department of Defense and NASA,...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to Nlight Inc., a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers, for the delivery of spatially bright 976-nanometer diode lasers. The $1,403,590.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a period of performance through March 16, 2023. Nlight has extensive experience as a prime contractor supporting research, development, and production programs for the Department of Defense and NASA, including efforts related to...

Longwave Photonics LLC, an Asian-Pacific American-owned small business based in Mountain View, California, was awarded an $82.5K Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract by a civilian federal agency on April 28, 2022, for the development of a high-power terahertz quantum-cascade vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) based local oscillator. The contract, structured as a firm fixed-price definitive contract with a total small business set-aside designation,...