Delivery Order GS35F0017J-W912CZ07F0129

Optipro Systems, LLC has been awarded a $749,954 firm fixed price definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver a Chromatic Interferometric Probe under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The research and development effort will be performed by Optipro Systems LLC Division in Ontario, New York, running from July 2020 through July 2022. This total small business set-aside award continues Optipro's...

This is a $85,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund (PRCTF), a non-profit organization, to establish data acquisition protocols and a network of instruments, including sky quality meters (SQMs) and other atmospheric sensors, throughout Puerto Rico to monitor night sky brightness. The agreement will generate a database of its products that will be available online for the public and stakeholders,...

This is a $565,916.11 grant awarded by NASA to Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc., a private non-profit organization that operates a global telescope network. The grant supports the development of a two-stage detection and classification system to analyze data from the upcoming WFIRST mission's microlensing survey. This will help identify exoplanets in the gap between previous detection methods. The project also involves analyzing data from Las Cumbres' existing...

New Integration Photonics has been awarded a $148,913 firm fixed price purchase order as the prime contractor for SBIR Phase I research titled "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION." The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center is the funding agency for this contract, which has a total small business set aside designation. The research will be conducted by New Integration...

This is a $181,743 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to Orbital Sciences LLC, a for-profit manufacturer of aerospace, defense, and space systems products and services. The contract supports the PRAXYS (Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-Ray Sources) proposal, which involves conducting scientific investigations and developing instruments to study polarized X-ray emissions from celestial bodies like neutron star-black hole binary systems and star...

This is a $24,125.89 firm fixed price purchase order awarded to Proximus SA, a major telecommunications company based in Belgium, by the U.S. Bureau of Information Resource Management. The contract provides ROXIMUS EXPLORER MONOSITE INTERNET DATA SERVICE to support U.S. government operations in Belgium, with a completion date of June 30, 2023. Proximus SA, as the prime contractor, has no major subcontractors identified and the contract was not set aside. Proximus SA also holds two significant...

This is a Phase II NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) grant awarded to Nanohmics Inc., a for-profit technology development and R&D company, to continue advancing the theoretical understanding and computational methods for "stellar echo" imaging techniques that could enable more cost-effective detection and imaging of exoplanets compared to interferometric approaches. The $468,162.93 grant builds on prior Phase I work that evaluated the feasibility of this approach, which...

NASA Glenn Research Center awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. a $44.98M definitive contract on March 31, 2015, for cost-shared development of NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster–Commercial (NEXT-C) program. The contract, which extended through October 2020, involved delivering two gridded ion thrusters and two power processing units (PPUs) as government-furnished equipment for NASA's Discovery-class planetary science missions. The NEXT-C project represents an effort to commercialize ion...

Nearspace Launch Inc., doing business as Nearspace Launch, has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $859,598 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to deliver the SPACE-WEATHER CUBESAT ARRAY FOR 24/7 PROMPT GLOBAL COVERAGE EXPERIMENT (SWAP-E). This Small Business Technology Transfer Research Phase II contract has a period of performance starting August 12, 2021 through May 10, 2024 and utilizes a firm fixed price contract type. To be...

Lowell Observatory received a $573,589 research grant from NASA's Shared Services Center with a completion date of December 31, 2026 to study stellar activity and its impact on exoplanet detection. The project, titled "Turn Down the Noise! Disentangling Planetary and Stellar Signals by Observing the Sun with EXPRES," leverages the Extreme Precision Spectrograph (EXPRES) instrument installed on the observatory's 4.3-meter Discovery Channel Telescope in Flagstaff, Arizona. The research...