The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $212,662 firm fixed price purchase order to Scintec Corporation of Germany. The award is to deliver one Flat Array SODAR with RASS Interface and one RASS Extension to meet the stated requirements in response to Solicitation FLAT ARRAY SODAR WITH RASS INTERFACE AND THE RASS EXTENSION. Per the solicitation, the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Special Operations and Research Division in North Las Vegas, Nevada...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division to provide engineering and operations support for the D3R radar system. The work includes supporting digital receiver upgrades and testing, operations support of the D3R radar at Wallops Island, data analysis and maintenance for the IPHEX project to support the Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) science community, processing...
Optical Sciences Corporation has been awarded a $179,939 firm fixed price purchase order by the United States Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver a broadband optical interface for high power laser sources in a cryovacuum chamber. This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract supports the laboratory's research efforts and will be performed over a 10-month period ending in March 2024 in Huntsville, Alabama. The award is designated as a total small business set...
Physical Optics Corporation was awarded a $9.5 million firm fixed price delivery order as part of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase III under a total small business set aside. The delivery order is associated with the Department of the Navy's V-22 Osprey Joint Services Advanced Vertical Lift Aircraft program and will provide DTS units per part number 4585-01000-15-501. Performance will take place in Torrance, California with the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command...
Surface Optics Corp. was awarded a $179,919 firm fixed price purchase order as a total small business set-aside. The contract is associated with Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research program and will fund development of a Lightshift Spectroscopyronmeter Remote Emissivity Measurement System for Spacecraft Material Testing. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory will utilize this technology to advance testing capabilities in support of its aerospace...
The U.S. Navy's Naval Education and Training Command awarded a $58,680 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Scintec Corporation, a subsidiary of the German company Scintec Aktiengesellschaft, for the delivery of a Flat Array SODAR (Sonic Detection and Ranging) System with a RASS (Radio Acoustic Sounding System) interface. This equipment is intended to support the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of Meteorology in Monterey, California. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis without...
This is a $681,124.00 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Oregon State University (OSU) to conduct research on the use of QuikSCAT scatterometer wind measurements and coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling to understand air-sea coupling and coastal ocean circulation. The research aims to evaluate the sensitivity of wind-sea surface temperature coupling in a regional model of the California Current System, analyze the physics of this coupling, and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to Optical Sciences Corporation, a for-profit manufacturer of specialized optics, photonics, and laser products and services. The $139,992 firm-fixed-price contract is for research and development work in support of the MDA's Missile Defense Agency Support (MDA SUPPORT) program, which provides comprehensive services and equipment for the agency's operations, research, and...
R2 Space, LLC, doing business as Meta Orbital Effects, was awarded an other transaction agreement valued at approximately $8.9 million by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to provide tactical downlink service using synthetic aperture radar. The contract has a period of performance from March 2020 through September 2022 and will be performed in Rosslyn, Virginia. No set aside designation or major subcontractors were indicated. The award supports the Department of Defense's need for...
This firm-fixed-price Purchase Order was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc. (doing business as Orbital Microsystems Inc.), a small business manufacturer of goods. The $2,000,000.00 contract is for a Microwave Sounder Pilot Study to assess the quality and impact of available commercial microwave sounder observations. The goal is to investigate the utility of microwave sounder products developed by commercial vendors and the...