Delivery Order HSHQDC10ABOA35-HSHQDC11J00290

Optasense Inc. was awarded a $320,941 firm fixed price purchase order by the United States Geological Survey to provide a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing interrogator system and associated processing hardware. This award fulfills requirements set forth in a pre-solicitation notice seeking quotations for a twenty week rental of seismic monitoring equipment to be deployed on a shore-based cable along the Pacific Coast. The equipment will be used by the USGS Earthquake Science Center to...

This is a $615,454.91 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded to Signal Systems Corporation, a small business based in Millersville, Maryland, by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The contract is for the development of a "Three Dimensional Acoustic Sensing Unit (3DASU)" under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III program. Signal Systems Corporation has established expertise in signal processing, active noise control,...

This is a $1,645,653.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to Southern Methodist University (SMU) for research and development on "EXPLOITING THE FULL SEISMOACOUSTIC WAVEFIELD: MULTI-MODE INTEGRATION OF CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE SENSORS IN REMOTE AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTS." The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is part of ERDC's Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) soliciting proposals...

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center awarded a $236,300 firm fixed-price purchase order to Optasense Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide a data acquisition system for an optical interrogator unit. The contract was issued on a sole-source basis and was not set aside. Optasense Inc. has previously received multiple federal contract awards from the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers and the...

This is a $62,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Acquisitions and Grants to Advanced Seismic Instrumentation And Research LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, to build and install a specialized seismic sonde for deployment in the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) scientific research drill hole. The contract is set aside for 100% small business participation and involves complex technical tasks such as sensor...

This is a $17,026,698.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR) for the Tactical Exploitation of the Acoustic Channel (TEAC) program. The contract has no set-aside designation. STR, a for-profit limited liability company based in Woburn, Massachusetts, is the prime contractor. Major subcontractors include Speedgoat Inc., Arizona State University, Teledyne Benthos, Undersea Sensor Systems Inc.,...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Seismic Instrumentation and Research LLC, a small disadvantaged business. The $124,500.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development and testing of a miniaturized borehole seismometer to be deployed with a heat probe on the lunar surface. The seismometer will be designed to work with an existing gas jet drilling method to reach depths of up to...

Silicon Audio Seismic, LLC has been awarded a $119,605 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation to provide seismic recording equipment and related services in support of the agency's dam safety monitoring program. The award is associated with a pre-solicitation notice seeking high fidelity accelerometers, seismic cables, splitter boxes, splice boxes, and cables to integrate into the Bureau's existing strong motion monitoring system and allow...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories (UT Austin ARL) for an INFRASOUND SENSOR CALIBRATION DEMONSTRATION project. The contract, valued at $116,994.84, does not have a set-aside designation. UT Austin ARL is a leading research organization that specializes in naval systems, autonomous technologies, sensors, and information sciences, and has a long history of...

This is a delivery order issued under a single-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Sustainable System Solutions LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Herndon, Virginia. The contract is for the Autonomous Systems Test Capability (ASTC) Safety Environment, Engagement and Response (SEER) project, which involves procuring, delivering, integrating, supporting, testing, analysis, and troubleshooting a commercial item to meet ASTC SEER requirements. The total...