Delivery Order N6523612D4801-0011

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) to ManTech SRS Technologies, Inc. to provide space systems and robotics servicing portfolio support. The $5,886,780.36 contract is a task order under the DARPA-TTO Program Support 2014-2017 master IDIQ contract. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. ManTech SRS Technologies serves as the prime contractor, with several subcontractors including TEC Solutions LLC,...

Portal Space Systems Inc. has been awarded a $74,942 firm fixed price purchase order for a Phase I SBIR project with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The award is for development of a Highly Mobile Space Vehicle to provide fuel shuttling and life extension services in low Earth orbit. Performance will take place in Mill Creek, Washington. The contract has a total small business set aside designation and work is expected to be completed by March 15, 2024. This...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center. The contract provides systems engineering, operations, and technical management support for the development of the Next Generation Relay payload, which will serve as an operational optical relay satellite for low Earth orbit spacecraft. The Next Generation Relay is a Category 1, Class C program with a...

This federal contract award, valued at $6,511,025.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) to provide robotic space flight systems engineering, science, and technology development support. The contract encompasses two broad categories of work: 1) essential research capabilities for space systems engineering, systems test and evaluation, information technology, and simulation/modeling/operations...

This is a $287,000.00 contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop and test autonomous on-orbit assembly and servicing systems using the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) testbed. The contract supports NASA's goals in the area of robotics and autonomous systems, with the objective of enabling spacecraft assembly and servicing without human crews. MIT will...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Starfish Space, Inc., a small business manufacturer specializing in affordable satellite servicing technologies and autonomous space systems. The contract is for the development of "Autonomous and Modular Onboard Relative Navigation Software for On-Orbit Proximity Operations & Docking" to support critical NASA and Department of Defense...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed-price, Definitive Contract to Rogue Space Systems Corp, a veteran-owned small business, for the development of an Autonomous Orbital Robot (ORBOT) for communication-denied environments. The $249,995.00 STTR Phase I contract is for research and development related to space situational awareness, small satellites, electric propulsion systems, autonomous robotics, and other space technologies. Key work...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Maclean Engineering & Applied Technologies, LLC. The contract is valued at $122,708 and has a completion date of December 9, 2016. The purpose of the contract is to expand on the MREST (Modular Robotic Servicing of Spacecraft) interface specification to develop a standard that can be used to address issues related to...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Swift Engineering Inc., a product development company specializing in unmanned systems, autonomy, robotics, and advanced composites. The contract, valued at $124,464, is for a lightweight, modular, and scalable surround visual and sensory feedback system for robotic pilots. This system, built on open-source platforms, will enable astronauts to perform...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Space LLC, a software and services company, to develop a real-time, open-source, embedded software application for on-board maneuver planning and relative orbit determination that is compatible with NASA's Core Flight System. This will enable distributed spacecraft missions, such as constellations and formation-flying missions, to operate with increased autonomy. The...