This is a $124,870 firm fixed-price contract awarded to Irvine Sensors Corporation by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for the Stacked Programmable Analog and Digital Electronic System (SPADES) and is set aside for small businesses. Irvine Sensors, an electronics development and manufacturing company, will provide its expertise in advanced imaging sensors, electronics, and artificial intelligence technologies to support NASA's space...
Irvine Sensors Corporation has been awarded a $708,959.00 firm-fixed-price contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to investigate the challenges and opportunities in deploying 3D memory cubes into space missions. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract seeks to address the limitations of current onboard memory systems that constrain the computing capabilities of spacecraft. The research aims to enable data-intensive...
This $243,038 fixed-price grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Skycorp Incorporated, a for-profit spacecraft manufacturer, to develop and test intelligent space systems interface sensors for studying the effects of radiation on space systems. The grant, titled "INTELLIGENT SPACE SYSTEMS INTERFACE FLIGHT QUALIFICATION EXPERIMENT SENSORS FOR RADIATION EFFECTS (ISSI-FQE-SRE)," runs from June 2021 through April 2023 and supports NASA's scientific...
This is a $322,288.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for research on high-sensitivity temperature sensing using holey silicon-based thermopiles. The grant, which has an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2027, does not have a set-aside designation. UC Irvine is a public research university with extensive expertise in fields such as engineering, physical sciences, and...
This federal contract award to Irvine Sensors Corporation supports the design of an advanced 3D LIDAR receiver system. The objective is to enable low Size, Weight, and Power (SWAP) LIDAR systems with significantly increased numbers of detectors, allowing 3D imagery to be obtained over large areas with high resolution, sensitivity, dynamic range, and sample rates. This will support accurate robotic operations under uncertain conditions. The $124,929 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the...
This is a $415,548 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), a premier public research university. The grant is for the "NISAR PRODUCTS, CAL/VAL, AND EARLY SCIENCE RESULTS FOR GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS (AUG)" project, which involves research and development related to the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The grant has an ultimate completion date of October 25, 2025. UC Irvine, a...
This $1,656,727.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was made to Senseics Corporation, a small for-profit business, to develop a low-cost, size, weight, and power, radiation-hard, time-of-flight LIDAR or infrared radiometry system on a chip for Earth orbit and planetary missions. The award, which does not have a set-aside designation, aims to contribute to NASA's goals of advancing sensing and imaging technologies for space...
The U.S. Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center awarded a $239,631 firm-fixed-price contract to Irvine Sensors Corporation, a small business, for research and development under the SBIR Program Phase I. The contract tasks Irvine Sensors to conduct research and development in support of the Navy's defense and space exploration objectives. Irvine Sensors is an electronics development and manufacturing company that has received multiple prior awards from the Department of Defense, NASA, and DARPA for...
This is a $129,876.75 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for research related to cosmological simulations of starless dark matter halos. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will support UC Irvine in conducting rigorous calculations and predictions for these critical astrophysical phenomena. As a public research university and member of the prestigious Association of American...
This is a $104,779.23 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for the Mid-Infrared Sky Explorer (MISE) small satellite astrophysics mission. The grant supports a research project with a broad range of scientific capabilities spanning top-level NASA astrophysics science goals. No set-aside designation was used for this award. UC Irvine is a major public research university that has extensive...