Grant For Research 80NSSC18K0107
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- This federal contract award to Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) is for the development of an Integrated Photonic Imaging Instrument under the Sustainable Land Imaging - Technology (SLI-T) program. The $827,295.24 grant aims to advance photonic imaging technology for future land imaging needs, including cost-effective and compact hyperspectral imaging capabilities. NGAS will leverage its existing work on waveguide filters and detectors to build a prototype instrument covering two key SLI...
- This federal contract award, valued at $223,566.07, was issued by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Aerospace Systems division. The objective is to examine novel hyperspectral technologies and their applicability to the Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) mission. Specifically, the contract will develop a concept of operations and assess the performance of Northrop Grumman's photonic spectrometer sensor...
- Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Space Systems Division, was awarded a $600,456 grant by the NASA Shared Services Center on March 1, 2023, for research on the heterogeneous integration of high operating temperature barrier infrared detectors and waveguides for integrated photonics in infrared hyperspectral sensing applications. The grant is not set-aside and will be performed at the contractor's facility in Redondo Beach, California, with an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2026. This...
- This is a $1,310,899.36 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for the development of two technical areas under the Integrated Receiver and Switch Technology (IRAST) project. The first area involves developing a highly integrated heterodyne receiver capable of simultaneously observing the 424 GHz oxygen band and the 448 GHz water vapor band. The second area focuses on submillimeter wave switch...
- This is a federal grant award from NASA to DRS Advanced ISR LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian defense company Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, for the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective is to demonstrate that low-cost, large-area microbolometer focal plane arrays can provide radiometrically accurate imaging in 8 LWIR bands for Earth science applications such as land surface climatology, soil moisture, ecosystem dynamics, volcano monitoring, and geology. The $800,000 grant will...
- The Department of Commerce's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $7,355,109.00 grant to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA, to develop a "Super Uncooled Multi-Band Radiometer Sensor (SUMRS)". This research and development grant, awarded on October 1, 2020, has a completion date of December 31, 2025. DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC is a large, established defense contractor that specializes...
- This is a $317,000.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Photon Systems, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation, for the development of an "optical swab" technology for direct, non-contact microbial analysis. The grant is part of NASA's research and development efforts and is not designated as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project or set aside for small businesses. Through this NASA grant, Photon Systems, which specializes in...
- This is a $4,382,512.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, for the "SMART ICE CLOUD SENSING" research project. The grant has a performance period ending on January 31, 2026. It is not set aside for any specific business category. The award demonstrates Northrop Grumman's expertise in advanced aerospace and scientific research, as evidenced...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $3,010,707.77 grant to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to mature the Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer (CHPS) imaging spectrometer technology for infusion into the Landsat program. The objective is to develop a new generation of smaller, more capable, and less costly instruments to meet or exceed current land imaging capabilities and support the Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) program. This three-year program,...
- This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to develop the next generation of photonics spectrometers and filters for astrophysics and space science applications. The $860,473.64 grant aims to broaden the wavelength range, increase the spectral resolving power, and improve the polarization independence and throughput of the university's existing photonic spectrometer and filter prototypes. This effort...
This $6.9 million federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS), a division of Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation. The grant will fund the development and demonstration of an integrated photonic imaging instrument that aims to revolutionize spectral sensing capabilities for future land imaging needs. This aligns with NASA's Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) program, which seeks to extend critical Earth observation measurements in a cost-effective and resilient manner. The photonic technology approach promises significant reductions in instrument mass and volume compared to current multi-spectral imaging (MSI) systems, while enabling new spectral band and imaging modes. This advanced technology demonstration project will build and test a prototype SLI-T instrument covering two key SWIR spectral bands, with the goal of advancing photonic imaging towards future land imaging applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($55k) | 3/26/26 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 9/19/24 | ||
| P00014 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 9/19/24 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 10/4/23 | ||
| P00013 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 10/4/23 |