Purchase Order 12405B22P0374

This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SK Infrared LLC, a small minority-owned business based in Albuquerque. The $124,999 firm-fixed-price contract is for a feasibility study to develop a prototype of a single-pixel, field-programmable, short-wave infrared (SWIR) photodetector using antimonide-based type II superlattice materials. The goal is to produce a detector that can operate at...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $250,000 purchase order to DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC for an integrated detector cooler assembly with a 2x8 pixel mercury cadmium telluride avalanche photodiode array. DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC will deliver a second integrated detector cooler assembly with the specified detector array to support the detection of single photons at 1030 and 1550 nanometer wavelengths with linear mode photon counting outputs. The...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The $894,520.72 contract is for the development of a custom linear mode photon counting HgCdTe electron-avalanche photodiode (e-APD) system with an integrated high-speed and low-noise preamplifier. This system is intended to support the Lidar Surface Topography (LIST) mission, which is developing a multi-beam...

This federal contract award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aims to develop a miniaturized shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectrometer using quantum dot absorptive filter arrays. The goal is to create a robust, portable spectrometer with fast acquisition capabilities, suitable for space applications. The $289,999.98 award does not have a set-aside designation and is being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This contract builds on MIT's expertise...

NASA awarded a $1,255,244.83 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Discovery Semiconductors, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, to provide five variations of short-wave infrared (SWIR) indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) photodiode subassemblies for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. The key technical requirement is for the photodiodes to achieve a capacitance less than 11 pF at near photovoltaic operation with a 350 μm active area diameter. Discovery...

Teledyne Digital Imaging US, Inc., doing business as Teledyne Princeton Instruments, has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at six hundred seventy-five thousand dollars by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center. This award is to deliver a Joint Standard Instrumentation Suite UV-NIR spectrometer suite meeting the technical requirements set forth in the original sources sought notice, including provision of spectrometers collectively covering 255-1100...

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...

This is a $1,125,000 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SK Infrared Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II, with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in short wave infrared (SWIR) avalanche photodiodes (APD) to meet NASA's needs for advancements in star tracking technology. The contract involves the...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $382,250.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to Single Quantum USA Inc. for a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detection System (SNSPD) Rack-Mount. This award is a sole-source contract and is not set aside for any specific business type. The requirement was originally posted as a Pre-Solicitation notice, indicating AFRL determined Single Quantum USA Inc. is the only known commercial vendor capable of meeting the technical requirements,...

This is a purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research to Headwall Photonics Inc., a manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging instruments and solutions. The contract is for the delivery of a "LIGHTWEIGHT CO-ALIGNED VNIR/SWIR AIRBORNE PACKAGE", which likely refers to an integrated sensor package containing visible-near infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral cameras for airborne platforms. The contract has a firm fixed price...