Purchase Order 80NSSC17P0899

Kurt J Lesker Co has been awarded a $687,000 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research to deliver an atomic layer deposition base system. This award fulfills the Naval Research Laboratory's requirement, as outlined in an April 2021 pre-solicitation notice, for an advanced atomic layer deposition reactor with an integrated glovebox transfer system and associated gas delivery, pumping, and measurement equipment to support the agency's materials...

Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, was awarded a $1,065,004.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop aperiodic extreme ultraviolet (EUV) multilayer coatings for solar physics and space weather missions. The grant, with a completion date of March 31, 2024, is focused on developing magnesium- and aluminum-based multilayer material systems that can provide high reflectance over a broad 17-35 nanometer...

This federal contract award to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $99,402.00 grant contract is for the development of new extreme ultraviolet (EUV) multilayer coatings that will provide higher normal-incidence reflectance, better control of spectral bandpass, improved stability and resistance to harsh environments, and lower film stress. These advancements are...

This federal contract award to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $960,459 grant aims to (A) develop Co-, Ni-, and Pt-based X-ray multilayer coatings with high reflectance up to ~200 keV to maximize telescope effective area and extend energy coverage beyond the NuSTAR mission, and (B) develop techniques to mitigate multilayer-coating-stress-induced deformation of...

This is a $791,495.72 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop advanced optical interference filters using plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) methods. The goal is to improve ultraviolet (UV) reflectivity and uniformity of optical coatings to enable enhanced scientific diagnostic capabilities in areas such as protostellar/protoplanetary systems, intergalactic medium, and distant early universe observations....

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC a $2.55 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on February 23, 2018, for integrated modeling and optimization of physical vapor deposition for optical coatings. The definitive contract, which concluded on December 23, 2021, was performed at Teledyne's facility in Thousand Oaks, California. Physical vapor deposition is a critical manufacturing process for producing high-performance optical coatings used in defense...

The Office of Naval Research awarded Arradiance LLC a $162,113.50 firm fixed-price purchase order for an atomic layer deposition (ALD) benchtop system, with an ultimate completion date of December 21, 2015. The contract was awarded on September 12, 2015, and did not utilize a set-aside designation, allowing the company to compete as an unrestricted vendor. Performance of the work is to take place in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Arradiance LLC, a Littleton, Massachusetts-based manufacturer...

This federal contract award, NNX15AF27G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for the development of new broadband enhanced lithium fluoride protected aluminum mirror coatings. The $967,386.38 grant aims to raise the technology readiness level of these coatings to TRL 6, qualifying them for future space missions. The effort fulfills a priority 1...

This is a $200,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for research on two-dimensional control of film deposition and erosion to correct surface height errors in cylindrical, thin-shell mirror substrates and the development of high-efficiency, non-distorting, zero net-stress, and stress balanced, reflective multilayer coatings for use above 80 kiloelectron...

NASA's Johnson Space Center awarded a $389.4K firm fixed-price purchase order to Optical Coating Laboratory, LLC (OCLI), a Santa Rosa, California-based optical component manufacturer and division of Viavi Solutions Inc., for specialized mirror refurbishment services. The contract, awarded on March 7, 2025, with completion targeted for March 3, 2026, requires OCLI to strip a protected enhanced silver coating from a 1.3-meter Zerodur mirror and recoat it with a protected aluminum coating optimized...