This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Incom, Inc. for the development of long, continuous, curved microchannel plates (MCPs) for use in spaceflight ion mass spectrometers. The curved MCPs will simplify the detection of secondary electrons, which are used to measure ion speed and thereby obtain ion mass. The contract has a ceiling value of $124,777 and a completion date of December 17, 2015. It is set aside for small businesses....
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Incom, Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. The contract, valued at $749,555.00, is for the delivery of curved microchannel plates and collimators for use in spaceflight mass spectrometers. The contract has a completion date of January 15, 2022. Incom, Inc. has experience providing specialized glass and polymer...
This federal contract award, valued at $124,980.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Incom, Inc. (doing business as Incom Inc.), a small business manufacturer of goods. The award is for the delivery of imaging quality microchannel plates for use in ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectrometers. This contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I, which supports early-stage research and...
This is a $749,996.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded to Microxact Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of goods based in Radford, VA. The contract is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue the development of a specialized particle collimator. Collimators are used in X-ray and particle detectors to maximize the sensitivity, resolution, and contrast of images. The proposed collimator will combine superior mechanical stability,...
Microxact Inc., a small business manufacturer, was awarded a $124,989 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to develop a particle collimator for NASA and commercial applications. The collimator is designed to combine superior mechanical stability, light weight, efficient off-axis blocking, and high on-axis transmission efficiency. The contract covers Phase I of the project, which will finalize performance...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $129,946.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Mound Laser & Photonics Center, Inc., a small business. The contract is part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and focuses on developing real-time monitoring capabilities for additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The key innovation is the use of a line-laser profilometer to perform 3D, in-situ, sub-micron profilometry on each...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,835.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Outpost Technologies, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. The contract, with a performance period ending on January 25, 2023, is for the research and development of a "Low-Cost, High-Performance Metal Matrix Composite for Advanced Optical Systems." This SBIR Phase I action...
This SBIR Phase I contract, valued at $124,798.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microscale, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business. The contract aims to develop an innovative batch fabrication technique to create low-cost, high-performance single crystal PMN-PT stack actuator deformable mirrors (DMs) that can be seamlessly integrated with a novel low-power, high-voltage amplifier-based driver application-specific integrated circuit...
This SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Apre Instruments Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company. The contract, valued at $730,603.00, is for the development of an innovative low-coherence probe capable of rapidly measuring freeform optical surfaces with nanometer-level precision and high slope acceptance angles. This capability meets NASA's need to measure optical components ranging from 0.5 cm to 6 cm in...
This is a $156,310 Firm Fixed Price, Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Infibertech, Corp, a small business Subchapter S corporation. The contract is for the development of a miniature, high-performance integrated photonics inertial measurement unit (IMU) and is set to be completed by February 6, 2025. This award is the third SBIR contract Infibertech has received from NASA, totaling over $1.02 million, as the company...