Purchase Order 80NSSC18P3073

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Abaco Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of General Electric Company, for a FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA) CAPABLE OF PERFORMING DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ON FULL DATA STREAM. The contract, with a potential value of $103,431.00, has a completion date of November 23, 2020 and was awarded on August 19, 2020. The FPGA procured under this contract supports PCIe Gen3 and x8 lanes...

Peraton Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences, was awarded a $16.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop Fast Network Interface Cards and related technologies to accelerate distributed applications like neural network training by over 100 times through revolutionary advances enabling datapath speeds of 10 terabits per second. Major subcontractors include Columbia University, Freedom Photonics LLC, CDW...

This is a $79,840.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microsemi SOC Corp., a subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc. The award is for the delivery of 8 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, model RT4G150-CG1657PROTO, with a completion date of December 19, 2017. There was no set-aside designation used for this contract. Microsemi is a major supplier of specialized electronic components...

This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Photon Sciences, Incorporated, a small for-profit manufacturer and developer of advanced photonics technologies based in Plano, Texas. The contract, valued at $124,827, is for the research and development of a new high-speed optical communication technology that integrates an electro-absorption modulator with a surface-emitting laser. This solution aims to address the...

This is a $132,005 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to Formfactor, Inc. to provide on-wafer probing devices from 500 GHz to 1100 GHz. The order is for eight WR1.5 on-wafer probes, with four operating between 500-750 GHz and four operating between 750-1100 GHz. The probes must meet requirements related to overtravel, bias tee, pitch, insertion loss, and return loss. The award was made on a full and open...

This is a purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Avnet Inc., a distributor of electronic components, enterprise computer and storage products, and embedded subsystems. The contract is for the delivery of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in support of NASA's Navigation Doppler Lidar (NDL) program, which is located at the NASA Langley Research Center. The contract has a firm fixed price of $180,000.00 and a...

This is a $149,587 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Optowares Inc., a small business manufacturer of fiber optic equipment and components. The contract is for the RAPID AND RELIABLE IDENTIFICATION OF COUNTERFEIT ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, funded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase I. The contract was set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of March 21, 2017. Optowares Inc. is a subsidiary of...

This is a $647,654 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Microsemi SOC Corp., a subsidiary of Microsemi Corporation, for the delivery of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) under the DPA Title III program. The contract has a period of performance through March 31, 2018 and does not utilize a set-aside. Microsemi is a well-established supplier of specialized semiconductor solutions, including microchips, FPGAs, power management...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to Freedom Photonics LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components, modules, and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The $749,993.00 contract is for the development of high-speed optical fiber data-links to support space-based cryogenic read-out integrated circuits under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract is designated as a total small...

This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Washington Headquarters Service, a defense agency, to Avnet, Inc., a distributor of electronic components and embedded subsystems. The $97,925 contract is for the delivery of field-programmable gate arrays, a type of integrated circuit, with a period of performance ending on November 10, 2017. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Avnet Inc., the parent company of the awardee, is a major supplier of electronic parts and...