Purchase Order 80NSSC19P0964

This is a $124,909 firm-fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center (part of NASA) to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. The contract supports research and development of a phase reconfigurable spatial light modulator (SLM) for use in interferometric test systems for next-generation meter-class telescope optics. The SLM offers additional flexibility, potentially higher measurement precision, and relaxed alignment requirements...

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 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Meadowlark Optics, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced polarization components and systems. The $26,835 contract is for the delivery of an ultra-high speed 1024x1024 pixel spatial light modulator (SLM) system with recalibration capabilities. This requirement was initially announced as a potential sole-source procurement, but was open to competitive submissions from qualified small...

The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract valued at $167,820.00 to Avro Inc.'s AVR Optics Division for the procurement of six Ultra-High Speed Phase 1024 x 1024 Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) Systems with High-Speed 8-bit PCIe Controllers and TCS2 Heaters. The original solicitation, which was not set aside for small businesses, was limited to the brand name and original equipment manufacturer, Meadowlark Optics, Inc. The contract has an...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Brimrose Technology Corp, a small business specializing in advanced materials and sensor systems. The contract, valued at $999,445.00, is focused on developing a prototype acousto-optic tunable filter-based shortwave infrared (SWIR) spectropolarimetric imaging system. This system is intended to be a useful tool for determining the chemical composition and physical characteristics of planets, comets,...

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced infrared detector materials. The contract, valued at $900,000.00, aims to further develop high-performance infrared epitaxy materials based on Type II strained layer superlattice (SLS) technology for large-format, space-based sensor applications. The goal is to achieve at least 40% quantum...

Photon Systems, Inc., a small business, received a $872,984 grant from NASA to develop a deep ultraviolet (DUV) light emitting triode (LET) source emitting in the 230-240 nm spectral range. This DUV-LET technology is intended to enable new compact trace organic and water ice detection instruments for future NASA lander missions to ocean worlds, primitive bodies, and asteroids. The DUV-LET source, which is over 250 times smaller and lighter than the DUV laser currently used on the Mars 2020...

This federal contract award to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization, is for the development and testing of a fully UV-optimized CMOS detector focal-plane array (FPA) prototype. The goal is to leverage recent advancements in silicon-based UV-responsive imaging arrays to create a detector that can enable future low-cost planetary science missions, including those based on CubeSats and other small satellite platforms. The $775,483 grant from the...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Avago Technologies US Inc. for the procurement of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Under the terms of the award, Avago Technologies will provide 6,200 AFBR-S4K11C0125B SiPMs to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in support of the agency's Htids program. The SiPMs are required to fabricate a neutron spectrometer prototype and must be delivered within three months to facilitate a beam test...

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...