Purchase Order 80NSSC23PA753

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 for NNX17CL58P was made by NASA's Shared Services Center to the small disadvantaged business Discovery Semiconductors, Inc. The $100,000 firm fixed price contract is for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a universal LIDAR system. The proposed LIDAR will operate at 2050 nm wavelength with programmable pseudorandom modulation to provide tunable resolution and sensitivity, enabling diverse NASA applications such as rocket plume...

This is a $749,927 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. for the development of a non-mechanical 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system. The objective is to build a compact LIDAR sensor that meets the size, weight, and power (SWAP) requirements of future planetary landers for NASA's space exploration missions. The LIDAR system will provide high-resolution terrain...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The $749,995 contract is for the development of high sensitivity, sampling 3D LiDAR imagers for the detection of small land mines (SZ) as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is designated as a total small business set-aside. Voxtel has extensive experience providing specialized optics and...

This is a firm-fixed price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business, for the development of autonomous alignment technologies for eye-safe coherent lidar systems. The goal is to create lidar systems with improved stability and reduced cost, enabling greater autonomy and easier field deployment, with potential applications for atmospheric monitoring, wind measurement, and remote sensing. The contract has a value of $124,952.00 and was completed on...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Herndon, Virginia. The $124,924 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a configurable, multi-beam, 1.5 micron Doppler LIDAR sensor enabled by high-speed non-mechanical beam steering. This new LIDAR technology is intended to provide enhanced performance and reduced size, weight, and power...

This is a $123,214 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to the small business Voxtel, LLC. The contract is for the development of a low-cost, high-pixel-density avalanche photodiode detector array technology sensitive in the 0.9-1.7 micron spectral range that can achieve near-single-photon sensitivity at room temperature. This technology is intended to address NASA's need for space-hardened planetary entry, descent, and landing (EDL) and proximity-operations sensors. The...

This federal contract award, valued at $1,569,107.14, was issued by the Goddard Space Center (a civilian agency) to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The award is for the development of a Mercury Cadmium Telluride (HgCdTe) avalanche photodiode (APD) gated imaging sensor and 4x4 pixel integrated detector cooler assembly (IDCA) LIDAR detector. This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract without any set-aside designation. The...

This is a $122,910 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced photonics and engineering services. The contract is for the development of a 2U CubeSat-based 3D imaging photon-counting LIDAR system capable of long-range (>100 km) topology and rendezvous sensing for NASA's upcoming asteroid, comet, and planetary exploration missions. The LIDAR system is designed to provide unprecedented performance at a fraction of the...

This SBIR Phase I contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The $150,000 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a "high-gain low-excess-noise linear-mode APD for small-pitch LADAR", which supports the Air Force's research and development efforts in areas like imaging, sensing, laser tracking, and optical communications. Voxtel has prior...