This is a $156,500.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advent Diamond, Inc., a woman-owned small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for Phase I research and development of phosphorus-doped quantum diamond for magnetometry applications. Advent Diamond has experience delivering research, prototypes, and finished goods to federal agencies including the Department of Defense,...
This is a federal contract award from the Johnson Space Center, a civilian agency, to Single Crystal Diamond Inc. The contract has a total ceiling value of $2,904,968.00 and runs through September 30, 2026. The contract is for the development, demonstration, and maturation of selected in-space production technologies, leading to successful transition to commercial operations on future commercial low-Earth orbit (LEO) destinations or other LEO platforms. This contract is not set aside for any...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Diamond Materials, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $749,820.51, is for the continued development and optimization of a technology to produce large-area diamond-hardfaced composites for use as tribological surfaces and bearings in extreme environments, such as those encountered in the...
The federal contract award NNM04AA22C was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to Diamond Materials, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The $599,904.64 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of ultra-smooth diamond tooling for machining lightweight mirrors under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract has a total small business set-aside designation and is set to be...
This is a $78,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a defense agency, to MB Optics B.V., a foreign-owned for-profit company located in the Netherlands. The contract is for the delivery of single crystal type IIa chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond optical grade windows, identified under NAICS code 333314. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 25, 2023. This award was made on a sole-source basis, without the use of a...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Stefan Sydor Optics Inc. for the delivery of an Optical Aircraft Window, 17" x 1.25". The award, valued at $150,000.00, was not set aside for any socioeconomic category. Stefan Sydor Optics, a manufacturer of high precision optics, has previously provided specialized optical products to NASA, including a silicon wedge optic and a rectangular fused silica window...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $787,944.44 grant to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, to demonstrate the suitability of artificial single-crystal diamond detectors (SCDDs) for use as the scattering medium in Compton telescopes for medium-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The proposed work represents an innovative combination of detector technologies, including fast inorganic scintillators read out by silicon...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $11,000 purchase order to Micromaterials, Inc., doing business as Micro Material, for SAPPHIRE FIBER. The firm fixed price contract has a period of performance from August 18, 2023 through October 13, 2023. Micro Material will deliver the sapphire fiber to NASA from its place of performance in Temple Terrace, Florida. NASA utilizes sapphire optical materials in various applications including windows and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $102,480.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Zygo Corporation, a manufacturer of goods, for 2 small (5.5") and medium (9.5") MWIR WFOV SAMI sapphire windows (coated). This award was issued on a sole source basis under FAR Part 13 procedures, as Zygo was determined to be the sole provider of these specialized sapphire windows. The work will be performed at Zygo's facility in Middlefield, CT and...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Knight Optical USA LLC, a small disadvantaged business. The $81,100 contract is for the delivery of 12 custom-sized, AR-coated germanium optical windows to be used in infrared cameras for NASA launch operations. Knight Optical has a history of providing similar specialized optical components under prior federal contract awards, including for the Department of the Navy. This contract does not...