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...
This is a $749,837.72 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded to Meadowlark Optics, Inc., a small business manufacturer of optical components and systems, by the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSC), part of the Shared Services Center of NASA. The contract is for a Programmable Phase Nulling Interferometer under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II. The contract has a completion date of December 21, 2024 and is designated as a total small business set-aside....
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Light Machinery Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of optical systems based in Ottawa, Canada. The $247,571 contract is for the fabrication of a tilted field-widened thermally-tunable Michelson interferometer with an operational wavelength of 532 nanometers for use as a high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) filter. The contract was awarded on a sole-source...
This is a $117,470 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sunlite Science & Technology, Inc., a minority-owned small business manufacturer located in Lawrence, Kansas. The contract is for the development of a 64x64 channels monolithic multiplexed driver under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. This driver is intended to be used for deformable mirrors in advanced adaptive optics systems for a...
This is a $50,445.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Xsoptix LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Madison, Connecticut. The contract is for the procurement of specialized laser and amplifier components, including two diode lasers and four tapered semiconductor amplifiers, to support a lidar prototype operating at 780 nm for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The...
This $149,999 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded to Magnolia Optical Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business, by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The contract is for the FY24 SBIR Phase I development of high-sensitivity ultraviolet solid-state photon-counting devices and arrays, which will support space exploration and Earth science programs....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center (NSSC) awarded a $35,020.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to Axiom Optics Inc., a small business based in Somerville, Massachusetts. The contract is for the procurement of an Extended Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) Camera and Lens, to be used at the NASA Langley Research Center. This award was made under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i) as a sole source contract, as Axiom Optics...
This is a $123,444 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Spectabit Optics LLC, a small business. The contract is for the development of a self-nulling schlieren imaging method to study shock waves created by aircraft in flight. This work builds on previous research that synthesized full-scale schlieren images of aircraft by analyzing high-speed video of aircraft flying across the sun. The new self-nulling approach has the potential...
This $127,875.00 firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Headwall Photonics Inc., a small business manufacturer of hyperspectral imaging instruments and solutions. The award was made under a competitive solicitation (RFQ 80NSSC18Q1298) that sought a commercial SWIR imaging spectrometer for use at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Headwall Photonics was selected to provide a range of specialized optics and...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to SA Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of optics, photonics, and electronics products and services. The contract is for the delivery of 2 SA-62S Helmet Mounted Displays, with ANVIS mounted eyepiece filters and off-helmet drivers, utilizing ultra-bright OLEDs. The total potential value of the contract is $143,631.00. The original solicitation was a...