This is a $42,750 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within the federal government, to Maple Leaf Photonics LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Bellingham, Washington. The contract is for the procurement of a Maple Leaf Fiber Positioner, a specialized piece of equipment that will be used in the PIC Advanced Research and Development (PICARD) Lab at NASA's Langley Research Center. This is a sole source award with no set-aside...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lucas Signatone Corporation, doing business as Lucas Labs, on October 2, 2024. The contract is for the delivery of a semiconductor probe station to the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio by November 13, 2024 for a ceiling value of $66,960.00. The probe station purchase was the result of a small business set-aside competitive solicitation, with Lucas...
This is a $60,800 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to Excelitas Canada Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of specialized integrated circuits, detectors, and photodiode modules. The contract is for the delivery of two high-bandwidth Avalanche PhotoDiode (APD) prototype modules designated as LLAM CD3830 PRO-3 and PRO-4, which will be used in NASA's high-speed lidar research program at the NASA Langley Research...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $149,986.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Physical Sciences Inc., a for-profit research and development company, for STTR Phase I research on "Photonic Integrated Circuit Assisted Single Photon Detectors (PICA SPDs)." This award is set aside for small businesses. The University of Illinois Research Park LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and 1862 land grant college, is a...
The U.S. government's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $149,993.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Light Integration Technologies LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project. The contract, set aside for small businesses, is to develop a low size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C), narrow-bandwidth, and high-channel-density radio frequency (RF) photonic integrated channelizer based on...
This is a $149,999 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Nexus Photonics Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract is for the development and delivery of spectroscopy-grade lasers and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) operating around 689 nanometers, in support of NASA's research and innovation initiatives. The work is designated as a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I action,...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Light Integration Technologies LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for the fabrication of 1 run of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs) wafers and 5-facet polishing. The total ceiling value of the contract is $25,940.00 with a completion date of June 15, 2024. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under the authority of...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to Photonics Industries International, Inc., a woman-owned manufacturing company. The $80,000 contract is for the replacement of photonics pump lasers. Photonics Industries has a history of providing laser-related products and services to various federal agencies, including NASA, the Department of Commerce, and the National Institutes of Health. The company has demonstrated...
This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the foreign-owned, for-profit company Macdonald, Dettwiler and Associates Inc. (MDA), doing business as MDA. The $157,968.00 contract is for the design, build, and test of a breadboard Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Pit Volume Sensor to support NASA's research and development efforts. The award was made on a sole-source basis under the authority of...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to Princeton Lightwave Inc., a small business manufacturer. The contract, valued at $238,706.00, is for the development of prototype laser breadboards for a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) effort at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The goal is to build, test, and demonstrate two breadboards that emit at specific wavelengths. This contract is part of the Small...