Purchase Order DOCNA134103W0979

NASA awarded a $854,979 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract to Tech-X Corporation to develop a standalone cross-platform application called RSIM. RSIM will have a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to set up radiation transport simulations using the GEANT4 and MCNP6 codes without writing code in C++ or FORTRAN. The application will integrate with computer-aided design (CAD) tools and implement the DAGMC technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to improve simulation...

This federal grant award to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) aims to scale up their existing 50mm cross-strip (XS) photon counting ultraviolet (UV) detector technology to a larger 100x100mm format. The grant, valued at $973,962.28, is funded by NASA and is part of their "Development of Large Area (100x100 mm) Photon Counting UV Detectors" program. The goal is to raise the technology readiness level (TRL) of the XS detector from 4 to 6, which includes testing the...

Jeol USA Inc. has been awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $515,925 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center. The award is for an analytical, high-resolution, thermal Schottky type field emission scanning electron microscope as identified in NASA's pre-solicitation notice. The microscope must support both high and low vacuum organic and inorganic sample evaluation with an integrated energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and particle...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $353,600 firm fixed price purchase order to Dectris USA Inc. to deliver a megapixel photon-counting x-ray camera. The camera will support research at NIST's Quantum Sensors Group, meeting specifications including an active sensor area over 40 square centimeters capable of detecting x-rays from 6-15 keV at over 100,000 photons per second per pixel. A Linux-based server to support camera readout is also required. There was no set-aside...

This federal contract award to Stanford University, a leading private research institution, is focused on developing a prototype readout ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) for future high-performance X-ray imaging detectors. The award aims to address the technological challenges for the notional High Definition X-ray Imaging (HDXI) instrument of the Lynx Large Mission Concept, which requires a significant increase in frame rate compared to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The work will...

This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of NASA to Energid Technologies Corporation, a small business, in the amount of $124,996. The contract is for the development of a game-theory inspired simulation tool for testing and validating robotic lunar and planetary missions. The tool will apply Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic optimization to model sensor interactions and terrain factors, with the goal of maximizing performance metrics and identifying extreme...

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $567,052 firm fixed price purchase order to FEI Company Materials And Stuctural Analysis Division for a commercially available environmental field emission scanning electron microscope. The microscope will allow high resolution electron microscopy under variable pressure environments and seamless transition between vacuum modes, as requested in the solicitation. FEI Company will deliver and install the microscope...

This federal contract award, valued at $87,591.02, was made by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to Quantum Imaging Inc., a division of Semiconductor Devices - An Elbit Systems-Rafael Partnership. The contract is for the retrofit of a visible-near infrared (VNIR) scientific CMOS camera. There was no set-aside designation for this contract. Quantum Imaging Inc. is a manufacturer of high-end infrared detectors, laser diodes, and cameras for the defense, homeland security, and commercial...

This is a $124,992.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order awarded by NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to Em Photonics Inc., a small business based in Newark, Delaware. The contract is funded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and is designated as a total small business set-aside. The purpose of the contract is to develop technology to automate the configuration of Em Photonics' ATCOM TM-1 system, which is used by NASA AFRC to enhance video from long-range...

This is a $717,721 grant awarded by NASA to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to characterize single photon sensing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for use in NASA missions. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. RIT is a private research university known for its expertise in STEM-focused, career-oriented education and extensive federal contract and grant work supporting national research initiatives across domains like imaging science,...