<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a purchase order to Alphacore Inc., a small business, valued at $139,993.34 on March 13, 2026, for multi-kilovolt, radiation-hardened gallium oxide devices and control integrated circuits. The order carries a total small business set-aside. Performance will be completed in Tempe, Arizona, with an ultimate completion date of September 13, 2026. Pricing is firm fixed price.</p>
<p>Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a purchase order to Mainstream Engineering Corp, a small business, for $139,940.25 under a Total Small Business set-aside for vertical gallium oxide device development supporting extreme environment power converters. Work is performed in Rockledge, Florida, with an ultimate completion date of September 11, 2026.</p>
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract valued at approximately $1.25 million to Synergy Research Labs Inc. on September 25, 2023. This definitive contract, structured as cost-plus-fixed-fee, supports the development of epitaxial growth techniques for gallium oxide semiconductors intended for next-generation high-power microwave electronics applications. The contract is designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, and work will...
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $1.249 million definitive contract to Apex Microdevices LLC on December 18, 2023, for bottom-up scalable epitaxial growth of gallium oxide with integrated thermal management for next-generation power electronics under a total small business set-aside. Apex Microdevices is a minority-owned small business. Place of performance is Liberty Township, OH. The contract is priced firm fixed-price with an ultimate completion date of September 11, 2026. This...
Luxium Solutions, LLC, a specialized advanced materials supplier headquartered in Milford, New Hampshire, was awarded an $8.52 million firm fixed-price contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on September 30, 2025, to develop edge-defined film-fed growth technology for beta-phase gallium oxide substrates intended for high-power electronics applications. This definitive contract, which carries no set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by October 3, 2028, represents a...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract to Agnitron Technology, Inc., a small business, for the Development of Ga2O3 Epitaxial Layers and Heterostructures for Power Device Applications. This $748,948.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract will be performed in Natick, MA and has a completion date of February 28, 2021. Through prior SBIR contracts, Agnitron has provided research and development...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Agnitron Technology, Inc., a small business based in Chanhassen, Minnesota, on October 10, 2023. The project, titled "Industrial Scale GA2O3 Epitaxial Structures for Next-Generation Microwave Electronics," focuses on developing gallium oxide epitaxial structures intended for advanced radiofrequency and microwave device applications. Under the firm...
This is a $149,952 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Agnitron Technology, Inc., a small business specializing in advanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and metal-organic CVD (MOCVD) equipment for compound semiconductor research. The contract is for the development of a new MOCVD platform to enable the commercially scalable growth of beta-gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) devices, which are critical for next-generation semiconductor materials and...
The Office of Naval Research awarded a $19,600 firm fixed-price purchase order to Kyma Technologies Inc., a small business semiconductor manufacturer based in Raleigh, North Carolina, for gallium oxide slicing, polishing, and epitaxial growth services. The contract requires the vendor to process 12 pieces of conductive gallium oxide material in 10x15mm dimensions and perform epitaxial layer growth on at least 5 resulting substrates with a thickness of less than 5 micrometers. The work is...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Agnitron Technology, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, for the development of gallium oxide epitaxial layers and heterogeneous structures for power device applications. The firm-fixed-price contract, worth $149,994.00, was awarded on September 11, 2017 and is scheduled for completion on June 12, 2018. Agnitron Technology, Inc. has previously...