Tech-X Corporation has been awarded a $749,970 firm fixed price purchase order by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to perform research on novel approaches to electromagnetic communication through thin collisional plasmas under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II program. Tech-X will conduct plasma discharge experiments with variable pressure control, perform electromagnetic scattering experiments, and receive theoretical interpretation and simulation guidance...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $179,985.67 firm fixed-price purchase order to Electro-Magnetic Applications, Incorporated (EMA), a small business based in Lakewood, Colorado, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 program. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside, addresses the numerical simulation of VLF (very low frequency) antennas in space plasma environments. This award, announced on March 28, 2025, with completion targeted for...
This is a $150,000.00 Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Tech-X Corporation. The contract is for a STTR Phase I research effort focused on developing a "Novel Approach to Mitigating Communication Blackout During Hypersonic Flight." As part of this effort, Tech-X Corporation has subcontracted with the University of Colorado Denver to provide theoretical interpretation, simulation guidance, and...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $179,981 firm fixed-price purchase order to Hypercomp Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Westlake Village, California, under a Total Small Business set aside. The contract, awarded on July 15, 2025, with completion targeted for March 14, 2026, focuses on applying advanced computational modeling tools coupled with electromagnetic simulation software (EQ.2) to model electromagnetic and quasi-electrostatic waves in plasma environments....
This is a $309,558.05 definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Tech-X Corporation, a small business based in Boulder, Colorado. The contract is for the development of an "open-source framework for physics-based validation and verification of higher order discretizations," which involves advanced computational approaches to support AFRL's research and development objectives. Tech-X has previously executed SBIR and STTR projects...
<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a purchase order to Toyon Research Corporation, a small business, for $180,000 on April 1, 2026, under the Total Small Business set-aside for SBIR Phase I development of swarming payloads for electronic attack and reconnaissance. Work is performed in Goleta, California, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2026. The effort is priced firm-fixed-price.</p>
This is a $154,948 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Tech-X Corporation, a small business based in Boulder, Colorado. The contract is for research and development work on "Flexible CPU/GPU Computational Plasma Application with Particles and Fluids," which falls under DARPA's missile and space systems research domain. This SBIR award represents an initial phase of a multi-stage research program focused on...
<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a purchase order to Matrixspace, Inc., a small business, for $1,249,532 on May 31, 2024, to develop a low size, weight and power-cost multi-function multi-band antenna payload. The order is set aside for Total Small Business. Work is performed in Burlington, Massachusetts, with completion scheduled for July 31, 2026. This is an SBIR Phase II effort under firm fixed price terms.</p>
<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a purchase order to Rydberg Technologies Inc., a small business, on August 15, 2025, for $179,968.85 under a total small business set-aside. Work will be performed in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The order funds Phase I research for preliminary design, modeling, and evaluation of a packaged 778.1 nm photonic integrated circuit laser with sub-10 kHz linewidth. The ultimate completion date is May 14, 2026. Pricing is firm fixed price.</p>
<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a purchase order to Array Labs, Inc., a small business, on May 24, 2024, for $1,248,053 under the Total Small Business set-aside to develop next-generation CubeSat high bandwidth communications systems as SBIR Phase II proposal F2D-11232. Work is performed in Sunnyvale, California. The order carries a firm fixed price and an ultimate completion date of February 24, 2026.</p>