Purchase Order FA860125P0129
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- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center awarded a $560,591 firm fixed-price purchase order to Bertin Alpao for the procurement of an Adaptive Optics System for the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The system is designed to support quantum communication applications and includes a comprehensive kit consisting of a deformable mirror with 820 actuators, a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor with 64x64 sub-apertures, and a real-time computer...
- The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research awarded a $53,204.90 firm fixed price purchase order to Avro Inc.'s AVR Optics Division, doing business as AVR Optics, for an ultra-high speed phase 1024 x 1024 spatial light modulator system. The total small business set-aside contract has a period of performance through November 16, 2023. As a foreign owned for-profit organization, AVR Optics will provide the specialized photonics equipment to the Navy for use in research and development...
- Advr, Inc. has been awarded a firm fixed price purchase order potentially valued at one million four hundred ninety-six thousand five hundred sixty dollars ($1,496,560) to deliver a wideband quantum pic with integrated highly non-degenerate photon source. This award is through the Small Business Technology Transfer program's Phase II contract mechanism and set aside for total small businesses. The prime contractor will perform the work at its facility in Bozeman, Montana for the Department of...
- This is a $149,987.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Advr, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation, for the development of an "Integrated Laser for Trapped Ion Quantum Computers" under the STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) Phase I program. Advr specializes in engineered nonlinear optical technologies, including frequency conversion chips and devices, and has previously provided...
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $16.2K firm fixed-price purchase order to Avro Inc.'s AVR Optics division for motorized positioners supporting advanced semiconductor research under the CHIPS Act program. The contract, issued on March 25, 2026, with completion targeted for June 24, 2026, fulfills NIST's requirement for custom-built automated optical and RF wafer probing systems equipped with motorized linear translation stages. The equipment will be installed...
- This is a federal contract award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Advr, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Bozeman, Montana. The contract, valued at $1,286,287.00, is for the research and development of a "HIGH FIDELITY HERALDED ON DEMAND SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE" under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract, with a period of performance ending on March 11, 2020. Advr,...
- Advr, Inc. has been awarded a $1,490,647 firm fixed price purchase order contract from the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver a pulsed ultra-bright photon pair source for synchronization and entanglement swapping under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase II program. As a small business specializing in engineered nonlinear optical technologies including photon pair sources, Advr will provide the requested device to support the Department of the Air Force's...
- Freedom Photonics LLC, doing business as Freedom Photonics, has been awarded a $1.5 million firm fixed price purchase order by the United States Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver an integrated photonic quantum frequency processor for high-dimensional quantum information processing. This award is made under the Small Business Technology Transfer program's Phase II solicitation to continue research and development of quantum technologies with potential defense applications....
- This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Advr, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Bozeman, Montana. The $1,249,912 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a waveguide-based, pulsed source of entangled photons operating at 780nm wavelength, along with a density matrix-based description of the transmitted quantum state to estimate the source performance. This work supports AFRL's...
- The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Photonics Systems USA Inc. a $649,000 firm fixed-price purchase order for a femtosecond laser system. As the prime contractor, Photonics Systems USA will deliver the laser equipment to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio by September 2021. The Research Laboratory supports the Air Force's science and technology programs through various research projects, and this laser system will likely aid experimental efforts...
The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded a $497,526 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Avro Inc.'s AVR Optics Division for the procurement of a Magneto Optical Trap (MOT) system. The award, made on August 28, 2025, with completion targeted for October 31, 2025, was issued without a set-aside designation following a sole-source determination under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1). The MOT will support the Air Force Institute of Technology's quantum research applications and laboratory instruction, directly advancing objectives under the National Quantum Initiative Act. AVR Optics was identified as the sole vendor capable of meeting the government's specialized specifications for this advanced scientific instrument used in quantum coherence research involving atomic energy transitions and laser technologies. The contract award culminates from a special notice procurement process initiated in May 2025, during which the Air Force published a sources sought notice that received no competing responses. AVR Optics, a foreign-owned photonics company with an established history of federal contracting since January 2017, has previously supplied specialized optical equipment including spatial light modulators and gimbal systems to defense and civilian agencies including the Department of the Navy and NASA. The firm-fixed-price structure reflects the defined specifications and technical requirements unique to this magneto-optical trap system, positioning the company to deliver critical quantum research infrastructure to support the Air Force's advanced technology development initiatives.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Magneto Optical Traps | FA860125Q0094 | Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base | Special Notice 1/1 | 5/28/25, 1:45 PM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | Not listed | $497.5k | 8/27/25 |