Purchase Order FA864921P0594

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Faraday Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Physical Sciences Inc. The contract, valued at $224,998.00, is for the development of a "NEAR-FIELD THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM WITH NANOSTRUCTURED ABSORBER/EMITTER FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY RADIANT ENERGY TRANSFER." As an SBIR Phase I effort, the contract supports early-stage research and feasibility studies for...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Applied Thin Films, Inc. (ATFI), a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $624,963.00, is for the development of an innovative surface treatment for solar cells as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The award is associated with the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) initiative. The contract has a set-aside designation for...

This is a Small Business STTR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Mark O'Neill LLC for the development of a unique solar array technology for powering NASA's deep space missions. The innovation involves a robust, ultra-light, color-mixing Fresnel lens that focuses sunlight onto advanced inverted metamorphic (IMM) photovoltaic cells, along with a bio-inspired nyctinastic graphene radiator that dissipates waste heat. This new array design...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Triton Systems, Inc., a global product development and venturing company based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The contract, valued at $749,975, is for the development of an innovative switchable emissivity surface film for thermal management in NASA missions, from Earth orbit CubeSats to deep space. The film has no moving parts, is composed of stable solid-state materials, and can switch between low and...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI), a for-profit manufacturer of advanced materials, optics, electronics, and photonics. Under this $750,000 Firm Fixed Price contract, SMI and its partners are developing ultraviolet (UV) photo detection devices with high sensitivity, low noise, and fast response time. The technical approach is based on nanowires of the wide band gap semiconductor ZnMgO, which will...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,966 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. The contract is in response to a NASA STTR solicitation topic focused on "Energy Harvesting, Transformation and Multifunctional Power Dissemination". Under this effort, ACT, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University,...

This is a $149,998 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian agency, to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT), a small business manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a TRAP (Thermo-Radiative Assisted Photovoltaic) cell that can simultaneously harvest incoming solar and outgoing thermal radiation. As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract supports early-stage research and...

This is a $750,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Microlink Devices Inc., a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business manufacturer of advanced solar cell technologies. The contract is for the development of "Integrated Photon Management for Multijunction Solar Cells," which involves research and development of lightweight, flexible, and high-efficiency solar cells, solar cell...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Plasmonics Inc., a small disadvantaged business, with a potential value of $149,666.00. The contract is for the development of a plasmonic metamaterial approach to infrared scene projection. Plasmonics Inc. will be supported by a subcontractor, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), who will provide simulation and design...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Faraday Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Physical Sciences Inc. The $754,996.00 contract is for the development and demonstration of a scalable approach to applying carbon nanotube-based black coatings to large surface areas. The coatings are intended to suppress scattered light, withstand launch conditions, and resist radiation effects and atomic oxygen...