Purchase Order FA864921P0710

Fibertek, Inc., a small business and manufacturer, was awarded a $1,178,045 fixed-price contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance the maturity of CubeSat optical laser communication technology developed under a prior NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This effort will support low-cost NASA science missions and a developing commercial market for optical communications. The contract includes the development and demonstration of a...

This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer, seeks to develop a modular optical ground station architecture capable of scaling to hundreds of gigabits per second (Gbps) data rates from lunar and near-Earth orbits. The objectives are to support NASA's deep space and near-Earth optical communications needs by developing key technologies to dramatically increase data volumes, while adhering to the Space Communications and...

This $124,746 federal contract award was made by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Lightweight Telescopes, Inc. (LWT), a small business and minority-owned manufacturer. The contract is for developing and demonstrating nanocomposite optics technology (NCOT) based on carbon nanotubes, polymers, and 3D printing. The goal is to advance this technology to enable future space telescopes that are low-cost, rapidly fabricated, and have very large apertures. Key deliverables...

This federal contract award to LGS Innovations LLC, a subsidiary of CACI International Inc., is for the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) project led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The purpose is to acquire an integrated low-Earth orbit (LEO) user modem and amplifier (ILLUMA) that can communicate with the LCRD satellite in geostationary orbit. This modem will enable rapid data relay from LEO science missions to Earth via the LCRD geosynchronous satellite. The $6,451,823...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $124,926.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective of this contract is to develop a novel Geiger-mode silicon germanium (SiGe) receiver that can detect photons in the wavelength range of 1000 nanometers to 1600 nanometers, suitable for free-space optical communications in NASA...

This NASA SBIR Phase I contract was awarded to Fibertek, Inc. for the design, development, and demonstration of a smallsat/cubesat-compatible optical communication modem for space-to-ground and inter-satellite links. The $124,775 fixed-price contract aims to produce an adaptive and cognitive modem that optimizes performance compared to traditional fixed-point designs. Fibertek, a small business and manufacturer of advanced photonics and engineering solutions, will focus on a hardware...

Litespar Inc. received a $737,837 firm fixed-price contract award from NASA's Shared Services Center on August 27, 2021, to develop an engineering model laser transmitter for small satellites under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III Action. This total small business set-aside contract is designated under Executive Order 14042 and was performed at Litespar's facility in Oro Valley, Arizona, with an ultimate completion date of May 23, 2023. The SBIR program supports...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optical Physics Company, a small business, for $82,783. The contract is for ground-based field testing of a calibrated and assembled Phase II prototype laser communications pointing sensor (LPS) system using retrosatellites. The overall objective is to develop and demonstrate an interferometric star tracker-based LPS for deep space beaconless pointing to enable higher data rates for...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to G.a. Tyler Associates, Inc. (doing business as The Optical Science Company), a small business located in Santa Ana, California. The contract, valued at $124,966.00, is for the development of a long-range laser communications system for spacecraft in the solar system. The effort involves two components: (1) a spacecraft-based transceiver using small size, weight, and power (SWAP)...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a low-cost, low-complexity CubeSat laser communication (lasercom) intersatellite link transceiver. The goal is to enable higher data rate crosslink communications for CubeSat missions to support rapid exchange of observational data and enable new operational paradigms. The contract has a potential value of $447,958.50 and is...