This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) for the development of a reusable, miniaturized, absolute/relative navigation subsystem called DIGITAL (Distributed GNSS Timing and Localization System). The goal is to mature spaceborne carrier-phase differential GNSS (CPDGNSS) technology beyond the state-of-the-art to enable precise distributed timekeeping and real-time relative...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $299,201 firm fixed price purchase order to Novatel Inc. to deliver five Novatel SPAN GPS/INS systems in support of relative positioning requirements. The solicitation sought various Novatel OEM7 SPAN systems with Honeywell inertial measurement units and a single-antenna PwrPak7 enclosure compatible with GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo signals to provide a 20Hz data output rate and base station corrections. There was no...
This is a cost plus fixed fee contract awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command to TMC Design Corporation, a small business manufacturer of electronic warfare and ISR systems, for the development, design, manufacturing, documentation, and factory acceptance testing of an Alternative Position, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) system using small satellites in a GPS-denied environment. The contract has a ceiling value of $1,381,227.00 and a period of performance through August 20,...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to M42 Technologies LLC, a small business contractor. The contract, valued at $124,932.00, is for the development of a radio frequency-based crosslink system with relative navigation and time transfer capabilities. This system is intended to enable autonomous precision formation flying of spacecraft as small as nanosatellites (1 to 10 kg) for human and robotic...
NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Novatel Inc., a Canadian-based manufacturer of precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) components, for one PwrPak7-E2 high-speed navigation system valued at $28,302.46. The contract was awarded on December 5, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of December 26, 2025, using sole source procurement authority under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), as NASA determined that Novatel is the sole provider of this specific...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order awarded by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors to Datapath, Inc., a for-profit communications and cybersecurity solutions provider headquartered in Georgia. The $19,602,134.07 contract is for the production of Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Pseudolite prototypes and associated laboratory testing. The award is under the Global Tactical Advanced Communications Systems (GTACS)...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Novatel Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of three Novatel SPAN CPT7 GPS/INS receivers. The $137,124 contract has a completion date of July 16, 2019. The receivers must meet specific requirements for satellite signal tracking, accuracy, performance, communications, and power. This contract is not associated with a set-aside program. Novatel has previously provided...
This is a delivery order awarded under a Firm Fixed Price contract by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), a defense agency, to Global Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (doing business as DRS Global Enterprise Solutions Inc.), a foreign-owned, for-profit defense contractor. The contract is for 1 Megabit per second Extended Ku-Band satellite communications services, with a period of performance through April 30, 2016 and a ceiling value of $2,671,514.96. Global Enterprise Solutions is...
This is a $345,517.61 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force to L3 Technologies, Inc. Communication Systems-West Division for the Advanced Position, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) Experiment. The contract has an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2025 and was awarded on December 23, 2022. This contract is not set aside for any specific business category. The contract was awarded under the Space Development Agency's (SDA) National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) Systems,...
GPS Source Inc., a Colorado Springs-based subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation specializing in positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) equipment for defense applications, has been awarded a $30,000 firm fixed-price delivery order for an FRPA-3EW-T-TF antenna under an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Naval Air Warfare Center. The contract, which carries no set-aside designation and indicates full and open competition, is scheduled for completion by November...