Purchase Order FA864922P0085

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command has awarded a ten-month, firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract to Bright Silicon Technologies, Inc., a small business and veteran-owned manufacturer of advanced optical and laser technologies. The $167,480.86 contract is for research and development of a new class of optical beam control technology called the Lightfield Directing Array, which can potentially replace conventional optical front-end systems....

Iris Light Technologies Inc., a small business, was awarded a $264,983 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II purchase order by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The contract is for the research, development, testing, and evaluation of silicon photonic lasers created from printed nanomaterial inks. This builds on the company's previous STTR Phase I award of $25,000 and a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award of $74,996 from the...

This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Photon Sciences, Incorporated, a small for-profit manufacturer and developer of advanced photonics technologies based in Plano, Texas. The contract, valued at $124,827, is for the research and development of a new high-speed optical communication technology that integrates an electro-absorption modulator with a surface-emitting laser. This solution aims to address the...

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) awarded a $77,800 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Lightium AG, a Swiss company, for the delivery of Photonic Integrated Circuits. This sole-source procurement, under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), is for the delivery of a Design Rule Check Report, a Design Mask with an associated report, and 50-150 Full Photonic Integrated Circuits meeting specific performance thresholds. The contract has a period of performance through March 16,...

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...

The U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command awarded a $3,698,427.57 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Bright Silicon Technologies, Inc., a small business manufacturer, for the Precision Assembly of Laser Communication Arrays (PALCA) project. This SBIR Phase III action contract is set aside for small businesses. Bright Silicon Technologies specializes in advanced optical and laser technologies for government applications and has established itself as a key contributor to the SBIR program,...

This is a $3,969,267.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Analog Photonics LLC, a Boston-based high-technology company specializing in advanced silicon photonics. The contract is for the development of a long-range LIDAR and free-space optical communications transmitter based on silicon photonic phased arrays. This contract supports ONR, the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG), and the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's (MCWL) broad interest in...

This federal contract award to Lightpath Technologies, Inc. was issued by the Strategic Materials division of the Defense Logistics Agency. The $249,806 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a process to qualify chalcogenide optical materials as a substitute for germanium in infrared imaging systems. The contract is the result of a Broad Agency Announcement solicitation that sought research proposals in strategic and critical materials to support the National Defense Stockpile....

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced infrared detector materials, avalanche photodiodes, and light-emitting diodes. The $100,000.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the development of large format III-V interband cascade light-emitting diode (ICLED) materials to advance scene projector technology. Intelliepi IR, Inc. specializes in epitaxial...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components. The $749,996.00 contract is for the development of a "High-Sensitivity Monolithic Silicon CMOS APD and ROIC", which involves advanced photonic technologies such as semiconductor laser arrays, photonic integrated circuits, and avalanche photodiode (APD) arrays. As a subsidiary...