Purchase Order FA865012M1438

This $749,929 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Quinstar Technology, Inc., a minority-owned small business, under the SBIR program. The contract is for the development of a family of high-power, compact, reliable, and affordable solid-state power amplifiers operating in the W-band (94 GHz) frequency range. These amplifiers are critical for NASA missions and other remote sensing and environmental measurement applications. The initial...

This is a $1,096,861.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded to Quinstar Technology, Incorporated, a minority-owned, for-profit small business, by the Air Force Research Laboratory for the SBIR II - W-Band Airborne SATCOM Power Amplifier project. The contract has a total small business set-aside designation and was awarded under the SBIR Program Phase II. The contract supports the development of an emerging technology for airborne satellite communications power amplifiers, which have...

The Department of the Air Force awarded a $329,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Comtech Satellite Network Technologies, Inc. to procure three high power amplifiers for use by the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron. The amplifiers must operate within 5.850 to 14.50 GHz, produce output powers of 325 Watts for C and Ku-band and 450 Watts for X-band, and comply with Military Standard 188-165A. There was no set-aside for this procurement. Comtech will deliver the three amplifiers under the 60-day...

This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by NASA to Custom MMIC Design Services, Inc. (now part of Qorvo Texas, LLC) to develop advanced radio frequency (RF) technologies for future space communications and sensor applications. The contract, valued at $692,131.00, focuses on the design and development of high-efficiency, high-linearity 10 to 20 watt solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) operating in the Ka-band frequency range. The goal is to produce...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Engin-Ic Inc., a small business manufacturer, for V-band solid-state power amplifiers to support satellite communication downlinks. The $149,900 contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which provides research and development funding to small businesses. As a small business set-aside, this contract was exclusively available to qualified...

This is a $149,867 SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Quinstar Technology, Inc., a minority-owned small business, for the development of Ka-band efficient, linear power amplifiers for satellite communications ground terminals. The contract is a firm-fixed-price purchase order with a completion date of February 22, 2016. As an SBIR Phase I award, this contract supports the research and development of emerging technologies for potential use in AFRL and...

This federal contract award to Alphacore Inc., a small business, is for the design and simulation of a radiation-hardened, gallium nitride-based Ka-band power amplifier for CubeSat applications. The $124,864 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract calls for the amplifier to produce over 32 watts of saturated output power with over 20% power-added efficiency, while maintaining over 35 dB of gain across the 35.5 GHz to 35.9 GHz frequency range. The amplifier is to be implemented...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Quinstar Technology, Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop a high-efficiency, solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) operating at Ka-band frequencies for high data rate, long-range space communications. The proposed 20 W amplifier with 60% power-added efficiency (PAE) is designed to utilize gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide (SiC) device technology and a switching mode of operation (Class-F) to...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $149,526 firm fixed price purchase order to Diversified Technologies, Inc., a small business manufacturer of electronics, for Solid State Amplifier/Transmitter Replacements for Travelling Wave Tube (TWT) Technology under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract, with a completion date of April 26, 2018, involves research and development of prototype electronics systems to potentially replace...

This is a firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Maxentric Technologies LLC, a small business research and development company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The contract is for the development of V-band solid-state power amplifiers for satellite communications downlink applications, with a total ceiling value of $749,926 and a completion date of May 1, 2023. Maxentric Technologies is a frequent participant in SBIR and STTR programs, having...