The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at fourteen thousand five hundred dollars to OZ Optics Limited of Ottawa, Canada. The contract involves the delivery of V-Groove Fiber Array Assemblies as commercial products and services per the specification sheet. Products must be factory new with delivery to Rome, New York within six weeks of order receipt. OZ Optics Limited will provide standard commercial warranty terms. No...
This firm fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Tower Optical Corporation for the delivery of custom polarization optics. The contract has a ceiling value of $90,436.00 and a completion date of December 23, 2016. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As the AFRL is the Defense agency responsible for the Air Force's in-house research and development, this contract is likely supporting the laboratory's ongoing research and...
This is a $278,760.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command to Toptica Photonics Inc., a private technology company that develops and sells high-end laser systems. The contract is for the delivery of a Middle-Infrared Optical Parametric Oscillator, a tunable laser source to be used by the Air Force Institute of Technology to interrogate excited electronic states of rubidium. This sole-source contract was awarded under North American Industry Classification...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $350,935 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Toptica Photonics Inc., a private for-profit manufacturer, to provide an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) system. The OPO must be capable of delivering a minimum of 2 watts at 1550 nanometers and 1 watt at 2300 nanometers, with a linewidth of no more than 2 megahertz across the operational wavelengths of 1500-2000 nanometers and 2100-4000 nanometers. This sole-source award, which has...
This is a firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command to Optronic Laboratories, LLC, a small business, for the procurement of 2 Subtractive Double Monochromators with an option for 1 additional unit. The contract is valued at a ceiling of $98,000.00 and has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025. The contract is being awarded under Simplified Acquisition Procedures as a commercial item purchase, with no set-aside designation. Optronic...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Washington Headquarters Service awarded a $179,270.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Chromacity Limited, a for-profit manufacturer located in the United Kingdom. The contract is for the delivery of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based laser system with associated components and training. This award was made under a sole-source justification, as Chromacity Limited was determined to be the only source capable of meeting the specific technical...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $29,128 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Dicon Fiberoptics, Inc. for a 3D Matrix Rackmount Switch. This switch will be used as part of a new quantum testbed being developed by the AFRL. The award is the result of a sole-source procurement, as Dicon Fiberoptics is the only known commercial vendor that offers a switch meeting the critical requirement of having channel-to-channel crosstalk values lower than -50 dB, which is necessary to...
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $64,522.05 firm fixed-price purchase order to Swabian Instruments USA Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit corporation, for the procurement of three streaming time-to-digital converters. The equipment, consisting of one Time Tagger X System and two Time Tagger Ultra Performance Systems, will be used in the agency's quantum network testbeds and advanced scientific research experiments. This sole-source acquisition is not set aside for any specific...
This is a $98,911.20 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Moglabs USA LLC, a small business provider of diode lasers, laser controllers, and scientific instrumentation. The contract is for the delivery of a laser system with capabilities including Littrow lasers at 413nm, 493nm, and 455nm, as well as a cateye laser at 650nm. These specialized laser systems and components are intended to support AFRL's research, development, and measurement...
This is a $65,450.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Optipro Systems, LLC, a small business manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The contract is for a robotic 6-axis positioner system to support near-field antenna measurements in an anechoic chamber. This award was made under a total small business set-aside solicitation, with Optipro Systems providing specialized metrology and optical equipment...