Purchase Order FA945311M0134

This is a $123,634 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Semplastics EHC LLC, a small business, to develop an ultra-low cost, lightweight, molded, chalcogenide glass-silicon oxycarbide composite mirror component. The goal is to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in areal cost (cost per square meter of collecting aperture) over current technologies for future NASA space mirror requirements. Semplastics will leverage its in-house technologies to produce a molded bulk...

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 is a $749,714 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Semplastics EHC LLC, a small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The contract is for the development of a novel, innovative ceramic material that can be used to produce large, lightweight, and cost-effective mirrors for next-generation telescopes. Semplastics will deliver four large mirrors up to 0.6 meters in diameter, with coated and...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned small disadvantaged business. The $125,000 firm-fixed-price contract is to demonstrate the feasibility of using selective laser melting (SLM) to produce a 3-meter symmetrical radius of curvature isogrid mirror substrate for use in ultraviolet, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) telescopes....

This federal contract award to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer, is focused on maturing advanced mirror and telescope assembly technology. The goal is to significantly reduce the cost of space mirrors from the current state-of-the-art of $6.4 million per square meter to less than $1.6 million per square meter, while maintaining low weight, high stiffness, and high performance for X-ray, neutron, and UV/optical applications. The $749,280 Small Business Innovation Research...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Morphoptic Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of additively produced telescope mirrors. The $1,249,879.00 Firm Fixed Price contract aims to fabricate precision curvature polished mirrors and incorporate them into a novel telescope prototype to support the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) needs for smaller and less costly...

This is a $124,840.00 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a limited liability company. The contract is for the research and development of 3D printed silicon carbide mirror segments that could be used for the primary mirror of a Far-Infrared (FIR) Surveyor space telescope mission, such as the proposed Origins Space Telescope (OST) or Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR). The...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Welch Mechanical Designs, LLC, a small business manufacturer of custom, high-precision optics and provider of diamond turning services. The $97,821 fixed-price contract is for the development of an innovative and cost-effective process to directly polish the substrate of high-performance optical-quality metal mirrors, eliminating the need for nickel...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Goodman Technologies LLC, a rapid growth nanocomposite ecosystem platform company. The contract, valued at $729,935, is focused on the development and demonstration of 3D printed and additively manufactured silicon carbide (SiC/SiC) composite and reaction bonded SiC materials for ultra-lightweight and low-cost mirror and telescope structure applications....

This is a $124,823 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Trex Enterprises Corporation, doing business as Ophthonix, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for Trex to demonstrate a novel ceramic joining technology using "solid state bonding" to enable the cost-effective manufacture of large, seamless mirrors and telescope structures from smaller, easily-produced components. This approach is aimed at reducing the time and cost associated with...