This is a $120,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Office of Atmospheric Research to Toyon Research Corporation, a small business manufacturer located in Goleta, California. The contract is for a proposal titled "Low-Cost Mooring Location Beacon for Coastal Applications." As an SBIR Phase I effort, this contract will fund initial research and development of the proposed...
The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a $971,601.80 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract to the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories for an unmanned underwater vehicle search and rescue technology demonstration. As the prime contractor, the University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories will leverage its expertise to support the Navy's efforts to advance UUV technologies for locating and recovering objects or humans in the...
The Department of the Interior National Park Service Northeast Region awarded a $17,335 purchase order to Hydronalix Inc. to deliver an UPDE Robotic Rescue Buoy. The firm fixed price contract runs from August 30, 2023 through February 29, 2024 for placement at Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. The original solicitation sought an UPDE Robotic Rescue Buoy to support the National Park Service's operations. As a total small business set aside, the award reserves performance for small businesses....
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $94,907 fixed-price purchase order to Spoondrift Technologies of San Francisco, California to deliver sofar buoys for monitoring coral reef sites. As part of NOAA's efforts to research and protect marine ecosystems, the buoys will support the agency's ocean observation initiatives. Spoondrift will provide the buoys from June 30 to July 31, 2023 to aid NOAA's work assessing the health of coral reefs under its jurisdiction. There...
This is a $749,934 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Set-Aside contract awarded by the Shared Services Center to Barron Associates, Inc., a small business R&D company, for the DAMAGE ADAPTIVE GUIDANCE FOR PILOTED UPSET RECOVERY program. The contract aims to develop an on-board system that can immediately guide pilots to a safe flight condition, even in cases of control failure or vehicle impairment. This builds on Barron Associates' prior work demonstrating a system for upset recovery...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Night Crew Labs LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for a project titled "Feasibility of a Recoverable, Balloon-Based, GNSS-RO Platform." The contract, valued at $119,949.00, was issued under NOAA's Technology Partnerships Office in the Office of Atmospheric Research. The contract is for a firm fixed-price...
Metocean Telematics, Inc. was awarded a $9,025 purchase order by the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide replacement beacons for the National Data Buoy Center located at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. The firm fixed price contract runs from June 26, 2023 through October 1, 2023 for delivery of the products to McLean, Virginia. NOAA operates a network of data collection buoys through its National Data Buoy Center to measure oceanic,...
Spoondrift Technologies, Inc., doing business as Sofar Ocean Technologies, will provide wave buoys to the U.S. Geological Survey under a $52,593.41 firm fixed price purchase order. As a small business set-aside awarded by the Department of the Interior, Spoondrift Technologies will deliver the buoys in support of the USGS's ocean monitoring activities. The buoys will aid the agency's efforts to collect hydrographic and oceanographic data along U.S. coastlines and help advance its coastal and...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to Sea Engineering Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, to recover and tow back a 3-meter beached buoy on the shore of Lisianski Island, Hawaii. The $565,700.00 contract was set aside for Total Small Business and had a completion date of September 24, 2020. Sea Engineering Inc. has a history of providing marine and environmental engineering services to...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey Center for Coastal and Marine Geology to Coastalobstechservices, L.L.C. for the delivery of WAVE RIDER BUOY COMPONENTS. The $9,591.20 contract has a completion date of May 31, 2015 and is set aside for a small business vendor. The contract is associated with the Hurricane Sandy 2013 National Interest Action, indicating it is part of recovery and response efforts related to that...