Purchase Order N0017322P1143

Pendar Technologies LLC, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of quantum cascade lasers, has been awarded a $749,865 firm fixed price purchase order by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The contract calls for Pendar Technologies to deliver reliable high power mid-wave infrared quantum cascade lasers in support of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II initiative. Work will be performed in Cambridge, with a completion date of November 6, 2023. As a...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Quantaspec, Inc., a small business. The contract, valued at $108,000.00, is for the development of "High Brightness Long Wave Quantum Cascade Laser" in response to SBIR Topic No. A19-051. The contract was awarded on August 21, 2019 and has a completion date of February 20, 2020. The contract is a firm-fixed-price purchase order.

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $113,500.00 firm fixed price purchase order to Daylight Solutions Inc., doing business as DRS Daylight Solutions, for the delivery of a high performance infrared quantum cascade laser. This award was set aside for small businesses. Daylight Solutions is a manufacturer of mid-infrared laser systems and components that has provided specialized lasers, laser systems, optics, and related components to various federal...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Daylight Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA, to provide one (1) external cavity quantum cascade laser (EC-QCL) operating at a wavelength of 4530 nanometers. This specialized laser is required to support the Optical Measurements Group's ongoing project to perform high-resolution laser spectroscopy of radiocarbon dioxide in the mid-infrared. The...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by NASA to Q-Peak, Incorporated, a laser development and research company based in Bedford, Massachusetts. The contract, valued at $599,924.00, is for the development of a "Quantum Cascade Laser Seeded OPO" under a total small business set-aside. Q-Peak has prior experience providing research and development services related to lasers, optics, and photonics to government agencies, including the Department...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian federal agency, awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Rpmc Lasers Inc., a small business, to deliver one (1) long-wave distributed feedback (DFB) quantum cascade laser (QCL) in the amount of $32,563.00. This laser must meet specific technical requirements, including operating in continuous-wave mode at a wavelength of 17.2 ± 0.2 microns with a minimum output power of 1 mW. The contract has a period of performance...

This federal contract award to Daylight Solutions Inc., a manufacturer of mid-infrared laser systems, is for the delivery of a MIRCAT FAST TUNABLE MID-IR QUANTUM CASCADE LASER. The $110,832.00 fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. The contract has a set-aside designation for a small business. Daylight Solutions, which operates as a division of the Italian firm Leonardo SPA, has...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for research on a new concept for terahertz quantum-cascade (QC) lasers. The goal is to demonstrate a chip-scale terahertz quantum-cascade vertical-external-cavity-surface-emitting-laser (QC-VECSEL) capable of delivering scalable continuous-wave output power between 10 and 100 milliwatts or more in a near-diffraction limited output beam. This is a $446,733.69...

The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $43,000 purchase order to Rpmc Lasers Inc. for the delivery of a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser. The firm fixed price contract supports NIST's efforts to develop and improve measurement science, standards, and technology. Rpmc Lasers will provide the laser from its location in France under the terms of the six-month contract running from June to October 2023. No subcontractors or set-aside designations...

This is a $900,000 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Longwave Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business based in Mountain View, California. The contract, which is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II, is for the development of a compact, frequency-agile, phase/frequency locked, and power-stabilized quantum cascade laser (QCL) system with over 2 milliwatts of power output. The system is...