Purchase Order N0017322P1600

This is a $600,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Washington University in St. Louis to design, fabricate, and characterize a passive, temperature-actuated liquid metal heat switch. The heat switch is intended to facilitate the dissipation of heat at high temperatures and prevent heat exchange at low temperatures, with a targeted on/off conductance ratio of over 500:1. The proposed innovation builds on the university's expertise in thermal...

The Office of Naval Research awarded a $5,948 firm fixed price purchase order to Optronic Laboratories LLC for a thermal detector module. The contract was executed on October 22, 2015, with an ultimate completion date of December 1, 2015. The work is being performed in Orlovista, Florida. This procurement represents a direct acquisition without any small business set-aside designation. Optronic Laboratories LLC, which operates as a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Gooch & Housego...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded HRL Laboratories, LLC a $2.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract on July 1, 2024, for the Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OPTIM) Technical Area 2 program. The contract, which extends through March 15, 2026, supports development of a scalable optomechanical thermal imager with adaptable spectral sensing capabilities. HRL Laboratories, a Malibu, California-based research and development laboratory jointly owned by Boeing and...

Surface Optics Corp. was awarded a $179,919 firm fixed price purchase order as a total small business set-aside. The contract is associated with Phase I of the Small Business Innovation Research program and will fund development of a Lightshift Spectroscopyronmeter Remote Emissivity Measurement System for Spacecraft Material Testing. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory will utilize this technology to advance testing capabilities in support of its aerospace...

NASA awarded a $124,995.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT), a manufacturer of thermal management solutions located in Neffsville, Pennsylvania. ACT is developing a novel vapor-pressure-driven variable view factor radiator as a thermal control system component for spacecraft. This technology is intended to maintain a constant environment temperature for crewed vehicles across a wide range of external thermal environments,...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $31,850 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Optotherm, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation, for an Uncooled Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) Microbolometer Camera System and associated software. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 2, 2024. The original solicitation notice indicated this was a proposed sole-source procurement for a camera system with specific technical requirements, including sensitivity over...

This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime to Applied Avionics, Inc., doing business as Aerospace Optics, for optical switches. The $102,170 contract will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, from June 2023 through October 2023. The solicitation sought 34 units of optical switches with an approved source of 32245 5000-P-5551 to support the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution San Diego. The award was made under a total small business set...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Surface Optics Corporation, a small business specializing in optical instrumentation and measurement services. The contract, valued at $162,164.46, is for research and development of a dual color, high operating temperature photonic mid-wave infrared detector for threat warning applications. The contract was set aside for small businesses. As...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded HRL Laboratories, LLC a $10.56 million definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on April 17, 2020, to develop a prototype large-format, cryogenically cooled midwave infrared detector with an extreme 12.5-millimeter radius of curvature for the Focal Arrays for Curved Infrared Imagers program. The contract, performed in San Diego, California, is scheduled for completion on February 21, 2025, and includes no set-aside designation. HRL...

Applied Avionics, Inc., doing business as Aerospace Optics, has been awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $22,984 to deliver an electro-optical switch in support of the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center programs. The contract was awarded under the Department of Defense's procurement vehicle and calls for Aerospace Optics to provide the requested electro-optical switch equipment to NAVAIR by October 2, 2023 after a period of performance...