Purchase Order N0018920P0422

This federal contract award, valued at $1,530,000.00, was granted to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to demonstrate a novel telescope concept called the Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER). The SPIDER system utilizes photonic integrated circuits with millions of optical interferometers to provide a low-mass, low-volume, and highly manufacturable alternative to traditional...

This is a $200,250,000.01 Cost Plus Incentive federal contract awarded by the Space and Missile Systems Center, a defense agency, to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for the production of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability Site 2. The contract has an ultimate completion date of November 11, 2029. This appears to be a prime contract award, as there is no indication of a larger contracting vehicle. The contract is not set aside for any particular business type. Northrop Grumman Systems...

This federal contract award, valued at $170,001.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc. The contract is for the delivery of a BU 330-004 2.4XLC-2.4M (2.4AEBP-2.4M) antenna bundle. CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of microwave, radio frequency, power and control solutions, is delivering the antenna bundle through this firm fixed price purchase order. The contract has...

This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Syrlinks, a for-profit manufacturing company based in France. The contract is for Syrlinks X-Band Flight Radio - Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and Antenna Radio, with a firm fixed price of $82,598 and a completion date of May 25, 2020. The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis without a set-aside designation, under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 13.106-1(b)(1)(i), as...

This $577,500 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to Cesiumastro Inc. for the delivery of an S-band Communications System. The solicitation sought engineering and flight models of a software-defined radio and single-board computer meeting extensive technical specifications to be utilized for cubesat operations. Cesiumastro will deliver 3 engineering models and 3 flight models each of the software-defined...

This federal contract award to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Space Systems Division is for the development of an ultra-wideband radio frequency (RF) front-end system to be integrated with an ultra-wideband photonic spectrometer. The goal is to enable significantly enhanced atmospheric sensing capabilities for planetary boundary layer measurements, which could lead to reduced size, weight, and power requirements for deployed systems. The $747,190.67 grant is part of the ACT-20 project...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center (NASA GRC) awarded Telecommunication Systems Inc., doing business as TCS, a $1.33 million firm fixed price purchase order to deliver a fast tracking ground station antenna system. The antenna system will support NASA GRC's new Aerospace Communications Facility currently under construction by simultaneously operating in S-band and Ka-band frequencies to track satellites and aircraft. There was no set-aside designation for...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $3,749,314 grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support the Vector Interferometry Space Technology Using Aero (VISTA) mission. The VISTA CubeSat mission will advance radio interferometry capabilities using CubeSats in space through a 90-day technical pathfinder mission. It will duplicate the NASA LCAS Auroral Emission Radio Observer (AERO) CubeSat and launch at the same time to combine data from the two...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been awarded a $5,048,556 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct the Auroral Emission Radio Observer (AERO) CubeSat mission through December 2024. The objective of the AERO mission is to advance understanding of auroral kilometric radiation and other auroral radio emissions through the use of an electromagnetic vector sensor aboard a CubeSat in polar orbit. Key goals include...

This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by NASA's Glenn Research Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, through its Military Aircraft Systems division doing business as Aerospace Systems. The $154,322 contract is part of the larger Research and Technologies for Aerospace Propulsion Systems 2 (RTAPS2) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential of electronically steered or switched multiple beam antenna systems...