Purchase Order N6227112M2038

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 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 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...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $735,914.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based mirror products. The contract is for the development of segmented micro-mirrors to support picometer-scale wavefront compensation in space-based observatories. As a prime contractor, Boston Micromachines Corporation has...

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...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to Composite Mirror Applications, Inc. for the design, manufacturing, and delivery of a 9-segment heliostat mirror assembly, including 1 spare segment and a finite-element analysis (FEA) report. The total ceiling value of the contract is $140,973.00, and the required delivery date is October 31, 2024. The award was made on April 11, 2024 without a set-aside designation. This...

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 federal contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. for the development of pre-phase-A designs and support structures for ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared (UVOIR) mirror concepts consistent with the primary mirror substrate designs being developed for the Advanced Mirror Technology Development (AMTD) project. The contract has a ceiling value of $830,640 and was awarded on a...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Optipro Systems, LLC, a manufacturer of precision optics fabrication equipment and metrology systems. The $124,961 award will support the design, manufacture, and testing of a precision rotary axis for Optipro's Ultraform Finishing (UFF) optical fabrication platform. The goal is to improve the capability to rapidly remove residual grinding and machining marks, as well as sub-surface damage, on X-ray optical...

This is a SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Iris AO, Inc., a small business, for the development of a 1,015-segment microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) deformable mirror (DM). The goal is to advance the state-of-the-art MEMS DM technology to create flight-like hardware with picometer-level resolution, enabling high-contrast imaging for the detection of Earth-sized exoplanets. The $125,000 fixed-price contract will fund the initial...