Purchase Order NNC10VB05P

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $118,016.85 firm fixed price purchase order to Diamond USA Inc. to deliver 120 patch cords with low-loss optical fiber connectors optimized for specific wavelengths. The connectors are required for NIST's development of new schemes and protocols for quantum networking and experiments in its DC-region Quantum Network testbed. Sixty patch cords will have connectors optimized for 1300nm and 1550nm, standard telecom wavelengths used in...

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) awarded a $202,260.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Ligentec SA, a for-profit manufacturer in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the delivery of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with an 800 nanometer thick silicon nitride device layer. The contract has no set-aside designation. The PICs are to be fabricated per ARL's design specifications across five production runs over a period of up to 24 months, with the contractor providing at least seven...

<p>The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $749,993.00 firm fixed price contract to Chiral Photonics Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a Scalable Pitch Reducing Optical Fiber Array (PROFA)-based Talbot Array for High-Power Coherent Combining. This definitive contract was set aside for small businesses and has a completion date of January 21, 2020. The work will be performed in Pine Brook, New Jersey.</p>

This is a $180,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded to N.p. Photonics, Inc. by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of an optical fiber combiner to combine multiple mid-wave infrared (MWIR) quantum cascade laser beams. This is a Total Small Business set-aside contract, with N.p. Photonics as the prime contractor. N.p. Photonics is a U.S.-based fiber laser company that has previously...

This firm fixed-price purchase order contract, valued at $20,945, was awarded to Teraxion Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of photonic components, by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency. The contract is for the delivery of Bragg grating filters to be used in ultra-narrow band optical systems. Teraxion has previously received prime federal contracts from agencies such as NASA and NOAA, as well as subcontract work supporting aerospace and defense primes, demonstrating their...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to Nexus Photonics Inc., a small business based in Goleta, California. The $149,362 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a heterogeneous photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platform operating around 670 nanometers. The contract is set aside for small businesses. Nexus Photonics specializes in advanced photonics technologies, including designing specialized photonic...

This is a $75,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Finisar Corp, a subsidiary of Coherent Corp, for the delivery of custom grating wafers. The contract has a period of performance through January 13, 2023 and does not include a set-aside designation. As a leading provider of high-precision optical solutions for the defense and aerospace industries, Coherent Corp has received numerous...

Flawless Photonics, Inc. was awarded a definitive contract valued at one million three hundred ten thousand four hundred dollars by the United States Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to continue development of next-generation optical fibers known as SpaceFiber under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. The research will take place in Mountain View, California over a two year period concluding in July 2022 under a firm fixed price arrangement. The contract has...

NASA awarded a purchase order contract valued at ten thousand seven hundred fifty dollars to Lightwave Consulting LTD of Great Britain. The firm fixed price contract calls for Lightwave Consulting to provide femtosecond laser written fiber Bragg gratings in support of NASA programs. Running from December 2023 through February 2024, the place of performance is the United Kingdom. Lightwave Consulting will deliver the laser written fiber Bragg gratings as requested in the original solicitation...

The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research awarded a $537,900 definitive contract to Sub-Micron Engineering Corporation of Marlboro, New Jersey. The contract is for the delivery of an optical fiber component fabrication system capable of meeting the technical requirements outlined in the Naval Research Laboratory solicitation. Key among the solicitation's requested capabilities for the system are independent control of fiber holders, heat sources, and imaging systems along over 250mm...