Purchase Order NNC15VI17P

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 $123,634 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Semplastics EHC LLC, a small business, to develop an ultra-low cost, lightweight, molded, chalcogenide glass-silicon oxycarbide composite mirror component. The goal is to achieve an order of magnitude improvement in areal cost (cost per square meter of collecting aperture) over current technologies for future NASA space mirror requirements. Semplastics will leverage its in-house technologies to produce a molded bulk...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center to Optical Coating Laboratory, LLC (Ocli) for $382,356.00. The contract requires Ocli to provide services to strip a protected, enhanced silver coating from a 1.3m Zerodur mirror and recoat it with a protected aluminum coating optimized for a specific spectral bandpass. The contract has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025 and did not utilize...

This is a $99,999.94 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, in collaboration with the University of Illinois (UIUC), to develop a game-changing technology for large deployable optical quality mirrors. The project aims to combine a flying magnetic write head with a magnetic smart material coating the back of the mirror to enable post-deployment figure corrections to the level of 1/20th of a wavelength. This grant is part of NASA's...

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 federal contract award to Peregrine Falcon Corp, a small business manufacturer, is focused on maturing advanced mirror and telescope assembly technology. The goal is to significantly reduce the cost of space mirrors from the current state-of-the-art of $6.4 million per square meter to less than $1.6 million per square meter, while maintaining low weight, high stiffness, and high performance for X-ray, neutron, and UV/optical applications. The $749,280 Small Business Innovation Research...

This federal contract award, NNX15AF27G, was granted by the Shared Services Center (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for the development of new broadband enhanced lithium fluoride protected aluminum mirror coatings. The $967,386.38 grant aims to raise the technology readiness level of these coatings to TRL 6, qualifying them for future space missions. The effort fulfills a priority 1...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center (NSSC) awarded a $64,990.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Nu-Tek Precision Optical Corp, a manufacturer of high-quality precision optics and optical components located in Aberdeen, Maryland. The contract is for the delivery of two PIAA Vortex Mirrors to support the NASA Ames Coronagraph Exoplanet (ACE) project. NASA determined Nu-Tek to be the sole provider of these specialized mirrors, which are...

This $152,780 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Sellers Optical, Inc., a small business manufacturer of precision optical components and instruments. The contract is for the delivery of a HEMISPHERICAL RETROREFLECTOR ASSEMBLY (HRA) with a performance completion date of March 26, 2024. The original procurement was a sole-source requirement for retroreflectors compatible with existing NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center equipment. No set-aside...

This is a $124,887 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Dallas Optical Systems Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer. The contract is for the fabrication of lightweight, diamond-turned aspheric mirrors using additive manufacturing techniques such as selective laser melting and direct metal laser sintering. The mirrors are intended for use in various applications. This contract is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I...