Purchase Order NND17AA45P

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...

<p>The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,759 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Jeeva Acquisition Company Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of low-power, jamming-resistant backscatter communications for Air Force sensors and devices. The work will be performed in Seattle, WA and has an ultimate completion date of August 19, 2024.</p>

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Innoflight, LLC, a non-traditional defense contractor based in San Diego, California. The $124,978 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of a suite of wireless interconnect modules and associated technologies designed with radiation tolerance for space applications, as well as potential use in aviation. The proposed architecture is modeled after...

The Aerospace Corporation has been awarded a $64,789.92 delivery order against an existing contract vehicle to provide internal proposal development support for the Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) program at NASA's Glenn Research Center. As the prime contractor, Aerospace will leverage its expertise in space technologies and experience supporting NASA to assist the agency in advancing capabilities for radio frequency-based space communications and positioning, navigation and timing...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Nokomis, Inc., a small business located in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. The $119,571 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an anti-collision system to aid in the trajectory management and safe traffic flow of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. The contract supports the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) mandate to equip all...

This is a Phase II STTR contract awarded by NASA to Bluecom Systems &amp; Consulting LLC, a small disadvantaged minority-owned business located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contract, valued at $743,283, is for the development of a prototype &quot;Radiobot 1.0&quot; cognitive engine that can transform a software-defined radio (SDR) into a wideband autonomous cognitive radio (WACR) capable of optimizing its operating mode in response to sensed RF spectrum and network conditions. The objective...

This is a SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Kymeta Government Solutions, Inc. for the development of a low-size, weight, and power (low-SWAP) Ka-band antenna for inter-satellite communication links. The contract is valued at $124,963.00 and has a total small business set-aside. The objective of this Phase I effort is to identify requirements for a low-SWAP Ka-band antenna suitable for small spacecraft...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center to Nuvotronics, Inc., a small business manufacturer of high-frequency electronic products. The $99,976 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of high-density, low-loss millimeter-wave backplane circuits to package and interconnect components of future NASA millimeter-wave radars. The goal is to reduce the size, weight, and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $499,972.64 grant to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to design and test a prototype chip-based, centimeter-scale, metasurface optical antenna with 4 pi steradian electronic beam steering capability operating in the C-band. The design is based on gate-tunable plasmonic reflectarray metasurfaces that enable beam steering of 1550 nanometer light reflected from a tunable phased array metasurface. Tunability arises...

This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer, seeks to develop a modular optical ground station architecture capable of scaling to hundreds of gigabits per second (Gbps) data rates from lunar and near-Earth orbits. The objectives are to support NASA's deep space and near-Earth optical communications needs by developing key technologies to dramatically increase data volumes, while adhering to the Space Communications and...