This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a defense agency, to 9163-2935 Quebec Inc., doing business as Optoelectronic Components, a for-profit Canadian organization. The $60,450 contract is for the delivery of an InGaAs detector to support research and development activities. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Optoelectronic Components has previously received other federal contracts from the U.S. Army Research...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Freedom Photonics LLC, a manufacturer of photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The objective is to develop a 1550-nanometer sensitive photon-counting detector array with integrated time-tagging electronics, suitable for free-space optical communications in NASA missions such as the Lunar Laser Communication...
This NASA SBIR Phase I contract was awarded to Discovery Semiconductors, Inc. to develop ultra-low capacitance quadrant InGaAs photoreceivers for use in laser interferometric gravity wave detection. The contract has a potential value of $125,000.00 and was set aside for small businesses. The objective of this Phase I effort is to perform key military reliability tests on the quadrant photoreceivers, which were previously developed under prior NASA SBIR Phase I and Phase II contracts. This...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The contract, valued at $749,999.00, is for the development of mid-wave infrared avalanche photodiode (MWIR APD) receivers. This award builds upon prior SBIR Phase I work by Voxtel on related optics and electronics technologies for defense applications such as imaging, sensing, laser tracking,...
This is a Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Plasmonics Inc., a small business R&D firm based in Hillsboro, OR. The contract is for a DARPA SBIR effort entitled "Antenna-Coupled-Diode (ACD) Detectors for GHz, Octave-Spanning Photodetectors for MWIR/LWIR" with a ceiling value of $149,026.77. The contract was awarded on February 26, 2016 with a period of performance ending on November 26, 2016. Plasmonics Inc....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $250,000 purchase order to DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC for an integrated detector cooler assembly with a 2x8 pixel mercury cadmium telluride avalanche photodiode array. DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC will deliver a second integrated detector cooler assembly with the specified detector array to support the detection of single photons at 1030 and 1550 nanometer wavelengths with linear mode photon counting outputs. The...
This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), a defense agency, to Discovery Semiconductors, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $21,075.00 contract is for the delivery of photodiodes, with a completion date of November 12, 2017. Discovery Semiconductors is a leading manufacturer of advanced optical and semiconductor technologies, including InGaAs photodetectors, RF over fiber optical receivers, and custom products for federal...
The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded a $157,600.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Discovery Semiconductors, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of balanced pin photodiodes up to 16+ gigahertz. Discovery Semiconductors is an industry leader in manufacturing ultrafast, high-optical power handling photodetectors, receivers, and related components, and has previously provided these products as both a prime and subcontractor...
NASA awarded a $1,255,244.83 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Discovery Semiconductors, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, to provide five variations of short-wave infrared (SWIR) indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) photodiode subassemblies for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. The key technical requirement is for the photodiodes to achieve a capacitance less than 11 pF at near photovoltaic operation with a 350 μm active area diameter. Discovery...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SK Infrared LLC, a small minority-owned business based in Albuquerque. The $124,999 firm-fixed-price contract is for a feasibility study to develop a prototype of a single-pixel, field-programmable, short-wave infrared (SWIR) photodetector using antimonide-based type II superlattice materials. The goal is to produce a detector that can operate at...