Purchase Order NNM16AA31P

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...

Wavefront Technology, Inc., a small business based in Paramount, California, has been awarded an $149,580 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by NASA (under the Shared Services Center) to develop diamond turning high aspect ratio mandrels for x-ray mirror manufacturing. The award, issued on September 29, 2025, carries a completion date of March 27, 2026, and is structured as a firm fixed-price definitive contract under the Total Small Business set-aside program. This phase...

The Air Force Research Laboratory issued a delivery order to Azimuth Corporation, an SBA-certified women-owned small business, on September 15, 2022, under the Materials Research and Survivability Studies II (MARSS II) single-award indefinite delivery contract with a ceiling value of $19,955,108 and ultimate completion date of December 9, 2027. The order is priced on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. MARSS II is a single-award IDC supporting materials research, characterization, fabrication, and...

The Defense Microelectronics Activity awarded a $647,400 firm fixed price purchase order to Carl Zeiss X-Ray Microscopy, Inc. for preventative maintenance on a Zeiss Xradia Ultra X-Ray Microscope. The solicitation sought maintenance services including preventative maintenance visits, on-site hardware support, remote technical support, and software updates to maintain functionality of the customized microscope located at the Defense Microelectronics Activity facilities in McClellan Park,...

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 contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new high-precision X-ray telescope mirror technology. The $3,000,000.00 grant supports research on improving methods for stress-field mirror correction, compensation of mirror distortion caused by coating stress, stabilization and smoothing of mirror coatings, and enhanced mirror figure metrology. This work is intended to enable thin shell mirrors...

This federal contract award to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is for the purpose of X-ray testing a Wolter-I pair of adjustable 0.4 mm thick X-ray optics. The overarching goal is to demonstrate the performance of these mirror technologies to better than 1 arcsecond half-power diameter at 1 keV, which would satisfy the technical requirements for the proposed Lynx X-ray observatory mission. The $866,617.10 contract will fund efforts to reduce electrical...

This federal contract award to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $960,459 grant aims to (A) develop Co-, Ni-, and Pt-based X-ray multilayer coatings with high reflectance up to ~200 keV to maximize telescope effective area and extend energy coverage beyond the NuSTAR mission, and (B) develop techniques to mitigate multilayer-coating-stress-induced deformation of...

This federal contract award, NNX16AD01G, was granted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the development of lightweight, high-resolution x-ray telescope optics for next-generation x-ray telescopes. The ultimate goal is to achieve spatial resolution rivaling that of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but with collecting areas orders of magnitude larger. The $1,177,496.01 grant will fund research into replacing epoxy...

This is a $200,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Reflective X-Ray Optics, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, for research on two-dimensional control of film deposition and erosion to correct surface height errors in cylindrical, thin-shell mirror substrates and the development of high-efficiency, non-distorting, zero net-stress, and stress balanced, reflective multilayer coatings for use above 80 kiloelectron...