Purchase Order NNX08CB82P

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a firm fixed price purchase order to Avago Technologies US Inc. for the procurement of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Under the terms of the award, Avago Technologies will provide 6,200 AFBR-S4K11C0125B SiPMs to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in support of the agency's Htids program. The SiPMs are required to fabricate a neutron spectrometer prototype and must be delivered within three months to facilitate a beam test...

This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Politecnico di Milano, a university in Italy, for the provision of an 8x8 array of 40% efficient photon counting silicon SPAD (Single Photon Avalanche Diode) modules with an active quenching circuit and logic to count and bin detection events. The $125,110 firm fixed-price contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under FAR Part 12 and Part 13 procedures for commercial items,...

<p>The U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $1,484,822.00 SBIR Phase II contract to Quantum Semiconductor LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Santa Clara, CA. The contract is for the development of CMOS-based avalanche photodiode (APD) arrays with Si-Ge-C materials. This contract was set aside for small businesses. Quantum Semiconductor LLC is the prime contractor, and there are no major subcontractors mentioned.</p>

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...

This federal contract award, valued at $53,554.98, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the prime contractor Avnet Inc. (doing business as Avnet), a major distributor of electronic components. The contract is for the delivery of silicon photomultipliers (SIPMs), a type of photodetector, with a completion date of January 24, 2024. The contract is a firm-fixed price purchase order, and no set-aside designation was used. Avnet's parent company is TECH Data Corporation,...

Coolcad Electronics, LLC was awarded a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design and fabricate a silicon carbide (SiC) ultraviolet (UV) detector array with a 10 micrometer pixel pitch. The objective is to develop the fabrication processes and capabilities to integrate SiC photodiodes and low-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) devices at submicron feature sizes,...

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 $123,214 firm-fixed-price STTR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to the small business Voxtel, LLC. The contract is for the development of a low-cost, high-pixel-density avalanche photodiode detector array technology sensitive in the 0.9-1.7 micron spectral range that can achieve near-single-photon sensitivity at room temperature. This technology is intended to address NASA's need for space-hardened planetary entry, descent, and landing (EDL) and proximity-operations sensors. The...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc., a small business located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The $120,626 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a monolithic silicon carbide (SiC) ultraviolet (UV) pixel sensor array. Ozark's patented photonic devices are well-suited for integration with SiC-based integrated circuits, enabling the construction of the...

This is a $1,100,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract awarded to Intelliepi IR, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced infrared detector materials, avalanche photodiodes, and light-emitting diodes. The contract, awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), is for the development of strained-layer superlattice (SLS)-based linear mode avalanche photodiode (APD) materials designed to be strain-balanced on large-diameter...