This is a federal grant award from NASA to DRS Advanced ISR LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian defense company Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, for the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective is to demonstrate that low-cost, large-area microbolometer focal plane arrays can provide radiometrically accurate imaging in 8 LWIR bands for Earth science applications such as land surface climatology, soil moisture, ecosystem dynamics, volcano monitoring, and geology. The $800,000 grant will...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,978,337.33 grant to Raytheon Company's Space & Airborne Systems division to build and test a prototype of the Advanced Technology Land Imaging Spectroradiometer (ATLIS). ATLIS is a compact, multispectral pushbroom imager designed to provide visible through shortwave infrared calibrated imagery that meets or exceeds the requirements of NASA's Sustainable Land Imaging Technology (SLI-T) reference mission architecture. The...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,875,365.71 grant to DRS Advanced ISR LLC, a division of DRS Technologies, Inc. and subsidiary of the Italian defense company Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, to develop an uncooled microbolometer-based Multi-Band Uncooled Radiometer Imager (MURI) under the Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective is to demonstrate the use of low-cost microbolometers to provide radiometrically accurate imaging in 8 long-wave infrared...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $896,779.37 Other Transaction Agreement contract to Princeton Infrared Technologies Inc. to develop uncooled MWIR and LWIR imaging systems using non-degenerate two-photon absorption with custom InAlGaAs detector arrays. This contract, which has no set-aside designation, is scheduled for completion by August 6, 2025. Princeton Infrared Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company that specializes in designing and integrating shortwave infrared detectors for...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command to Telops Inc., a manufacturer of advanced hyperspectral imaging sensors and related technologies. The $879,024.39 contract is for the delivery of a Hyper-Cam-LW Fourier Transform Spectrometer, along with various accessories and support services, including installation, training, and remote technical support. The solicitation did not use a set-aside designation. The sensor system and...
This federal contract award is for the Advanced Technology Land Imaging Spectroradiometer (ATLIS), a small, multispectral pushbroom imager designed to provide calibrated imagery for the Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) program. The intent is to build and test a single spectral band prototype ATLIS to demonstrate its ability to meet or exceed SLI requirements for spatial and temporal coverage, spatial performance, radiometric signal-to-noise ratio, and other key parameters. The contract, awarded by...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $473,500 to Telops Inc. to deliver two commercial multispectral imaging systems. The contract supports the solicitation seeking proposals for a long wave infrared camera and medium wave infrared multispectral camera. The requirement was not set aside and was conducted under North American Industry Classification System code 334516 for optical instrument and lens manufacturing. Place of...
This is a $7,258,907.27 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The contract is for investigating, researching, and designing uncooled infrared manufacturing technology through modeling, analysis, simulations, layouts, empirical testing, and fabrication. This requirement supports the Night Vision and Electronic Sensors...
This is a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Optx Imaging Systems LLC, a limited liability company, for an "Open Skies Sensor Characterization Infrared Measurement System." The potential value of the contract is $896,469.00, and it has a completion date of December 10, 2020. Optx Imaging Systems LLC specializes in developing optics and camera solutions for electro-optical and infrared imaging...
This is a $241,599.23 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center to Innovative Intuitive Technology, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of an EO/IR/LRF GIMBAL. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Innovative Intuitive Technology has previously served as a subcontractor providing program management services and hardware components such as cameras, lenses, and gimbals to support federal contracts with...
THE INNOVATION IS AN ADVANCED AIRBORNE THEMATIC THERMAL INFRARED AND ELECTRO-OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM (ATTIREOIS). ATTIREOIS SENSOR PAYLOAD CONSISTS OF TWO SETS OF ADVANCED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS (FPAS) A BROADBAND THERMAL INFRARED SENSOR (TIRS) AND A FOUR (4) BAND MULTISPECTRAL ELECTRO-OPTICAL SENSOR (MEOS) TO APPROXIMATE LANDSAT ETM+ BANDS 1,2,3,4, AND 6, AND LDCM BANDS 2,3,4,5, AND 10+11. THE AIRBORNE TIRS IS 3-AXIS STABILIZED SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PROVIDING 3D PHOTOGRAMMETRIC IMAGES WITH A 1,850 PIXEL SWATHWIDTH VIA PUSHBROOM OPERATION. MEOS HAS A TOTAL OF 116 MILLION SIMULTANEOUS SENSOR COUNTS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING 3 CM SPATIAL RESOLUTION MULTISPECTRAL ORTHOPHOTOS FOR CONTINUOUS AIRBORNE MAPPING. ATTIREOIS IS A COMPLETE STANDALONE AND EASY-TO-USE PORTABLE IMAGING INSTRUMENT FOR LIGHT AERIAL VEHICLE DEPLOYMENT. ITS MINIATURIZED BACKEND DATA SYSTEM OPERATES ALL ATTIREOIS SENSOR COMPONENTS, AN INS/GPS, AND AN E-GIMBAL CONTROL ELECTRONIC UNIT (ECU) WITH A DATA THROUGHPUT OF 300 MEGABYTES/SEC. IT HAS A VOLUME OF 0.03 M3 AND A MASS OF 20 KG. THE BACKEND PROVIDES ADVANCED ONBOARD PROCESSING, PERFORMING AUTONOMOUS RAW SENSOR IMAGERY DEVELOPMENT, TIRS IMAGE TRACK-RECOVERY RECONSTRUCTION, LWIR/VNIR MULTI-BAND CO-REGISTRATION, AND PHOTOGRAMMETRIC IMAGE PROCESSING. WITH PROPOSED GEOMETRIC OPTICS AND BORESIGHT CALIBRATIONS, THE ATTIREOIS DATA PRODUCTS ARE DIRECTLY GEOREFERENCED WITH AN ACCURACY OF APPROXIMATELY ONE METER.