Full and Open Competition after exclusion of sources
Major Defense Program
Not listed
Pricing Type
Firm Fixed Price
Place of Performance
Topsfield, MA 01983, USA
Solicitation Procedures
Negotiated Proposal / Quote
Number Of Offers Received
500
Legislative Mandate
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National Interest Action
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Research Type
SBIR Program Phase I Action
Primary Consortia Member
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The federal contract award with ID NNX15CG46P was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Optra, Inc., a small business contractor, for the development of a novel hybrid spectrometer design that combines the strengths of Michelson and Lamellar grating interferometers. The purpose of this $129,823 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract is to provide a compact, rugged, and low-cost spectrometer capable of the same performance as the existing Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) instruments used by NASA to characterize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases critical to global warming research. This technology could also be extended to other applications requiring spectral data where instrument size and cost are at a premium, such as methane pipeline monitoring or UAV-based remote sensing.