This is a $120,387 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to N5 Sensors Inc., a small business, to develop an ultra-small, highly reliable, and power-efficient sensor architecture for monitoring trace chemicals in the spacecraft environment. The contract is part of NASA's Nanoengineered Hybrid Gas Sensors for Spacesuit Monitoring major program, and aims to demonstrate sensor elements for oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ammonia on a single...
This is a $125,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Seacoast Science, Inc. to develop a microsensor array for detecting carbon dioxide and ammonia in the atmosphere inside spacesuits. The goal is to enable the unambiguous detection and quantification of carbon dioxide, which is crucial for the long-term mission, as well as the detection of other gases like oxygen. Seacoast Science will leverage...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Ashwin-Ushas Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $124,990 fixed-price contract is for the development of a unique, patented voltammetric electrochemical sensor technology capable of detecting toxic gases, chemical warfare agents, and other analytes. The sensor features a 3-module construction, is small,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract worth $954,993.00 to Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. (IOS) for the development of a non-intrusive, distributed gas sensing technology for advanced spacesuits. The contract aims to support the International Space Station (ISS) and future human exploration by providing flexible, sensitive optical sensor patches that can monitor critical life support gas constituents...
This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Southwest Sciences Inc., a small business, for the development of a compact, low-power, self-calibrating carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor for use on small aerial platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), tethered balloons, and remote ground stations. The $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract supports the advancement of this greenhouse gas measurement...
This is a $124,992.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Aerodyne Research Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced sensor and software products for atmospheric monitoring and analysis. The contract was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and is for the development of a two-channel, fast time-response caps NOx monitor. This contract represents Phase I of the SBIR program,...
This federal contract award to Masstech, Inc. (doing business as Analytical Instrumentation) is for the development of a compact, rugged, field-deployable laser photoacoustic spectrometric (LPAS) sensor. The sensor will be capable of continuous, real-time measurements of multiple chemical components such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, ozone, and other reactive and trace gases. The contract, valued at $99,826, is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase...
NASA has awarded a USD 125,000 firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Southwest Sciences Inc., a small business, to develop a compact carbon dioxide (CO2) instrumentation system for small aerial platforms. This instrumentation will support NASA's efforts to measure and understand CO2 fluxes and the carbon budget, which is critical for validating satellite data and obtaining high-resolution, non-integrated CO2 profiles. The proposed instrument aims to...
This is a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sporian Microsystems, Inc. to develop a harsh environment pressure sensor for planetary exploration. The contract is valued at $124,998.00 and has a completion date of February 15, 2019. The sensor is intended to withstand the extreme conditions of planetary atmospheres, such as corrosive gases, high radiation levels, stresses, and high temperatures and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (STTR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of optical sensing and instrumentation technologies based in Torrance, California. The contract, valued at $754,966.00, is for the development of a novel luminescence-based optical sensor system to monitor carbon dioxide, oxygen, and humidity in NASA's advanced Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) space...