This is a $124,855.00 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp (Ifos) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract is for the development of a robotic system with spectroscopic and haptic capabilities for comet subsurface ice sampling. As a Small Business set-aside, this contract leverages Ifos' expertise in advanced optical sensing systems,...
This is a $753,674 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp (Ifos), a small business based in Milpitas, California. The contract is for the development of multi-purpose and multi-functional dexterous end-effectors for robots under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Phase II. The contract has a completion date of July 31, 2026 and was set aside for small businesses. Ifos is an...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp (Ifos), a small business, for the development of multi-purpose and multi-functional dexterous end-effectors for robots. The $124,984 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded on August 19, 2019, with a completion date of February 18, 2020. Ifos is a small business that develops and manufactures advanced optical sensing...
<p>This is a $149,677 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Astroforge, Inc. under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. The contract is for Phase I of a project titled "COLD ABLATION DRILLING: NON-CONTACT PLANETARY SAMPLING TECHNOLOGY" and has a completion date of February 6, 2025. The contract is set aside for small businesses.</p>
This is a $124,050.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Impossible Sensing LLC, a certified HUBZone small business. The contract is for the "PERISCOPE - PROBE FOR EXPLORING REGOLITH AND ICE BY SUBSURFACE CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANICS, PAHS, AND ELEMENTS" project, which is being conducted under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract was awarded on August 31, 2020 and...
This is a $124,989.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS), a for-profit small business. The contract is for the "Enhanced Real Time Distributed Strain and Temperature Monitoring for Rocket Ground Testing". IFOS develops and manufactures advanced optical sensing systems for monitoring high-value assets in harsh...
This SBIR Phase I contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was granted to Integrated Concurrent Systems Associates, Inc. (ICS Associates) to demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative "Optical Mining" approach to excavating and extracting water and other volatiles from the surface of carbonaceous chondrite asteroids. The contract, valued at $124,966.00, is part of ICS Associates' broader "APIS" (Asteroid Provided In-Situ Systems)...
The U.S. government has awarded a $149,326 Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp (Ifos), a small business based in Milpitas, California. The contract is for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project titled "Advanced Hybrid Photonic Based Fiber Optic Sensor for Lunar Habitats" and is set aside for total small business participation. The contract will be performed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and...
This is a $124,887.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Protoinnovations, LLC, a small business specializing in robotics and autonomous systems research and development for lunar exploration. The contract is for the research, development, and validation of an innovative retractable robotic anchoring mechanism that can work in both hard rock and granular soils,...
This federal contract award from NASA to Honeybee Robotics, Ltd. is for the development and testing of the In-Situ Spectroscopic Europa Explorer (ISEE), a compact, arm-mounted Raman spectrometer prototype. The goal is to advance this technology to support the Europa Lander mission, currently targeted for launch in 2022, which aims to search Europa's icy surface for evidence of life. The $120,062 fixed-price, STTR Phase I contract will fund the development and integration of key ISEE subsystems...