This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Eotron LLC, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The contract, valued at $754,698.00, is for the development of a compact, high-power 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system for use on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Eotron's proprietary 3D silicon technology is used to create a highly efficient and compact silicon package/assembly for...
This is a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Boulder Nonlinear Systems Inc. for the development of a non-mechanical, high-resolution, low size, weight, and power (SWAP) LIDAR system. The objective is to create a compact LIDAR sensor that can provide real-time, high-resolution terrain mapping data to support future NASA planetary and asteroid/comet exploration missions using small autonomous space...
This is a $124,829 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Santa Barbara, CA. The contract is for the development of a miniaturized 3D flash LIDAR sensor to enable safe autonomous landing and hazard avoidance capabilities for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in national airspace. This sensor technology is an extension of the 3D flash LIDAR used in NASA's ALHAT system for autonomous lunar...
This is a $122,910 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer of advanced photonics and engineering services. The contract is for the development of a 2U CubeSat-based 3D imaging photon-counting LIDAR system capable of long-range (>100 km) topology and rendezvous sensing for NASA's upcoming asteroid, comet, and planetary exploration missions. The LIDAR system is designed to provide unprecedented performance at a fraction of the...
This is a firm fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business, for the development of a long-range compact economical lidar system for wind profiling under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The total potential value of the contract is $149,986.00, and the period of performance is from the award date of August 3, 2023, to the completion date of February 2, 2024....
This is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of goods and provider of research and development services. The contract is valued at $754,999.00 and aims to advance the technology readiness level of 3D flash lidar technologies suitable for NASA mission requirements. This includes fabricating, characterizing, and testing a high-sensitivity InGaAs avalanche photodiode 3D...
This is a $124,381 firm fixed price Phase I SBIR contract awarded by NASA to Sibelloptics, a veteran-owned small business located in Lafayette, Colorado. The contract is for the conceptual design of a compact, efficient, and reliable LIDAR system that can be deployed on various platforms such as balloons, small satellites, CubeSats, and ground-based exploratory systems. The goal is to develop a coherent LIDAR system for wind measurement that can meet the size, weight, power, and reliability...
This federal contract award was made by the Air Force (AFLCMC/WIN and PACAF) to Exciting Technology LLC, a small business specializing in advanced laser and optical technologies. The $179,975.91 firm-fixed-price contract, awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, is for the development of an attritable, low-cost, size, weight, and power (C-SWAP) 3D LIDAR system for medium altitude unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications. This aligns with the Air Force's Operational...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC for the development of a common configurable 3D Flash LIDAR sensor under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. The goal is to advance the underlying Focal Plane Array (FPA) and laser technologies to enable a subsequent Phase II demonstration of the common Flash LIDAR sensor, which NASA has identified as a key technology for autonomous entry, descent,...
This is a firm-fixed price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business, for the development of autonomous alignment technologies for eye-safe coherent lidar systems. The goal is to create lidar systems with improved stability and reduced cost, enabling greater autonomy and easier field deployment, with potential applications for atmospheric monitoring, wind measurement, and remote sensing. The contract has a value of $124,952.00 and was completed on...