This is a $754,929.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Sequent Logic LLC, a small disadvantaged business, under the SBIR Phase II program. The contract aims to integrate performance optimization approaches to produce a tunable laser module that will improve NASA's flight test measurement and in-situ monitoring capabilities. The technology is expected to enable distributed static strain and temperature measurements, modal analysis, non-destructive evaluation, and identification of...
This $156,498.00 federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Sequent Logic LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort to develop a low size, weight, and power - consumption (SWAP-C), flight-capable distributed fiber-optic sensing platform. The contract is a firm fixed price purchase order with a completion date of February 2, 2024. This...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Definitive, Firm Fixed Price contract valued at $749,970.00 to Freedom Photonics LLC for the development of a novel, inexpensive semiconductor-based widely tunable laser under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II. This contract aims to replace the expensive, bulky, and mechanically tuned swept laser technology currently used in the Fiber Optic Smart Structures (FOSS) sensor...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was made to Sequent Logic LLC, a small disadvantaged business. The $124,991.00 contract funds a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort to establish the technical feasibility of a high-performance, size-weight-and-power-optimized distributed fiber optic sensing platform suitable for harsh space environments. The proposed technology is intended to support...
The federal contract award NNX16CD12P was issued by NASA's Shared Services Center to Freedom Photonics, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced photonic components and subsystems located in Goleta, California. The $124,967 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract is for the development of a novel, inexpensive semiconductor-based widely tunable laser that can be simply tuned to replace the more expensive, bulky laser technology currently used in fiber optic sensor...
This is a $129,991 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Voxtel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of advanced electronics and optics. The contract is for the development of an ultra-compact, high-energy, high-repetition-rate, diode-pumped solid-state pulsed laser system operating in the 1500-1600 nanometer spectral band. This laser system is intended to support NASA's remote sensing, mapping, and...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract worth $149,991.00 to Aktiwave LLC, a small business based in Rochester, New York. The contract is for the development of a monolithic Q-switched waveguide laser fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription to be used as a pulsed light detection and ranging (lidar) source. This specialized research and development work supports NASA's objectives in the areas of space...
This is a $900,000 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Longwave Photonics LLC, a minority-owned small business based in Mountain View, California. The contract, which is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II, is for the development of a compact, frequency-agile, phase/frequency locked, and power-stabilized quantum cascade laser (QCL) system with over 2 milliwatts of power output. The system is...
This is a $125,000.00 firm fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to N.p. Photonics, Inc., a U.S.-based fiber laser manufacturer. The contract is for the development of a high energy, narrow-linewidth, and frequency stable 780 nanometer laser transmitter for high spectral resolution lidar (HSRL) applications. This laser system will enable accurate aerosol and cloud profiling...
This is a $124,970 firm-fixed-price SBIR Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Vescent Technologies Inc., a small business manufacturer of precision laser systems and photonics equipment. The contract is for the development of ultra-narrow linewidth lasers to support deployed quantum timing applications. As a small business set-aside award, this contract provides Vescent an opportunity to advance their laser and photonics capabilities that...