Southwest Sciences Inc., a small business, was awarded a $124,999.00 firm-fixed-price Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for the feasibility investigation of a miniature atomic magnetometer that could serve as a stable scalar device for calibrating fluxgate magnetometers and as a vector device to complement fluxgate magnetometers. This technology is critical for missions to...
This is a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Luna Innovations Incorporated, a small business specializing in fiber optic sensing and advanced optical technologies. The contract is for the development of a "Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics Magnetometer and Laser System-on-Chip". As a subcontractor, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will support the design, fabrication,...
This firm fixed-price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Twinleaf LLC, a woman-owned small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract, valued at $124,896.00, is for the development of a scalar atomic magnetometer for CubeSat satellites. Twinleaf, which has prior experience providing magnetometers and related technologies to agencies like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract to Beam - CA, LLC, a Woman-Owned Small Business, for a Vector Magnetometer Based on Spin Wave Phased-Array Antenna under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract has a potential value of $124,570.00 and a completion date of February 18, 2020. The contract is for the delivery of research and development services related to this magnetometer...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,931 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to Magiq Technologies, Inc., a for-profit optics and photonics technology company based in Somerville, Massachusetts. The objective of the contract is to develop a fast-light enhanced fiber optic gyroscope that can provide higher performance and/or lower size, weight, and power requirements compared to traditional navigation systems. The...
This is a $109,971.00 firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to Protonex LLC, doing business as PNI Sensor, a small business manufacturer of positioning and navigation sensors. The contract is for the development of an extremely low size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) space magnetometer for low Earth orbit satellite attitude determination, under the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. Protonex/PNI Sensor has secured multiple prime contracts...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Southwest Sciences Inc., a small business based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The contract is valued at $755,000.00 and will develop an aircraft-mounted system to detect ambient methane using a diode laser and wavelength modulation absorption measurement. The system will make measurements at a rate of 10 Hz and feature an open-path optical configuration...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Microtek Inc., a small, minority-owned, and disadvantaged business, in the amount of $124,670.00. The contract is to develop a compact, energy-efficient, and inexpensive multi-band spectrometer that can provide high spectral resolution comparable to a conventional Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, but in a much smaller size and weight, by leveraging...
This is a $149,983 Firm Fixed Price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Southwest Sciences Inc., a small business, for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop high-speed measurements of velocity, temperature and water content in hypersonic flows. The contract has a period of performance through February 6, 2025. Southwest Sciences Inc. is a for-profit company specializing in basic and applied research, including...