The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Firm Fixed Price, Definitive Contract to 3D-Sensir Inc., doing business as Acqubit, for the development of a high sensitivity, thermoelectrically-cooled, 2 micron wavelength LIDAR receiver under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract, which is set aside for a small business, has a potential value of $124,536.00 and a completion date of March 1, 2021. 3D-Sensir Inc. is...
This SBIR Phase II contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business. The $896,715 firm fixed-price contract is for the development of autonomous alignment technology to improve the performance and reliability of coherent LIDAR systems, which have applications for NASA's remote 3D space wind measurement goals. The technology aims to enable lower-cost, more autonomous LIDAR systems that can maintain...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a $102,134.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Espylux LLC, a small disadvantaged business, to develop a receiver system for use in lidar. The proposed system consists of an optical filter and optical spectrometer that utilize two-photon absorption in atomic rubidium to create a birefringent medium capable of detecting Doppler shifts. This will enable superior spatial resolution of wind and...
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 Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase I purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Scientific Concepts, Inc., a small business manufacturer located in Santa Barbara, California. The contract is valued at $79,478.67 and aims to design and simulate the architecture for a high-speed, high-resolution 3D Flash LIDAR array. The goal is to significantly improve the range and spatial resolution of 3D Flash LIDAR systems, pushing the...
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 $124,686 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Sigma Space LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of a next-generation 3D imaging LIDAR (IML) system suitable for a wide range of space applications, including orbital mapping, proximity operations, entry/descent/landing, rendezvous/docking, and space debris search and...
This is a firm-fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC, a small business. The contract is for $124,715.00 and is under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The purpose of the contract is to develop improvements to flash light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensors for entry, descent, and landing (EDL) applications. As a small business prime contractor, Advanced...
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 federal contract award for NNX17CL58P was made by NASA's Shared Services Center to the small disadvantaged business Discovery Semiconductors, Inc. The $100,000 firm fixed price contract is for Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a universal LIDAR system. The proposed LIDAR will operate at 2050 nm wavelength with programmable pseudorandom modulation to provide tunable resolution and sensitivity, enabling diverse NASA applications such as rocket plume...