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 $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 $749,927 Phase II 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 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system. The objective is to build a compact LIDAR sensor that meets the size, weight, and power (SWAP) requirements of future planetary landers for NASA's space exploration missions. The LIDAR system will provide high-resolution terrain...
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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Fibertek, Inc., a small business manufacturer based in Herndon, Virginia. The $124,924 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a configurable, multi-beam, 1.5 micron Doppler LIDAR sensor enabled by high-speed non-mechanical beam steering. This new LIDAR technology is intended to provide enhanced performance and reduced size, weight, and power...
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...
This contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Beyond Photonics, LLC, a small business prime contractor, for the development of a highly compact, efficient next-generation single-frequency pulsed transmitter laser. The objective is to support NASA's current and future missions focused on laser remote sensing in the short-wave infrared wavelength region near two microns. The $124,948.00 firm fixed-price contract is for a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research...
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 is a firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advanced Scientific Concepts, LLC, a small business contractor, for the development of a high precision compact modular flash LIDAR system to support lunar and New Frontiers missions. The contract, valued at $124,819.00, was awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program and is focused on the initial feasibility and design of the flash LIDAR technology. Advanced...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Advr, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Bozeman, Montana. The contract, valued at $749,916.00, is for the development and delivery of a compact, space-qualified, diode-based seed laser system that uses a digital controller to enable autonomous acquisition of the required wavelength for multiwavelength flight and space-based Light...