Training Grant 80NSSC21K1225

Zyltech Engineering LLC has been awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order by the U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) for one unit of a 30 by 3 multi-color multi-material polymer co-extrusion line, with a ceiling value of $189,000. The contract, awarded on September 15, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of May 15, 2026, represents the government's procurement of specialized manufacturing equipment for polymer processing applications. The system must incorporate...

This is a firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command to Thermo Electron Karlsruhe GMBH, a for-profit manufacturer of laboratory and scientific equipment. The contract is for the purchase of one twin screw extruder system, valued at $248,526.71, with a completion date of February 23, 2021. The extruder system will be delivered to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The contract was awarded on...

The U.S. Army Materiel Command's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has awarded a $1.5M firm fixed-price purchase order to Next Generation Analytics Inc., doing business as Collin Lab & Pilot Solutions, for the procurement and delivery of a specialized five-layer co-extrusion film casting line system. The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2026, fulfills a Special Notice solicitation posted in April 2025 seeking advanced industrial...

The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a $134.8K firm fixed-price purchase order to Opsens Solutions Inc., a Quebec-based fiber optic sensing technology manufacturer, for 100 proprietary temperature probes (part number OTG-R-4R1-100ST-1.5TT-H) with 1.5-meter PTFE-TT cables. This sole-source procurement was conducted using Simplified Acquisition Procedures on a Lowest Price Technically Acceptable basis, with performance to be completed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development to Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of goods and developer of optical sensing and instrumentation technologies. The $399,905.89 contract is for research and development to create "greener plastics with high heat tolerance for additive manufacturing". As a small business, this contract was set aside for the SBIR...

This is a firm fixed-price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by NASA to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (IFOS), a small business based in Milpitas, California. The contract, valued at $124,971.00, is for the development of an effective real-time, in-situ damage locating and growth monitoring system for composite structures using a smart, high-speed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor and piezoelectric actuator network. The project aims to design an...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Physical Optics Corporation, a division of Mercury Systems Inc. The $149,992.00 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a high precision optical fiber inspection system. The contract has a period of performance from June 23, 2016, to March 24, 2017. Physical Optics Corporation is a small business provider of advanced technology solutions to the defense...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Flightware Inc., a Subchapter S Corporation, to develop a novel in-process inspection (IPI) method called Layer Topographic Mapping (LTM) for laser powder bed forming (LPBF) metal additive manufacturing. The objective is to address low process maturity and part-to-part inconsistencies in LPBF by using a laser profilometer sensor to create high-accuracy 3D...

The USDA ARS awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at twenty-seven thousand nine hundred thirty-five dollars to RBI of France. This contract will deliver a dual tip fiber optic probe system to replace an existing velocity and air concentration measurement system for the agency's Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area. Key requirements of the pre-solicitation included a probe with reinforced sapphire tips, over 500 kHz sample frequency and 0.033 ms...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $74,999 Firm Fixed Price purchase order to Additive Monitoring, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the development of a closed loop adaptive laser pathing system for additive manufacturing. This STTR Phase I research contract, which has a total small business set-aside, aims to provide in-situ monitoring and real-time defect detection capabilities to improve quality control and certification of additively...