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WASHINGTON -- Space agency leaders are awarding 280 contracts worth more than $19 million for research projects involving communications, computers and electronics, sensors, and unmanned vehicles. The selected firms will be awarded fixed-price contracts worth as much as $70,000 each to perform a six-month Phase I feasibility study.
These contracts, awarded Dec. 22, are part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. The goals of the SBIR program are to stimulate technological innovation and increase the use of small business in federal research and development.
NASA received 1,847 proposals, submitted by small, high-technology businesses from across the country. The proposals were reviewed for technical merit and feasibility and relevance to NASA research and technology requirements.
Companies selected for Phase 1 are eligible to compete for Phase II selection the following year. The phase 2 award allows for a two-year, fixed-price contract of as much as $600,000.
For more information on the latest crop of NASA SBIR awards, contact NASA on the World Wide Web at http://sbir.nasa.gov/SBIR/sbir2000/phase1/awards/index.html. The NASA SBIR program management office is at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Here are some of the latest NASA SBIR awards:
COMMUNICATIONS
Intelligent Automation Inc.
Rockville, Md.
Phone: 301-590-3155
Time-modulated ultra-wideband interspacecraft communication
Radiant Research Inc.
Austin, Texas
Phone: 512-339-0500
Optical backplane using substrate-holograms for high-speed data communications
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COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS
Cell Matrix Corp.
Salt Lake City
Phone: 801-414-8900
Autonomously self-repairing circuits
Energy Science Laboratories Inc.
San Diego
Phone: 858-552-2034
Lightweight passive vaporizing heat sink
GPD Optoelectronics Corp.
Salem, N.H.
Phone: 603-894-6865
Germanium semiconductor devices for high-performance cryogenic power electronics
Intelligent Optical Systems Inc.
Torrance, Calif.
Phone: 310-530-7130
Three-dimensional digital memory
Los Gatos Research
Mountain View, Calif.
Phone: 650-965-7772
Wafer-based microfluidic system for lab-on-a-chip technologies
Physical Optics Corporation, EP Division
Torrance, Calif.
Phone: 310-320-3088
Low-cost true 3-D virtual reality system for scientific data visualization
PRE Associates
Mission Viejo, Calif.
Phone: 949-215-4803
Single-event latchup mitigation in commercial microelectronics
Rannoch Corp.
Alexandria, Va.
Phone: 703-838-9780
Low-cost general aviation traffic information system
SRS Technologies
500 Discovery Drive
Huntsville, Ala.
Phone: 256-971-7000
Biomimetic fabricated solar sail technologies
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SENSORS
High Technology Corp.
28 Research Drive
Hampton, Va.
Phone: 757-865-0818
A photogrammetric imaging system for measurement of flight control surfaces
WaveBand Corp.
Torrance, Calif.
Phone: 310-212-7808
Sensor integrated synthetic vision system
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UNMANNED VEHICLES
Continuum Dynamics Inc.
Ewing, N.J.
Phone: 609-538-0444
Next-generation adaptive design technology for micro and autonomous rotorcraft
Deep Sea DNA
Richmond, Calif.
Phone: 415-789-8742
A new class of deep-sea vehicles for sample collection
Environmental Robots Inc.
Albuquerque, N.M.
Phone: 505-265-4479
Development of synthetic muscle systems for NASA space robotics/EVA applications
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