Date: Oct 05, 2013 Source: PR Newswire (
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected 22 California
companies for negotiation of phase 2 contract awards in its 2004 Small
Business Innovation Research program. The companies receiving the contracts
each worth approximately $600,000 include:
- IA Tech, Inc., Los Angeles, for Flexible and Safe Control of Mobile
Surface Systems
- Utopiacompression, Corp., Los Angeles, for Intelligence-Based Multi-
Resolution 3D Visual Modeling, Registration and Obstacle Avoidance
Capabilities for Unmanned Vehicles
- Rolling Hills Research Corp., El Segundo, for Revolutionary Performance
for Ultra Low Reynolds Number Vehicles
- Fetch Technologies, El Segundo, for a Constraint-Based Geospatial Data
Integration System for Wildfire Management
- Physical Optics Corp., EP Division, Torrance, for Three-Dimensional
Cockpit Display System for Improved Situational Awareness and for 3D
Multi-Channel Networked Visualization System for National LambdaRail
- Broadata Communications, Inc., Torrance, for Universal Space IP
Transparent Proxy
- Orbits Lightwave, Inc., Pasadena, for Ultra Low Noise 1.06 Micron Laser
Oscillator
- Ultramet, Pacoima, for Lightweight Ultrahigh Temperature CMC-Encased C/C
Structure for Reentry and Hypersonic Applications, Phase II
- Nanotrope, Inc., Cardiff, for a Nanodroplet Processor for Advanced
Microencapsulated Drug Formulations
- Space Micro, Inc., Poway, for Fault Tolerant, Radiation Hard DSP
- SciberQuest, Inc., Solana Beach, for Computing Infrastructure and
Remote, Parallel Data Mining Engine for Virtual Observatories
- Biospherical Instruments, Inc., San Diego, for In Situ Microradiometers:
Smaller, Faster, and Scalable to Hyperspectral
- nanoComposix, Inc., San Diego, for Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids
- inXitu, Mountain View, for Powder Handling Device for X-ray Diffraction
Analysis with Minimal Sample Preparation
- Novawave Technologies, Redwood City, for Compact, High Accuracy CO2
Monitor
- Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp., Sunnyvale, for Smart Skins and
Tactile-Feedback Motion Control for Robotic Manipulators
- Acellent Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, for SMART Tape for Structural
Health Monitoring of Rocket Engines
- Optimal Synthesis, Inc., Palo Alto, for Flight-Deck Interface for High
Precision Taxi Control
- Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., San Mateo, for Adaptive Distributed
Environment for Procedure Training
- RAPT Industries, Inc., Livermore, for Rapid Damage-Free Shaping of
Lightweight SiC Using Reactive Atom Plasma (RAP) Processing
- DigitalSpace Corp., Santa Cruz, for Simulation-Based Lunar Telerobotics
Design, Acquisition and Training Platform for Virtual Exploration
- Makel Engineering, Inc., Chico, for In Situ Manufacturing of Plastics
and Composites to Support H&R Exploration and for Integrated
Microchannel Reformer/Hydrogen Purifier for Fuel Cell Power Systems
The Small Business Innovation Research program is a highly-competitive,
three-phase award system. It provides qualified small businesses with
opportunities to propose innovative ideas that meet the specific research and
development needs of the federal government.
Phase 1 is a feasibility study to evaluate the scientific and technical
merit of an idea. Awards are for up to six months in amounts up to $70,000.
Phase 2 expands on the results on the development of Phase 1. Awards are for
up to two years in amounts up to $600,000. Phase 3 is for the
commercialization of the results of Phase 2 and requires the use of private
sector or non-SBIR federal funding. The NASA awards are for the second-phase
in this competitive process.
A total of 140 research proposals were selected having a value of
approximately $84 million. The contracts will be awarded to 124 small high
technology firms in 34 states. Participating contractors submitted 273 phase
2 proposals. The proposals were evaluated to determine if they met the
program's phase 1 objectives and if they were feasible research innovations
for meeting agency needs.
Phase 2 continues development of the most promising phase 1 projects.
Selection criteria include technical merit and innovation; phase 1 results,
value to NASA, commercial potential, and company capabilities. Funding for
phase 2 contracts could be up to $600,000 for a two-year performance period.
The program manager is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md., with executive oversight by NASA Headquarters. Individual
projects are managed by NASA's 10 field installations. A list of the selected
companies with the names of their proposals will be available on the Web after
4 p.m. EDT, today at: http://sbir.nasa.gov
SOURCE NASA
