Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program

Proposals Selected for Negotiation of Contracts

GSFC SBIR 1997 Phase I
February 2, 1998

Lawrence Photoelectronic Laboratories
2300 West Huntington Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282
Lamonte H. Lawrence 602-438-2300
97-1-14.01-2300
Silicon-Based APD Arrays for 1064 nm LIDAR

Ralcon Development Lab
8501 S 400 W
Paradise, UT 84328-0142
Richard D Rallison 435-245-4623
97-1-14.01-4623
Fractured Zone Plates for spatial separation of frequencies

Space Applications Corporation
9315 Largo Dr. West
Largo, MD 20774
Benita Richardson 301-324-9284
97-1-14.01-9284
Geometric Transformation Using Computer Generated Optical Elements

Science & Engineering Services, Inc.
4032 Blackburn Lane
Burtonsville, MD 20866
Dr. Hyo Sang Lee 301-989-1896
97-1-14.03-1896A
A RAMAN WATER VAPOR MICRO LIDAR

Cutting Edge Optronics, Inc.
20 Point West
St. Charles, MO 63301
Chuck Ratermann 314-916-4900
97-1-14.03-4900
355 nm Laser Design for Atmospheric Measurements

Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation
3800 Raymond Stotzer Parkway
College Station, TX 77845
Hugh Schmittle 409-268-6840
97-1-14.04-6840
An Advanced UAV System to Support GSFC - Mission To The Planet Earth Remote
Sensing Validation Programs

AI Solutions, Inc.
10001 Derekwood Lane, Suite 215
Lanham, MD 20706
Robert Sperling, Jr. 301-306-1756
97-1-14.05-1274
Self-Tuning Kalman Filter for Autonomous Orbit Estimation

Science & Engineering Services, Inc.
4032 Blackburn Lane
Burtonsville, MD 20866
Dr. Hyo Sang Lee 301-989-1896
97-1-14.05-1896A
MINIATURE THREE CHANNEL CLOUD TOP HEIGHT SPECTROMETER

Scientific Solutions Inc.
22 High Street
Medford, MA 02155
William Schneller 781-395-2344
97-1-14.05-2344
A Multi-Spectral Imaging Sensor Utilizing a Fabry-Perot Etalon

Visidyne, Inc.
10 Corporate Place
Burlington, MA 01803
Mr. John W. Bates 781-273-2820
97-1-14.05-2820
A Small Rugged Uncooled LWIR Hyperspectral Imager

Jackson and Tull
7375 Executive Place, Suite 200
Seabrook, MD 20706
Knox W. Tull, Jr., P.E. 301-805-4545
97-1-14.07-4545
Station-Keeping, Ocean Observing Terminus (SKOOTER)

Seagull Technology, Inc.
16400 Lark Avenue
Los Gatos, CA 95032-2547
Jan Betke 408-358-7100
97-1-14.07-7100
Scaleable UAV Navigator

Space Products and Applications
2702 Copper Creek Road
Herndon, VA 20171-3520
Shabbir A. Parvez 703-713-1956
97-1-14.09-1956
Autonomous Unified Orbit and Attitude Control for Formation Flying
using GPS and LQG/LTR Controller

Illgen Simulation Technologies, Inc.
130 Robin Hill Road Suite 200
Goleta, CA 93117
Richard W. Jones 805-692-2333
97-1-14.09-2333
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tool for the evaluation of Mission to
Planet Earth Satellite guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) performance.

Photobit Corporation
2529 Foothill Blvd. #104
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Nicholas Doudoumopoulos 818-248-4393
97-1-14.09-4393
Radiation Hard CMOS APS Circuits for Star Trackers

Daedalus Enterprises, Inc.
300 Parkland Plaza
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Charles G. Stanich 313-769-5649
97-1-14.10-5649
Low Cost Beaconless Laser Search and Rescue System

Center for Remote Sensing, Inc.
11350 Random Hills Rd. Suite 710
Fairfax, VA 22030
Suman Ganguly 703-848-0800
97-1-14.11-0800B
Nonlinear Dynamical Techniques for Analyzing Spacecraft Data

Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation
2901 28th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Raymond H. Brasser 310-314-2378
97-1-14.11-2300
Remote Sensing Enhancement of Shallow Water Bathymetry

Cullimore and Ring Technologies, Inc.
9 Red Fox Lane
Littleton, CO 80127-5710
Brent A. Cullimore 303-904-3432
97-1-15.01-0292
Integrated Design and Optimization of Thermal/Structural/Optical Systems

SSG, Inc.
65 Jonspin Road
Wilmington, MA 01887
Alan McEacharn 978-694-9991
97-1-15.01-9991
Sputtering Silicon Coatings for Large Aperture (2 meter) Silicon Carbide
Optical Segments

NanoSystems Inc.
83 Prokop Road
Oxford, CT 06478
Dr. Charles P. Beetz 203-881-2827
97-1-17.01-2827
Novel Microchannel Plate Detector

RJH Scientific, Inc.
5904 Richmond Highway, Suite 401
Alexandria, VA 22303
Richard J. Harms 703-329-4151
97-1-17.01-4151
High Angular Resolution Thin Foil X-ray Mirrors

HYTEC, Inc.
110 Eastgate Drive, Suite 100
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Mr. W. O. Miller 505-662-7329
97-1-17.01-5179
Innovative, Low Mass, Passively Cooled, All Composite Material Tower
Structure for High Resolution Charged-Particle Tracking in a Gamma-Ray
Space Telescope

TTH Research, Inc.
14625 Baltimore Avenue, #445
Laurel, MD 20707
Jeong H. Kim 301-317-0895
97-1-19.01-0895
Advanced Capillary Pumped Loop

Sensortex, Inc.
P.O. Box 644
Unionville, PA 19375-0644
Kelly Reuter 610-444-2383
97-1-19.01-2383
Thermal Control Using Multi-Spectral Switching

Design Automation Associates
40 Oakwood Street
Enfield, CT 06082
John C. Lambert 860-749-3832
97-1-19.02-3832
Application Specific, Optimum Performance Design for Nickel-Hydrogen
Cells and Batteries

MagneMotion, Inc.
142-V North Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
Todd S. Webber 508-369-7600
97-1-19.02-7600
Shaftless, Magnetically Levitated Flywheel Energy Storage Systems

Tal Materials, Inc.
1375 Folkstone Ct.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
David R. Treadwell 313-763-5671
97-1-20.01-5671
Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Epoxy Resins Based on Silsesquioxane Cubes for Use in
High Performance Fiber Reinforced Composites for Aerospace Applications

General Systems Company
41 Ramsgate Court
Blue BEll, PA 19422
Ms. Meeta Pherwani 610-825-5688
97-1-20.09-5688A
Compliant Pad Bonding for Space Shuttle Evaporator Furnace

EMF Industries, Inc.
1700 Riverside Drive
South Williamsport, PA 17701
Karla K. Sexton 717-320-2748
97-1-20.11-2748
Force-Output Microactuator For Precision Active Optics incorporating a Passive
Thermal Release Lockdown Mechanism

CSA Engineering, Inc.
2850 W. Bayshore
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Conor D. Johnson 650-494-7351
97-1-20.11-7351
Electromechanical Systems for Spacecraft

Ressler Associates, Inc.
14440 Cherry Lane Court, Suite 216
Laurel, MD 20708
Gerald M. Ressler 301-206-3232
97-1-21.03-3232
Internet Web Technology for Integrated End-to-End Instrument Design

S-Chips Technology
suite 300, 160 Speen Street
Framingham,, MA 01701
Sy Greenfield 508-872-5105
97-1-22.04-5105
Very High Performance RISC/DSP

Interface Studies Inc.
27 East Mountain
Katonah, NY 10536-2614
John L. Freeouf 914-232-0982
97-1-23.02-098
High Resolution Room Temperature Gamma Ray Detectors

IntraSpec, Inc.
1008 Alvin Weinberg Drive
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
John Walter 423-482-5992
97-1-23.02-1859
New Ultra-Shallow Junction Technology and Improved Oxides for Silicon

Luxel Corporation
P.O. Box 1879
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
Pamela Hollis 360-378-4137
97-1-23.02-4137
Polyimide X-ray Filter Substrates Optimized for Strength at Cryogenic
Temperatures

Nanomaterials Research Corporation
2849 East Elvira Rd
Tucson, AZ 85706-7126
Neil Lupton 520-294-7115
97-1-23.02-7115
High Density Passive Component Arrays for Analog ASICs

Conductus, Inc.
969 West Maude Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Charles E. Shalvoy 408-523-9416
97-1-23.02-9950
Imaging X-ray Spectrometer using Tunnel Junctions on Tantalum Crystals

GSSL, Inc.
284 NE Tralee Court
Hillsboro, OR 97124-1592
Tim Lachenmeier 503-681-2196
97-1-23.04-2196
INTEGRATED CRYOGENIC HELIUM SYSTEM FOR EXTENDED
DURATION BALLOON FLIGHTS

Janis Research Company, Inc.
2 Jewel Drive - P.O. Box 696
Wilmington, MA 01887-0696
Thomas G. Pasakarnis 978-657-8750
97-1-23.04-8750
A Lightweight, Low Cost, Long Lifetime Cryostat and Magnetic
Refrigerator

Charles River Analytics
55 Wheeler Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-1125
Greg L. Zacharias 617-491-3474
97-1-24.01-3474
A Distributed Environment for Onboard Planning and Scheduling

Neodesic Corporation
1840 Oak Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
Charles Kwon 847-866-1856
97-1-24.02-1856
The Information Workbench

LNK Corporation, Incorporated
6811 Kenilworth Avenue, Suite 306
Riverdale, MD 20737
Laveen N. Kanal 301-927-3223
97-1-24.02-3223
3D Flood Hazard Effects Visualization using NASA Regional
Validation Center Earth Science Image Data

Physical Optics Corporation, E&P Division
20600 Gramercy Place, Building 100
Torrance, CA 90501-1821
Gordon Drew 310-320-3088
97-1-24.03-3088
Liquid Crystal Volumetric Three Dimensional Display

Materials Modification, Inc.
2929 Eskridge Road, P-1
Fairfax, VA 22031
T.S. Sudarshan 703-560-1371
97-1-27.01-1371B
Lightweight Mirrors for Optics

SSG, Inc.
65 Jonspin Road
Wilmington, MA 01887
Alan H. McEacharn 978-694-9991
97-1-27.01-9991
Fabrication and Polishing of Uncoated Silicon Carbide Aspheric
Optical Surfaces

Micron Optics Inc.
1900 Century Place, Suite 200
Atlanta, GA 30345
Calvin M. Miller 404-325-0005
97-1-27.02-0005
Tunable, Single-Frequency, Fiber Fabry-Perot Surface Emitting Lasers

Scientific Solutions Inc.
22 High Street
Medford, MA 02155
William Schneller 781-395-2344
97-1-27.02-2344
Solid State Electro-Optic Tuneable Fabry-Perot Filters (SSET-FAB)

Rochester Photonics Corporation
330 Clay Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Joachim Bunkenburg 716-272-3010
97-1-27.03-3010
Laser Pattern Generator for the Fabrication of Blazed Diffractive Profiles
on Conformal Surfaces

 

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