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Awards for “PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC.”
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| Award ID | Recipient | Awarding agency | Amount | Start | End | NAICS | Description |
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| NNX17CP63P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $123.62K | 2017-06-09 | 2017-12-08 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF NASA NEEDS INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO PROTECT BIOLOGICAL SENSORS AND TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL BODIES SUCH AS EUROPA, ENCELADUS OR MARS. PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) WILL DEVELOP NOVEL BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIMICROBIAL (ABFV: ANTI-BACTERIAL/FUNGAL/VIRAL) COATINGS FOR THE EXPOSED SURFACES OF SPACECRAFT METALS, PLASTIC, AND ELECTRONICS THAT WILL ACT AS A BIO-BARRIER TO PREVENT BOTH FORWARD AND BACKWARD CONTAMINATION. THE TECHNOLOGY WILL OFFER A COMPLEMENTARY AND MILDER APPROACH TO THE CURRENT, ENERGY INTENSIVE STERILIZATION METHODS SUCH AS HEAT PROCESSING, GAMMA/ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION, COLD PLASMA AND VAPOR HYDROGEN PEROXIDE. IN ADDITION, THESE CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES ONLY PROVIDE A ONE-TIME STERILIZATION. THE PSI APPROACH IS A PERMANENT COATING THAT WILL PREVENT INADVERTENT CONTAMINATION THROUGHOUT THE SPACECRAFT ASSEMBLY AND INTEGRATION. THE PHASE I WORK WILL BUILD UPON PSI'S PREVIOUS EFFORTS THAT DEVELOPED HIGHLY EFFICACIOUS AND BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIMICROBIAL (ABFV: ANTI-BACTERIAL/FUNGAL/VIRAL) FINISHES FOR TEXTILE SURFACES. DURING THE PHASE I WORK, PSI WILL SYNTHESIZE ABFV COMPOUNDS THAT PERMANENTLY ATTACH TO THE SURFACE OF METALLIC MATERIALS SUCH AS ALUMINUM AND STAINLESS STEEL. PSI WILL DEMONSTRATE HIGH EFFICACY AND BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF THE TREATED METALLIC SURFACES AS WELL AS COMPATIBILITY WITH CURRENT STERILIZATION PROCESSES. IN A POTENTIAL PHASE II, PSI WILL FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE TECHNOLOGY AT A SCALE RELEVANT TO SPACECRAFT APPLICATIONS. IN ADDITION, PSI WILL EXTEND THE USE OF THE NEW ANTIMICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY TO OTHER SPACECRAFT HARDWARE MATERIALS SUCH POLYMERS, ELECTRONICS AND COMPOSITES AND DEMONSTRATE THE ABFV TREATMENT ON REPRESENTATIVE PIECES OF SPACECRAFT HARDWARE. |
| NNX12CF35P | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $121.12K | 2012-02-13 | 2012-08-13 | 541712 | DURING A PROPOSED PHASE I AND PHASE II PROGRAM, PSI WILL ADVANCE THE TRL FROM 3 TO 6 FOR THE RIPSTOP REINFORCEMENT OF THIN FILM MEMBRANES USED FOR LARGE DEPLOYABLE MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURES IN SUPPORT OF SUNSHADES FOR PASSIVE THERMAL CONTROL AND PLANET FINDING EXTERNAL OCCULTERS. THE NANOFIBER BASED RIPSTOP REINFORCEMENT WILL ENHANCE MEMBRANE TEAR RESISTANCE PROVIDING PROTECTION AGAINST MEMBRANE DAMAGE DURING DEPLOYMENT OR AFTER MICRO-METEORITE IMPACT. EARLIER RIPSTOP RESEARCH WORK PERFORMED UNDER THE NASA CETDP YIELDED A 50X INCREASE IN CP-1 MEMBRANE TEAR RESISTANCE AND A MASS INCREASE OF LESS THAN 5% FOR A 0.3 MIL FILM. THIS LOW MASS TECHNOLOGY WILL PROVIDE THESE TEAR RESISTANCE GAINS WHILE PACKAGED INTO THE EXISTING LAUNCH VOLUME OR ENABLE THINNER FILMS TO BE SUBSTITUTED WITH LOWER MASS AND EQUIVALENT TEAR RESISTANCE. A 2 MIL THICK KAPTON FILM USED FOR JWST CAN BE REPLACED BY A 0.3 MIL RIPSTOP REINFORCED CP-1 FILM AND PROVIDE 2X IMPROVED TEAR RESISTANCE, BUT AT ONLY 15% OF THE 2 MIL KAPTON WEIGHT AND VOLUME. PSI IS TEAMED WITH NEXOLVE CORPORATION TO DEVELOP PILOT SCALE (0.5 METER WIDTH) RIPSTOP REINFORCEMENT EQUIPMENT, BASIC FINITE ELEMENT MODELS OF THE THERMAL, DYNAMIC AND STRUCTURAL INFLUENCES OF RIPSTOP REINFORCEMENT, AND CONFIRM THESE MODELS WITH FABRICATED AND CHARACTERIZED REINFORCED CP-1 FILMS. PSI WILL MATURE THE RIPSTOP TECHNOLOGY SO THAT IT CAN BE USED TO FABRICATE 5 METER SUNSHIELDS DURING A PHASE II PROGRAM AND PROVIDE A PATH TO 16 M CLASS OR GREATER, LIGHTWEIGHT, AMBIENT OR CRYOGENIC FLIGHT-QUALIFIED OBSERVATORY SYSTEMS. PSI WILL FABRICATE A DEMONSTRATION RIPSTOP REINFORCED MEMBRANE ON PHASE I WITH DIRECT SCALABILITY TO A LARGE SUNSHIELD FLIGHT SYSTEM. WE WILL SHOW A PATH TOWARD A PHASE II DELIVERY OF DEMONSTRATION SUNSHIELD HARDWARE SCALABLE TO 5 METER DIAMETER FOR GROUND TEST CHARACTERIZATION. COMMERCIALIZATION EFFORTS WILL BE DEVELOPED WITH OUR PARTNER, NEXOLVE. |
| 80NSSC20C0304 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $120.36K | 2020-08-31 | 2021-09-30 | 541715 | INTELLIGENT SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR ROCKET PROPULSION TESTING |
| W911SR09C0047 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.96K | 2009-06-19 | 2011-01-10 | 334290 | LOW COST METHOD FOR METAL NANO-COATING |
| W15QKN08C0050 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.94K | 2007-12-05 | 2008-12-08 | 541330 | FIVE MONTHLY REPORTS |
| W911SR10C0006 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.91K | 2009-11-17 | 2010-12-31 | 541712 | MANPOWER REPORTING |
| W911QX09C0035 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.89K | 2008-12-30 | 2010-06-03 | 541712 | SBIR PHASE 1, TOPIC #A08-056, BIOMIMETIC CONTROL OF FLYING ROBOTS |
| W912HZ09C0011 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.88K | 2008-10-23 | 2010-01-31 | 541712 | U437D00 --SBIR NO. A082-114-1098; PHASE 1 |
| W911SR11C0008 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.86K | 2010-11-08 | 2011-05-08 | 541712 | PHASE I SBIR- MONOLITHIC IO TDLAS SENSORS & NETWORKS |
| N6600108C2076 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $119.19K | 2008-06-12 | 2009-04-09 | 541712 | SERVICES IAW SOW |
| W911W620C0013 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.5K | 2020-04-20 | 2020-11-30 | 541715 | SBIR PHASE I 1ST MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT |
| W911W621C0003 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.5K | 2021-09-17 | 2022-03-15 | 541715 | 1ST MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT |
| W9115121C0036 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.5K | 2021-08-11 | 2022-05-02 | 541715 | SBIR PHASE I |
| W911SR22C0029 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.5K | 2022-05-06 | 2023-02-21 | 541713 | SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH TO DEVELOP ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLER AND ION SOURCE FOR ATTACHMENT TO A MASS SPECTROMETER. PHASE I WILL CONDUCT FEASIBILITY STUDIES OF DIFFERENT PROPOSED APPROACHES. |
| W909MY20P0058 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.49K | 2020-08-17 | 2021-02-13 | 541715 | SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE 1 EFFORT TITLED "DETECTION IN IR W/ INCREMENTAL LOW-SHOT LEARNING (DIRILL)" |
| W912HZ24P0004 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.49K | 2023-12-11 | 2024-06-11 | 541715 | SBIR PHASE I TITLED PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECONSTRUCTION OF RECONNAISSANCE OBJECTIVES. U438220 |
| W9124R21C0002 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $111.47K | 2020-12-02 | 2021-09-01 | 541990 | HIGH ENERGY, LARGE PROJECTILE RECOVERY |
| W909MY19P0013 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $108K | 2019-09-11 | 2020-03-10 | 541715 | SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE I EFFORT TITLED "LOW SHOT TRACKING AND TARGETING ALGORITHMS FOR NEXT GEN COMBAT VEHICLES" IN RESPONSE TO TOPIC NUMBER A191-052-0867. |
| W56HZV19C0109 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $107.99K | 2019-09-09 | 2020-03-07 | 541715 | SBIR PH I |
| W911SR19C0036 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $107.98K | 2019-08-28 | 2020-09-30 | 541715 | THIS CONTRACT IS TO DEVELOP MULTIMODAL ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE, ENHANCED ACTIVE SHORT WAVE INFRARED IMAGING,&AREA MAPPING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT RECONNAISSANCE&SURVEILLANCE&INTEGRATED EARLY WARNING OF POSSIBLE CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL ATTACKS. |
| HQ014719C7062 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $105K | 2019-03-26 | 2020-03-25 | 541715 | SBIR/STTR PHASE I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT:TANDEM-WING INTERACTING-SHOCK TORQUE EFFECTOR (TWISTER) |
| HQ014718C7436 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $104.95K | 2018-06-25 | 2019-10-24 | 541715 | SBIR/STTR PHASE I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT - ADVANCED HIGH PERFORMANCE, HIGH ENERGY DENSITY, IONIC LIQUID PROPELLANTS FOR INSENSITIVE MUNITION COMPLIANT EXO-ATMOSPHERIC INTERCEPTORS |
| EPD15028 | FARADAY TECHNOLOGY, INC. | Environmental Protection Agency | $100K | 2015-09-01 | 2016-02-29 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF 2015 SBIR PHASE I AWARD - FARADAY TECHNOLOGY, INC. |
| 80NSSC18P2722 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $100K | 2018-09-18 | 2022-09-30 | 541715 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. (PSI) DEVELOPED IN PHASE II A NOVEL OPHTHALMIC IMAGING PLATFORM FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING OF POTENTIAL VISUAL IMPAIRMENT OBSERVED IN LONG-DURATION SPACE FLIGHTS. THIS PLATFORM COMBINES NONINVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF RETINA/CHOROID STRUCTURE AND OCULAR BLOOD FLOW WITH OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) AND WIDE-FIELD SEMI-QUANTITATIVE GLOBAL FLOW VISUALIZATION WITH LINE-SCANNING DOPPLER FLOWMETRY (LSDF), WHICH IS A MORE ADVANCED VERSION OF THE TRADITIONAL LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY (LDF OR LDV). PSI PROPOSES TO FURTHER IMPROVE THE TECHNOLOGY AND TO ADD FEATURES OF SIGNIFICANT INTEREST TO NASA IN A PHASE II-X PROGRAM. THE PROPOSED SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PHASE II-X PROGRAM ARE: 1. DEMONSTRATE QUANTITATIVE BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT OVER LARGE AREAS. 2. DEVELOP A METHOD FOR GLOBE FLATTENING EVALUATION. OBJECTIVE 1. DEMONSTRATE QUANTITATIVE BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT OVER LARGE AREAS. (FUNDED BY THE SBIR PROGRAM) DESPITE DECADES OF RESEARCH AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SEVERAL ADVANCED SYSTEMS FOR MEASUREMENT OF BLOOD FLOW, RETINAL BLOOD FLOW DOPPLER IMAGING DIAGNOSTICS HAVE NOT YET ACHIEVED THE CLINICAL PROMINENCE THAT RETINAL BIOLOGY WOULD SEEM TO JUSTIFY. IN PARTICULAR FOR LDV, THE MEASUREMENTS ARE GIVEN IN ARBITRARY UNITS (VOLUME AND FLOW) OR HZ (VELOCITY) AND THEIR CONVERSION FACTOR TO THE CORRECT PARAMETERS CLAIMED TO BE MEASURED WERE RATHER ELUSIVE SO FAR. THE MEASUREMENTS SEEM TO DEPEND ON A LOT OF UNCONTROLLED FACTORS, ARE OPERATOR DEPENDENT AMONG OTHER THINGS, AND CANNOT RELIABLY SUPPORT LONGITUDINAL STUDIES ON THE SAME EYE OR COMPARISONS AMONG INDIVIDUALS. EVEN IF OUR LINE-SCANNING VERSION OF LDV IS SIGNIFICANTLY FASTER, COVERS A LARGER AREA, AND ENABLES MEASUREMENT OF LARGER VELOCITIES, IT STILL SUFFERS FROM SOME OF THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE STANDARD LDV AND IN PHASE II WE USED IT MAINLY AS A SEMI-QUANTITATIVE VISUALIZATION METHOD TO MAP RETINAL AND CHOROIDAL VESSELS. FOR PHASE II-X WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A METHOD TO ENABLE QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF THE BLOOD VELOCITY BY DETERMINING THE CALIBRATION FACTOR, THE CONVERSION FROM HZ TO MM/S DIRECTLY IN THE LIVING EYE AND FOR EACH MEASUREMENT SESSION ELIMINATING THE UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH STANDARD LDV. OBJECTIVE 2. DEVELOP A METHOD FOR GLOBE FLATTENING EVALUATION. (FUNDED BY HRP) AS PART OF THE MICRO-GRAVITY INDUCED ADVERSE EFFECTS OBSERVED TO AFFECT THE ASTRONAUTS VISION IN LONG-TERM SPACE FLIGHTS, GLOBE FLATTENING IS A MAJOR MACROSCOPIC GEOMETRICAL MODIFICATION OF THE EYE THAT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO REFRACTIVE ERRORS AND REDUCES VISUAL ACUITY. GLOBE FLATTENING HAS BEEN MEASURED SO FAR ONLY WITH MRI WHICH HAS LOW RESOLUTION COMPARED TO OPTICAL IMAGING, IS VERY EXPENSIVE, AND IS DIFFICULT TO PERFORM DURING SPACE TRAVEL. LARGE AREA OCT SCANS CAN DETERMINE THE SHAPE OF THE BACK OF THE EYE WITH BETTER RESOLUTION THAN THE CURRENT TECHNIQUES; HOWEVER THE CORRECT RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EYE SHAPE DEPENDS ON THE SCANNING GEOMETRY AND ASSUMES THAT THE PIVOTING POINT OF THE SCANNING BEAN IS PROPERLY PLACED NEAR THE EYE PUPIL. PSI PROPOSES TO ADD A REFERENCE MEASUREMENT RELATED TO THE ANTERIOR PART OF THE EYE THAT CAN BE MADE CONSISTENTLY AND RELIABLY TO IMPROVE ACCURACY OF EYE SHAPE MEASUREMENT FOR INVESTIGATING GLOBE FLATTENING. |
| N0001413P1008 | PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC. | Department of Defense | $100K | 2013-02-27 | 2013-09-01 | 541712 | FAST AUTHORING OF CONTENT FOR INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS (FACITS) |