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RECOVERY INTENSIFIED PHOTODIODE DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR 1064 NANOMETER WAVELENGTHLIGHT

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Country:   United States
Notice/Contract Number:   fbo:nng09cp0910
Publication Date:   Jun 29, 2011
Funding Agency:   National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Buyer:   Goddard Space Flight Center
Original Language:   English

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Address:   United States

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This synopsis is being provided for information purposes only. NASA Goddard hasselected Fibertek Inc for the Laser Systems Engineering Services (LSES) contract,NNG09CP09C. This is an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity Cost-Plus Award Feecontract valued at $35 million. The period of performance is five years. The NAICS Codeis 336419 and the Size Standard is 1,000 employees. The estimated value of the proposed task order #10 is $1,739,000. The anticipated periodof performance is 1 April 2010 to 31 Oct 2010. NASA Goddard intends to award Task Order #10 to contract NNG09CP09C, IAW the AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, PL 111-5. Task order #10 is the Ice, Cloud andLand Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) Project is baselining a multiple ground-spot,micropulse laser measurement approach for ranging to collect data on the topography ofice sheets and the thickness characteristics of sea ice. The Advanced Topographic LaserAltimeter System (ATLAS) instrument is designed to operate in micropulse (photoncounting) mode. This micropulse laser will put multiple low energy, high repetitionpulses in the air at one time. As such, the Project requires a Detector with highsensitivity, low noise, high speed, and low time jitter to capture the returning photonsfrom the ground return. In addition, the Detector or combination of detectors (array)must survive for a minimum of 5 years in a large solar background radiation environment.This task involves designing, building, demonstrating and delivering a complete detectorsystem. In this context, the detector system is essentially a non-flight packageddetector with back-end electronics; an intermediate design detector with breadboardelectronics (that may include off-the-shelf parts) and a fully tested, customizeddetector prototype that has undergone Technology Readiness Level (TRL6) testing. Thetarget performance goals for this task are listed below and correspond to the performanceparameters listed in ATLAS Detector Performance Technical Note (ICESat-2-ATSYS-SPEC-TBD)found in the ICESat-2 Management Information System (MIS), configuration management. Mostof the work is expected to be performed at the contractors facility.This document and any other related documents to this procurement will be available overthe Internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may beaccessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFCBusiness Opportunities home page ishttp://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-in/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51 Any questions or comments, please contact david.l.boon@nasa.gov.
Set-aside code: N/A
Contact: David Boon, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-5257, Fax 301-286-1720, Email david.l.boon@nasa.gov

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Email: David Boon (david.l.boon@nasa.gov)

Updated on 2010/06/28

Recovery - Intensified Photodiode (IPD) Detector System for 1064 nanometer (nm)Wavelength LightThis posting is being provided for information purposes only. NASA Goddard has selectedFibertek Inc for the Laser Systems Engineering Services (LSES) contract, NNG09CP09C. This is an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity Cost-Plus Award Fee contract valued at$35 million. The period of performance is five years. The NAICS Code is 336419 and theSize Standard is 1,000 employees. The value of the proposed task order #9, (formally task order 10) is $1,739,000. Theperiod of performance is 1 April 2010 to 31 Oct 2010. NASA Goddard awarded Task Order #9 to contract NNG09CP09C, IAW the American Recovery andReinvestment Act of 2009, PL 111-5. Task order #9 is the Ice, Cloud and Land ElevationSatellite 2 (ICESat-2) Project is baselining a multiple ground-spot, micropulse lasermeasurement approach for ranging to collect data on the topography of ice sheets and thethickness characteristics of sea ice. The Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System(ATLAS) instrument is designed to operate in micropulse (photon counting) mode. Thismicropulse laser will put multiple low energy, high repetition rate, pulses in the air atone time. As such, the Project requires a Detector with high sensitivity, low noise, highspeed, and low time jitter to capture the returning photons from the ground return. Inaddition, the Detector or combination of detectors (array) must survive for a minimum of5 years with large solar background and ICESat-2 radiation environment. This taskinvolves designing, building, demonstrating and delivering a complete detector system(Brassboard). In this context, the detector system is essentially a non-flight packageddetector with back-end electronics; an intermediate design detector with breadboardelectronics (that may include off-the-shelf parts) and a fully tested, customizeddetector prototype that has undergone Technology Readiness Level (TRL6) testing. Thetarget performance goals for this task are listed in the table below and correspond tothe performance parameters listed in ATLAS Detector Candidates Performance Specification(ICESat-2-DET-SPEC-0202) found in the ICESat-2 Management Information System (MIS). Mostof the work is expected to be performed at the contractors facility.This document and any other related documents to this procurement will be available overthe Internet. These documents will reside on a World Wide Web (WWW) server, which may beaccessed using a WWW browser application. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFCBusiness Opportunities home page ishttp://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-in/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=D&pin=51 Any questions or comments, please contact david.l.boon@nasa.gov.
Set-aside code: N/A
Contact: David Boon, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-5257, Fax 301-286-1720, Email david.l.boon@nasa.gov

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Email: David Boon (david.l.boon@nasa.gov)

Updated on 2010/03/17
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