SBIR/STTR Research Award
Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need
Award amount
$49,998Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2019Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- VESCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2019-08-02
- Contract end date
- 2020-08-02
- UEI
- JDCKBJDFLLL5
- Solicitation number
- 19.2
- Topic code
- AF192-001
Research abstract
The U.S. military is actively seeking to upgrade the GPS navigation system with clocks that have higher precision and accuracy. Vescent Photonics proposes to improve on their current frequency comb designs to produce a low SWaP-C dual frequency comb system by the end of Phase II that will allow the transfer of time and frequency signals generated from optical atomic clocks over free-space or fiber links. Commercial applications that will benefit from this include gas sensing via dual comb spectroscopy and precision lidar utilizing dual frequency combs.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Optical Cavities for Quantum Photonics and Integrated Timing Solutions (COCQPITS)
- Photonic Reconfigurable Optical-frequency-comb-based Microwave sensor for Intelligence and Signals Exploitation (PROMISE)
- Dual-Comb, Hyperspectral Nanoscopy of Biological Compounds at the Shot-Noise Limit
- Cooling Lasers for Optical Clocks in Space (CLOCS)
- Rare Earth Amplifier Chips (REACh)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Main Injector Development for Reusable Methane Rocket Engine
- Adaptive Neural Machine Translation Solution OCR Research and Domain-Adaptation Scaling Prototype
- ObsSIM Modeling & Simulation Support - AFLINX Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI)
- The NPS Multi-band Sensor Suite
- FlightWave Edge-130 VTOL UAS TACFI
Research funding history
81 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $26,537,716. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency