Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2023)
Recipient: DRS NETWORK & IMAGING SYSTEMS, LLC
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2012-08-22 to 2015-09-18
Current total value of award: $794012.47
Description: NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC) IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING A MERCURY-CADMIUM-TELLURIDE (HGCDTE) ELECTRON-AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (E-APD) INFRARED DETECTOR SYSTEM WITH DRS RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET ACQUISITION (RSTA) DIVISION FOR TRACE GAS LIDARS ON THE ACTIVE SENSING OF CARBON-DIOXIDE EMISSION OVER DAYS, NIGHTS, AND SEASONS (ASCENDS) MISSION AND LIDAR SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY (LIST) MISSION. BASED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HGCDTE E-APD, NASA GSFC HAS A NEED FOR PROTON RADIATION TESTING OF HGCDTE E-APD NEAR INFRARED PHODODETECTOR SYSTEM, FABRICATION OF A 4X4 PIXEL ARRAY HGCDTE E-APD READ-OUT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ROIC) FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS (FPA) SYSTEM, AND A 2X8 PIXEL ARRAY HGCDTE E-APD ROIC LINEAR MODE PHOTON COUNTING (LMPC) SYSTEM.  THE PURPOSE OF THIS ACQUISITION IS: (A) TO TEST AND CHARACTERIZE THE EFFECTS OF HIGH-ENERGY PROTON RADIATION ON THE HGCDTE E-APD FABRICATED BY DRS (B) TO TEST AND CHARACTERIZE THE EFFECTS OF PROTON RADIATION ON THE HGCDTE E-APD READ-OUT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ROIC) FOCAL PLANE ASSEMBLY (FPA) DEVELOPED FOR ASCENDS MISSION (C) TO DELIVER A SECOND UNIT OF THE HGCDTE E-APD ROIC FPA SYSTEM WHICH WAS INITIALLY DEVELOPED UNDER A NASA GSFC CONTRACT, AND (D) TO DELIVER A SECOND UNIT OF THE HGCDTE E-APD LMPC SYSTEM WHICH WAS INITIALLY DEVELOPED UNDER A NASA GSFC CONTRACT.