Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2024)
Recipient: TELEDYNE BROWN ENGINEERING, INC.
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: 2015-06-17 to 2020-06-16
Current total value of award: $830640
Description: THE NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (MSFC) SPACE SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT, SENSORS, IMAGING&OPTICS BRANCH IS SEEKING A VENDOR TO DEVELOP PRE-PHASE-A DESIGNS AND THE SUPPORT STRUCTURES FOR ULTRAVIOLET/OPTICAL/NEAR-INFRARED (UVOIR) MIRROR CONCEPTS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE PRIMARY MIRROR SUBSTRATE DESIGNS BEING DEVELOPED FOR THE ADVANCED MIRROR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (AMTD) PROJECT.  THE AMTD PROJECT HAS THE GOAL OF MATURING THE TECHNICAL READINESS LEVEL (TRL) OF KEY TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE PRIMARY MIRROR OF POTENTIAL LARGE-APERTURE COSMIC ORIGIN UVOIR SPACE TELESCOPES.