HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. – NASA recently selected research proposals for
negotiation of
Phase I contract awards through NASA’s 2002 Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) and
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs administered through
Stennis Space Center’s
Office of Technology Development and Transfer.

SBIR and STTR goals are to stimulate technological innovation, increase the
use of small
business (including women-owned and disadvantaged firms) in meeting federal
research and
development needs, and increase private sector commercialization of results
of federally funded
research.

The selected firms will be awarded fixed-price contracts valued up to
$100,000 each for a
one-year STTR contract and $70,000 each for a six-month SBIR contract to
perform Phase I
feasibility studies.

Companies that successfully complete the Phase I activities are eligible to
compete for Phase
II selection the following year. The Phase II award allows for a two-year,
fixed-price contract of up to
$600,000 for SBIRs and $500,000 for STTRs.

Stennis’ Office of Technology Development and Transfer will administer the
following
proposals for negotiation:

  • Technological Services Co., Clinton, Miss., Improving Test Operations Through Scalable Video Processing on Computer Clusters (SBIR);

  • NVision Solutions Inc., Stennis Space Center, Miss., BasinTools Module 1, Online Remote Sensing Interface (SBIR);

  • Seagull Technology Inc., Campbell, Calif., Next-Generation, Low-Cost, Direct Geo-referencing of Aerial Images (SBIR);

  • Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. (OKSI), Torrance, Calif., Universal Stabilized Platform for Hyperspectral Sensors (SBIR);

  • Intelligent Automation Inc., Rockville, Md., Ultra Wide band Water Sensor; and Principal Component Analysis for Feature Extraction from One Dimensional Signals (SBIR);

  • NVE Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., Miniature Intelligent Sensor Electronics (SBIR);

  • Combustion Research and Flow Technology Inc., Dublin, Penn., Advanced Flow Analyses in Complex Feed Systems (SBIR);

  • SMH Consulting, Alexandria, Va., Automated, Universal Software for Cloud and Cloud Shadow Detection in Remote Sensing Data (SBIR);

  • Invocon Inc., Conroe, Texas, Wireless Ethernet-based Data Acquisition System (WEBDAS) (SBIR);
  • Larson Davis Inc., Provo, Utah/Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Energy-Based Acoustic Measurement Techniques and Sensors (STTR);

  • Omni Technologies Inc., New Orleans, La./Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., Non-Intrusive Continuous Wave Acoustic Flowmeter (STTR);

  • Orbital Technologies Corp., Madison, Wis./University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wis., Wavelength-Agile Optical Rocket Propulsion Sensor (WORPS) (STTR), and;

  • Sierra Engineering Inc., Carson City, Nev./Cal Poly State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo, Calif., Non-Axisymmetric Infrared Plume Tomography for Rocket Plume Species and Temperature Distributions (STTR).

For more information about the SBIR or STTR programs, contact Ray Bryant at Stennis Space Center’s Office of Technology Development and Transfer at (228) 688-1929 or visit
http://technology.ssc.nasa.gov.