Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator Mission Operations Follow-On (PTD Follow-On) Contract
NASA · NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER
No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
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Where this opportunity stands
Every notice posted under solicitation 80ARC025TG003 in this department, oldest first.
- May 13, 2025Pre-solicitationOpen
- Jul 7, 2025 · this noticeAward NoticeTyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. · $1.8M
Next steps for this stage
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What the notice says
NASA, Ames Research Center (ARC) negotiate a firm-fixed price modification with Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. only for the Pathfinder Demonstration (PTD) Follow-on Contract one and a half month extension of CLIN 0002 on contract 80ARC025CA003. This recommendation is made pursuant to FAR 13.106-1(b)(1), for the acquisition of supplies or services determined to be reasonably available from only one source. Competition is impractical for the following reasons: 1. This requirement cannot be competed due to the highly customized and unique design of the nano- satellite airbuses that Tyvak has … (show all)
built and currently operates. Tyvak is the only source that has the expertise to provide the mission operations of the PTD space vehicles. There are no other companies that have the ability and expertise required for PTD space vehicle operations or modifications. The proprietary and technical constraints of the PTD project also reinforce the sole- source justification. The PTD-4 spacecraft is the only vehicle currently flying Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide (CIGS) cells, which have been under development for six years by NASA�s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The LISA-T solar arrays, which incorporate these cells, represent a unique system designed to demonstrate wireless power transmission in space. 2. As Tyvak is the only operator of the PTD space vehicles, NASA would incur significant cost and there would be substantial challenges to transfer mission operations to another entity (government or private) in the time available before the spacecraft orbit decays ending the mission. Additionally, the Mission Operation System that the PTD space vehicles utilize requires unique intellectual property (IP) associated with operating the Space vehicle. Transferring this IP to another entity (government or private) would incur substantial costs related to intellectual property transfer and training and could result in significant delays.
Who won similar work
14 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same agency (NASA), same product/service code (PSC) AR11.
Single-winner award sizes (14): middle half $1.0M to $11.4M, median $2.0M; range $238K to $282.2M.
| Winner | Awards | Value | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIERRA LOBO INC | 1 | $282.2M | Dec 13, 2024 |
| MILLENNIUM ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION SERVICES, LLC | 1 | $58.6M | Apr 6, 2026 |
| Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Llc | 1 | $25.2M | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Fort Wayne Metals Fort Wayne IN 46809 USA | 1 | $14.0M | Sep 29, 2025 |
| ELECTRA.AERO INC. | 1 | $3.5M | Nov 13, 2024 |
| AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION | 1 | $3.3M | Nov 13, 2024 |
| JETZERO, INC. | 1 | $2.2M | Nov 13, 2024 |
| Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. | 1 | $1.8M | Feb 27, 2025 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | 1 | $1.4M | Nov 13, 2024 |
| RTX CORPORATION | 1 | $1.2M | Nov 13, 2024 |
Value counts new single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling (same contract, or the same office, day and amount); that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Contract modifications are not new awards and are not added in either. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings.
- Sep 11, 2026Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Llc$25.2MContract Extension for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Mission Operations, Systems Engineering, and Software II (MOSES II)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Apr 6, 2026MILLENNIUM ENGINEERING AND INTEGRATION SERVICES, LLC$58.6MProject and Engineering Support Services II (PESS II) ExtensionNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 29, 2025Fort Wayne Metals Fort Wayne IN 46809 USA$14.0M40 Kelvin Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Development and Alternate Forms ProductionNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Sep 29, 2025General Electric Company$340K4H-SiC Silicon Carbide (SiC) Integrated Circuit Processing on 100 mm Diameter SiC WafersMateriality: <0.01% of $GE revenue (Low) SEC
- Sep 16, 2025JACKSON BOND ENTERPRISES, LLC$970K10m Pathfinder FTPSNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Aug 13, 2025RYZING TECHNOLOGIES LLC$821KPathfinder Tori and Hose FabricationNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Feb 27, 2025Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc.$1.8MPathfinder Technology Demonstrator Mission Operations Follow-On (PTD Follow-On) ContractNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Dec 13, 2024SIERRA LOBO INC$282.2MSpace Flight Systems Development and Operations Contract III (SpaceDOC III)No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Nov 13, 2024JETZERO, INC.$2.2MPhase I: AACES 2050 Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental SustainabilityNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
- Nov 13, 2024ELECTRA.AERO INC.$3.5MPhase I: AACES 2050 Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental SustainabilityNo listed company matched (Materiality N/A)
Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.
Competitive landscape
For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.
- 1 of these past winners lobbied Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) since 2024 (1 filings)
- 0 of their lobbyists list a past Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) job
- No corporate PAC money from them to the overseeing committees since 2024
- 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
Policy around it
Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.
- 0 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
- 16 rules from the department in the last 12 months
- 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
Market
For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.
- 0 of the past winners are listed companies
- 0 insider buys and 0 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
Sources: SAM.gov notices and award notices; Senate LDA lobbying filings; FEC filings; FARA; Federal Register; congress.gov; SEC Form 4. Every row above links to its record.
Companies are matched to tickers by exact name, including the subsidiaries a company lists in its SEC filings. A company we could not match shows no market rows; that is a miss, not a finding.