Brandywine Photonics is a company that specializes in developing low-cost, small electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) satellite payloads for various applications, including weather, climate, defense, commercial remote sensing, and scientific research. They leverage advanced technologies in multi/hyperspectral imaging, providing Earth intelligence across the spectrum from UV to the far-infrared. Brandywine Photonics' featured clients include NASA, NOAA, Naval Research Laboratory, and USAF Research Lab. Their expertise covers the full spectral range from UV to Very Longwave Infrared, in the fields of custom FPA development, reflective and refractive optical design, optical system engineering, test software, space electronics, and aerospace systems integration.
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Brandywine Photonics won an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contract in 2018 to develop a theater weather imaging and cloud characterization sensor.
Additional companies that received NOAA contracts in 2020 included Atmospheric Sciences and Technology Corp., BAE Systems, and Brandywine Photonics.
Brandywine Photonics won an Air Force small business research contract to design a compact hyperspectral infrared sounding small satellite sensor to measure water vapor and temperature profiles.
The Air Force awarded Brandywine Photonics a $1,500,000 SBIR contract in 2018 for a two-year effort to develop the Theater Weather Imaging and Cloud Characterization Sensor (TWICCS).
In 2019 the Air Force awarded Brandywine Photonics an additional $3,000,000 to expand TWICCS to meet government requirements for image resolution and revisit rates.
Brandywine Photonics is developing weather instruments and proposing constellation architectures under NOAA Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Brandywine Photonics is developing weather instruments and proposing constellation architectures under Air Force Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Under a 2018 NOAA SBIR, Brandywine Photonics began developing the Doppler Wind Temperature Sounder to measure wind and temperature at altitudes from 20 to 200 km.
Under a 2019 Air Force phase two SBIR contract worth nearly $750,000, Brandywine Photonics is developing the Compact Hyperspectral Infrared Sounding Instrument to measure atmospheric temperature and moisture and to monitor winds in three dimensions.
NOAA awarded Brandywine Photonics a six-month, $60,000 study contract scheduled to be completed in October to evaluate satellites, sensors, and orbits for MetNet.
NOAA awarded $60,000 to Brandywine Photonics for a study contract.