FY25 NewAthena WFI ASIC Design and Testing Services Tender, USA - 133327423

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Country: USA

Summary: FY25 NewAthena WFI ASIC Design and Testing Services

Deadline: 19 Jan 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 133327423

Document Ref. No.: FY25-NewAthena-WFI-ASIC-Design-and-Testing-Services

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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RFI / Sources Sought Notice for FY25 NewAthena WFI ASIC Design and Testing Services

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is hereby soliciting information from potential sources for design and engineering services in support of developing the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC; termed the Versatile Readout based on Integrated Trapezoidal Analog Shapers (VERITAS)) as a NASA contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft titled (NewAthena). The VERITAS is a critical component of the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an instrument under development by the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany.

The NewAthena spacecraft is intended to combine a large X-ray telescope with state-of-the-art scientific instruments to address key questions in astrophysics. The NewAthena spacecraft consists of several critical components, one of which is the Science Instrument Module (SIM). The SIM comprises two science instruments (WFI and X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU)), the Science Instrument Bench, and supporting hardware.

The WFI is to be a silicon depleted p-channel field effect transistor (DEPFET) active pixel sensor camera. It will have a large field of view, high count-rate capability and moderate resolution spectroscopic capability. MPE, and further ESA and NASA, requires technical support in developing the VERITAS, which is to be a highly specialized multi-channel readout ASIC for DEPFET arrays. The main chip application is the readout of the DEPFET pixel arrays of the WFI for the spacecraft. MPE is responsible to physically manufacture, produce, and test the VERITAS.

NASA GSFC is seeking capability statements from all interested parties, including all socioeconomic categories of Small Businesses and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)/Minority Institutions (MI) for the purposes of determining the appropriate level of competition and/or small bus...
Notice ID: fy25-newathena-wfi-asic-design-and-testing-services
Department/Ind. Agency: national aeronautics and space administration
Sub-tier: national aeronautics and space administration
Office: nasa goddard space flight center
Product Service Code: ar12 - space r&d services; space flight, research and supporting activities; applied research
NAICS Code: 927110 - Space Research and Technology
Inactive Dates: jan 19, 2026
Inactive Policy: manual

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