Federal grant · cooperative agreement (b)

Vapor Cell Technologies LLC

Purpose: Vapor Cell Technologies (VCT) Seeks to Produce Advanced Dimensional Metrology Tools for Modern Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment to Minimize the Gap in the Physical-digital Divide, Amplifying the Accuracy of Digital Twins in the Transferability, Production, and Sustainment of Semiconductor Products. Activities to Be Performed: Awardee Will Construct Novel Displacement Measurement Tools That Are Traceable to the Si Meter Based on High Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) Technologies. Expected Outcomes: the Technology Will Enable More Precise, Accurate and Repeatable Production of Semiconductor Chips. Intended Beneficiaries: U.s. Microelectronics Supply Chain. Subrecipient Activities: the Recipient Plans to Subaward Funds for Joint Demonstrations of Precision Atomic Spectroscopy, to Develop Production Software, to Create Demonstration Boards and for Software Engineering Consultancy.

Committed

$257,367

Paid to

UEI JBL9ZKN6S8K8

5485 Conestoga CT 104B, Boulder, CO, 80301

Department of Commerce

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Place

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES

CO-02

Performance

Oct 1, 2024 → Mar 30, 2027

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Federal grant · cooperative agreement (b)

Department of Commerce

National Institute of Standards and Technology

CHIPS Research and Development to

Vapor Cell Technologies LLC

Committed

$257,367

Paid to

Vapor Cell Technologies LLC

UEI JBL9ZKN6S8K8

5485 Conestoga CT 104B, Boulder, CO, 80301

Department of Commerce

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Place

BOULDER, CO, UNITED STATES

CO-02

Performance

Oct 1, 2024 → Mar 30, 2027

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗