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This is a $15,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), a non-profit organization, for hosting the 2023 Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Phenomena Gordon Research Conference and Seminar. This research conference is not set aside for any specific business type. GRC has a long history of organizing high-quality, cost-effective scientific conferences for government agencies, including the...

This is a $10,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), a non-profit organization that hosts international scientific conferences. The grant, titled "2023 ARCHAEA: ECOLOGY, METABOLISM AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRC AND GRS," will support the planning and facilitation of the 2023 ARCHAEA conference and associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for early career researchers. The grant has...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $470,905 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) to mine the Swift gamma-ray burst archive and discover new short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The goal is to systematically search the untapped Swift data archive to find GRBs that were not detected by the on-board trigger system. Any GRBs found will be correlated with signals from other facilities such as the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and gravitational wave...

Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) has been awarded a $48,884 firm-fixed price grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for research entitled "BYORPS Nightmare Induced by Geophysical and Dynamical Properties of Binary Asteroids Revealed by FEM Approach," with a period of performance through March 4, 2025. As the designated research organization for the Georgia Institute of Technology, GTRC will utilize its expertise in...

This $841,884.88 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, aims to evaluate a new scintillator material, europium doped strontium iodide, for use in planetary gamma ray spectroscopy. The award funds sensor manufacturing and testing, as well as studies on radiation damage and energetic particle response. While modeling and analysis tasks and sensor evaluation were descoped, this...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Arizona State University (ASU) to develop a passive and active source neutron and gamma-ray spectrometer for planetary spacecraft missions. The $815,739.95 grant is intended to progress the overall instrument package, including the detector and pulsed neutron generator, to Technology Readiness Level 4. The proposed work will investigate the use of a CLYC scintillator with a cosmic-ray background source as well...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $150,000.00 grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC), also known as the Office of Sponsored Programs, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education associated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The grant, titled "Evaluating Space Traffic Management Strategies Using a High Fidelity Simulation Tool", is for research to be performed in Atlanta, GA. GTRC, as a qualified...

This is a $678,447.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute, to conduct research on the production pathways of the OH Meinel band emission required for the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) and Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) observations. The grant is for research and development work and does not have a set-aside...

This is a $299,993 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a civilian government agency, to Advr, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Bozeman, Montana. The award is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and is set aside for small businesses. Advr, Inc. is a specialist in engineered nonlinear optical technologies, and has received numerous federal contracts and grants to...

This federal award to the Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory division provides a $921,630 grant for research related to the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS). The grant supports the development and maintenance of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), which is a critical infrastructure for measuring global change. The research involves operating a network of ground-based space geodetic techniques like Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Satellite Laser...