BPA Call NNH14CL37Z-NNH14CM07D

This is a $3,330,221.26 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to provide co-investigator and expert review support to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission. The contract has an ultimate completion date of October 29, 2023. Caltech, as the prime...

This federal contract award is for the ORIGINS-SPECTRAL-INTERPRETATION-RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION-SECURITY-REGOLITH EXPLORER (OSIRIS-REX) STANDING REVIEW BOARD (SRB). The contract, valued at $77,765.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland. The purpose of this task order is to obtain an SRB Chair and SRB members with expertise...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the Goddard Space Center of NASA to Lockheed Martin Corp for the ORIGINS SPECTRAL INTERPRETATION RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION SECURITY-REGOLITH EXPLORER (OSIRIS-REX) PHASE B EFFORT. Under this $456,347,715 award, Lockheed Martin will provide the resources necessary to complete mission design and requirements activities, define the preliminary design, and develop plans for manufacturing, testing, and operation of the OSIRIS-REX flight system. The contract...

This federal contract award, valued at $547,387.38, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University. The award supports a combined laboratory, modeling, and data analysis effort to enhance the investigations of the asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx mission's OTES and OVIRS instruments. Key tasks include multivariate partial least squares (PLS) modeling of the...

This $298,485.01 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center supports research by the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit organization in Boulder, Colorado. The goal is to develop and apply surface roughness thermal models to improve the interpretation of spectral data from the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) and Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instruments. This will enable better understanding of the composition and...

This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Planetary Science Institute (PSI), a non-profit research organization, for the purpose of curating and archiving data related to small bodies in the solar system such as comets, asteroids, meteorites, and near-Earth objects. The total potential value of the contract is $5,303,331.77, with a period of performance through December 6, 2021. The contract does not...

This federal contract award, with ID NNG13CR39C, was issued by the Goddard Space Center to Teledyne Scientific And Imaging LLC, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. The $1,860,713.82 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract tasked the contractor with designing, fabricating, integrating, testing, and delivering the Sensor Chip Assemblies (SCA) for the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) instrument. This contract was not set aside for any particular business type. The...

This federal contract award to Kinetx Inc., doing business as Kinetx Aerospace, provides $42,837,101.00 in funding for the design, coding, integration, and testing of the OSIRIS-REX Flight Dynamics System to support the OSIRIS-REX launch and flight operations. The contract, awarded by the NASA Goddard Space Center, covers Phase C/D of the OSIRIS-REX life cycle and includes 30 days of operations support after launch. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Texas at Austin for research to support the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu. The goal of the research is to identify the optimal sampling site on Bennu's surface by investigating evidence of aqueous alteration and impact processing of the regolith, which is crucial for preserving any hydrous mineralogy and primitive organics. The research will leverage data from the OSIRIS-REx...

This is a $305,999.93 grant awarded by NASA to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop technology and methods for analyzing the stable isotope distributions in organic compounds that will be returned to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission. The key objectives are to: (1) measure bulk stable isotope contents of individual molecules; (2) analyze position-specific differences in isotopic content between atomic sites in a molecule; and (3) determine proportions of multiply-substituted...