This is a cooperative agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and American University, a private university in Washington, D.C. The agreement, valued at $1,276,677.54, supports research on the origins of water and prebiotic organics on Earth as part of NASA's Investigations in Astrobiology program. Under this agreement, American University will re-analyze the existing database of comet observations to provide the most accurate...
This is a $100,568.31 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. The contract is for JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) Observations of Solar System Objects, with an ultimate completion date of August 15, 2024. No set-aside designation was used for this award. American University is a well-established institution that frequently secures...
This federal contract award, valued at $979,935.02, was made by NASA to American University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. The contract is a Cooperative Agreement with a period of performance through July 31, 2023. The contract supports the development and use of advanced spectrometric tools to explore planetary atmospheres, leveraging American University's expertise in astrophysics, solar physics, planetary science, and machine learning. This aligns with NASA's broader...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $443,186.66 Cooperative Agreement to American University, a private university in Washington, D.C., to conduct research on remote sensing of planetary atmospheres in the solar system and beyond. The award supports scientific investigations leveraging technologies such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to characterize atmospheric compositions and processes on planets and comets. This work aligns with...
This is a $371,161 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to American University, a private non-profit university, to conduct research on "REVEALING PRIMITIVE MATERIAL PRESERVED IN SOLAR SYSTEM SMALL BODIES." The contract has a period of performance ending on March 31, 2027. No set-aside designation was used. American University has a history of providing specialized services to federal agencies, including leadership development training,...
This is a $405,044 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. The award is for interpreting data from the Cassini spacecraft's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) using improved photochemical models. This work will advance scientific understanding of planetary atmospheres. The award does not utilize a set-aside designation. American University has a history of securing...
This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. The contract, valued at $458,811.83, is for "SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF PROCESSED PLANETARY AND ASTROPHYSICAL ICES WITH THE SUBLIMATION LABORATORY ICE MILLIMETER/SUBMILLIMETER EXPERIMENT (SUBLIME)". The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2026. The award...
This is a $252,686 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for research on "COMET CHEMISTRY BEYOND THE H2O SUBLIMATION ZONE: INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY OF DISTANT COMETS." The award date is September 1, 2024, and the ultimate completion date is August 31, 2027. American...
This federal contract award is a $135,680.99 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and American University, a private university located in Washington, D.C. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on August 1, 2019 with a completion date of July 31, 2020. The purpose of the contract is to develop a comprehensive opacity database to support the interpretation of planetary atmospheric spectra....
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $251,589.00 grant for research to American University, a private non-profit university located in Washington, D.C. The grant will fund a study on the photochemistry occurring in cometary atmospheres, which is relevant to NASA's Solar System Workings (SSW) program. This award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside designation. American University has previously performed federal contract...