Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC23M0031
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- This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Kenneth L. Cummins, a sole proprietor doing business as Kenneth Cummins Consulting. The $54,300.00 contract is for Cummins' participation on the Lightning Advisory Panel through September 30, 2024. Cummins, a veteran-owned business, has expertise in assessing lightning detection networks and analyzing the relationship between lightning and climate. This contract...
- This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, to Cummins Kenneth L, a sole proprietorship owned by Kenneth L. Cummins. The $21,693.78 firm-fixed-price contract is for Cummins to provide consulting services as part of a "Blue Ribbon Panel Lightning Environments Review." The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Based on the information provided, Cummins Kenneth L has...
- This is a $375,814.50 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to LMA Technologies, LLC (doing business as LMA TECH) for the provision of specialized lightning mapping and monitoring equipment and services. The contract supports NASA and NOAA programs focused on lightning studies, leveraging LMA TECH's expertise in lightning mapping array (LMA) and lightning interferometer (INTF)...
- This federal contract award (NNX16AJ70G) was made by NASA to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to support research on lightning as an indicator of climate change. The $103,568.71 grant requires the expertise of Dr. Brian VanTull of the City College of New York to analyze lightning data, including from the new GOES-R satellite, and examine the relationship between lightning, precipitation, wildfires, and socioeconomic impacts. The research tasks include...
- This federal contract award, NNX17AH66G, was granted to Texas A&M University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The $317,692.31 grant will fund research to explore relationships between lightning and environmental conditions using satellite data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space Station, as well as environmental data from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for...
- This is a $28,481.25 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Vaisala Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of specialized weather and environmental monitoring equipment. The contract is for the provision of lightning data services to support mission safety and scientific analysis at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. This procurement was conducted as a sole source acquisition under the authority of...
- This is a $128,150.96 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) for a research project titled "Integrating Satellite-Based Lightning Observations with GPM Constellation Measurements". The project aims to incorporate satellite-based lightning data into the Precipitation Features (PF) database maintained by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. Key aspects involve developing algorithms...
- This $135,000 training grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The University, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, will conduct research to improve understanding of thunderstorm processes and their association with severe weather phenomena, such as lightning, wind, and...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Vaisala Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of weather and environmental monitoring equipment, to provide real-time and archived lightning detection data for mission safety and scientific analysis at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a potential value of $27,125.00 and a...
- This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for a project titled "Relating Lightning Flash Characteristics to Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change and Convective Evolution." The $92,985.00 contract has a performance period running from September 21, 2023 to September 20, 2026. CSU, a public land-grant university, will be conducting research through its Sponsored Programs division to study the...
This is a $83,400.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Cummins Kenneth L, a sole proprietorship owned by Kenneth L. Cummins. The contract is for services related to using lightning as an indicator of climate change, including assessing performance changes in the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network, interpreting variations in cloud-to-ground lightning, estimating lightning nitrogen oxides production, analyzing precipitation anomalies, and comparing lightning detection data from different sensors. This contract does not have a set-aside designation and is not associated with a larger contract vehicle. The work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona and has a period of performance through September 30, 2025.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00002 | Funding Only Action | $5.0k | 5/9/25 | |
| Not listed | $5.0k | 5/9/25 | ||
| P00001 | Funding Only Action | $16.4k | 3/12/25 | |
| Not listed | $16.4k | 3/12/25 | ||
| Not listed | Not listed | $27.8k | 1/11/23 |