Cooperative Agreement NNX16AJ77A
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- This is a $272,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Northwest Indian College Foundation to implement the "Future Indigenous Scientists and Engineers in the Northwest (FISE-NW) Program". The program aims to expand STEM offerings at Northwest Indian College (NWIC) and increase the number of Native American students pursuing postsecondary education as future scientists and engineers. The agreement does not have a set-aside...
- This is a $844,357.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Northwest Indian College Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves as the fundraising arm for Northwest Indian College, the only accredited tribal college in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The goal of this agreement is to incorporate remote sensing tools, such as GIS training, into the college's interdisciplinary Native Environmental Science program...
- This is a $502,367.49 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Chief Dull Knife College, Inc., a tribal college located on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. The award aims to address barriers that have prevented Native American students from participating in NASA internships and transferring to 4-year universities to complete their bachelor's degrees. The project builds on prior National Science Foundation and NASA-funded initiatives at...
- This is a $761,940.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Board of Regents of the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI). The purpose of the contract is to expand and proliferate the facilities and curricula developed under SIPI's previous NASA Tribal Colleges and Universities Experiential Learning Opportunity (TCU-ELO) grant from 2014-2017. The contract supports a year-round robotics-centered IT...
- This is a $887,985.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Cankdeska Cikana Community College (doing business as Little Hoop Community College), a tribally owned non-profit educational institution located in Fort Totten, North Dakota. The contract is for the research and development of an extravehicular activity gait assist device, with a performance period ending on August 14, 2026. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. This...
- Navajo Technical University, a minority-serving and tribally controlled university in New Mexico, has been awarded a $374,768.58 cooperative agreement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a Robotics Academy. The goal is to encourage enrollment and retention of Native American students in NASA-related fields by providing high school students from reservation areas with advanced coursework in aerospace manufacturing, unmanned aircraft systems, conceptual design,...
- This is a $405,088 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Indigenous Education Institute (IEI), a minority-owned and Native American-owned non-profit organization. The purpose of the contract is for IEI to work closely with the Heliophysics Education Consortium (HEC) and the University of North Texas to develop and incorporate immersive 2D and 3D learning resources based on heliophysics science that make connections to indigenous...
- This is a $243,822 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Sinte Gleska University, a tribal college located on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The contract, which is not a set-aside, is focused on enhancing research in additive manufacturing processes for lunar and planetary applications, with a specific emphasis on tribal housing development. Sinte Gleska University is a minority-owned, non-profit educational institution classified as a 1994 Land Grant College and Tribal...
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $755,492 grant to Blue Marble Space Institute of Science of Clayton, Delaware. The grant funds a five-year collaborative project with the Navajo Nation to enhance STEM education through a dual-learning approach integrating Western science and Navajo cultural knowledge. Activities over the period of performance from August 2016 to June 2024 include continuing and developing curriculum for annual summer camps for middle school students...
- This federal contract award to Carthage College, a private university in Kenosha, Wisconsin, supports the First Nations Launch (FNL) program, a year-long design-build-fly competition for students from tribal colleges and American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) chapters. The FNL program, funded through the NASA Student Experience and Partnerships (SEAP) and Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) programs, engages Native American undergraduate students in...
This is a $133,785.40 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the Northwest Indian College Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting a tribal college serving Indigenous students in the Pacific Northwest. The contract is part of the NASA INSPIRES NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS (NINAS) program, which aims to expand a previous robotics education effort to enhance programming skills of Native American students and share this knowledge with educators and families. The agreement will fund the development of an online curriculum for the SPHERES program, allowing the content to be offered in face-to-face, online, and hybrid formats to reach a wider audience beyond the originally proposed students. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. The Northwest Indian College Foundation has a history of securing federal contracts and grants to advance educational opportunities, research initiatives, and community development programs for Native American communities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($16k) | 11/16/17 | ||
| 2 | Funding Only Action | ($16k) | 11/16/17 | |
| 1 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 2/7/17 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 2/7/17 | ||
| Not listed | Not listed | $150.0k | 5/26/16 |