This federal contract award, valued at $509,979.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is a Cooperative Agreement to study the origin of water and organic molecules on Earth and Mars. The research aims to understand the role that primitive celestial bodies, such as comets and asteroids, may have played in delivering water...
This is a $147,943.98 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to American University, a private university in Washington, D.C. The agreement funds analysis of optical and infrared spectral observations of comets, asteroids, and giant planets to study the physical and chemical conditions of the protosolar disk during planet formation. The work involves analyzing spectral data from ground-based telescopes like Keck and IRTF...
This is a $420,518.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to American University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. The overarching objective of this project is to understand the physical processes which generate ion outflows from the ionosphere, and the consequences of those outflows on the global magnetosphere. The agreement was awarded on March 1, 2021 and has a completion date of February 28, 2026. This contract...
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 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 $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 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 sole source, cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to American University for remote sensing of planetary atmospheres in the solar system and beyond. The contract has a ceiling value of $1,599,868.00 and a period of performance ending on March 31, 2026. American University is a private research university located in Washington, D.C. that provides a wide range of services to federal agencies through contracts and grants. The university has expertise in fields such as astrophysics, solar...
This federal contract award to American University, a private non-profit research university, is valued at $67,580 and has an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2028. The award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on June 1, 2025 and is a grant for research. The contract requires American University to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as administration priorities and...