This is a $69,850,720 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute. The contract is for the continued development and operation of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (SAR DAAC) for NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System. This is a cost-reimbursement contract with no fee. The contract has an ultimate completion date of...
This is a $500,000.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute. The contract is for "ENHANCED ARCTIC DOMAIN OPERATIONS AND DECISION SUPPORT INFORMATION DISPLAY AND ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES FOR THE ARCTIC COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT PROJECT" and has a period of performance through February 28, 2018. The contract was not set aside for any specific business type....
This federal contract award, valued at $42,959.00, was granted to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. Under this grant for research, UAF will provide computer software development and support to integrate the University of Arizona's Sentinel-1 water mapping machine learning model, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Sentinel-1 effective river width code, and associated code from the NASA ACCESS project...
This federal contract award with ID NNX16AK55G was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) as the prime contractor. The $344,955 grant supports UAF's continued participation on the NISAR Science Definition Team (NSDT), representing the Earth Science Discipline Cryosphere. UAF's work under this grant focuses on four main objectives: (1) developing and validating science algorithms for observing permafrost change, (2) developing and...
This $280,743.84 federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to conduct geophysical studies using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations. The project, which runs through April 2024, will utilize high-rate GNSS data to derive instantaneous receiver velocities for various research applications. UAF, the state's flagship research university, has extensive expertise in Arctic and climate...
This is a $163,156.51 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to integrate citizen science, remote sensing, and environmental information sources for the Arctic region. The project aims to: (1) place local observations into a broader geospatial framework, and (2) enable the use of local observations as ground truth for evaluating remote sensing products. The project focuses on monitoring sea ice, snow...
This federal contract award, valued at $199,999.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) under the Expanding LAPSPACE Systems Engineering Program Through Undergraduate Student Instrument Project. The contract is a cooperative agreement to refine UAF's ARC satellite bus architecture, fly an improved launch environment data logger, and modify the communications subsystem to enable testing of advanced satellite...
This federal contract award, valued at $321,434.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to support Operation IceBridge activities in 2010. The goals of Operation IceBridge are to study and monitor changes in the Earth's cryosphere, including ice sheets, sea ice, and glaciers, as a "data gap filler" between NASA's ICESat-1 and ICESat-2 satellite missions. Under this contract, UAF will...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AC32G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Grants and Contracts Administration Division. The $3,167,411.23 award is for UAF to perform airborne missions in Alaska to conduct laser altimetry, surface mapping with lidar, and bed mapping radar measurements. This work will extend and link the measurements from past and current NASA satellite missions, such as ICESat, ICESat-2, and...
This federal contract award, valued at $247,409.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute. The contract is a delivery order under a larger NASA vehicle to leverage the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Services (UAS) test sites to conduct research tasks into unmanned and autonomous flight technologies. The contract has no set-aside designation and is a firm fixed-price...
This is a $48,606,891.00 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute to manage and operate the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (SAR DAAC) for NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).
The contract requires UAF to provide systems engineering, operations and maintenance, development, user services, product generation, data and information management, data acquisition, data processing, archive and distribution of science data and products, IT security, and related science support and research activities. There is no set-aside designation for this contract. The original solicitation indicates that UAF was selected due to its unique geographic location and capabilities to support the collection and processing of SAR data with low latency, as the UAF ground station is located above 64 degrees North latitude.