The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1,200,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) for the Space Weather Next (SW NEXT) Coronagraph Phase A Study. This study is part of the follow-on to the current Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) mission, a joint undertaking between NASA and NOAA to provide data on solar wind and coronal mass ejections that support the National Weather...
This is a $1,200,000.00 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to General Atomics for a Space Weather Observations (SWO) Program Coronagraph (COR) Next Lagrange 1 Phase A Study. The contract supports a pre-solicitation phase for a follow-on mission to the current Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Mission, which is a joint undertaking by NASA and NOAA. The COR instrument will provide coronal imagery of the sun to detect and...
This firm-fixed-price federal contract award worth $1,200,000 was made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct a Phase A study for the Space Weather Next (SW Next) Coronagraph instrument. The SW Next program is a follow-on to the Space Weather Follow On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Mission, a joint NASA and NOAA effort to provide solar wind data and coronal mass ejection imagery to support the National Weather Service's space...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $887,307.78 Firm Fixed Price contract to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for "SPACE WEATHER ARCHITECTURE TRADE STUDIES". This contract was awarded under a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicitation without a set-aside designation. The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, and maintenance of three Space Weather Next L1 Series Coronagraph instruments, as well as associated ground support equipment, post-delivery support services, and mission operations support. The contract, valued at $60,285,745.00, has a period of performance from December 2024 through...
This is a definitive, firm fixed-price contract awarded by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Raytheon Company's Space & Airborne Systems division for a Space Weather Next (SW NEXT) Coronagraph Phase A study worth $1,200,000.00. The contract will support the definition phase of an instrument to be incorporated into NOAA's L1 satellite series, providing coronal imagery of the sun to detect and characterize earth-directed coronal mass...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the Department of Commerce, awarded a $60,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Under this contract, NCAR will provide scientific and technical services in support of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center programs. As the prime contractor, NCAR will leverage its expertise in solar and geospace physics to further the agency's mission of...
This federal contract award, valued at $26,162,610.00, was issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization. The contract is for the design, analysis, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification, evaluation, launch support, supply, and maintenance of the Instrument Ground Support Equipment (GSE), as well as support for mission operations at the National Oceanic...
This federal contract award, valued at $491,400.02, was granted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), a prominent public research university. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for providing knowledge of the state of the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system, which is a key function of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). This information is used by customers such as the International...
This is a federal contract award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of over 115 universities, to provide specialized atmospheric research and development (R&D) services to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The contract has a ceiling value of $59,998.00 and is for the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) program. It is a delivery order contract with a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing type, and the period of...