This is a $125,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The contract is for an AOS Polarimeter Study, with performance to take place at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. UMBC is partnering with the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory as a subcontractor on this effort. The original solicitation was a full and open competition under the...
This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was granted to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for a ceiling value of $734,950.00. The contract is a grant for research related to the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua spacecraft's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instruments on the NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) and Joint Polar...
This is a $3,317,350.00 definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to provide the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Modular Spectrometer for Atmosphere and Ionosphere Characterization (MOSAIC) instrument investigation. The contract was not set aside for any special category of contractor. This contract is part of the larger GDC program, which aims to advance capabilities...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20M0209, was issued by NASA to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) under a Cooperative Agreement. The contract, valued at $367,763.00, is for the development of a "Unified Algorithm for Aerosol Characterization from OCI on PACE". This aligns with NASA's longstanding efforts to utilize single-view radiometers for characterizing the global aerosol system. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. UMBC, a public...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,272,930.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) under a Cooperative Agreement. The award supports a multi-instrument record of radiative forcing and feedback responses for climate monitoring and global change studies, as described in the government's solicitation 22-MEASURE22-0040. UMBC, which is part of the University System of Maryland (USM),...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $666,785 cooperative agreement to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to advance the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) polarimetric and spectral cloud retrieval algorithms for the HARP-2 (Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter) and OCI (Ocean Color Instrument) sensors. This contract, which runs through August 31, 2027, will support research and development to enhance the capabilities of these...
This is a $2,500,000.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Orbital Micro Systems, Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer located in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the contract is to provide insight into potential instrument concepts that will support the Atmosphere Observing System - Sky (AOS-Sky) mission implementation, including developing and assessing instrument concepts, exploring...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,015,913.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to perform research on "MAKING A LONG TERM DATA RECORD OF OPPORTUNISTIC EXPERIMENTS FOR STUDYING AEROSOL CLOUD INTERACTIONS". This is a cooperative agreement with a period of performance ending on December 13, 2028. UMBC is a public research university that is part of the University...
This is a $444,187.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to develop algorithms and conduct synergistic analysis for retrieving aerosol vertical distributions using measurements from the O2 A/B bands and polarimetric data from blue bands. The award supports UMBC's research in Earth science, which the university has previously conducted for NASA through prime and subcontract agreements. As a member of the University System of...
This is a firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Space Systems Division. The $2,493,567.00 contract is for a Phase A study to provide insight into potential instrument concepts that will support the Atmosphere Observing System-Sky (AOS-Sky) mission implementation. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The original federal contract opportunity was a...