Definitive Contract 80GSFC24CA065

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center awarded a $3.99 million firm fixed-price definitive contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (doing business as CCI Speer) on August 21, 2024, for Phase A spacecraft and mission operations development under the Stratosphere Troposphere Response Using Infrared Vertically-Resolved Light Explorer (STRIVE) mission. The contract, which is not set-aside and carries a completion date of August 18, 2026, was competitively awarded through NASA's 2023 Earth...

This federal contract award, valued at $251,603.00, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to implement a spectrally resolved wind-wave component into the NASA GEOS-5 Earth system model. The goal is to improve the modeling of air-sea exchange processes, marine aerosol production, and the impacts on the marine boundary layer. This is not a set-aside contract. UW, a leading research university, has a...

NASA's Goddard Space Center awarded a $57.3 million definitive contract to Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory for the Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) Phase A concept studies on February 23, 2018, under a cost-no-fee pricing structure with no set-aside applied. The originating solicitation responds to NASA's 2016 Heliophysics Explorers Mission of Opportunity announcement. Work encompasses development of a Phase A Concept Study Report including principal investigator program office...

This federal contract award is for a grant to the University of Washington (UW) to conduct research on leads and ridges, also known as linear kinematic features (LKFs), and their impact on the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and sea ice in the Arctic. The award, with a ceiling value of $1,268,882.00, was made on June 29, 2020, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of June 28, 2026. The University of Washington is a prominent...

This is a $1,919,376 definitive, firm-fixed price contract awarded by the NASA Goddard Space Center to the University of Washington for studies related to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The contract was issued under the WFIRST Science Investigation Teams and Adjutant Scientists Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences-2015 (ROSES-2015) solicitation, which sought proposals for WFIRST science investigation teams and adjutant scientists. The University of...

This federal contract award, valued at $697,697.00, was granted to the University of Washington (UW) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Cooperative Agreement number 80NSSC20M0202. The contract supports the development of algorithms that will quantify uncertainties and enable pixel-by-pixel analysis of plant canopy chlorophyll (PCC) using hyperspectral reflectance data from the Portable Atmosphere Carbon Enclosure (PACE) system. The contract does not have a...

This is a $13,385,961.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to the prime contractor ATA Aerospace LLC. The contract is for the STRIVE: Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) program, which does not have a set-aside designation. Major subcontractors include Ares Technical Services Corporation, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Dickman Technology Consultants, LLC, Saze Technologies, LLC, ASI Aerospace LLC, and Azure Summit Technology, Inc....

<p>NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center issued a delivery order to the University of Wisconsin System on September 1, 2025, under the VIIRS ASIPS parent contract, with a ceiling value of $4,245,334 and an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026.</p> <p>The order is structured as cost-no-fee and supports the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Atmosphere Science Investigator-Led Processing System. Place of performance is Madison, Wisconsin.</p>

This $738,791 federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to enhance, develop, and maintain land-ice and ocean data products for the ICESat-2 mission. The contract is a grant for research with no set-aside designation, and it has a period of performance through February 28, 2026. UW is a leading public research university that frequently secures prime contracts, grants, and subcontracts...

This is a $188,630 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) for the ICESAT-2 Cryospheric Science Hackweek 2022. The contract was awarded on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2022. The University of Washington, through its EScience Institute, was determined to be the sole provider of the hackweek event. The contract was awarded without a set-aside and was executed...