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...
This is a federal contract award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to provide design, analysis, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification, evaluation, launch support, supply, and maintenance of the instrument ground support equipment (GSE), as well as mission operations support at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NOSF). The contract is a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,200,000.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a Space Weather Observations (SWO) Program Coronagraph (COR) Next Lagrange 1 Phase A Study. This study supports NASA's Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 (SW Next L1) Series, a follow-on to the current Space Weather Follow...
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 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...
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...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $23,014,023 definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, calibrate, evaluate, and support the launch and on-orbit checkout of the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) instrument as part of the Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Observatory. This contract was not set aside and is intended to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
This is a $14,307,923 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to provide the Magnetometer (MAG) instrument suite for NASA's Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) mission. The MAG instrument will support NOAA's space weather forecasting by providing solar wind and coronal mass ejection observations. The contract has a period of performance through June 30, 2026. Key subcontractors include...
This is a $1,416,460.00 definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for CO-I SUPPORT FOR WISPR MISSION. The contract has a period of performance through April 14, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. SwRI, a prominent non-profit research and development organization, will provide scientific and engineering support services related to the WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) mission, which is...
This is a $9,032,015 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The contract is for the design, development, integration, testing, calibration, and support of the Supra Thermal Ion Sensor (STIS) instrument for the Space Weather Follow On - L1 (SWFO-L1) Observatory mission, a joint effort between NASA and NOAA. The STIS instrument...