Definitive Contract 80GSFC26C0026

NASA's Goddard Space Center awarded a $1.498 million definitive contract to Lockheed Martin Corp on June 1, 2026, for a Space Weather Geostationary Photospheric Magnetograph Imager Phase A study, with firm fixed pricing and no set-aside. The contract covers design and feasibility analysis for the PHOMI instrument as part of NASA's Space Weather Geostationary (SW GEO) satellite program. Place of performance is Roxborough, Colorado, with an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2027.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1.5 million definitive contract to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. for a Phase A study of a PHOtospheric Magnetograph Imager (PHOMI) instrument for the Space Weather Geostationary (SWGEO) program on June 1, 2026. The originating solicitation, posted as a pre-solicitation on May 7, 2025, sought contract support to develop an instrument capable of producing Line of Sight measurements of the photospheric magnetic field with...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Southwest Research Institute a $60.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract on December 23, 2024, to design, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, calibrate, evaluate, and support launch and on-orbit checkout of three Space Weather Next coronagraph instruments. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas, with an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2034. This contract represents the culmination of a pre-solicitation process...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center awarded a $3.58M cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) on February 27, 2025, for the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph Phase E instrument supporting the Solar Orbiter mission. The contract, which extends through April 30, 2027, will be performed at SwRI's San Antonio, Texas facility. This award represents continued development of a science instrument designed to measure suprathermal ions in the solar wind and inner...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was awarded a $14.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on April 14, 2020, to design, develop, integrate, test, and support the Magnetometer Suite for NASA's Space Weather Follow-On L-1 Mission. This joint undertaking between NASA and NOAA requires SwRI to deliver two flight sensors, an engineering development unit, flight electronics, and associated ground support equipment to enable solar wind...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $24.07 million definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute for design, analysis, development, fabrication, integration, test, calibration, evaluation, and launch and on-orbit checkout support of the SWiPS instrument as part of the SWFO-L1 Observatory on July 6, 2020. Place of performance is San Antonio, TX. The originating solicitation, posted September 27, 2019 with proposal due January 10, 2020, seeks a Solar Wind Plasma...

The Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $410,848 definitive contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Center to deliver the GDC Instrument 3DI Limited Phase A IIR. This award is in response to a solicitation seeking proposals for science investigations and instruments to be integrated into at least six observatories for NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation program, which aims to advance understanding of fundamental geospace physics. Work will...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was awarded a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on January 22, 2025, with a ceiling value of $26.16 million and an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2034. This Modification 8 represents a funding-only action to support the Space Weather Observatories (SWO) program. Under this contract, SwRI is responsible for designing, analyzing, developing, fabricating, integrating, testing, verifying,...

This federal contract award, with an ID of NNG04EB09C, was granted by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The contract is for a Phase A (Initial Concept) Study for the development of a suite of instruments for the Magnetospheric Solar Terrestrial Probe/Sun Earth Connection major program. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type, has a ceiling...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center awarded a definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute for principal investigator leadership of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Instrument Suite Science Team on April 21, 2004, with a ceiling value of $391.932 million under cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. As the principal investigator institution, Southwest Research Institute is responsible for leading the Solving Magnetospheric Acceleration Reconnection and Turbulence (SMART) team through all mission...