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This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Space Environment Technologies, LLC, a small business in Pacific Palisades, California. The $753,423 grant is for a study called "Radiation Environment Using ARMAS Data in the NAIRAS Model (RADIAN)" that will expand physics-based modeling capabilities using Kalman filter data assimilation. The goal is to provide real-time, forecast, and historical data on the global radiation...

The Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy awarded Mirion Technologies (Canberra), Inc. a Firm Fixed Price purchase order for the purchase of an Alpha Analyst system. The $193,289.00 contract was awarded on June 29, 2018 with a completion date of June 7, 2019. Mirion Technologies (Canberra), Inc., doing business as Mirion Technologies Canberra Inc., is a manufacturer of radiation measurement and detection systems based in San Ramon, California. The company has over 60 years of...

This $490,276.93 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University aims to improve predictions and modeling of the variability of relativistic electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt. The project will develop a physics-based model with data-flexible ingestion capability to provide more accurate forecasts of the energetic particle and plasma conditions encountered by spacecraft within Earth's magnetosphere. This will help mitigate...

This is a five-year cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Odurf), a non-profit organization, to enhance and computationally implement spatial and time-dependent trapped proton/electron radiation environment models within the Earth's geomagnetic field. The models will also account for the effects of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) on spacecraft. The work will focus on...

This federal contract award, with the award ID FA702220P0005, was granted by the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) to Eckert & Ziegler Analytics, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of radioactive materials, calibration standards, instrumentation, and related products. The contract, which is a firm fixed-price purchase order with a ceiling value of $75,235.00, is for RADIATION CALIBRATION services. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Eckert & Ziegler Analytics...

NASA awarded a $243,623.11 grant to Space Hazards Applications LLC, a woman-owned small business, to deliver a data-driven model of the high energy electron environment near Earth. The project will build upon an existing neural network-based model to improve spatial, temporal, and energy coverage, as well as add forecast capabilities. The model will be validated against various satellite observations and provide a long-term historical record of the electron radiation environment. The improved...

This is a $596,149.55 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to calibrate spectroscopic electron density diagnostics relevant for solar physics. The goal is to improve the accuracy of density measurements used to study various phenomena in the solar atmosphere, such as coronal heating, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. The project will use the Electron Beam Ion Trap...

The Department of the Air Force Space Command awarded a $513,451 purchase order to Mirion Technologies (Canberra), Inc. for the purchase and delivery of a gamma detector suite. The suite includes BEGE6530 RDC6 detectors, SAGE 20mL vials, detector shields, a CryoCycle II cryostat, SOCS characterization of HPGE detectors, and a cosmic veto, as requested in Solicitation Number Gamma Detectors Suite. There is no set-aside designation. Funding is provided by the Department of the Air Force Space...

This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for $695,566.47. The purpose of the grant is to study the impact of geomagnetic storms on the ionosphere, which can affect radio communications and navigation systems. The research will utilize various data sources, including global electron content data, regional ionosphere observations, and in-situ satellite measurements, to better understand the...

The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Air and Radiation awarded a firm fixed price purchase order contract valued at twenty-two thousand nine hundred dollars to Eckert & Ziegler Analytics, Inc. to purchase required materials for NAREL QA I-131 and SR-89 fixed laboratory calibration standards. The contract was awarded on January 16, 2024 in accordance with quote SQ-022812-1 dated November 14, 2023. Eckert & Ziegler Analytics will deliver the requested materials to support quality...