This is a $8,492,737.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the Solar Orbiter SPICE Phases E/F Effort. The contract is not set aside and runs through April 30, 2028. SwRI, a nonprofit research and development organization, will provide scientific and engineering services to support NASA's solar science mission. The University of Colorado is a major...
This is a $3,577,795.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization, for the development of a Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph Phase E Instrument for the Solar Orbiter mission. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2027 and was awarded on February 27, 2025. SwRI has a history of supporting NASA and other...
This is a $6,402,325.60 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization. The contract is for a period of performance ending on March 31, 2026, with the goal of improving the understanding of how the solar corona is heated to extremely high temperatures during solar flares and in non-flaring active regions. The award is not a set-aside contract. SwRI has demonstrated extensive...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the Solar Orbiter Measurement Investigation "Heavy Ion Sensor" project. SwRI will be responsible for the full life-cycle management, design, testing, development, operations, data reduction, and archiving of the Heavy Ion Sensor Time of Flight (HIS-TOF) solid state detector. The contract has a ceiling value of $63,385,698.00 and a completion date...
This is a $1,357,173.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for research on "MAGNETIC INFLUENCE ON DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION THROUGHOUT THE SOLAR INTERIOR". The grant is not set aside and has a period of performance through December 31, 2026. SwRI is an independent, nonprofit research organization that has supported various government agencies across defense and civilian sectors through prime and subcontract awards....
This federal contract award, valued at $344,999.00, was granted to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve the multiday space weather forecast accuracy of the solar wind speed using the Air Force Data Assimilative Photospheric Flux Transport-Wang-Sheeley-Arge (ADAPT-WSA) models, as well as to extend the ADAPT-WSA model to...
This is a $456,588 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for research on "INDIRECT IMAGING OF THE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION REGION IN FLARES USING OBSERVATIONS OF CHROMOSPHERIC RIBBON STRUCTURE". The award is not set aside and has a completion date of December 18, 2026. SwRI, a nonprofit research and development organization, is a prominent federal contractor that has received numerous prime contract and grant...
This is a $96,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization. The contract is for deploying novel deep learning artificial intelligence algorithms to enable short-term (days) and medium-term (weeks) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance forecasting based on solar coronal images and photospheric magnetograms. SwRI is an experienced federal contractor, holding...
This is a $58,942 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for a study on optical communications for balloon payloads, with a completion date of October 31, 2025. This award is not a set-aside contract. SwRI, which does business as S W R I, has a strong track record of securing prime contracts and subcontracts with various federal agencies,...
This $499,870 federal contract was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the nonprofit Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to conduct research on forecasting solar flares. The contract, which runs through December 2025, aims to improve the ability to predict M-class and X-class solar flares, which are relatively rare events. SwRI, an experienced federal contractor capable of supporting complex government research and engineering needs, will leverage its multidisciplinary expertise to...