Definitive Contract NNG06CA22C

This cooperative agreement is between the Smithsonian Institution, operating through its Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) division, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The purpose is to have SAO continue performing precision transient and static structural and thermal modeling of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observatory, and to apply SAO's expertise to NASA's future space telescope missions. This will help validate the advanced structural and thermal...

This federal contract award to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), is for the JWST Telescope Scientist Investigation. The $3,420,224.00 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), supports scientific research, data analysis, and operational support services for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission. As the science operations center for JWST, as well as...

This is a federal delivery order contract awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is part of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to provide planning science working group and support services for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Guaranteed Time Observing program. The $476,638.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025. Caltech, through its JPL division, is the prime contractor for this...

New Integration Photonics has been awarded a $148,913 firm fixed price purchase order as the prime contractor for SBIR Phase I research titled "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION." The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center is the funding agency for this contract, which has a total small business set aside designation. The research will be conducted by New Integration...

This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. for the James Webb Space Telescope project. The $66,361,364.00 contract covers the design, development, fabrication, assembly, integration, and testing of the Aft Optics System (AOS) Source Plate Assembly (ASPA), Tinsley closeout, optical integration and testing, and special studies. The contract work supports the James Webb Space Telescope, a major NASA observatory...

This $849,408 Firm Fixed Price contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to New Integration Photonics, a small business Subchapter S corporation based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The contract is a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award for the development of an "ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION INTEGRATED ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE SPECTROMETER WITH REUSABLE DELAY LINES FOR EXOPLANET DETECTION". This contract follows a...

Astrotech Space Operations, LLC, doing business as Astrotech Space Operations and a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation, has been awarded a $580,633 firm fixed price delivery order by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Kennedy Space Center to provide East Coast commercial payload processing services in support of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hot flow and propellant testing. Place of performance will be in Titusville, Florida. The order was awarded against NASA's...

This is a $319,805,854 Cost Plus Award Fee contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. to design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test, and evaluate the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) Opto-Mechanical Assembly (WOMA) for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The contract also covers support for the subsequent integration, test, evaluation, validation, and launch of the WFI, as well as providing the instrument...

This federal contract award, valued at $160,814.86, was granted to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) to support the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Deep Time-Domain Field (DTDF) observation in the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) area. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation. As a leading provider of scientific research and instrumentation to federal agencies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to provide support for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program. The contract has a ceiling value of $1,848,640.00 and a period of performance through September 30, 2023. Caltech, as the prime contractor, will deliver research, engineering, and technical services in support of the JWST project. This contract is not set aside...