This is a prime contract awarded by NASA Goddard Space Center to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to support the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) program. Under this $2,887,108 firm-fixed-price contract, UCSC is responsible for developing scientific performance requirements, contributing to the observational strategy, creating science data analysis techniques, and supporting calibration and simulation activities. UCSC will also participate in public outreach for the...
This is a federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The contract, valued at $626,019.00, supports the development of scientific performance requirements, observational strategy, data analysis techniques, and other activities related to the WFIRST mission. The University of California, Santa Cruz is a subcontractor under this award, responsible for providing...
This is a firm-fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to The Trustees of Princeton University, doing business as Princeton University, to provide coordination services for the science investigation teams (SITs) associated with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) wide-field imager. The contract, valued at $1,675,031.00, supports the development of scientific performance requirements, observational strategies,...
This is a $1,919,376 definitive, firm-fixed price contract awarded by the NASA Goddard Space Center to the University of Washington for studies related to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The contract was issued under the WFIRST Science Investigation Teams and Adjutant Scientists Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences-2015 (ROSES-2015) solicitation, which sought proposals for WFIRST science investigation teams and adjutant scientists. The University of...
This is a prime contract awarded by NASA to Stanford University to support the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The contract tasks Stanford with developing scientific performance requirements, observational strategies, data analysis techniques, and calibration plans for the WFIRST coronagraph instrument. Stanford will collaborate with a team of subcontractors, including New Mexico State University, University of Arizona, Cornell University, and others, to contribute...
This contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University supports the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The $1,066,741 firm-fixed-price contract, which has no set-aside designation, tasks the prime contractor with developing representative surveys to study resolved stellar populations in the Milky Way in order to assess WFIRST's capabilities for such observations. This includes defining detailed science goals,...
This is a $414,349.31 grant award from NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for the WFIRST-AFTA Supernova Cosmology Program. The goal is to further develop analysis algorithms and approaches to optimize and refine the requirements for the WFIRST instrument to achieve the best possible supernova cosmology measurements. This work will build on a prior, robustly-designed program that used the WFIRST imager and integral field spectrograph to discover supernova candidates...
This federal contract award, valued at $522,742.93, was granted by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to advance the understanding of atmospheric spectra, structure, and composition of giant exoplanets. The work will leverage the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study hydrogen-dominated atmospheres, from sub-Neptunes to super-Jupiters. The research includes upgrading...
This federal contract award is for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, which is a major program under NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The prime contractor is the SETI Institute, a non-profit research organization, and the award is valued at $2,640,373. The contract tasks the SETI Institute with providing scientific support for the WFIRST mission, including developing performance requirements, observational strategies, data analysis techniques, and calibration plans for...
This federal contract award to The Trustees of Princeton University was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the WFIRST Science Investigation Teams and Adjutant Scientists Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences-2015 (ROSES-2015) NASA Research Announcement (NRA) NNH15ZDA001N-WFIRST. The contract, valued at $1,107,461.00, supports the coordination of work being performed by the Science Investigation Teams (SITs) associated with the WFIRST Coronagraph...