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 federal contract award, valued at $199,546.87, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Ohio University for research related to weak gravitational lensing measurements of galaxy cluster masses. This research is intended to support the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission's efforts to measure the evolution of dark energy. The contract aims to improve techniques for cluster weak lensing mass measurement through the use of simulations designed...
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...
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 $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 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 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 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 is a $2,569,956 firm fixed price contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to the University of California, Santa Cruz to perform studies related to the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The work involves characterizing various aspects of galaxy formation and evolution, including studies of galaxy properties, star formation, dark matter halos, active galactic nuclei, and the reionization history of the intergalactic medium. The contract has no set-aside...
This is a $202,958 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Ohio State University for research related to the "Galactic Bulge Survey" of transiting exoplanets. The award has a performance period ending on March 12, 2027. The Ohio State University is the prime contractor, with no set-aside designation indicated. Based on the provided background, The Ohio State University has extensive experience conducting scientific research and providing related...