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 $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 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, with ID NNX15AJ34G, was granted by a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) to the University of Illinois. The $134,317.95 grant funds research to investigate the impact of intrinsic color variations on systematic uncertainties for the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (WFIRST-AFTA) program, determine improved methods for reducing systematic uncertainties related to supernova color, and simulate survey strategies...
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 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 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 federal contract award is for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Science Investigation Team (SIT) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $6,499,983.60 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract directs JPL to provide a broad range of scientific and technical capabilities to support NASA's four primary...
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...