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 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 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 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 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...
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 is a federal contract award from the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to The Johns Hopkins University for the WFIRST Science Investigation Teams and Adjutant Scientists research opportunity. The $1,582,799 firm-fixed-price contract requires The Johns Hopkins University to conduct case studies to develop requirements for data retrieval, query, and analysis tools for the WFIRST (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope) archive. The contract has no set-aside designation. The contract is...
This federal contract award, valued at $42,968.13, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) for a research project titled "DAILY PRECISION SPECTRA OF MARKARIAN 421 FOR VARIABILITY AND MULTIWAVELENGTH STUDIES". The contract is a grant for research, with a period of performance ending on May 31, 2024. UCSC, a public research university and Hispanic-Serving Institution, has a strong track record of federal...
This $305,484.00 grant contract was awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency that is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) on August 1, 2021. The contract, which runs through July 31, 2025, supports research on the polarization of solar light scattered by lunar regolith, a key topic for understanding the Moon's surface characteristics. As a public research university and Hispanic-Serving Institution,...
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 WFIRST mission. The contract has several subcontractors, including the University of Illinois, University of South Carolina, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers University, and the University of Chicago, who will provide specialized expertise in areas such as supernova modeling, systematics analysis, and survey optimization. This contract does not utilize any set-aside designations.