Definitive Contract NNH05CC30C

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $247,550 research grant to the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) on October 23, 2023, for digital scanning, conversion, and data preservation of historical space imaging materials. The project encompasses archival paper, film, and VHS video tape materials from three major NASA remote sensing programs: Seasat, Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-A and SIR-B), and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The work will...

This is a $200,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the American Historical Association (AHA), a non-profit organization, to administer the NASA/AHA Fellowships in Aerospace History. The fellowships are intended to support significant scholarly research projects in the history of aerospace, from the earliest human interest in flight to the present. Fellows will be encouraged to utilize the resources available at the NASA Archives,...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Trustees of Boston University, a private university, to recover, clean, document, and archive ionospheric profiles acquired by the Viking Orbiter radio occultation investigation. The objective is to make these valuable historical data publicly available through the Planetary Data System (PDS). The grant has a ceiling value of $110,844 and a period of performance through March 31, 2020. This effort aligns...

This is a $556,365.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research organization, to develop entry, descent, and landing models of Commercial Crew Program (CCP) vehicles and conduct independent assessments. The primary objective is to convert the software language formats of CCP vehicle models into the Dynamic Aerospace Vehicle Exchange...

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $33,150 firm fixed-price purchase order to R3 Uniq Inc. for digitization of historic records from the Glenn Research Center Launch Vehicle Program Office. The project involves scanning approximately 875,000 pages of documentation spanning 35 years (1963-1998) housed in approximately 250 record boxes. The work requires high-resolution scanning at 300 dots per inch with optical character recognition to produce Adobe Acrobat PDF files, with each original...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $45,880 purchase order to Vprime TECH Inc. to deliver QuickShot Core and add-on modules in support of hypersonic and human landing systems projects. The solicitation requested QuickShot Core trajectory software, the Branching and 4 Degrees of Freedom add-on modules, and a 12-month site license for these tools to support work at NASA's Langley Research Center. This small business set-aside contract has a period of performance from...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $125,000.00 Cooperative Agreement to the History of Science Society, Inc. to support scholarly research projects in aerospace history. The fellowship program is intended to engage in advanced research on all aspects of the history of aerospace, including cultural, economic, legal, and scientific/engineering perspectives. Fellows will be encouraged to utilize various records and archives related to NASA's history. The research...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters awarded a $1,981,251 delivery order contract to the National Academy of Sciences to conduct studies via its Standing Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space. The committee will perform studies in support of NASA's Aeronautics and Space Programs and Policies Studies for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate through June 2022. The contract has no set-aside designation. As the principal operating agency for...

This $153,731.41 grant from NASA to the University of California, Berkeley is funding work to aggregate, analyze, and document the in-situ data from the HELIOS 1 and 2 solar missions, which collected unprecedented measurements of the inner heliosphere over 11 years. The goal is to create a comprehensive public archive of this valuable dataset to support planning for the upcoming Solar Orbiter (SOLO) and Solar Probe Plus (SPP) missions. Key tasks include carefully analyzing and reprocessing the...

The federal contract award NNX15AI81G was granted to Arizona State University (ASU) Division, doing business as Orspa, to digitize and provide online access to approximately 31,000 hardcopy planetary data products from the ASU Regional Planetary Information Facility. This three-year, $321,158 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to improve the availability of historical planetary data to the broader research community. ASU will digitize aerial photographs,...