Definitive Contract NNH06CC78C

This is a $154,216.19 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to deploy the Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), also known as a dropsonde, on the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Olympic Mountain Ground Validation Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign from November 10 to December 22, 2015. The...

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station has been awarded a $150,000 research grant effective January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2026, by a civilian federal agency operating through a Shared Services Center. This analog-based research effort investigates the physiological effects of lower body negative pressure (LBNP) as a potential countermeasure to spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS) and related cardiovascular complications experienced by astronauts during microgravity...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center. The Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus (TOMEX+) is a sounding-rocket investigation that aims to understand the role of turbulence and atmospheric disturbances in the dynamics and mixing of the upper atmosphere, as well as characterize these disturbances in three dimensions. The investigation will use...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Opto-Knowledge Systems Inc. (Oksi), a for-profit R&D imaging systems provider. The $400,000.00 contract is for the development of a "Capillary Absorption Spectrometer for In-Situ, Underwater Gas Analysis" and is set aside for small businesses. Oksi has extensive experience delivering innovative sensor and diagnostic...

This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a private non-profit research organization, with a ceiling value of $566,924.08. The award is for a research project investigating physical, biological, and geochemical processes that control the transfer of carbon from the ocean surface to the deep ocean via the biological pump. The project will use a coupled physical-biogeochemical model and existing...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $4,055 purchase order to Precision Measurement Engineering, Inc. (PME), a Vista, California-based small disadvantaged business specializing in water quality monitoring equipment. The contract, awarded July 1, 2014, with completion scheduled for August 22, 2014, covers the procurement of an oxygen logger—specifically PME's proprietary miniDOT dissolved oxygen/temperature logger. This was a firm fixed-price contract with no small business set-aside...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to Giner Inc., a Boston-based research and development firm. The $119,978 contract is for the development of a sensor to rapidly determine oxygen demand in natural water. The award is part of NOAA's Technology Partnerships Office program under the Office of Atmospheric Research. Fraunhofer USA, a non-profit applied research organization, is serving as a...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Princeton University, Office of Research and Project Administration, doing business as Princeton University, to conduct research related to quantifying the ocean carbon flux response to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The research will leverage data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and atmospheric oxygen (O2) data, particularly from the NASA Atmospheric Tomography...

Old Dominion University Research Foundation (ODURF) has been awarded a $1.12 million research grant (Contract 23-CMS23-0011) by a civilian federal agency to develop a prototype Blue Carbon Observatory focused on submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the Chesapeake Bay region. The research initiative, titled "Prototype for a Blue Carbon Observatory: Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay - Where's the Peat," will investigate carbon sequestration dynamics in aquatic...

Space Lab Technologies, LLC, a minority-owned small business based in Boulder, Colorado, was awarded an $754,982 firm fixed-price contract by NASA's Shared Services Center on August 12, 2019, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I. The contract, designated as a total small business set-aside, focuses on developing a low pressure drop oxygen flow meter for the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) of the Advanced Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AEMU). The innovation...