Delivery Order FA881414D0005-0003

The Smithsonian Institution's Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) was awarded a $35.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by NASA's Langley Research Center on March 29, 2013, to support the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument program. TEMPO was selected under NASA's Earth Venture Instrument-1 element of the Earth System Science Pathfinder program and represents a geostationary orbit mission designed to measure air quality across North America with hourly temporal...

Met One Instruments, Inc. was awarded a $21,215 purchase order by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development to provide sequential PM10 federal reference method monitors. The firm fixed price contract supports the EPA's air quality monitoring efforts through the delivery of particulate matter sampling equipment. No subcontractors or set aside designations were indicated. The award is likely associated with the EPA's ongoing research into air pollutant...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $779,600 research grant by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on June 1, 2023, to conduct research titled "Identifying Fingerprints of Changing Anthropogenic Sources and Natural Variability on Observed Regional and Seasonal Trends in Tropospheric Ozone and Precursors." The grant, issued under solicitation 22-ACMAP22-0020 with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2026, will be performed in Cambridge,...

Environmental Engineering & Measurement Services Inc. (EEMS) was awarded a Firm Fixed Price BPA call valued at $1,975,341 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation to provide systems and performance audits of Clean Air Status and Trends Network (CASTNET) and National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) monitoring sites. This contract, awarded on July 5, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of August 13, 2026, will be performed in Gainesville, Florida....

The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Air and Radiation awarded a $552,228 firm fixed price delivery order to Eastern Research Group Inc. to provide laboratory support services for the agency's Urban Air Toxics Monitoring Program, Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations Program, and National Monitoring of Community Scale Air Toxics Program. The delivery order was issued against the agency's Environmental Services Contract Vehicle and will cover work to be performed from May through...

This is a $270,259.55 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) on May 3, 2019. The grant supports a research project to improve estimates of emissions of short-lived air pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), using satellite observations. The project will develop the NASA Satellite-Derived Emission (SATEM) database to quantify these emissions at enhanced...

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $700,390 delivery order to Eastern Research Group Inc. to provide support services for the National Air Toxics Trends Stations, Programmatic Air Monitoring Systems, and National Monitoring Operations Center programs. This firm fixed price order, issued under an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle, calls for Eastern Research Group to deliver operational and technical assistance for EPA air quality monitoring initiatives from...

This is a five-year Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER Institute), a non-profit research organization, for the Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATOM) project. ATOM is a science-enabling mission under NASA's Earth Venture Suborbital-2 program, with the goal of investigating the impact of human-produced air pollution on greenhouse gases and chemically reactive gases in the atmosphere. The...

This is a $1,607,640 Cooperative Agreement awarded by NASA to the non-profit Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to collect and analyze data from low-cost air quality sensors deployed by citizen scientists in three regions (Raleigh, Los Angeles, and Delhi) to improve the ability to estimate fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations from satellite aerosol measurements. The goal is to enhance the value of NASA's Earth science data products for monitoring air quality near the...

This is a $565,697 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for research related to nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions trends in the United States. The project will use data from multiple satellite sensors, including Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS), and TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), as well as ground-based observations, to quantify NOx emissions at monthly and regional scales from...