Delivery Order FA881414D0006-0002

This federal contract award with ID NNL13AA09C was made by the Langley Research Center, a civilian agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) division. The contract, valued at $35,024,668, is for the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument program, which was selected under NASA's Earth Venture Instrument-1 (EVI-1) announcement of opportunity. TEMPO will provide hourly,...

This is a $10,067.01 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to provide ground-based validation for the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument, the first U.S. geostationary air quality monitoring satellite. TEMPO, with an estimated launch in 2022, will provide 3-hour averages of formaldehyde (HCHO) during daylight hours. This contract does not...

This federal contract award, with ID 68HERC20D0018|68HERC24F0159, was issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development. It is a delivery order contract valued at $175,555.00 to support the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission and associated field campaigns for air quality research. The contract has a period of performance through April 17, 2025 and is a time and materials contract type. The prime contractor is Jacobs...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center awarded a $10,159,196.00 Delivery Order contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to integrate and test the Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument into a space vehicle. This contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, requires Ball Aerospace to coordinate with the owner/operator and manufacturer of the space vehicle, and is scheduled to conclude by October 31, 2023....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center awarded a $749,305.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.'s Civil Space Systems; Defense Hardware; Commercial Space Operations division for the TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS: MONITORING OF POLLUTION (TEMPO) INSTRUMENT STORAGE, MONITORING, AND HANDLING. This contract has a completion date of June 30, 2021 and was awarded on October 25, 2018 with no set-aside designation....

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has been awarded a $1,336,697.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue its Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNET) program. This program has been providing tropospheric ozone profile data since 2008 to support various scientific investigations, including research on low-level ozone transport, stratosphere-troposphere interaction, model evaluation, chemical production in biomass burning smoke transport,...

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...

The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $546,253 grant to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to support applications of data from the Time-Resolved Orbiting Photometer for Ionospheric Investigation of the Extreme ultraviolet (TEMPO) mission. Under this grant, UAH will deliver collaborative meetings and workshops for users of TEMPO data products and report on outcomes that highlight TEMPO data applications. The period of performance extends through December 1,...

This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for the Geostationary Trace Gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEOTASO) instrument. GEOTASO will be deployed on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to measure spatially resolved vertical abundances of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, and sulfur dioxide, as well as aerosol optical depth, in support of the Korea-US Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) study objectives. The...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $883,580.00 grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to continue operating the RO3QET Lidar system, which has provided tropospheric ozone profile data since 2008 to support various scientific investigations. Over the next five years, UAH will 1) continue routine lidar observations and data archiving to support NASA's TEMPO satellite validation mission, 2) conduct research using the lidar data, 3) finish constructing...