Delivery Order GS10F0237U-NNG13PF87D

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order awarded by NASA Langley Research Center to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland. The purpose of this task order is to provide technical expertise to NASA's Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA) in conducting the technical reviews of proposals for the Senior Review 2017 for extension of Earth science operating missions. The task order supports NASA's periodic comparative...

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a task order valued at $8.21 million to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) on October 31, 2018, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2028. This delivery order, issued under the Aerospace Research, Development, and Engineering Support (ARDES) contract NNN06AA01C, provides support for the Solar Orbiter Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SWIS) instrument. The work encompasses spacecraft integration and testing,...

This is a $221,225.68 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Lockheed Martin Corporation to provide integration and access assistance for the SolarSoft (SSW) framework. The purpose is to support the Heliophysics System Observatory, particularly as key components transition between mission phases or operations. The grant will also fund work to incorporate developments from the open-source SunPy group and explore methods for improving versioning, distribution, and...

This is a delivery order contract awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to provide support for the SOLOHI instrument on the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission. The $1,042,836.17 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a period of performance through March 31, 2027. Caltech, as the prime contractor, will leverage its expertise in space exploration, earth observation, and advanced technology development to support this...

NASA Goddard Space Center awarded a $63.4 million definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute for the Solar Orbiter Heavy Ion Sensor Time of Flight solid state detector on December 22, 2009, under cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing with ultimate completion April 30, 2028. The contractor assumes full responsibility for life-cycle project management, design, test, development, and operations of the HIS-TOF detector, along with post-operations data reduction and archiving. Place of performance...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center awarded a $3.58M cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) on February 27, 2025, for the Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph Phase E instrument supporting the Solar Orbiter mission. The contract, which extends through April 30, 2027, will be performed at SwRI's San Antonio, Texas facility. This award represents continued development of a science instrument designed to measure suprathermal ions in the solar wind and inner...

NASA's Langley Research Center awarded a $23,337 Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland, for support of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Mission Standing Review Board. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business set-aside, is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2026, and represents work performed under Cornell Technical Services' larger EASSS 3 (Evaluations,...

Cornell Technical Services LLC was awarded a $176,905 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order by NASA's Langley Research Center on March 27, 2023, to provide Standing Review Board (SRB) support for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREX) mission. The contract, which carries an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2025, is performed at the contractor's facility in Columbia, Maryland. This delivery order was issued without a small...

The Johns Hopkins University received a $1.1M grant award from a civilian federal agency to conduct a three-year research program investigating coronal mass ejections, streamer blobs, and associated energetic particles using data from the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SOLOHI) aboard the joint NASA/European Space Agency Solar Orbiter mission. The effort leverages Johns Hopkins' 21 years of experience developing and operating heliospheric imaging instruments and over a decade of scientific...

NASA's Shared Services Center issued a purchase order to the Smithsonian Institution, operating as the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, for $294,548 on May 1, 2024, to provide technical support for the DSCOVR Faraday Cup solar wind detector instrument. Performance takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2027. The contract covers instrument operations, calibrations, ground data processing, and algorithm documentation in support of NASA and NOAA...