Delivery Order N6247001D2202-FB00

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to Climate Central, Inc., a non-profit organization, for $325,500.00. The objective is to produce a library of downscaled climate projections based on GCM simulations performed for CMIP3 and housed at PCMDI/LLNL, in conjunction with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. This work is funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 and is related to the Institute of Water Resources' climate...

This document describes revisions to the scope and budget for a NASA research grant awarded to Northeastern University. The $352,748.60 grant, with an ultimate completion date of January 25, 2021, was originally proposed under project number 15-SWOT15-0034 and has been selected for funding. The key changes from the original proposal include: (1) fewer and U.S.-only study basins, (2) reduced efforts for developing new reservoir dynamics, and (3) increased focus on flood hazard/risk application in...

This federal contract award (NNX16AQ83G) was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to develop a decision support tool for managing water resources and assessing the impacts of climate change on river flow and associated economic output in the High Mountain Asia (HMA) region. The $591,826.73 grant award will leverage remote sensing data, climate models, and integrated economic and hydrological assessments to...

This is a $157,394.75 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Earth Big Data LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The grant is to support the improvement of national measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) through the development, testing, and assessment of methods for mapping activity data and analyzing the uncertainty of carbon emission estimates. The work will be...

This $800,826 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for the development and deployment of new decision support and situational awareness tools focused on wildland fire management. The primary goal is to reduce the hazardous risks associated with wildland fires by improving the understanding of the interactions between fire behavior, local weather, and smoke. The project will leverage the existing WRFX...

The Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) awarded a $1,677,857 Cost No Fee definitive contract to Cornell University to conduct environmental research on the environmental conditions influencing the transformation of perfluoroalkyl acid (PFAA) precursors at aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF)-impacted sites. The project, titled "Environmental Conditions Influencing Natural Abiotic and Biotic Transformation of Perfluoroalkyl Acid (PFAA)...

This is a modification to add FY 2018 funding for a Delivery Order held by Forfeiture Support Associates LLC (FSA Federal), a prime contractor that provides administrative, legal, and investigative support services to U.S. federal law enforcement and homeland security agencies. The Delivery Order, valued at $275,560.44, is for the provision of forfeiture support services to the Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration. FSA Federal holds a $1.3 billion Indefinite Delivery Contract...

This is a federal contract award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to the University of Dayton Research Institute Division, a private, non-profit research organization. The contract, valued at $6,649,997.00, is for the "Proactive Research Enabling Supportable System (PRESS)" and is structured as a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with a period of performance through April 15, 2026. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. The PRESS contract involves the...

This is a $368,554.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The award is focused on understanding the effects of forests on snow properties and the detection of snow properties by remote sensing, with the goal of improving snow hydrology modeling and remote sensing capabilities in forested regions. The award does not have a set-aside...

This federal award to Brown University is a grant for $979,636.15 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to enhance the Reflectance Experiment Laboratory (RELAB) spectral database. RELAB has amassed a significant library of visible-near infrared-infrared (VIS-NIR-IR) reflectance spectra over the past 30 years, which is highly relevant to past, recent, and upcoming planetary science missions. The project aims to restructure the existing spectral database, format the data to...