Delivery Order NNL09AA15C-NNL10AA62T

This federal contract award to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, is for CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATION (CALIPSO) SUSTAINING ENGINEERING PAYLOAD ENGINEERING SUPPORT SERVICES. The $2,079,993 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract supports the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center in providing payload engineering services for the CALIPSO satellite mission, which is focused on Earth...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation a $655,815 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to provide one-year of sustaining engineering support for the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) program. Under the order, Ball Aerospace will deliver payload sustaining engineering and analysis in support of the ongoing CALIPSO satellite mission, with subcontractor Space Science...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center (NASA) awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a $545,551.00 delivery order contract to provide sustaining engineering support necessary to support the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission from November 23, 2021 through November 22, 2022. As the prime contractor, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will leverage its civil space systems, defense hardware and...

Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), a woman-owned small business headquartered in Lanham, Maryland, was awarded a $98,710 research grant (21-CCST21-0065) by the Shared Services Center on August 18, 2022. The grant funds the development of new CALIPSO Level-2 data products through implementation of the Density-Dimension Algorithm for the Atmosphere to enable high-resolution detection of thin clouds and aerosols. Work is to be performed in Lanham, Maryland, with an ultimate completion...

This federal contract award, with an ID of NNX17AG73G, is for a field experiment called "CPEX" (Convective Processes Experiment) to study tropical convective systems in the Atlantic Ocean near the U.S. Virgin Islands. NASA is providing the DC-8 aircraft, Doppler lidar, radar, and dropsondes to collect atmospheric data. The goal is to improve understanding of tropical convection by combining the aircraft observations with data from multiple satellites, including Aqua, Terra, CloudSat,...

NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center awarded a $383,495.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Vaisala Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer, for the purchase of a scanning pulsed coherent Doppler lidar system, along with travel and training. The lidar equipment will be used to measure 3-D winds in the boundary layer and middle troposphere at the Edwards Air Force Base location in California. This requirement was full and open, with no set-aside designation. Vaisala is a provider of specialized...

The University of Colorado at Boulder was awarded a $538,533 research grant (21-CCST21-0065) on August 18, 2022, to develop new CALIPSO Level-2 data products using a density-dimension algorithm for detecting thin clouds and aerosols in the atmosphere. This grant, which extends through August 17, 2026, supports fundamental research in atmospheric science and remote sensing technology. The work will be performed at the university's Boulder, Colorado campus under the Office of Contracts and...

This is a $365,141 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by NASA to Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), a woman-owned small business. The contract is for the investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions and the aerosol indirect effect in marine low clouds, using data from NASA's CALIOP and MODIS instruments. The project will also evaluate new methods to combine CALIOP aerosol data with other A-Train satellite datasets. Numerical experiments with the WRF-Chem model will be conducted to...

This is a $756,429 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute (DRI) to conduct research on the impacts of black carbon aerosols on atmospheric temperature and cloud cover. The research aims to better understand the "semi-direct effect" of absorbing aerosols on cloud processes across different global regions. The study will leverage satellite data from instruments like CALIPSO,...

This federal contract award to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER) is a $178,869.46 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The purpose of the grant is to provide direct assessment and validation of the capability for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to accurately resolve regional-scale gradients of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in an urban domain. AER will leverage a network of...