Delivery Order W91WAW09D0013-0019

This task order was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters to Tecolote Research, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, to provide services in support of the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and International Space Station (ISS) projects for fiscal year 2019. The task order, which has a Firm Fixed Price contract type, was awarded on October 6, 2018 with a potential value of $197,850.32 and a completion date of October 5, 2019. The work is...

This is a $85,430.42 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education, to conduct a three-year programmatic investigation into team task switching for astronaut crews on the International Space Station (ISS). The research aims to develop concrete countermeasures to mitigate the risks of inadequate cooperation, coordination, communication, and...

This contract awards approximately $182 million to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as UC Berkeley, through its Space Sciences Laboratory to serve as the prime contractor and principal investigator interface for NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission. The award covers Phase A through Phase F of the mission under NASA's Announcement of Opportunity NNHIIZDA0020, with principal investigator Dr. Thomas Immel leading the effort. The contract, a cost-no-fee...

This is the first task order under a Cost Modeling Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters. The $405,437.04 task order was awarded to the prime contractor, Tecolote Research, Inc., a for-profit subchapter S corporation that provides decision support, program management, and software solutions to federal agencies. Tecolote Research has over 49 years of experience supporting clients across the Department...

This is a $200,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Louisiana State University (LSU) to characterize the conditions within thunderstorms that may lead to the emission of Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs). The project, titled "Correlation of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes, Electric Fields, and Lightning Strikes (COTEL) in Thunderstorms," will use a network of balloon-borne payloads suspended around thunderstorms to detect...

This task order was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters to Tecolote Research, Inc. under the Cost Modeling Support and Services (CMSS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for the APAC effort in 2020. The total potential value of the task order is $384,493.73. The contract type is a BPA Call, with Time and Materials pricing. The place of performance is Goleta, California. Tecolote Research, Inc. is a for-profit, Subchapter S corporation that provides...

This five-year, $499,800 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) supports research related to the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) satellite instrument. As the Principal Investigator (PI) and Deputy PI for TEMPO, SAO will continue to collaborate with NASA on this project. The grant will fund activities such as instrument development, data processing, and scientific analysis to enhance the...

This is a competitive Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) task order awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a civilian federal agency, to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), a research organization within the Texas A&M University System. The task order, valued at $1,959,863.00, focuses on two main areas: exploring methods for estimating driver state and implementing Human-Machine Interface (HMI) strategies to maintain driver engagement...

This is a $76,291.86 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The grant is part of NASA's "Shared Cognitive Architectures for Long-Term Exploration" (SCALE) program, which focuses on maintaining team shared mental models during long-duration space exploration missions. The research team will leverage expertise in...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order awarded under an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL), a subsidiary of The Johns Hopkins University. The purpose of this $27,153 task order is to provide support for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission Preliminary Design Review (PDR) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The support includes pre-review activities, participation in the...