Members of our K2 team have collaborated successfully on several major projects, including the follow?up program of the kepler mission, additional campaigns to measure precise planet masses,…
Ended Grant For Research Awarded
- Contract number
- 80NSSC18K1653
- Awardee
-
California Institute Of Technology UEI U2JMKHNS5TG4
- Awarding agency
-
Shared Services Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Obligated
- $40,852
Award facts
- Contract value 16% obligated
- $247,652.00 Current and potential, with all options
- Completion date 100% complete
- Current and potential, with all options
- Contracting staff
- NAICS code
- Not on record
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition Basic Research
- Pricing
- Other
- Place of performance
- Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Award details come from SAM.gov/FPDS.
About this award
This is a $247,652 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to support collaborative research and development activities related to the K2 mission, which is a follow-up program to the Kepler mission focused on measuring precise planet masses and characterizing planet host stars. The award does not have a set-aside designation. Caltech, a private research university, is the prime contractor and is leveraging several computing resources, including its own high-performance computing facility, to conduct this work. The grant supports a range of activities, including weekly teleconferences, online collaboration tools, shared software development, and cataloging of planet candidates and observational data. Caltech has significant experience supporting NASA and Department of Defense research and engineering efforts through both prime and subcontract awards.
Description
Members of our K2 team have collaborated successfully on several major projects, including the follow?up program of the kepler mission, additional campaigns to measure precise planet masses, ground?based observational campaigns (>100 nights) to characterize planet host STARS, space?based transit photometry, atmospheric transit spectroscopy, and more. For this K2 collaboration, we hold weekly telecons and use on?line collaborative tools to share planet search results, vetting diagnostics, planet catalogs, and observing products. We collaboratively develop software in github repositories. Data products including planet candidates and observational data are stored in an online database many of our false positives are already shared with the community on the nexsci exofop website. We leverage several computing resources including personal laptops, PI howard's 120?core cluster at the university of hawaii, the university of arizona's high?performance computing facility, and awarded time at the national energy research scientific computing center.
Quick answers
Who was awarded contract 80NSSC18K1653?
80NSSC18K1653 was awarded to California Institute Of Technology by Shared Services Center (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) on September 13, 2018.
How much is contract 80NSSC18K1653 worth?
The government has obligated $40,852 on 80NSSC18K1653. Its current value, with exercised options, is $247,652.
Was contract 80NSSC18K1653 competed?
The extent of competition for 80NSSC18K1653 was full and open competition.
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