This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montana State University (MSU) for the development of a flexible, trans-dimensional analysis algorithm to support the data analysis for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observatory. The grant, valued at $601,982.00, will enable MSU researchers to address the challenging task of extracting thousands of individual gravitational wave signals from the LISA data, while accounting for instrument...
This federal contract award to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research supports the development of advanced simulation tools for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. LISA aims to detect and observe gravitational waves from various astrophysical sources using a constellation of three spacecraft separated by 2.5 million km. The $576,654.63 grant will contribute to three key areas: simulating the drag-free and attitude control system that governs the...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $600,000 grant to The Johns Hopkins University to support research related to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. LISA will build upon discoveries made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo Collaboration, which recently detected gravitational waves from black hole mergers. Under this award, Johns Hopkins will conduct research to further the scientific goals of observing massive...
The University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research was awarded a $1.24 million grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support testing and verification of prototypes for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. LISA is a NASA-supported European Space Agency-led space-based gravitational wave observatory planned for launch in the mid-2020s. Under the grant, the University of Florida will verify the dimensional stability of LISA telescope structural...
This federal contract award to Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, is for the analysis of data from the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The $572,483 grant will fund research to develop strategies for identifying, isolating, and extracting signals and parameters from the thousands of overlapping signals that will be present in the LISA data. The research will also focus on quantifying astrophysical information contained in the LISA data...
The University of Florida (UF), through its Division of Sponsored Research, has been awarded a $4,113,623.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support research on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) project. LISA will measure gravitational waves in the 10 micro-Hertz to 1 Hertz frequency range, a signal-rich area. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will run until February 28, 2026. As a leading research institution, UF has...
This federal contract award is a grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college, to study a probe-scale mission to extract information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The study will examine the potential to search for signatures of primordial gravitational waves, constrain the number of light particle species, measure the sum of neutrino masses, probe dark matter, and provide...
This federal contract award is a $814,912 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) for research related to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational wave observatory. The grant will fund the development of tools and models to test general relativity and search for modified gravity anomalies using LISA data, including exploring how the strength of these tests varies with different astrophysical population models...
This is a $312,372.84 cooperative agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of Illinois for a study of the origin of differential phase noise in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) laser system. The award has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2025 and does not utilize a set-aside designation. The University of Illinois, a renowned public land-grant research university, has a significant presence in federal contracting and...
This federal contract award is for a grant to Montana State University for the "GLOBAL ANALYSIS FOR THE LISA GRAVITATIONAL WAVE OBSERVATORY" project. The contract has a ceiling value of $630,000.00 and a completion date of January 4, 2027. The award was made on January 5, 2024 by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. Montana State University is the prime contractor on this research grant, which will...