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 for compact stellar mass binaries and addressing observational biases. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. This research supports NASA's LISA mission, which aims to detect and study gravitational waves from a variety of sources, including ultra-compact binary systems. Northwestern University has a strong track record of securing federal research grants and contracts, particularly from agencies like NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Defense.