This federal contract award, valued at $261,128.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Tennessee, operating as the Univ Tennessee System Office. The contract supports research objectives of NASA's Solar System Workings program, which focuses on studying geophysical and geochemical processes on planetary bodies. As a major public land-grant research university, the University of Tennessee has extensive experience conducting scientific...
This is a $694,642.99 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for scientific research. The study will focus on three main objectives: (1) analyzing the mineralogy, geochemistry, and textural characteristics of paleosols to better understand microbial processing, (2) examining fluvial transport processes and developing 3D digital outcrop models, and (3) searching for macroscopic evidence of...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K1055, was granted to the University of Tennessee (Univ Tennessee System Office) for a three-year period to reprocess monostatic radar data of the Moon acquired by the Mini-RF instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The $395,065.00 grant is for scientific research, with no set-aside designation noted. The University of Tennessee, a major public land-grant research university system, has extensive experience conducting scientific research and...
This federal contract award was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Tennessee (UT) for a research project titled "Experimental Constraints on Surface Weathering on Venus". The $498,598 grant-funded contract has a completion date of February 5, 2026. No set-aside designation was used. The University of Tennessee, through its Ut AG Research Division, has extensive experience conducting scientific research and providing services to various federal...
This federal contract award, NNX17AI80G, was granted by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Tennessee. The award, valued at $119,656.34, is for a research study using high-resolution topography and radar data to examine craters on the Moon. The research objectives include: (1) constraining crater degradation and topographic evolution, (2) using crater morphometry to explore crust and regolith characteristics, and (3) comparing radar properties and topography of...
This federal contract award from the U.S. government was granted to the University of Tennessee, a major public research institution, to develop a radiation transport code for space radiation shielding applications. The award, valued at $1,924,198.00, was issued as a grant for research with a completion date of February 28, 2007. No set-aside designation was used for this contract. The University of Tennessee has extensive experience conducting scientific research and providing analytical...
This federal contract award, valued at $50,690.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center of a civilian government agency to the University of Tennessee as the prime contractor. The contract is for a Cooperative Agreement to conduct a "PARAMETER AND PERFORMANCE INVESTIGATION OF A MULTI DIRECTIONAL RING PARTICLE DAMPER." No set-aside designation was used. The University of Tennessee has extensive experience conducting research and providing services to various federal agencies,...
This federal contract award, NNX15AL98G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Tennessee. The $130,000.00 grant supports the university's research focused on quantifying the timing and nature of igneous processes that occurred during the formation of the Moon and Mars. Key areas of study include investigating the origin of enriched Martian meteorites (shergottites), analyzing the nature of volatiles in lunar minerals and rocks, and dating...
This is a $45,267 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to the University of Tennessee. The contract is for the Dual Use Technology Development Program, which aims to create partnerships with U.S. industry and academic/non-profit organizations to support collaborative, resource-sharing projects where the NASA partner is developing a technology primarily for its own public purposes, and...
This federal contract award, valued at $248,255.65, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to conduct research on the oxidation state of lunar glasses and its implications for surface and eruptive processes on the Moon. The contract supports a three-year research project that will leverage advanced analytical techniques, including X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), to analyze lunar glass samples and characterize...