This is a $498,012.00 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to George Mason University, a large public research university in Fairfax, Virginia, to improve CME (coronal mass ejection) forecasting by leveraging heliospheric imagery and ensemble modeling. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, supports scientific research and development work to enhance the accuracy of predicting space weather events that can impact Earth and space-based assets. George Mason University...
This is a $99,862.00 grant for research awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to George Mason University (GMU) for the "Development of Standard for Space Time Coordination Transforms in Heliophysics". The contract has no set-aside designation, indicating GMU's competitive capabilities across federal procurement mechanisms. GMU is a large public research university that regularly secures federal contracts and grants to provide specialized research, technology development, and...
This is a $806,684 grant awarded by NASA to George Mason University (doing business as Mason) to investigate the forecast capabilities of modeling solar spectral irradiance from solar surface magnetic flux. The grant, which has a completion date of May 31, 2027, is for scientific research and does not have a set-aside designation. George Mason University, a large public research university in Fairfax, Virginia, has a history of providing a range of services to federal agencies through...
This $43,177.02 grant awarded to George Mason University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) supports scientific research to study the structure and dynamics of plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind, as well as mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles. It addresses objectives of the Parker Solar Probe and STEREO missions, as well as key science goals from the Decadal Survey. The research combines in-situ measurements from the...
This is a $209,297.85 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to George Mason University, a large public research university located in Fairfax, Virginia. The grant will fund a research project led by Dr. Young to investigate how coronal hole plumes and active region fan loops in the solar corona are heated, utilizing data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), and...
This $249,970.83 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center was awarded to George Mason University, a large public research university in Fairfax, Virginia. The grant's objective is to provide modeling support for NASA's CCMC (Community Coordinated Modeling Center) Heliospheric ENLIL code and transition it to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud environment, including supporting its use in the CCMC-SRAG (Space Radiation Analysis Group)-M2M...
This federal contract award is for a research grant to George Mason University, a public research university located in Fairfax, Virginia. The grant is for $249,900.20 and was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on March 26, 2019. The research project focuses on modeling the origination and propagation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun and forecasting their impact on Earth. This represents a practical approach for faster-than-real-time,...
This is a grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to George Mason University for "Revised Ionization Rates and Software Development for CHIANTI". The $32,960.89 grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund research and software development related to the CHIANTI astronomy software. George Mason University, a large public research university in Virginia, is the prime awardee. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 30,...
This is a Grant for Research award valued at $88,054.00 from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to George Mason University for a project to study the accretion and merger dynamics of supermassive black hole binaries. The research aims to model the electromagnetic transient signals associated with these events, which is crucial for the emerging field of multimessenger astronomy. This grant does not utilize a set-aside designation. George Mason University, a large public research...
This is a $14,994.14 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to George Mason University (Mason) to support the STAR-LITE MISSION DEVELOPMENT EFFORT. The grant does not have a set-aside designation. George Mason University, a large public research university in Virginia, will perform scientific research, engineering, and technology development work under this grant. The award is part of Mason's broader portfolio of federal contracts and grants, which span defense and...