This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0897, was granted to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The $249,999.00 grant supports UC Irvine's research on a new class of soft materials called Bicontinuous Interfacially Jammed Emulsion Gels (BIJELS), which have a unique co-continuous arrangement of two immiscible liquid phases separated by colloidal particles. The contract has a final completion date of December 8,...
This federal contract award is a grant for $199,122 provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). The grant is for research related to NASA's chemistry and climate models, as well as the MERRA-2 meteorological fields. UC Irvine is a major public research university that has previously received federal funding from agencies like the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of...
This federal contract award, with a value of $946,783, was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for a research grant titled "IMPROVING ICE SHEET MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES USING LASER RANGING INTERFEROMETER (LRI) AND MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT (MWI) GRACE-FO AND GRACE DATA" and has an ultimate completion date of June 19, 2028. UC Irvine, a public research university, has...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) is a grant for $131,989.46 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on atmospheric aerosols and their impact on ocean phytoplankton growth, marine productivity, and carbon sequestration. As a leading public research university, UC Irvine has extensive expertise in disciplines like engineering, physical sciences, and climate science, which enables it to support NASA's mission...
This federal contract award, valued at $275,000.00, was granted to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency. The contract requires UC Irvine to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the agency's priorities, and direction from Congress. Key focus areas include scientific research on and from the Moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond, as well as advancing...
This $67,563 federal contract award was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for a cooperative agreement to conduct "Thermal Conduction and Radiation Characterization of Lunar Regolith Simulants." The award has an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2024. UC Irvine is a public research university with extensive expertise across disciplines including engineering and physical sciences. This contract...
This $223,662.00 federal grant award to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is for the "Airborne Compact Fire Imager (CFI) for Measurements Across the Entire Fire Lifecycle" research project. UC Irvine, a prestigious public research university, will leverage its expertise in areas like aerospace engineering and materials science to develop advanced remote sensing capabilities for monitoring...
The U.S. government has awarded a $330,632 grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) for a research project titled "Oxidation Protection of Refractory Metals via Refractory Bond Coat Alloy Design and Thermally Grown Complex Oxides." This award, Contract ID 80NSSC24K1382, is a research grant from the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency. The award has an ultimate completion date of August 28, 2028. UC Irvine, a non-profit educational institution, was selected for...
This is a $145,971.80 grant award from the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to study asymmetric boundary layer ingestion (BLI) and model its effects on propulsion efficiency and drag reduction for various airframe geometries through computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 20, 2023. UC Irvine is a public research university with expertise in areas like engineering, physical...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC24K0038, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for a research project titled "DETERMINING THE ROLE OF EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS ON SURFACE MASS BALANCE IN EAST ANTARCTICA FROM ICESAT/GRACE DATA, CLIMATE MODELS, AND AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS". The $150,000.00 grant-funded contract has a completion date of October 3, 2026 and does not have a set-aside...