This federal contract award, valued at $649,143.68, was granted by NASA to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit organization that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The contract, titled "NASA's FIRE Impacts on Regional Emissions and Chemistry (FIRECHEM)," is part of an interagency collaboration focused on characterizing the emissions, chemistry, and impacts of North American fires. Under this contract, UCAR/NCAR will...
This $800,826 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for the development and deployment of new decision support and situational awareness tools focused on wildland fire management. The primary goal is to reduce the hazardous risks associated with wildland fires by improving the understanding of the interactions between fire behavior, local weather, and smoke. The project will leverage the existing WRFX...
This federal contract award with ID 80NSSC24K1824 was granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), a prominent public research university, by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency. The contract, titled "The Airborne Compact Fire Imager (CFI) for Measurements Across the Entire Fire Lifecycle," is a grant for research with a ceiling value of $305,590.00 and a completion date of July 16, 2027. The contract is not set aside and is focused on the development of an...
This is a $1,212,457.17 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Ames Research Center to the University Corporation at Monterey Bay (UCMB), a non-profit organization affiliated with California State University, Monterey Bay. The contract is for the "Integration of NASA Earth Science Information into a Wildfire Collaborative Decision Environment (W-CDE)". The objective is to enhance the existing W-CDE capabilities to support pre-, active-, and post-fire assessments. This will be achieved...
This is a $299,320 grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to improve the quantification of fire impacts on terrestrial hydrology by enhancing land model processes with NASA satellite observations. The contract is a research grant with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2027. UCAR, a non-profit organization and federally funded research and development center, will perform the work at its facility in Boulder,...
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) was awarded a $524,975.63 federal grant (Contract ID: 80NSSC18K0681) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide satellite products, emissions estimates, and chemical and tracer forecasts to support the FIRECHEM aircraft experiment. UCAR, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will leverage its expertise in satellite observations, fire emissions modeling, and chemical transport...
This is a $640,003.99 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of over 115 universities. The grant is for the "CREATION OF A WILDLAND FIRE ANALYSIS: PRODUCTS TO ENABLE EARTH SCIENCE" and does not have a set-aside designation. UCAR, through its National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), provides a wide range of specialized atmospheric research and development...
This federal contract award is for fire behavior modeling services to support the USDA Forest Service's Wildfire Crisis Strategy. The $100,000 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded to Vibrant Planet, PBC on June 4, 2024. The work will be performed in Fort Collins, Colorado and is expected to be completed by November 1, 2025. The contract is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Call, which allows the Forest Service to procure these services as needed through task orders. Vibrant Planet has also...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), operating under its parent organization University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), was awarded a $53,056 grant on May 28, 2025, to advance ultraviolet and visible remote sensing capabilities for biomass burning plumes. The research initiative, titled "Advancing UV/VIS Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning Plumes: Brown Carbon, Actinic Flux, and Trace Gas Retrievals," will be conducted at NCAR's Boulder, Colorado facility and...
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Atac, a leading provider of aviation analysis and simulation services. The contract is for the development of a near real-time wildfire prediction alerting service, with a potential value of $149,875.00 and a completion date of February 2, 2024. The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order, and the work will be performed in...
This federal contract award is for the development of a wildland fire prediction system for the state of Colorado. The prime contractor, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is collaborating with the Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting in Rifle, Colorado to create this system. The contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center, has a potential value of $924,043.32. The system is based on NCAR's Coupled Atmosphere Wildland Fire Environment (CAWFE) model and the Weather Research and Forecasting - Fire (WRF-Fire) model. The project aims to improve the accuracy of wildland fire spread prediction by incorporating more accurate data on fuel moisture content from satellite remote sensing observations. This contract does not have a set-aside designation.