This is a $385,167.42 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation, a leading global aerospace and defense company. The grant is for a theory, modeling, and simulation (TMS) effort to investigate the physical mechanisms driving solar active region eruptions, evaluate remote sensing techniques to quantify eruptive potential, and develop a data-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of solar eruptions with synthetic observables. The...
This is a $1,754,282.82 grant award from NASA's Heliophysics Division to Lockheed Martin Corporation for research on what causes the Sun to vary. The grant aims to study the role of the solar magnetic field, which is essential for understanding solar variation. Lockheed Martin, a global aerospace and defense company, has extensive experience supporting NASA, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies with research, engineering, and technology development in areas like space physics,...
This $138,478.20 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation to create and make available a searchable database of topological features of the solar corona's magnetic field. The grant will enable research into the relationship between the topology of the large-scale coronal magnetic field and the occurrence of solar eruptive events, as well as the characteristics of the solar wind. Additionally, the grant will fund...
This is a $164,549.09 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation to conduct research on magnetic fields in the atmospheres of sun-like stars. The research aims to address science questions related to the solar dynamo, observational limits on inferring magnetic fields and differential rotation on other stars, coronal magnetic configurations associated with superflare events, and the importance of physical processes like flux...
This is a $360,071 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation to conduct research related to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their effects. The grant supports the refinement of a novel Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) dimming analysis method to study the physical parameters of CMEs, including their mass, speed, and energy. This method will be compared to the traditional white-light Thomson scattering technique to...
This is a $624,175.91 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation to conduct research on magnetic fields in the atmospheres of sun-like stars. The research aims to answer questions about what observations of magnetic spots, differential rotation, and flares on other stars can teach us about the solar dynamo, the limits of observational inference of magnetic fields and differential rotation, the coronal magnetic...
Lockheed Martin Corporation received a $1.5M grant from NASA's Shared Services Center for research investigating the origin of solar energetic particles and their transport in the inner heliosphere. The grant, awarded on January 8, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of January 7, 2027, represents a civilian research effort with no set-aside designation. Work will be performed at Lockheed Martin's facility in Palo Alto, California. This grant supports fundamental heliophysics research that...
This is a $388,438.48 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation for research on improving the forecasting reliability of solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, supports better-informed and more timely space weather-related decision-making in industry and government agencies. Lockheed Martin, a global aerospace and defense company, has extensive experience supporting NASA, the Department of Defense, and...
NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $549,843 research grant to Lockheed Martin Corporation on May 1, 2023, for a study exploring the relationship between coronal dimmings and coronal mass ejections. The grant, which extends through April 30, 2026, is categorized as a research grant with a non-competitive pricing structure. Work will be performed at Lockheed Martin's facility in Palo Alto, California. This award carries no small business set-aside designation and represents part of NASA's...
This is a $886,146.35 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation for the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase Beyond the Solar Dynamics Observatory project. The award is a single-source, non-set-aside contract with a period of performance ending on March 7, 2026. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor, bringing its extensive experience in supporting NASA and other federal agencies on research, engineering, and technology development...
This is a $455,530.77 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation, a leading global security and aerospace company, to develop a magnetofrictional (MF) model of the solar corona's magnetic field. The model will utilize evolving photospheric magnetic field observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory to predict coronal mass ejections and solar flares, improving space weather forecasting capabilities. The project aims to implement the MF model in spherical coordinates to enable real-time, long-term modeling of the non-potential coronal magnetic field, both globally and for active regions. The resulting data products will include estimates of coronal free energy, non-potential geometry and topology, and boundary conditions for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models of active regions and solar wind. This research effort aligns with NASA's Living with a Star program and the National Space Weather Program's goals of understanding and predicting major space weather events.