The University of Minnesota will deliver a project titled "CHARGE FORWARD: ACTIVATING THE NATION'S PLANETARIUMS TO EXCITE THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN SPACE EXPLORATION OF THE MOON AND BEYOND" under a $863,331 cooperative agreement with NASA. As the prime contractor, the University will utilize its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to engage planetariums nationwide in exciting the public about current and future NASA human space exploration initiatives to the Moon and beyond. The...
The Franklin Institute, a non-profit science museum in Philadelphia, has been awarded a $800,000 cooperative agreement by NASA to implement a nationwide "Mission to Mars" outreach program. This program aims to build capacity among informal science institutions, community organizations, and amateur astronomy groups to create astronomy education experiences for youth that connect to NASA's moon-to-Mars exploration priorities. The agreement does not have a set-aside designation. The...
This is a $203,510.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Associates In Media Engineering, Inc. for the procurement of two Christie Digital 4K25RGB 25k-lumen RGB Laser Projectors, a two-year on-site service level agreement, and comprehensive installation services. The requirement is sole source, as Associates In Media Engineering, Inc. has been identified as the only vendor capable of meeting NASA's...
This federal contract award with ID NNX15AV40A is a continuation of a 5-year cooperative agreement originally funded under grant number NNX14AQ29A. The objective is to develop an initial version of TABLETOP, an advanced multimedia communication system, to demonstrate its capabilities for future space launch operations at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The $499,999.99 award to the University of Central Florida (UCF) Office of Research will fund enhancements to make TABLETOP more user-friendly and...
Vision Technologies, LLC has been awarded a $203,396.60 firm fixed price delivery order against its Multiple Award Schedule contract to provide products and services to maintain the distributed antenna system for the National Science Foundation Division of Information Systems. The delivery order has a total small business set aside designation and work is to be completed by September 2024 at the place of performance in Glen Burnie, Maryland. As a national systems integrator, Vision...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) aims to develop an omnidirectional inter-satellite optical communication device capable of 1 gigabit per second data rates over distances up to 200 kilometers. The project will adapt a dodecahedron geometry design that can fit within a CubeSat and utilize avalanche photodetector arrays and MEMS scanning mirrors for direction-of-arrival calculation and beam steering. The $200,000.00 cooperative agreement, awarded by...
Immersive Display Solutions, Inc. was awarded a firm fixed price, definitive contract valued at one hundred ninety-five thousand six hundred fifty-eight dollars by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center. The contract has no set-aside designation and calls for Immersive Display Solutions to provide dome and desktop moves in support of the Joint Terminal Control Training and Rehearsal System production and sustainment through December 31, 2021 at their place...
The Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology (OET) awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology, doing business as Digital Promise, to conduct comprehensive literature reviews and develop a rubric to identify schools that demonstrate research-based, innovative, and exemplary policies and practices for leveraging technology to personalize student learning and deliver STEM instruction. The potential...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory has awarded a $1,249,766.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Summit Technology Laboratory, a woman-owned small business, under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The contract is for the development of an immersive dome visualization system to display real-time 3D space data for space domain operations and training. This Phase II SBIR contract builds on previous research and development work by Summit...
This is a $420,226 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nurture Nature Center (NNC), a non-profit organization in Easton, Pennsylvania. The grant supports NASA's education mission to advance high-quality STEM education using NASA's unique capabilities, datasets, experts, and analysis tools. The project, titled "6 Degrees of Influence: Understanding the Interconnectedness of Earth Systems," focuses on developing Earth science curricula and...