Grant For Research NNX15AR06G
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- This federal contract award, valued at $108,627, was granted by the Shared Services Center (part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The contract is for the "Evaluation of PlanetIQ High Rate Data Products Using Advanced Radio Propagation Techniques". This is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, to support Boston...
- This is a $9,801,422.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The contract, titled "SPACE WEATHER RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS (SPARTA) CENTER OF EXCELLENCE", has an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2028. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating...
- This is a $556,100 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, a private non-profit research university. The grant is for a research program called ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences) which aims to execute a balanced science program, participate as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiatives, advance discovery in emerging fields, and develop applied programs in areas like Earth...
- This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, supports the university's role in providing education, training, and outreach activities for the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) program. Boston College will organize annual workshops or schools on space science over a three-year period, with the specific locations to be determined based on the availability and interest of local hosts. The award amount is $88,831.91, and there is no...
- This federal contract award was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston College, also known as Boston College, to conduct an unbiased survey of long period variable stars in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the Kepler space telescope. The $326,598.21 grant will enable the university to create a catalog and analyze the properties of these pulsating, dying stars on the asymptotic giant branch located within the disk of the Milky Way. The project...
- This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC21K0985, was granted by the Shared Services Center (SSC) on May 4, 2021 to the Trustees of Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The $159,195.00 grant is for research to reformat spectra into a universally readable format. This award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Boston College competed for the opportunity as a large organization. The university has extensive experience...
- This is a $149,291.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Boston College for the "EO14042 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH COORDINATION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE WEATHER INITIATIVE (ISWI) PROGRAM". The grant is for research and education services related to space weather and has a period of performance through May 31, 2026. The contract was awarded on June 1, 2023 and does not have a set-aside designation. Boston College is a private, non-profit university that...
- This is a $635,000.00 definitive contract awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a private Jesuit Catholic university. The contract is to investigate the effect of ionospheric disturbances on the performance of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in low latitude regions. The contract is a firm fixed-price agreement with an ultimate completion date of August 13, 2021. There is no set-aside designation for this...
- This is a $150,000.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian government agency, to the Trustees of Boston College, a private non-profit university, to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The award is not set-aside and has an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2028. Boston College has a track record of providing educational services and...
- This federal contract award to Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, supports research to improve the calibration accuracy of the Spitzer Space Telescope's Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). The $233,223 grant will enable the university to use Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) observations to better tie the IRS photometric calibration to future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This work will help ensure the scientific legacy of the large IRS data...
This federal contract award, NNX15AR06G, was granted by NASA to the Trustees of Boston College, doing business as Boston College, a renowned private Jesuit Catholic university. The $118,162.41 grant supports research to better understand the initiation, development, and evolution of transient coronal dimming regions and their relationship to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). This work aligns with the Heliophysics Decadal Survey goals to determine the origins of the Sun's activity and predict variations in the space environment, as well as to discover and characterize fundamental processes within the heliosphere. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Boston College competed for this opportunity as a large organization. As a leading research institution, Boston College has extensive experience collaborating with federal agencies like NASA on scientific projects related to space weather, materials science, and other fields.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | ($20) | 6/12/19 | ||
| 4 | Funding Only Action | ($20) | 6/12/19 | |
| Not listed | $0 | 7/27/18 | ||
| 3 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 7/27/18 | |
| Not listed | $37.1k | 11/6/17 |