This federal contract award, valued at $174,984, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The contract is part of NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which focuses on early-stage feasibility studies of visionary aerospace concepts that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic science and exploration missions. The NIAC program seeks proposals...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K0031, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The $80,000.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is for research aimed at shedding light on the processes that give rise to electromagnetic radiation, specifically short gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae, that may originate from binary neutron star and neutron-star black-hole systems. The grant does not have...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Northwestern University, a private research university located in Evanston, Illinois. The $133,222.87 grant is for a research effort aimed at accurately constraining important model parameters, including the true energy of the fastest moving ejecta in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers and its collimation. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and is structured as a...
This federal contract award, valued at $852,198.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a leading private research institution. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, and supports NASA's efforts to design and assemble crews for its Artemis missions to the Moon and ultimately, Mars. Northwestern University has a strong track record of securing and executing high-impact federal contracts and grants across...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX17AE10G, was issued by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The contract, valued at $249,999.85, is for research and development on "correcting and coating thin walled X-ray optics via a combination of controlled film deposition and magnetic smart materials." The goal is to demonstrate the ability to fabricate large-area, high-resolution...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC21K1851, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution in Evanston, Illinois. The $135,000 grant is for research related to the detection of gravitational waves caused by the violent collision of two neutron stars 130 million light-years away. The contract, awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2025. This award is not...
This is a $123,778 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution, to convert custom refractory metal into feedstock for additive manufacturing. The contract has a period of performance through March 17, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. Northwestern University has a strong track record of securing federal contracts and grants across various agencies, including NASA, the Department...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC22K0809, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The $451,114 grant is for a research project titled "The Physics of the CGM and Its Role in Galaxy Evolution" under the 21-ATP21-0036 solicitation. The contract has no set-aside designation and is set to run until June 30, 2026. Northwestern University, as the prime...
This federal contract award, valued at $534,982.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The contract is for "Imaging and Characterizing Exoplanets with the Roman Coronagraph and Open-Source Tools." This contract is not set aside for any specific type of business. Northwestern University, which has a strong track record of federal contract and grant awards,...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K1856, was granted to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The $443,258.99 grant, awarded by the Shared Services Center (SSC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will fund the salaries of two graduate students and one postdoc working on the Micro-X project. The contract, which has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023, is a grant for research and does not have a...
This federal contract award, valued at $499,999.99, was issued by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Northwestern University, a private research institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The contract is for a 3-year research program to develop a monolithically integrated pulse-position-modulated (PPM) laser transmitter and receiver chips using silicon photonics technology for space optical communications. The proposed work aims to realize a high-performance laser transmitter and receiver capable of generating high-power, multi-wavelength laser pulses for secure, high-bandwidth space communications. The receiver chip will feature advanced capabilities such as coherent detection and photodetector arrays to mitigate the effects of air turbulence. This contract is not associated with any set-aside designation. Northwestern University has a strong track record of federal contract and grant awards, contributing its expertise in various scientific and technological domains to support the government's research and development initiatives.