The University of Massachusetts (UMass) has been awarded a $4,741,109.00 grant contract (Award ID: 80NSSC22K0279) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract is for research related to the fundamentals of remote sensing technology development, focusing on the use of high-resolution volume and surface scattering signatures in a dual-frequency Ku-band regime, with the potential to expand upon this using ancillary sensors. The contract has no...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K0416, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) as the prime contractor. The $416,932.12 grant is for research, with no set-aside designation. The contract will support training of a postdoctoral associate in data analysis and verification, building upon prior data reduction work on the CANDELS-Herschel photometry project. UMass has an extensive track record of securing federal...
This federal contract award was made by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) for the "Reconciling the Census of Forming Stars in Gould's Belt" project. The $384,717.69 grant will fund the construction of new, publicly available data products for Spitzer Space Telescope archival imaging. This work will enhance our understanding of low-mass star formation in the solar neighborhood. The award has no set-aside designation. UMass, serving...
This federal contract award, valued at $478,568.40, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to support the development of the NISAR ecosystem disciplines for calibration/validation and to meet mission goals and requirements. NISAR is a joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The University of Massachusetts, a prominent public research university system, is the prime contractor for this...
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst received a $469,727 grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center on September 2, 2022, for ecosystems science development activities related to the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Mission during the pre- to post-launch transition period. The award is structured as a grant for research with an ultimate completion date of September 1, 2026, and carries no set-aside designation. As a Land Grant institution with extensive federal research...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC25K7926, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an agency with ID 8000|8000|80NSSC-A) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) located in Amherst, MA. The $620,917 grant is for a research contract that will execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The contract requires UMass to participate as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative,...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0207, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in Amherst, MA. The $78,509 grant is for research to apply new methods, tools, and models to the analysis of experiments from the Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 Thermophysical Properties Measurement Unit (MSL-1 TEMPUS), which collected data on thermophysical properties in a containerless processing facility. UMass, a major...
This federal contract award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) is for the "Development of NISAR Ecosystems Applications for Calibration/Validation and to Meet Mission Goals." The $540,225.32 grant-funded contract is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and does not have a set-aside designation. Under this contract, UMass will partner to work on the ecosystems applications of agriculture and further develop mission algorithm theoretical basis...
This federal contract award, with an identification number of NNX16AB40G, was granted by NASA to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in Amherst, MA. The $749,993.84 grant is an augmentation to NASA's existing grant NNX10AR71G, which provides unified support for the THERMOLAB-ISS, ICOPROSOL, and PARSEC programs. The scope of work under this award includes analysis of cavitation-induced nucleation experiments, planning of surface tension measurements, analysis of surface tension data, planning...
This is a $48,069.55 grant award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research on "PROBING THE PHYSICAL MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR BROWN DWARF AND GIANT PLANET FORMATION." The award has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2023. UMass is performing this work as the prime contractor without any set-aside designation. UMass is a public land-grant research university system in Massachusetts that frequently...
This federal contract award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) is focused on denoising and spectral summarization of CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) images with elevated detector noise. The $400,693 grant, awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center, aims to develop novel spectral artifact mitigation techniques and provide the planetary science community with advanced data products and automated tools for analyzing the complex CRISM hyperspectral dataset. This work is relevant to the Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools program, as it will create restored data cubes and spectral summary products to enable new scientific investigations. UMass frequently serves as a prime contractor for federal research grants and contracts across a range of disciplines, often collaborating with industry and academic partners. The university also holds an Other Transaction Indefinite Delivery Vehicle contract with DARPA for specialized research in quantum technologies.