This is a definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The contract, valued at $2,106,658.00, is in support of NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, which aims to map the bed topography, snow cover, and internal layers of the Greenland ice sheet. The scope of work includes the deployment and support of the University of Kansas'...
The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas, was awarded a $762,724 research grant (Contract # 80NSSC20K1242) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to integrate a Multichannel Snow Radar (MSR) onto the NASA P-3 Orion Airborne Science Platform. The MSR was previously developed by the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) under a prior NASA contract related to Operation IceBridge. This 2-18 GHz radar...
The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. was awarded a $538,780.98 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to conduct research integrating snow probing radar onto the Vanilla VA001 unmanned aircraft system and develop required sub-systems for remote operation of the radar. As the prime contractor, the University of Kansas Center for Research will perform the work in Lawrence, Kansas from May 2020 through December 2022. The contract...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The $248,245.18 grant is for a research project to integrate an ultra-wideband snow-probing radar onto an ultra-long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle to measure snow thickness over sea-ice and map near-surface internal layers of snow over land-ice in polar regions. This is not a...
This federal contract award, valued at $373,274.86, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The award is focused on "Controls on Iceberg Distribution Around Greenland" and aims to create a comprehensive database of glacier calving and iceberg properties using satellite imagery and automated processing. The key objectives are to quantify the terminus...
This is a $903,729.99 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. (KUCR), a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The grant is for an experiment related to cryospheric uncrewed aerial systems, with a period of performance ending on September 7, 2023. KUCR frequently receives federal grants and contracts to conduct research and development across diverse scientific and technical domains on behalf of the...
This is a $119,220.56 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The award is for a research project titled "Probing Quenching in the Cosmic Web Using Spatially-Resolved Star-Formation Maps from WISE and GALEX." The grant does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. has a history of managing federal...
This is a grant awarded by NASA to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. (KU CRI), a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas, for $134,165.37. The award supports the institutions' science objectives, which are key components of NASA's strategic plan and astrophysics roadmap. The grant has an ultimate completion date of December 31, 2023. KU CRI, which frequently collaborates with other universities and research institutions on federally-funded projects, serves as the...
This is a $326,158 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The goal of the project is to provide an observationally based understanding of the role of land-atmosphere coupling in the evolution of drought and replicate these processes in remote sensing based forecast models. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and has...
This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC20K1093, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kansas. The $300,591.00 grant is for research related to the PICASSO program, which supports planetary and astrobiology science instrument feasibility studies, concept formation, proof-of-concept instruments, and advanced component...