This is a $8,492,737.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the Solar Orbiter SPICE Phases E/F Effort. The contract is not set aside and runs through April 30, 2028. SwRI, a nonprofit research and development organization, will provide scientific and engineering services to support NASA's solar science mission. The University of Colorado is a major...
This is a $3,577,795.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Center to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization, for the development of a Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph Phase E Instrument for the Solar Orbiter mission. The contract has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2027 and was awarded on February 27, 2025. SwRI has a history of supporting NASA and other...
This is a $1,416,460.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is to provide CO-I (Co-Investigator) support for the WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) mission. SwRI, which specializes in advanced technology development across various fields, has a strong track...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for the Solar Orbiter Measurement Investigation "Heavy Ion Sensor" project. SwRI will be responsible for the full life-cycle management, design, testing, development, operations, data reduction, and archiving of the Heavy Ion Sensor Time of Flight (HIS-TOF) solid state detector. The contract has a ceiling value of $63,385,698.00 and a completion date...
This federal contract award, valued at $824,919.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the Civilian U.S. government agency to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a prominent nonprofit research and development organization. The contract's purpose is to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. SwRI will participate as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative, focusing on...
This is a $607,476 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The grant is for the purpose of creating a globally controlled dataset of spice images, a critical capability for NASA's Crater Tracking and eXtraction (CTX) mission. This grant award is not set aside and represents one of many federal contracts and grants that SwRI has...
This is a $519,229 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to research the contribution of coronal jets to the solar wind using deep machine learning and computer vision techniques. The contract is a research grant with a period of performance through July 2026. SwRI is a prominent nonprofit research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas, that specializes in advanced scientific and engineering services for various government...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,099,789.00, was granted to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization, to develop a Miniature Solar Wind Sensor (MSWIS) for future low-cost, constellation, and deep-space missions. The award, identified as 80NSSC24K1787, is a grant for research and was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, has an...
This contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a non-profit research and development organization. The contract, valued at $411,741.00, is a grant for research to process almost 9 Mars years of data from the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) instrument for the planetary science community. The contract has a completion date of August 31, 2027 and was awarded on May 21, 2024. SwRI has extensive...
This federal contract award, valued at $703,243.00, was granted to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a nonprofit research and development organization, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the "Characterization of the Origins and Evolution of Multi-Scale Reconnection-Driven Coronal Dynamics" project. The contract is a grant for research, with a period of performance through July 14, 2027. SwRI, which does business as S W R I, is a prominent federal...