Purchase Order 1305M322PNRMJ0142

This is a firm fixed-price delivery order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to World View Enterprises Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of stratospheric exploration products, to demonstrate two station-seeking stratospheric balloons for maritime domain awareness. The contract, valued at $1,000,000.00, has an ultimate completion date of December 1, 2026 and is not associated with a set-aside. The contract work will involve launching the balloons in mid-July 2026 over the Gulf of...

This is a $2,315,204.58 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Princeton University, through its Office of Research and Project Administration, to develop and fly a diffraction-limited imaging instrument on a mid-latitude super-pressure balloon platform. The instrument will have a half-degree field of view and 0.3-arcsecond resolution, enabling transformative research in areas like exoplanet detection and weak gravitational lensing of galaxy clusters. The...

This is a $349,924.82 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit research and development organization, to investigate the drift-bounce dispersion of microbursts and their potential ability to explain the observation of 30-60 km fine-scale, persistent structures in over 35 keV electrons precipitating into the Earth's atmosphere. The research will utilize data from The Aerospace Corporation's Aerocube-6 (AC6) mission, a...

This is a $43,923.50 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation to Kaymont Consolidated Industries, Inc., a small business contractor. The contract is for the delivery of 821 units of National Stock Number (NSN) 6660014983855 BALLOON, METEOROLOGICAL to the DLA Distribution Depot in Hill by January 7, 2024. Kaymont Consolidated Industries is the world's largest distributor of weather balloons and has extensive experience supporting the weather...

This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Deutsches Zentrum FÜR Luft- UND Raumfahrt E.V. (DLR), Germany's national research center for aeronautics, space, transport and energy. The $57,066.74 contract is for the provision of a balloon telescope structure for a 20ft/f/2 telescope, with a completion date of August 30, 2022. No set-asides were used. The award references a prior sole-source contract opportunity for a balloon sodium lidar to measure tides in...

<p>The Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command awarded a $6,570 firm fixed price delivery order to International Quality Advantage LLC for 150 grams of weather balloons. The place of performance is Martinez Lake, Arizona. The contract has a completion date of May 2, 2022 and was awarded on March 28, 2022. No set-aside designation was used for this procurement. The balloons will support testing and evaluation activities at the Army location.</p>

This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AI83A, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). The $200,000.00 cooperative agreement is for the development of an acoustic temperature measurement system to accurately measure the lift gas temperature and ambient air temperature of high-altitude balloons. This work is being done in collaboration with Raven Industries/Aerostar International to validate the performance...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded to Kaymont Consolidated Industries, Inc., a small business located in Melbourne, Florida, to provide 400 Kaymont weather balloons for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) SHADOZ Network. The contract has a ceiling value of $28,000.00 and a completion date of September 1, 2025. It was awarded on July 29, 2025 by NASA's Shared Services Center, which is a civilian agency. The procurement was originally posted as a...

Near Space Corporation (NSC) received a $298,947 grant award from NASA's Shared Services Center on December 18, 2019, for contract 19-19FOF1-PRO-0048, titled &quot;Data Buoy for NASA's Long Duration High Altitude Balloons.&quot; The project aims to conduct a flight test validation of an innovative data buoy concept using NSC's modified Near Space Shuttle System (NS3) platform, launching from an altitude of approximately 120,000 feet. This research initiative is part of NASA's Flight...

This federal contract award to the University of Wyoming (UWY) supports the Balloon Measurements of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (BATAL) 2015 project. UWY will conduct one to two balloon soundings from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Balloon Facility in Hyderabad, India in August 2015. UWY will provide a balloon gondola with instruments to measure aerosol size distribution, volatile and non-volatile particles, ozone, altitude, pressure, temperature, and GPS position....