This is a $1,607,640 Cooperative Agreement awarded by NASA to the non-profit Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to collect and analyze data from low-cost air quality sensors deployed by citizen scientists in three regions (Raleigh, Los Angeles, and Delhi) to improve the ability to estimate fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations from satellite aerosol measurements. The goal is to enhance the value of NASA's Earth science data products for monitoring air quality near the...
This federal contract award to Geooptics, Inc., a veteran-owned small business located in Pasadena, California, was made by the Air Force for a CubeSat system to support global navigation satellite system radio occultation and ocean reflections under the Commercial Weather Data Pilot program. The firm-fixed-price contract has a ceiling value of $749,672 and a completion date of December 31, 2022. The original solicitation sought innovative technical solutions to improve global weather monitoring...
Orbital Micro Systems, Inc., doing business as Orbital Microsystems Inc., has been awarded a $1,793,202.06 firm fixed price contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Electronic Systems Center to deliver validation services supporting the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) satellite program. Under the definitive contract, which has no set-aside designation and is to be completed by December 31, 2025, Orbital Microsystems will provide commercial weather...
This is a Phase II STTR contract awarded by NASA to Radiometrics Corporation, a small business manufacturer of atmospheric remote sensing equipment, to develop an automated variational retrieval system for accurate temperature, humidity, and pressure profiles up to 20 km altitude. The contract also involves developing a robust lightning risk identification algorithm using Radiometrics' microwave profiler liquid water path data and stability indices. The $745,878 firm-fixed-price contract has a...
This is a firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Earth Networks Inc. for the purchase of Global Positioning System (GPS) meteorological, total precipitable water, and zenith total delay data. The contract has a ceiling value of $1,500,000.00 and an ultimate completion date of September 27, 2021. Earth Networks Inc. is a for-profit manufacturer that provides weather intelligence data and atmospheric...
This is a $455,920.57 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to develop a physically-based global satellite precipitation climate data record (CDR) extending back to the launch of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) satellite in 1987. The goal is to leverage work done for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to create a homogeneous long-term precipitation dataset that eliminates the need for empirical...
This contract award to Airbus DS GEO Inc. is for the delivery of satellite imagery and synthetic aperture radar data to support Earth science research, monitoring of U.S. crop seasons, and other NASA initiatives. The contract was issued by the Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement under the Information Technology Schedule 70 (IT-70) contract vehicle. It is a firm fixed-price Delivery Order with a potential value of $34,810.20. Airbus DS GEO Inc. is a...
<p>The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (DOD - Navy) awarded a $573,406.32 purchase order contract to Global-Lg LLC, doing business as Global-Lg, for an Advanced Meteorological Satellite. The contract has a place of performance in Carlsbad, California and a period of performance from June 15, 2023 through September 25, 2023. The pricing structure is firm fixed price. No subcontractors were identified.</p>
Space Sciences And Engineering LLC, doing business as Planetiq, has been awarded a $500 delivery order against the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program multiple award IDIQ contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters. The delivery order, set to be completed by October 5, 2023, is for the delivery of metadata for archive to support the CSDA Program. The CSDA Program is a NASA initiative to acquire Earth observation data from commercial small...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC24M0010, was issued by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), a for-profit subchapter S corporation located in Santa Rosa, California. The $3,000,843 cooperative agreement is for extending the air/sea essential climate variable record using observations from two new satellite microwave sensors, MWI and AMSR-3. The award does not have a set-aside designation. RSS is known for processing and analyzing...