Purchase Order 15F06721P0003050

This federal contract award, valued at $531,120.25, was granted by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The contract is for an Archival Data Analysis Program (ADAP) to conduct a comprehensive ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic analysis of archival spectra from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and...

This is a sole-source purchase order contract awarded by the National Shared Services Center (NSSC), a NASA agency, to Astrofrontiers, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, for the renewal of a CASSIE Full Mission Telemetry License maintenance. The one-year contract, valued at $120,000.00, will support NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's satellite telemetry retrieval, manipulation, and analysis capabilities. Astrofrontiers, Inc. is the incumbent and proposed sole-source vendor for this...

This is a $849,970.00 Firm Fixed Price SBIR Phase II contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to AD Astra Rocket Co, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business located in Webster, Texas. The contract is for the "Improved Design of the VASIMR Radio Frequency Transmission Line", which aims to further develop the company's Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) electric propulsion technology. This research and development contract has a total small business...

The U.S. Naval Observatory has awarded a firm-fixed price purchase order contract to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) for the routine operations and maintenance of the Deep South Telescope (DST) located at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. The contract, valued at $234,660.00, has a 12-month period of performance with a 12-month option and is expected to commence on July 26, 2023. This is a sole-source contract, as AURA is the only...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a civilian federal agency, to Applied Dynamics International, Inc. (ADI) for the maintenance support of Boeing Spacecraft Emulators (BSES). The contract has a total ceiling value of $26,629.00 and an ultimate completion date of January 1, 2022. ADI, a for-profit manufacturer registered to receive federal contracts since 2002, specializes in providing hardware and software solutions...

Alpha Space Test And Research Alliance, LLC has been awarded a $492,647 firm fixed price delivery order for MISSE-2 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center. MISSE-2 will provide testing and data collection for passive and active material samples and other experiments, science, and research and development in the extreme environment of low Earth orbit, and their return to Earth for post-mission processing. The delivery order has a completion date of July...

This delivery order from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to Vaisala Inc. is for the $21,286.78 renewal of TWX300 instrumentation through May 31, 2025. Vaisala, a foreign-owned manufacturer based in Louisville, Colorado, will provide continued meteorological monitoring equipment to NASA under the Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicle. As a leading supplier of specialized environmental observation solutions, Vaisala supports weather data collection for...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $103,270.49 firm fixed price delivery order to AD Astra, Inc., a woman-owned small business, for translation and interpretation services. This order is issued under AD Astra's General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract for the Professional Services Schedule (PSS). AD Astra provides language interpretation, translation, transcription, and real-time captioning services to...

This is a $8,868,091.00 firm fixed price contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to AD Astra Rocket Company (Aarc), a minority-owned small business, for the demonstration and measurement of key technical functions and parameters relevant to NASA. The objectives are to demonstrate the power, lifetime, and performance of Aarc's Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) electric propulsion technology, including achieving a system efficiency goal of...

AD Astra Collaborative LLC has been awarded a $2,500 delivery order against its $20 million single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service. The purpose of this task order is to satisfy the minimum guarantee under contract number 12FPC324D0008. The delivery order is for firm fixed price architect and engineering services in support of the NRCS's watershed and flood prevention programs. Performance will...