This federal contract award to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) provides $1,611,296.53 in firm fixed-price funding for technical assistance and support services. The work includes developing technical tools, creating data models, interacting with relevant agencies, and managing a bid data platform. UMass, the prime contractor, has subcontracted a portion of the research and development efforts to Rigr Ai LIMITED, a for-profit company that specializes in applying machine learning and...
The Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation awarded a purchase order valued at approximately $512,000 to the University of Massachusetts, doing business as the Office of Grant & Contract Administration. The prime contractor will provide technical support services to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. over a one-year period of performance from August 2020 through August 2021 under firm fixed pricing. A subcontract valued under $500,000 was also awarded to Rigr Ai Limited to...
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) was awarded a $180,298.85 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract (N0017320P0579) by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to provide ultra-wideband (UWB) feed networks for planar UWB antenna arrays. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. UMass is a major public research university that frequently conducts defense-related research and provides specialized technical services to federal agencies through contracts and grants. The university has an...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20K0416, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) as the prime contractor. The $416,932.12 grant is for research, with no set-aside designation. The contract will support training of a postdoctoral associate in data analysis and verification, building upon prior data reduction work on the CANDELS-Herschel photometry project. UMass has an extensive track record of securing federal...
This is a $119,938.40 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) for research on decomposing the X-ray emission from the Galactic Center. The award, which has no set-aside designation, runs from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2026. UMass has a strong track record of securing federal contracts and grants, frequently serving as a prime awardee or subrecipient on projects across disciplines like engineering, computer science, and...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC25K7926, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an agency with ID 8000|8000|80NSSC-A) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) located in Amherst, MA. The $620,917 grant is for a research contract that will execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. The contract requires UMass to participate as a key partner in the agency's exploration initiative,...
This federal contract award, number 80NSSC21K0103, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) for research on "Turbulent Transition in Electromagnetically Levitated Droplets" and "Thermophysical Properties and Phase Selection in High-Entropy Alloys." The $236,058.53 grant-funded research contract has a completion date of July 30, 2024. UMass, a major public land-grant research university system,...
This federal contract award, ID 80NSSC20K1299, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for a federal agency) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) as the prime contractor. The $873,639.79 grant is for research, with no set-aside designation. The award directly addresses the solicitation goals and provides immediate benefits for UMass's local partners in Nepal, representing natural resources management in governmental and non-governmental sectors. UMass, a major...
This is a firm fixed-price delivery order awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs to the University of Massachusetts Medical School Grants and Contracts Administration Division, doing business as UMms. The contract, valued at $123,074.00, is for faculty and staff research support services. UMms is the commonwealth's public academic health sciences center located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and offers master's and doctoral programs in biomedical sciences. The award has no set-aside...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC22K0207, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in Amherst, MA. The $78,509 grant is for research to apply new methods, tools, and models to the analysis of experiments from the Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 Thermophysical Properties Measurement Unit (MSL-1 TEMPUS), which collected data on thermophysical properties in a containerless processing facility. UMass, a major...