Purchase Order 80NSSC22PB449

The Smithsonian Institution, through its Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) division, was awarded a $1,842,257.29 Definitive Contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center for the development of the High Resolution Coronal Imager (HI-C) Flare Rocket. This contract was awarded on March 4, 2021 and has an ultimate completion date of December 4, 2025. The contract is a cost-type award with no fee. The original solicitation was released...

This is a $599,471.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution, for the "High Resolution Coronal Imager: HI-C Reflight" project. The contract has a completion date of December 31, 2019 and does not have a set-aside designation. The Smithsonian Institution, a non-profit organization, is a leading provider of scientific research, instrumentation...

This is a $120,000 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to study chromospheric evaporation during solar flares. The project will analyze data from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission, along with complementary observations from RHESSI, Fermi, and SDO/HMI, to better understand the connection between energy release mechanisms and the properties of chromospheric evaporation. The...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to Lockheed Martin Corporation. The contract has a ceiling value of $84,586 and a period of performance ending on September 30, 2018. The contract provides science support services for the High Resolution Coronal Imager instrument in support of NASA's solar physics research. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Lockheed Martin has...

This federal contract award, valued at $1,110,498.05, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop and test an All-Sky Heliospheric Imager (ASHI) instrument. The ASHI is designed to observe the shapes and time histories of structures in the inner heliosphere, including density and velocity, from deep space. This effort builds upon previous NASA missions that utilized similar Thomson scattering observation...

This federal contract award, valued at $446,221.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER Institute), a non-profit research organization based in California. The contract is focused on probing the physics of flare-associated quasi-periodic fast-mode propagating wave trains (QFPS), a new observational phenomenon discovered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission. The research aims to provide...

This is a $149,671.00 firm fixed-price Purchase Order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Research Instruments Corporation, a small business manufacturer, for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project titled "RESOLUTION NDE WITH X-RAY IMAGING AND COMPUTED". The contract has a period of performance ending on February 6, 2025 and is set aside for small businesses. The project aims to develop advanced x-ray imaging and computed...

This federal contract award, valued at $594,544.83, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of over 115 universities that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The objective of this contract is to investigate the origin of major activity in solar active regions, particularly those that exhibit compact polarity inversion lines, which are known to be highly...

This federal contract award is a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for a focused program of fundamental research on solar flare dynamics. The research aims to obtain quantitative information on the evolution of solar flare parameters like magnetic field and fast electron distribution over time scales down to 1 second, in order to infer the basic processes occurring in solar flares. The research leverages data from...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to conduct research on particle energization in solar flares. The $459,998.43 grant, which does not have a set-aside designation, will fund a project that combines observations from various NASA missions, including the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Hinode, Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph...