Purchase Order 80NSSC22PB904

This $726,353 federal grant award to the Regents of the University of Michigan funds a research project to study the dynamics and coupling of Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial inputs. The project will employ a systems science approach, utilizing advanced numerical models from the University of Michigan's Space Weather Modeling Framework as well as comprehensive observations from NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory and other...

<p>NASA Goddard Space Center awarded a $1,364,840 definitive contract to Regents of the University of Michigan for a Space Weather Geostationary Photospheric Magnetograph Imager Phase A study on June 1, 2026, as a firm fixed-price award with no set-aside.</p> <p>The contract covers a Phase A study for the SW GEO PHOMI instrument concept. Place of performance is Ann Arbor, Michigan. The ultimate completion date is August 31, 2027.</p>

The Regents of the University of Michigan, performing work in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was awarded a Phase A-B bridge contract on August 15, 2023, for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) Near Earth Magnetometer Instrument in a Small Integrated System (NEMISIS) program. This definitive cost-no-fee contract, valued at $1,081,513, is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center and is scheduled for completion by September 30, 2025. The contract...

The Regents of the University of Michigan has been awarded a $150,000 research grant to conduct coupled fluid-kinetic simulations of Mercury's dynamic nightside magnetosphere. The award, announced on September 1, 2024, is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2027, and represents a competitive, non-set-aside grant from a civilian federal agency. The research will be performed at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus through the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division. This...

The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a $98,582.95 grant to integrate the Inner Magnetosphere Particle Transport and Acceleration Model (IMPTAM) into the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) to enable near real-time and on-demand modeling capabilities. This civilian research grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, with a completion date of September 30, 2024, represents a focused effort to enhance space weather modeling infrastructure. The work will be performed at the...

The Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), was awarded a $160,401.17 grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research related to understanding the global distribution and dynamics of electric and magnetic fields in the magnetosphere and ionosphere during extreme space weather events. The research aims to advance the scientific understanding of how energetic electrons and...

This is a $439,322.38 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan to examine data from the Van Allen Probes and THEMIS missions. The goal is to assess the connections and drivers of inner magnetospheric current densities and hot ion structures. Specifically, the research will test hypotheses about how localized electric field perturbations influence the spatial distribution of hot ions in the inner magnetosphere. This...

The Regents of the University of Michigan received a civilian research grant valued at $747,490.35 from a federal agency's Shared Services Center, awarded November 1, 2021, with completion targeted for October 31, 2024. This grant supports space weather research leveraging observations from NASA magnetospheric missions combined with ground-based radar and magnetometer networks. The research utilizes the University of Michigan's Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) to investigate processes...

This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, doing business as the University of Michigan. The $933,770 grant will fund research to analyze decades of ground-based magnetometer data to identify and characterize rapid changes in the Earth's magnetic field, known as db/dt events. The research aims to better understand the space weather context and...

The Regents of the University of Michigan, through its Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division, has been awarded a $514,139 grant for research investigating solar wind heating and acceleration in three dimensions using multi-instrument tomography. The award, issued on March 1, 2023, is a competitively awarded grant with no set-aside designation and extends through February 28, 2027. Work will be performed at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus. The funding agency is...