Purchase Order FA864922P0235

This federal contract award, valued at $333,412.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to deploy the university's Stratospheric Whole Air Sampler (WAS) on the NASA WB-57 aircraft during the upcoming Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical and Climate Impacts Project (ACCLIP). ACCLIP is a coordinated research program involving airborne, balloon, ground-based, and satellite...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $823,174 research grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to provide the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) instrument for the Clouds, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes-Philippines Experiment (CAMP2EX) campaign. The RSP will be used to make airborne observations of aerosols, clouds, and atmospheric conditions in the Philippines during the southwest monsoon to enhance...

This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the NASA agency) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for the development of a new solar-powered unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for long-endurance Arctic environmental monitoring and surveillance missions. The $116,105.82 contract involves undergraduate engineering and science students from UCSD designing, fabricating, and testing the UAS, which will be based on a low-drag flying wing design...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $188,170 firm fixed price purchase order to Applied Design Corporation for portable air sampling units and flasks. The equipment will support NOAA's Global Monitoring Laboratory's Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network atmospheric sampling program. Specifically, Applied Design Corporation will provide 2 Hermes Model 80 Precision Flask Packages, 4 Pilot Display Peripheral Units, 9 Sherpa 70 Automated Portable Sampling Units,...

This contract award to Ascent Aerosystems LLC, a manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is for the RAPTOR program. The contract, valued at $37,032, is a firm fixed-price purchase order issued by the Department of the Air Force. The contract has no set-aside designation and the place of performance is Qatar. Ascent Aerosystems has provided a range of UAS and related services to government agencies such as the Air Force, Army, and Defense Health Agency through both prime and...

This federal contract award, NNX15AK44A, was issued by the Shared Services Center (SSC), a civilian agency, to the San Jose State University Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization, to support the development of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Traffic Management (UTM) system. The key objectives are to: 1) provide on-site atmospheric sensing data to support UTM testing, 2) transfer real-time atmospheric data from the sensors into the UTM system, and 3) evaluate the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh...

This is a delivery order awarded by the U.S. Army under the Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) IDIQ contract to AeroVironment, Inc. for the repair parts for the RQ-11B unmanned aerial vehicle. The contract has a ceiling value of $5,990,852.46 and does not have a set-aside designation. AeroVironment is a leading manufacturer of unmanned systems, including small tactical UAS like the Raven, Puma, Wasp, and Switchblade, which have been widely adopted by the U.S. military for intelligence,...

This $209,975.30 federal grant award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) supports the development and deployment of an Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) for NASA. The award covers providing AVAPS dropsonde hardware, consultation on designing a dropsonde launcher, and field support during deployment. UCAR, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), has extensive expertise in atmospheric research and development to support this...

This federal contract award supports the Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface-Interaction Experiment (ARCSIX) through the deployment of two specialized moisture sensors. The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) has been awarded a $897,154 grant to provide a downward-viewing multi-function airborne Raman lidar (MARLI) and an upward-viewing 183 GHz G-band vapor radiometer (GVR) for use on a low-flying aircraft platform. These instruments will...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Aerocine Ventures, Inc. a $584,095 Other Transaction Agreement to provide an autonomous unmanned aerial system for electronic emission capture and 3D data visualization at an Air Force base in Jackson Heights, New York. As the prime contractor, Aerocine Ventures will deliver an unmanned aircraft system capable of monitoring electronic signals and generating three-dimensional models of collected data under the 23-month...