Purchase Order FA945319P0642

This is a $160,000.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to develop advanced techniques in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to enhance wildfire risk modeling and emergency response planning for federal land management agencies. The contract, identified as 22-SMDSS22-0072, is titled "ADVANCED FOREST FIRE PLANNING INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Channel Logistics, LLC, doing business as Space-Eyes, a minority-owned small business. The contract, valued at $146,543.00, is for the "Fire Watch: Prediction and Detection of Wildfires through Advanced AI/ML" project, which involves developing capabilities in low Earth orbit sensor imagery, multi-sensor fusion, threat...

This is a $165,813 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Opal Ai Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for the development of a "PHASE I IGNITE FIREGPT A VISION LANGUAGE MODEL FOR PRESCRIBED BURN DECISION SUPPORT USING NASA EARTH SCIENCE DATA". This indicates the contract is focused on developing an AI-based tool to support decision-making for prescribed...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Opal Ai Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Los Angeles, California. The $899,845 Firm Fixed Price contract is for the development of FireGPT, a vision language model for prescribed burn decision support using NASA Earth science data. This contract is set aside for small businesses and represents an innovative application of...

This is a $386,335 federal grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of a civilian federal agency to American University, a private non-profit research university located in Washington, D.C. The grant is for a 3-year project titled "Integrating Explainable Machine Learning with Physics for Enhanced Wildfire Detection in Observation-Constrained Environments." The project aims to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies, administration...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian agency, to Channel Logistics, LLC, doing business as Space-Eyes, a minority-owned small business. The $900,000 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of an advanced AI/ML-based "Fire Watch" system for wildfire prediction and detection. The contract has a completion date of September 11, 2025. Space-Eyes is an experienced federal contractor, having previously...

This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Michigan State University (MSU) to develop a 30 m weekly burned area product by combining data from the Landsat-8, Sentinel-2A, and Sentinel-2B satellites. The $1,063,138.97 grant will fund the development and validation of an algorithm that uses a random forest change regression model and temporal consistency checks to differentiate between burned areas and spectrally similar nonfire...

This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park to advance the development of a global network of geostationary satellite-based active fire detection and characterization products. The grant, valued at $584,526.28, aims to validate and harmonize data from multiple geostationary satellite sensors, including the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI)...

This $800,826 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) for the development and deployment of new decision support and situational awareness tools focused on wildland fire management. The primary goal is to reduce the hazardous risks associated with wildland fires by improving the understanding of the interactions between fire behavior, local weather, and smoke. The project will leverage the existing WRFX...

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $2.196 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER) on February 24, 2023, for machine learning-driven data compression techniques applied to space weather environmental model data storage and distribution. The effort represents a program of performance rebaseline focused on exploration and execution of machine learning-assisted data compression, with verification through quantitative evaluation....