This is a $95,999.50 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Andrew Chaikin LLC, a sole proprietorship owned by space author and journalist Andrew Chaikin. The contract is for 11 one-day instructor-led training courses on the "Principles of Success in Spaceflight" to be delivered at each of the 11 NASA centers between the award date of June 26, 2017 and November 30, 2017. The contract does...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $14,600.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Andrew Chaikin LLC for the virtual delivery of two half-day training sessions on lessons learned from the Apollo I fire. The contract has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2023 and was awarded on January 4, 2023. Andrew Chaikin LLC is a for-profit limited liability company owned by Andrew Chaikin, an author, speaker, and space journalist focused on...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Andrew Chaikin LLC, a sole proprietorship owned by author and space journalist Andrew Chaikin. The $116,891.62 contract is for the development and delivery of a "Principles of Success in Spaceflight Training Course" for NASA. The contract was awarded on a sole source basis as Chaikin LLC was determined to be the sole provider of this training. The contract has no set-aside...
<p>This $2,495.77 firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by a U.S. government agency to Andrew Stark, a Veteran Owned Business, in support of the agency's E910 IEMC/Earthquake Preparedness and Response program. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The purchase order was for reimbursable airfare and was completed on July 22, 2005, with an award date of July 17, 2005.</p>
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a civilian federal agency, to Donald Edberg, doing business as Dynamic Modelling, for a Spacecraft Design and Systems Engineering Training Course. The contract has a ceiling value of $95,989.90 and a final completion date of January 31, 2017. The contract was not set aside for any specific business type. Based on the agency and the nature of the training course, this award is likely in support...
This federal contract award, valued at $183,760.22, was issued by NASA to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop autonomous fault identification and handling algorithms for spacecraft. The objective is to enable spacecraft to better characterize their external environment, monitor internal system health, and make autonomous decisions, supporting NASA's goals of deep space exploration. The algorithms will leverage analysis of past mission data to identify telemetry responses...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to Navigation Technology Seminars Inc., a woman-owned small business located in Alexandria, Virginia. The contract is for the purchase of a 5-day remote training course on Inertial Systems, Kalman Filtering, and GPS/INS Integration for 20 NASA personnel at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The total ceiling value of the contract is $35,788.00, and it has...
This is a delivery order contract awarded by the Armstrong Flight Research Center, a civilian agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to Flightsafety International Inc. The contract is for $143,340.00 and is for flight crew training to support NASA Headquarters. The contract is a firm fixed-price delivery order, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2025. Flightsafety International Inc. is a for-profit organization that specializes in professional...
This is a firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Institute For Management Studies, Inc. Headquarters Division, a veteran-owned for-profit organization. The $16,225.00 contract covers leadership management seminars to be provided from April 7, 2004 through December 31, 2004. The company has a history of providing training sponsorship services, membership programs, and professional development solutions to various federal...
This federal contract award is for a non-recurring training order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Pittsburgh, a civilian agency. The contract, valued at $12,500.00, was awarded to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to provide a course entitled "Leading the AI Driven Organization." The contract is a firm fixed-price purchase order with no set-aside designation. MIT, a premier private research university, has demonstrated extensive capabilities...
This is a $778,950.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Defense (DOD) Missile Defense Agency to Andrew Chaikin LLC, a sole proprietorship owned by Andrew Chaikin. The contract is for Mr. Chaikin to present a training class titled "Inviting Success, Avoiding Failure" in Arlington, VT. The award did not utilize any set-aside designation and was a direct award to the contractor. Andrew Chaikin LLC is an organization that provides historical and educational services related to space flight and NASA missions, with a focus on delivering training, courses, and presentations on topics like complex decision making, principles of success in spaceflight, and lessons learned from past failures. This contract award appears to be one of many such federal contract awards the company has received from NASA and other agencies to develop and deliver educational content on the history and lessons of the U.S. space program.