Purchase Order NSFDACS17P1374

This federal contract award is for an Incurred Cost Audit of the California Institute of Technology's Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project, funded by the National Science Foundation. The $95,091.70 delivery order contract was awarded to Hamilton Enterprises, LLC, a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Greenbelt, Maryland. The contract is a Time and Materials type and does not have a set-aside designation. Hamilton...

NASA's Goddard Space Center awarded a $15.7M cost-no-fee definitive contract to the University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research on January 1, 2021, for the design, fabrication, alignment, testing, and delivery of a Technology Readiness Level 6 breadboard for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Charge Management Device (CMD). LISA is a joint NASA-ESA mission designed to detect gravitational waves in space, and the CMD is a critical subsystem responsible for managing...

This is a delivery order contract awarded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a federally funded research and development center operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), to Caltech's JPL division. The contract, valued at $5,826,580.00, is for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) program, a joint space-based gravitational wave observatory mission. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order with a period of performance through January 30, 2030. This...

The University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research was awarded a $1.24 million grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support testing and verification of prototypes for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. LISA is a NASA-supported European Space Agency-led space-based gravitational wave observatory planned for launch in the mid-2020s. Under the grant, the University of Florida will verify the dimensional stability of LISA telescope structural...

This federal contract award to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a major public research university, focuses on developing a new method for measuring the properties of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) using data from the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. LISA is a space-based gravitational-wave observatory being jointly developed by the European Space Agency and NASA, expected to launch in 2034. The $433,345.00 grant will support the...

NASA's Langley Research Center awarded Cornell Technical Services LLC a $72,308 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to provide Standing Review Board (SRB) support for the Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) mission. The award, issued on September 28, 2021, with an ultimate completion date of May 30, 2025, was made without a small business set-aside. This delivery order falls under Cornell Technical Services' larger $111.75 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite...

The University of Illinois was awarded a $312,372.84 cooperative agreement by a civilian federal agency on August 1, 2022, to conduct a study of the origin of differential phase noise in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) laser system. The work is being performed in Urbana, Illinois, with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2026. The LISA mission represents a collaborative international effort to detect gravitational waves using space-based laser interferometry, and phase noise...

The Department of the Interior US Geological Survey Office of Acquisitions and Grants awarded a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order contract for $24,407.60 to Meeting Services Inc., a Woman Owned Small Business, for 2016 LIDAR WORKSHOP/ CONFERENCE PLANNING services. The contract was a sole source award under the 8(a) set aside program. The contract was for conference and meeting planning services to be performed in Fort Collins, CO. The contract had an award date of February 17, 2016 and a...

The federal government awarded a $749,750.00 cooperative agreement to the West Virginia University Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and 1862 Land Grant College. The contract, titled "BRINGING GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY INTO THE SPACE AGE: NEXT-GENERATION WAVEFORM MODELING OF BLACK-HOLE BINARY COALESCENCES FOR LISA DATA ANALYSIS", is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is not set aside. The agreement supports research and...

This is a $381,037.00 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on July 5, 2023. The award is for MIT to provide gravitational-wave instrumentation subject matter expert contributions to the NASA LISA study office. This is not a set-aside contract. The work is to be performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a completion date of July 4, 2026. MIT is a premier private research university known for its advanced...