Training Grant NNX17AB68H

This federal contract award NNX17AB68H was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to support research on improving the accuracy of models for predicting the size and location of sonic boom carpets from supersonic aircraft. The $110,000 training grant is intended to leverage the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) database to provide more detailed atmospheric profiles and enhance NASA's primary sonic boom propagation models, PCBOOM and SBOOM. The goal is to enable more accurate calculation of primary and secondary boom carpet areas, which is critical for assessing potential human exposure as civil supersonic flight over land becomes feasible. This contract does not utilize any set-aside designations.