Cooperative Agreement 80NSSC20M0178

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Mississippi received a $750,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) program (CFDA 43.008), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The award supports research and development activities focused on additive manufacturing of planar metasurfaces for cloaking and decoupling applications in printed antennas and phased antenna arrays. This...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $749,640 to Maine Space Grant Consortium on October 1, 2025, under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) to support research and development of cold spray metallized composites for use as lightweight rocket oxidizer tanks. The three-year project, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2028, leverages Maine Space Grant Consortium's...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded the University of Puerto Rico a $750,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. The award supports the execution of a balanced science program developed in accordance with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, as well as administration priorities and...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $149,199, issued on May 1, 2024 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under its Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012), supports the "EVALUATION OF LUNAR MAPS AND TERRAN RELATIVE NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS" project. The awardee, Georgia TECH Research Corp, will conduct research and development activities related to lunar mapping and navigation algorithms to enable future NASA exploration missions. The project has a planned...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under its Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), awarded a $199,708 cooperative agreement to Space Infrastructure Foundation, Inc. to investigate the application and effectiveness of the Reference Architecture for Space Data Systems Version 2 (RASDSV2) in meeting U.S. mission objectives for voluntary consensus standards. The award, obligated on September 1, 2025, with a...

Collier Research and Development Corporation was awarded a $105,759.17 Cooperative Agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center on July 28, 2021 to complete work by June 30, 2022. The award supports Collier Research & Development Corp.'s HI-RATE COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING project, which aims to demonstrate manufacturing approaches and technologies to enable a 4-6 times increase in the production rate of large composite airframe structures...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation - Technologies (USNC-Space) a $124,592.39 Project Grant under the Space Technology program (CFDA 43.012) to design a compact radioisotope-electric-propulsion spacecraft powered by a novel chargeable atomic battery (CAB). The CAB technology aims to enable spacecraft delta-V capabilities on the order of 100 km/s with a power system specific mass of 5-8 kg/kWe. The award period runs from March 8, 2021...

Summary The University of Miami received a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science program (CFDA 43.001), awarded on February 12, 2026, with an ultimate completion date of February 11, 2027. During the first year of activities at the facility located in South Miami, Florida, the awardee focused on acquiring necessary equipment, developing staff capabilities, and establishing procedures for the safe deployment, maintenance,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Space Balloon Technologies Corp (doing business as Spaceloon) received a $1.25M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. The award funds development and validation of a market-ready mesospheric sub-orbital ballooning platform designed to provide...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Clemson University's Division of Research received a $1.24M Cooperative Agreement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate under the Science program (CFDA 43.001), awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award supports the execution of a balanced science program aligned with discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine,...