Execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine administration priorities and direction from congress

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded Carnegie Institution of Washington $120,920 on October 1, 2025, under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) to execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and administration priorities and direction from Congress, serving as a key partner and enabler in advancing NASA's scientific objectives.

Performance runs through September 30, 2027, with work conducted in Washington, DC. Carnegie Institution for Science, the recipient organization, is a nonprofit research foundation headquartered in Washington, DC that conducts and funds basic scientific research across astronomy, Earth and planetary sciences, biology, materials science, and ecology. The institution operates research laboratories at its DC headquarters and maintains astronomical observatories in Chile at Las Campanas Observatory and other field sites.

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