Sep 1 2015
From The Space Library
Release C15-036 NASA Awards Postdoctoral Program Contract
NASA has selected the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) of Columbia, Maryland to provide the agency with administrative support and coordination of research opportunities between NASA’s mission directorates and centers.
The NASA Postdoctoral Program contract is a five-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract valued at $100 million. USRA will provide NASA with highly qualified postdoctoral-level scientists and engineers to conduct research in areas of interest to NASA and the individual researcher.
Work under this contract will be performed at the contractor’s facility in Maryland.
Release 15-179 NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education
NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected nine universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $3.6 million to create and operate a NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy.
The universities will receive as much as $160,000 per year for two years and up to $100,000 for a third year. The Aerospace Academies will engage historically underserved and underrepresented students in grades K-12 through hands-on activities that reflect each of NASA’s four mission directorates: Science, Aeronautics, Space Technology and Human Exploration and Operations. The academies will also provide access to NASA technology through an Aerospace Education Laboratory, and encourage families and communities to get involved through the Family Café, an interactive forum with activities, workshops and guest speakers.
The universities selected for Aerospace Academy grants are:
- California State University, Fresno
- Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland
- Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina
- Hartnell College, Salinas, California
- Morgan State University, Baltimore
- Tennessee State University, Nashville
- Texas State University, San Marcos
- The University of Texas at El Paso
- York College, City University of New York
MUREP awards promote STEM literacy and enhance and sustain the capability of institutions to perform NASA-related research and education. The goals of the program are to expand the nation's base for aerospace research and development, increase participation by faculty and students at minority serving institutions, and increase the number of undergraduate and graduate degrees in NASA-related fields awarded to students from minority serving institutions.
Release C15-035 NASA Awards Technology, Integrated Discipline Engineering Services Contract
NASA has awarded a contract to Trident Vantage Systems, LLC of Arlington, Virginia to provide engineering and related services at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Technology and Integrated Discipline Engineering Services contract is an 8(a) small business set-aside, cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, with a minimum ordering value of $3 million and a maximum ordering value of $114 million. There is a 45-day phase-in period to commence on or about Sept.1 and the contract ordering period is for five years. Individual efforts may extend beyond five years.
The contractor will provide engineering and related services to the Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division and related organizations, as required, for the formulation, design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification and operations of guidance, navigation and control space flight and ground system hardware and software.
The work will also include development and validation of services in the areas of guidance, navigation and control systems engineering, attitude control systems hardware and software, and propulsion engineering. The principal work will be performed at Goddard and the contractor’s facility.
Release C15-034 NASA Awards Systems Engineering Advanced Services Contract
NASA has awarded a contract to Alcyon Technical Services Joint Venture, LLC of Huntsville, Alabama to provide mission and instrument systems engineering services for the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Systems Engineering Advanced Services contract is an 8(a) small business set-aside, cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, with a minimum ordering value of $3 million and a maximum ordering value of $188 million. There is a 45-day phase-in period scheduled to commence on or about Sept.1, followed by a five-year contract ordering period. Individual efforts may extend beyond five years.
The contractor will provide mission and instrument systems engineering services to the Mission Engineering & Systems Analysis Division and related Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate organizations at Goddard. The work involves the formulation and implementation of flight and ground systems and development and validation of new technologies.
The contract also provides services in all aspects of mission and instrument formulation and implementation for systems, science instruments, observatories, launch, ground system, spacecraft, and suborbital craft, such as aircraft, sounding rockets, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, including services for free-flying spacecraft, suborbital craft payloads and International Space Station payloads. The principal work will be performed at Goddard and the contractor’s facility.
