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80NSSC24PA793 - MANOMETER SN203 - SCHWIEN ENGINEERING / FDCSAMO / >MOUNT AND ALIGN LINEAR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ENCODER<
Purchase Order - 334513 Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
Contractor
SCHWIEN ENGINEERING, INC (SCHWIEN ENGINEERING, INC.)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
04/03/2024
Obligated Amount
$23.5k
80NSSC24PA543 - AIRCRAFT ENGINE SYSTEMS DESIGN - ADVANCED COMPONENT DESIGN
Purchase Order - 611430 Professional and Management Development Training
Contractor
PRACTICAL AERONAUTICS, INCORPORATED
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
02/14/2024
Obligated Amount
$25k
80NSSC24CA014 - OPTICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR THE ROMAN SPACE TELESCOPE PROJECT
Definitive Contract - 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Contractor
HAGOPIAN, JOHN G (HAGOPIAN JOHN G)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
11/29/2023
Obligated Amount
$368.5k
80NSSC23CA210 - FY23 PHASE II SEQUENTIAL - INTEGRATION OF DUST RESISTING SECONDARY EMISSION ENGINEERED PASSIVE THERMAL CONTROL MATERIAL SYSTEMS (TCMS) COATING ON - FLIGHT & TEST HARDWARE AND ITS PERFORMANCE VALIDATION TESTING PER NASA-STD-1008
Definitive Contract - 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Contractor
APPLIED MATERIAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INC.
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
09/28/2023
Obligated Amount
$2.6M
80NSSC23M0156 - 23-2023 R3-0055, NASA EPSCOR RAPID RESPONSE RESEARCH: IMPROVEMENTS ON LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK (LDPC) CODES AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
08/31/2023
Obligated Amount
$100k
80NSSC23PB527 - SBIR PHASE I - AISE: AL FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, A DIGITAL DESIGN ASSISTANT
Purchase Order - 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Contractor
ORBITAL TRANSPORTS INC
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
07/31/2023
Obligated Amount
$139.1k
80NSSC23M0074 - THE NASA KENTUCKY EPSCOR PROGRAM S MISSION IS TO ENHANCE THE RESEARCH AND INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY OF THE STATE'S UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS IN NASA-PRIORITY RESEARCH AREAS AND TO INCREASE RESEARCHER COMPETITIVENESS FOR NON-EPSCOR NASA FUNDING. TO THAT END, THIS PROJECT AIMS TO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND THE MODELING CAPABILITY OF THE KENTUCKY AEROTHERMODYNAMIC AND THERMAL-RESPONSE SYSTEM (KATS) BY COUPLING WITH SOLID SOLVER BASED ON A NOVEL NONLOCAL MESHFREE LATTICE PARTICLE METHOD (LPM) TO INVESTIGATE MATERIAL SURFACE EROSION AND FAILURE DUE TO HIGH-VELOCITY PARTICLE IMPACT RELEVANT TO NASA MISSIONS. UNDERSTANDING AND BEING ABLE TO ACCURATELY PREDICT MATERIALS SURFACE EROSION AND FAILURE DUE TO HIGH-VELOCITY PARTICLE IMPACT IS RELEVANT FOR NASA CURRENT AND FUTURE MISSIONS. IN THE CASE OF PLANETARY ENTRY APPLICATION, THE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM (TPS) MATERIALS ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO IMPACT BY HYPERVELOCITY PARTICLES SUCH AS DUST PARTICLES SUSPENDED IN THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE DURING MARS LANDING AND SAMPLE RETURN. ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OF SURFACE EROSION IS NECESSARY TO AVOID OVER-DESIGN OF THE TPS. IN THE CASE OF SPACEFLIGHT APPLICATION, SPACECRAFT ARE SUBJECT TO MICRO-METEOROID AND ORBITAL DEBRIS (MMOD) IMPACT DAMAGE WHICH HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DEGRADE PERFORMANCE, SHORTEN THE MISSION, OR RESULT IN CATASTROPHIC LOSS OF THE VEHICLE. MATERIAL SURFACE EROSION DUE TO HIGH-VELOCITY IMPACT IS ALSO RELEVANT TO THE AEROSPACE PROPULSION ENGINE APPLICATIONS. WHEN OPERATING IN DUST-LADEN ENVIRONMENTS, ENGINE COMPONENTS ARE IMPACTED BY SOLID EROSIVE PARTICLES ENTRAINED IN THE GAS FLOW, WHICH RESULTS IN SIGNIFICANT MATERIAL REMOVAL THAT CAN LEAD TO DELETERIOUS EFFECTS IN ENGINE PERFORMANCE. ALL THESE MUST BE CAREFULLY STUDIED TO SUPPORT NASA MISSIONS. THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS INVESTIGATION OF MATERIALS SURFACE EROSION AND FAILURE DUE TO HIGH-VELOCITY PARTICLE IMPACT RELATED TO NASA APPLICATIONS INCLUDING TPS, SPACEFLIGHT AND NEXT-GENERATION AEROSPACE PROPULSION ENGINE APPLICATIONS. TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL, A SET OF MULTISCALE MULTIPHYSICS COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS CAPABLE OF MODELING MATERIALS PERVASIVE FAILURE WITH COUPLED FLOW EFFECTS WILL BE DEVELOPED BASED ON LPM AND KATS. HIGH-VELOCITY IMPACT TESTS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE DATA FOR VALIDATION OF THE DEVELOPED COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS. THE INVESTIGATION WILL PROVIDE FUNDAMENTAL INSIGHTS ON THE NATURE OF MATERIAL SURFACE EROSION AND FAILURE DUE TO HIGH-VELOCITY PARTICLE IMPACT. THE TOOLS DEVELOPED AND THE KNOWLEDGE GAINED IN THIS PROJECT WILL BE USEFUL FOR CAPSULE AND VEHICLE PERFORMANCE MODELING AND SIMULATION AND MATERIALS DESIGN FOR TPS AND AEROSPACE PROPULSION ENGINES FOR NASA CURRENT AND FUTURE MISSIONS. AS A UNIVERSITY PROGRAM, THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO TRAIN AND PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF AEROSPACE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS.
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
05/18/2023
Obligated Amount
$750k
80NSSC23M0076 - NASA S DISCOVER AND EXPLORE STRATEGIC GOALS REQUIRE A VARIETY OF TYPES OF DETECTORS AND SENSORS. DUE TO THE LIMITED CAPACITY OF SATELLITES AND SPACE PROBES, MINIATURIZED SENSORS WITH LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION ARE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST. BECAUSE NASA S MISSIONS TO EXPLORE SOLAR SYSTEM, UNIVERSE, AND DEEP SPACE REQUIRE A PROLONG TRAVEL TIME BEFORE AND BETWEEN EVENTS TO BE RECORDED BY SENSORS, SENSORS CONSUMING NEAR ZERO POWER UNTIL AN EVENT OF INTEREST WAKES THEM UP SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND THEIR LIFETIME DURING THESE MISSIONS. HOWEVER, THE STANDBY POWER OF CURRENT SENSORS IS NOT IDEAL. MOTION SENSORS OR LIGHT SENSORS IN A CONVENTIONAL LED BULB CONSUME 0.1W TO 1W IN STANDBY. ELECTRONIC SWITCHES AND SENSORS WITH ZERO-STANDBY POWER ARE IDEAL FOR THE DETECTION OF INFREQUENT BUT TIME-CRITICAL EVENTS SUCH AS FIRE, PROJECTILES, EXPLOSIVES, EARTHQUAKES, AND RECONFIGURABLE RF PHOTONICS CIRCUITS. THEY ARE PARTICULARLY SUITABLE FOR LONG-STANDBY-TIME MISSIONS, SUCH AS PLANETARY EXPLORATION AND SPACE SENSING. SENSORS WITH ZERO-STANDBY POWER AND LOW OPERATION POWER CONSUMPTION WILL BE THE IDEAL LOADS FOR BOTH LASER SAIL AND SOLAR SAIL WHICH HAVE SUPERIORITY OF SPEED BUT CARRY SMALL LOADS. MEANWHILE, PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICS) DEMONSTRATE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR NEXT GENERATION SPACE APPLICATIONS ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELDS OF COMMUNICATIONS, SIGNAL PROCESSING, AND SENSING. HOWEVER, MANY COMPONENTS OF PICS, SUCH AS OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS, MODULATORS, AND SWITCHES, CONSUME MUCH HIGHER POWER THAN THEIR ELECTRONIC COUNTERPARTS. RECONFIGURABLE PICS OPERATING AT LOW OPERATION POWER ARE IN HEAVY DEMAND. IN THIS PROJECT, PIS WILL COMBINE THEIR COMPLEMENTARY EXPERTISE TO DEMONSTRATE MULTIFUNCTIONAL ZERO-STANDBY POWER SENSING AND RECONFIGURABLE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, PROVIDING EXTREMELY LOW POWER SOLUTIONS FOR NASA MISSIONS: O1: DEVELOP SCALABLE NEAR ZERO-STANDBY POWER SWITCHES. THESE SWITCHES CAN SERVE AS EVENT-DRIVEN POWER SWITCHES FOR ELECTRO-OPTICAL SENSORS, COMMUNICATION UNITS, AND EVEN THE MAIN SWITCH OF A WHOLE SPACE PROBE SYSTEM IN A DEEP-SPACE EXPLORATION MISSION. O2: DEVELOP A VERSATILE RECONFIGURABLE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS SENSOR SYSTEM WITH NEAR ZERO-STANDBY POWER AND LOW-OPERATION POWER. BY INCORPORATING NEAR ZERO-STANDBY POWER SWITCHES FOR SENSORS AWAKEN AND RECONFIGURABLE COMPONENTS FOR FAST AND FREQUENT SIGNAL PROCESSING, THE PROPOSED PICS SENSOR SYSTEM SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES POWER CONSUMPTION FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING AND FOR OPTICAL-TOELECTRICAL CONVERSION BY UNITS SUCH AS DETECTORS AND OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS. THIS PROPOSED WORK WILL ADVANCE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART LOW POWER TECHNOLOGY IN OPTOELECTRONIC SWITCHES AND RECONFIGURABLE PICS. SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THIS WORK WILL LEAD TO SCALABLE NEAR ZERO-STANDBY POWER SWITCHES WHICH MAY BE USED IN SCENERIES FROM SINGLE WAVEGUIDE, SINGLE DEVICES, TO CHIPS AND EVEN A WHOLE SPACE PROBE SYSTEM. BY COMBINING THESE SWITCHES AND OTHER RECONFIGURABLE COMPONENTS, PICS CONSUMING VERY LOW POWER WILL BE ACHIEVED AND FIT IN ULTRACOMPACT SYSTEMS SUCH AS A SPACE PROBE DRIVEN BY LASER SAIL OR SOLAR SAIL. THROUGH OUR PROPOSED EFFORTS, WE EXPECT TO BRING THIS TECHNOLOGY FROM TRL1 TO TRL4. SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THIS WORK WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DELAWARE STATE RESEARCH CAPABILITY IN THE AREA OF INTEGRATED PHOTONICS AND SENSORS TECHNOLOGY. IT ATTRACTS STUDENTS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, ENHANCING THE NASA MISSION STRENGTHENING STEM EDUCATION THROUGH INSPIRATIONAL MISSIONS AND COLLABORATION WITH THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY. IT WILL ALSO HELP TO DEVELOP PARTNERSHIPS WITH BELOW-MENTIONED RESEARCH CENTERS, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND THE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES OF DELAWARE STATE.
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
05/15/2023
Obligated Amount
$750k
80NSSC23K0679 - A RECENT LARGE SURVEY OF LOW-ALBEDO ASTEROID SPECTRA IN THE 3- M REGION SHOW A RANGE OF HYDRATED COMPOSITIONS, WITH ONE LARGE GROUP SIMILAR TO THE CM CHONDRITES AND A SECOND LARGE GROUP SHOWING EVIDENCE OF ICY AND/OR AMMONIATED MINERALS AND SPECTRALLY SIMILAR TO COMET 67P (RIVKIN ET AL. 2022). IN ADDITION, A SMALL FRACTION OF OBJECTS SHOW NO EVIDENCE OF HYDRATED MINERALS, AND A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF THE LARGEST OBJECTS APPEAR SPECTRALLY SIMILAR TO THE DWARF PLANET CERES. INTERESTINGLY, THE WORK ALSO SHOWS THAT EXISTING ASTEROID TAXONOMIC CLASSES ARE, WITH RARE EXCEPTIONS, POOR PREDICTORS OF HYDRATED COMPOSITION, SUGGESTING THAT THE USE OF THOSE CLASSIFICATIONS AS PROXIES FOR FORMATION LOCATION MAY VASTLY UNDERESTIMATE THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL TRANSPORTED TO THE ASTEROID BELT FROM THE TRANSNEPTUNIAN REGION. WHILE WE NOW HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF THE ROUGH ABUNDANCES OF THE MOST POPULOUS GROUPS, WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THOSE GROUPS RELATE TO ONE ANOTHER OR THE VARIETY OF COMPOSITIONS WITHIN EACH GROUP, IN PART BECAUSE THESE COMPOSITIONS ARE ONLY ROUGHLY CONSTRAINED AT BEST. WE DO NOT KNOW WHETHER 3-MICROMETER BAND SHAPE IS CONSISTENT WITHIN AN ASTEROID FAMILY OR IF IT CAN BE USED AS A WAY OF IDENTIFYING INTERLOPERS, AND THUS WE ALSO DO NOT KNOW WHETHER ORIGINAL PARENT BODIES ARE HOMOGENEOUS IN THEIR HYDRATED MINERALS OR NOT. WE PROPOSE A SERIES OF TASKS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF LOW-ALBEDO ASTEROIDS VIA TARGETED OBSERVATIONS OF COLLISIONAL FAMILY MEMBERS, RELIC PLANETESIMALS, AND BACKGROUND OBJECTS IN THE 3-MICROMETER REGION, COMPOSITIONAL MODELING, DEVELOPMENT OF A TAXONOMY FOR 3-MICROMETER SPECTRA, AND CONSIDERATION OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS WORK IS TO DETERMINE THE DISTRIBUTION OF AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GROUPS WITH DIFFERENT HYDRATED COMPOSITIONS IN THE ORIGINAL LOW ALBEDO PLANETESIMAL POPULATION, AS WELL AS TO DETERMINE OR BETTER CONSTRAIN THE HYDRATED COMPOSITIONS THEMSELVES. THE WIDER APPLICATIONS OF THE PROPOSED WORK INCLUDE INSIGHTS INTO VOLATILE DELIVERY TO THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM, THE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE METEORITE COLLECTION (AND HOW RETURNED SAMPLES RELATE TO LOW-ALBEDO OBJECTS MORE GENERALLY), AND NON-ICE COMPOSITIONS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE WORK PROPOSED ALSO FOLLOWS SEVERAL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STRATEGIC RESEARCH IN THE NEWLY RELEASED PLANETARY SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY (NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE 2022).
Grant for Research
Contractor
Johns Hopkins (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
05/04/2023
Obligated Amount
$207.1k
80NSSC23M0071 - THE GOAL IS TO STRENGTHEN THE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN VERMONT BY RESEARCHING A NOVEL AND POTENTIALLY HIGHLY RELIABLE METHOD OF DEPLOYING AND CONTROLLING THE SHAPE OF SPACE STRUCTURES AND ANTENNAS, EXPLOITING THESE SHAPE CHANGES TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF ANTENNAS, AND TO COMBINE DEPLOYMENT AND STRUCTURAL CONTROL TECHNIQUES TO CREATE FEASIBLE DESIGNS FOR LARGE KM-SCALE SPACE STRUCTURES AND SENSING SYSTEMS. THE RESEARCH PLAN INCLUDES MATHEMATICAL SIMULATIONS OF FOCUSED DEPLOYMENT, PROOF-OF-CONCEPT EXPERIMENTS WITH 1D AND THEN 2D STRUCTURES, MORPHING ANTENNAS, AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS AND SIMULATIONS OF KM-SCALE SPACE STRUCTURES. UNCERTAINTY OF THE RESULTS WILL BE QUANTIFIED WITH REPEATED EXPERIMENTS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS. THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF THIS RESEARCH FOR NASA CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IMPROVED AND MORE RELIABLE METHODS OF DEPLOYING AND CONTROLLING LARGE SPACE STRUCTURES, ANTENNAS AND ENABLING KM-SCALE SENSING SYSTEMS. WE PLAN TO COLLABORATE WITH NASA AMES ON STRUCTURES, AND NASA GODDARD ON ANTENNAS TO RECEIVE TECHNICAL GUIDANCE AND ADVICE ON NASA RELEVANCE. THIS RESEARCH WILL BUILD ON EXISTING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN VERMONT IN DYNAMICS, ELECTROMAGNETICS, METAMATERIALS, AND STRUCTURES. THE PROJECT WILL RAISE THE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN VERMONT ON SPACE STRUCTURES AND METAMATERIALS TO A HIGHER LEVEL BY INVOLVING SENIOR AND JUNIOR FACULTY MEMBERS, AND THREE GRADUATE STUDENTS IN A COLLABORATIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT OF SIGNIFICANT RELEVANCE TO THE NASA AND OTHER OPERATORS OF SYSTEMS IN SPACE. THE ACQUISITION OF TEST EQUIPMENT WILL ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOPHISTICATED TEST APPARATUS AND PROCEDURES THAT WILL BE OF RELEVANCE IN FUTURE RESEARCH EFFORTS. THE PROJECT WILL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN VERMONT WITH THE EDUCATION OF HIGHLY TRAINED ENGINEERS AT THE GRADUATE LEVEL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR CREATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WITH BENEFIT TO THE SPACE INDUSTRY.
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
04/26/2023
Obligated Amount
$750k
80NSSC23M0025 - CAN22-231, 22-P2 INVITED-0015, DEPLOYING A LIFECYCLE-ORIENTED ROADMAP (LOR) FOR MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (MBSE) OF MULTI-COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
University of Maryland (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
04/18/2023
Obligated Amount
$56k
80NSSC23PA743 - PROVIDE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND SERVE AS CCSDS RAPPORTEUR FOR THE DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING INITIATIVE.
Purchase Order - 541330 Engineering Services
Contractor
The Mitre Corporation (THE MITRE CORPORATION)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
03/28/2023
Obligated Amount
$218.1k
80NSSC23M0013 - MODERN SCIENCE REQUIRES STUDYING DATASETS SO LARGE THAT THEY CAN OVERWHELM MOST WORK FLOWS DUE TO THE EXCESSIVE COSTS OF DATA MOVEMENTS. THIS PROBLEM IS PARTICULARLY PROMINENT AT LARGESCALE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTERS TACKLING HARD SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING CHALLENGES SUCH AS NASA ADVANCED SUPERCOMPUTING (NAS), WHERE SCIENTIFIC SIMULATIONS FREQUENTLY GENERATE TERABYTES TO PETABYTES OR MORE OF DATA PER RUN. MOREOVER, SUCH SIMULATIONS ARE OFTEN JUST COMPONENTS OF A BROADER ECOSYSTEM INVOLVING THE ACQUISITION, PROCESSING, AND TRANSMISSION OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA ACQUIRED FROM SENSING DEVICES DEPLOYED IN THE FIELD OR CAREFULLY CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES. ALTHOUGH LOSSY DATA COMPRESSION CAN BE A KEY ASPECT IN ADDRESSING THIS PROBLEM, MOST EXISTING APPROACHES STILL INCUR SUPERFLUOUS DATA MOVEMENTS NOT TAILORED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC TASK AT HAND IN TERMS OF ERROR TOLERANCE, HARDWARE, SPACE, OR TIME CONSTRAINTS, LEADING TO INEFFICIENT COMPUTATIONS THAT HAMPER SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. IN ADDITION, THE COMPLEXITY OF MAKING SCIENCE CODES AND COMPRESSION CODES TO EXECUTE INSITU AND INTEROPERATE IS EXACERBATED BY DIVERSE MACHINES EMPLOYING HETEROGENEOUS HARDWARE, SUCH AS THE PLEIADES SUPERCOMPUTER AT NAS. TO EMPOWER EFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATIONS, WE PROPOSE A DATA REDUCTION FRAMEWORK THAT PROGRESSIVELY TRANSFERS ONLY THE MOST RELEVANT DATA TO MEET THE DESIRED ERROR BOUNDS AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS FOR THE TASK AT HAND WHILE BEING AWARE OF THE UNDERLYING HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE OF THE COMPUTING FACILITY. IN PARTICULAR, THE FRAMEWORK WILL ADVANCE THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC DATA REDUCTION IN TWO MAIN RESEARCH AREAS: 1. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL DATA MODEL FOR (ONDISK) STORING AND (INMEMORY) WORKING WITH SCALAR AND VECTOR FIELDS THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY ACHIEVES HIGH COMPRESSION RATIOS AND EFFICIENT PROGRESSIVE STREAMING IN BOTH PRECISION AND RESOLUTION. 2. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL RUNTIME SYSTEM, BASED ON DATASPACES FRAMEWORK, THAT AUTOMATES DATA REDUCTION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISIONS FOR INSITU APPLICATION WORKFLOWS, ADAPTIVELY SATISFYING A RANGE OF USER, APPLICATION, AND SYSTEM CONSTRAINTS. ALTHOUGH LOW-RESOLUTION OR LOW PRECISION DATA APPROXIMATIONS ARE OFTEN ENOUGH TO ANSWER A SPECIFIC SCIENTIFIC QUESTION WITH SATISFACTORY ACCURACY, DIFFERENT QUESTIONS MAY REQUIRE DIFFERENT TYPES AND LEVELS OF APPROXIMATIONS. HOWEVER, MOST EXISTING DATA COMPRESSION APPROACHES EITHER REQUIRE RECOMPRESSION FOR EACH DIFFERENT APPROXIMATION OR EMPLOY A FIXED DECOMPRESSION ORDER REGARDLESS OF THE TASK AT HAND, LEADING TO EXCESSIVE DATA MOVEMENTS. THUS, WE PROPOSE A FLEXIBLE DATA MODEL THAT ALLOWS PROGRESSIVE DECODING OF DATA CHUNKS TO FORM APPROXIMATIONS AT ANY DESIRED COMBINATION OF RESOLUTION AND PRECISION, ALL FROM A SINGLE COMPRESSED DATA LAYOUT. IN OUR ONGOING RESEARCH, WE HAVE DEVELOPED A PROTOTYPICAL DATA MODEL WHICH NOT ONLY ENABLES TRADEOFFS IN THE PRECISION RESOLUTION SPACE BUT IS ALSO HIGHLY COMPETITIVE IN COMPRESSION RATIO AGAINST STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPRESSORS WHILE USING ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LESS MEMORY AND TIME. TO FULLY ACCESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OUR COMPRESSED DATA STRUCTURES, WE WILL COMPLEMENT THEM WITH ALGORITHMS THAT INCLUDE BOTH FUNDAMENTAL DATA PROCESSING ROUTINES AND REAL-WORLD SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS PIPELINES, WHICH WILL ALSO BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE THE EFFICACY OF OUR DATA MODEL IN PRACTICE. LEVERAGING THE FLEXIBILITY OF OUR PROGRESSIVE DATA REDUCTION INVOLVES MAKING ONLINE DECISIONS ABOUT THE CHOICE OF REDUCTION METHOD AND ASSOCIATED PARAMETERS BASED ON APPLICATION AND SYSTEM CONSTRAINTS. THESE CONSTRAINTS INCLUDE ACCURACY, RESOLUTION, ERRORS INTRODUCED, IMPACT ON APPLICATION PERFORMANCE, OR REQUIRED SYSTEMS RESOURCES SUCH AS MEMORY, I/O, AND CPU (OR ACCELERATOR) CORES. THEREFORE, IT IS KEY FOR US TO EXPLORE AND DEVELOP AN AUTONOMIC RUNTIME SYSTEM FOR THE DYNAMIC SCHEDULING OF DATA REDUCTION TASKS AND EFFECTIVE DATA MANAGEMENT ON DIVERSE COMPUTATIONAL HARDWARE.
Cooperative Agreement
Contractor
University of Utah (UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
02/07/2023
Obligated Amount
$100k
80NSSC23PA501 - ALDEC SOFTWARE RENEWAL
Purchase Order - 513210 Software Publishers
Contractor
ALDEC, INC (ALDEC, INC.)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
02/06/2023
Obligated Amount
$17.7k
80NSSC23PA477 - ENGINE MOUNT ASSEMBLIES
Purchase Order - 336413 Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
Contractor
ULTIMATE AVIATION SOLUTIONS, INC. (ULTIMATE AVIATION SOLUTIONS INC)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
01/26/2023
Obligated Amount
$25.5k
80NSSC23PA414 - PURCHASE OF ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT, A PROGRAMMABLE NOISE GENERATOR (UFX7116B) WITH OPTIONS U7OPT07 AND U7OPT09
Purchase Order - 334516 Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
Contractor
LOTUS USA, INC. (LOTUS USA INC)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
01/25/2023
Obligated Amount
$23.1k
80NSSC23PA103 - SPUTTER SYSTEM FOR DEPOSITION OF METALS AND METAL OXIDES. THIS SPUTTER IS CAPABLE OF RF AND DC SPUTTERING.
Purchase Order - 333242 Semiconductor Machinery Manufacturing
Contractor
ANGSTROM ENGINEERING INC
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
11/10/2022
Obligated Amount
$172k
80NSSC22K1770 - 22-MSTTR-0013, MODEL BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING WITH DIGITAL TWIN FOR ENERGY STORAGE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Grant for Research
Contractor
FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY)
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
09/19/2022
Obligated Amount
$50k
80NSSC22PA665 - OT : ENGINEER SUPPORT : 4200798345
Purchase Order - 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
Contractor
FLATLEY, THOMAS P
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
04/27/2022
Obligated Amount
$100k
80NSSC22CA083 - EO14042 SBIR PHASE II FAULT MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS TOOL FOR MODEL CENTRIC SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Definitive Contract - 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Contractor
OKEAN SOLUTIONS, INC
Contracting Agency/Office
National Aeronautics and Space Administration»Mission Support Directorate»NASA Shared Services Center
Effective date
04/13/2022
Obligated Amount
$799.9k

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