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Northwest Research Associates, INC.
$40M obligated·52 awards·5 agencies·6 NAICS
Federal Contracts
Showing contracts 101–132 of 132 total. Sorted by action date, most recent first. Excludes $0 modifications.
| Date | Agency | PIID | NAICS | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2018 | Department of DefenseNAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY | N0017318P1266 | 541330 | IGF::OT::IGF ENGINEERING SERVICES PR# 81-0649-18 | $110K |
| Aug 17, 2018 | Department of DefenseFA9550 AFRL AFOSR | FA955017C0021 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF "EFFECTS OF NON-KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCE AND AEROSOLS ON LONGE-RANGE, OPTICAL PROPAGATION THROUGH THE ATMOSPHE | $290K |
| Aug 1, 2018 | Department of DefenseFA9550 AFRL AFOSR | FA955018C0011 | 541715 | IGF::OT::IGF "STATISTICS OF OPTICAL AND QUASI-OPTICAL LINE-OF-SIGHT PROPAGATION THROUGH THE STABLY STRATIFIED, OPTICALLY CLEAR ATMOSPHERE" | $95K |
| Jul 23, 2018 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $4K |
| Jul 19, 2018 | Department of DefenseFA8750 AFRL RIK | FA875018C0156 | 541715 | HIGH-FREQUENCY IONOSPHERIC VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT (HIGH-FIVE) | $150K |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $400K |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Department of DefenseNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL | N6227117P1172 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF ASRTV2 | $20K |
| Mar 27, 2018 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $650K |
| Dec 8, 2017 | Department of DefenseNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL | N6227117P1172 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF ASRTV2 | $60K |
| Oct 17, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $73K |
| Sep 29, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9550 AFRL AFOSR | FA955017C0021 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF "EFFECTS OF NON-KOLMOGOROV TURBULENCE AND AEROSOLS ON LONGE-RANGE, OPTICAL PROPAGATION THROUGH THE ATMOSPHE | $294K |
| Sep 21, 2017 | Department of DefenseNAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY | N0017317P3163 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF ENGINEERING SERVICES PR# 81-0627-17 | $150K |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945316C0510 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF AUTOMATED SCALING SOFTWARE FOR OBLIQUE INCIDENCE IONOGRAMS | $79K |
| Aug 30, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $192K |
| Aug 28, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $300K |
| Aug 18, 2017 | Department of DefenseNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL | N6227117P1172 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF ASRTV2 | $17K |
| Aug 8, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $137K |
| Jul 11, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945316C0510 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF AUTOMATED SCALING SOFTWARE FOR OBLIQUE INCIDENCE IONOGRAMS | $105K |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $245K |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZL | FA865016C1760 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - SBIR II - INFLUENCE OF LONG-RANGE IONOSPHERIC AND ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SURVEILLANCE AND COMMUNICATION | $187K |
| Feb 13, 2017 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $340K |
| Nov 16, 2016 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945317C0078 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - CHARACTERIZING THE IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES - OTHR - BASIC AWARD | $578K |
| Aug 25, 2016 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945316C0510 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF AUTOMATED SCALING SOFTWARE FOR OBLIQUE INCIDENCE IONOGRAMS | $563K |
| Aug 9, 2016 | National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA HEADQUARTERS | NNH14CL78C | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO STUDY THE GLOBAL EDDY-FIELD AT SCALES AS SMALL AS 20 KM USING THE AVAILABLE LONG-TERM ALTIMETRIC RECORDS. BY ACCESSING THE HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION THAT IS PRESENT IN THE ALONG-TRACK ALTIMETER DATA, WE ARE ABLE TO RESOLVE THE IMPACTS OF EDDIES AT SCALES 2.5-10 TIMES SMALLER THAN IS POSSIBLE USING THE PRESENT GENERATION OF BLENDED MULTI-SATELLITE MAPS THAT ARE CURRENTLY WIDELY USED FOR EDDY-RELATED STUDIES. NEW RESEARCH HAS REVEALED AN EDDY FIELD - EXTENDING DOWN TO TENS OF KILOMETERS AND EVEN SMALLER-THAT IS CONSIDERABLY MORE ACTIVE, AND MORE IMPORTANT TO THE CLIMATE SYSTEM, THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED. YET THE CURRENT GENERATION OF MAPPED PRODUCTS IS CREATED WITH THE EXPLICIT INTENT TO AVERAGE OVER RATHER THAN RESOLVE SUCH MESOSCALE AND SUBMESOSCALE EDDY STRUCTURES. THE FAVORED MAPPING METHOD IN SATELLITE ALTIMETRY-OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION OR OI - INITIALLY BECAME POPULAR IN OCEANOGRAPHY AT A TIME WHEN DATA DENSITY WAS A FRACTION OF WHAT IT IS TODAY. BECAUSE THERE WAS SO LITTLE DATA, IT WAS DESIRABLE TO AVERAGE OVER MESOSCALE FLUCTUATIONS IN ORDER TO MAP THE LARGE-SCALE FIELD. THERE IS NOW BOTH THE INTEREST AND THE DATA DENSITY TO SUBSTANTIALLY RESOLVE THE MESOSCALE; YET THE LARGE SMOOTHING SCALES OF 01 ARE STILL EMPLOYED. BY INCORPORATING MAPPING ACHIEVEMENTS TOGETHER WITH AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO MAPPING EDDY KINETIC ENERGY, WE WILL PROTOTYPE A NEW CLASS OF GRIDDED ALTIMETRIC PRODUCTS WITH SMOOTHING SCALES THAT CHANGE ADAPTIVELY IN ORDER TO MAKE BEST USE OF ALL AVAILABLE DATA. THE VARIABILITY OBSERVED IN THESE NEW MAPS, PARTICULARLY THE EDDY KINETIC ENERGY, WILL THEN BE COMPARED WITH THE RESULTS FROM AN ALONG TRACK EDDY CENSUS IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EDDY-LIKE SEA SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES HAVING PARTICULAR RADII, VELOCITIES OR ROSSBY NUMBERS, AND POLARITIES (CYCLONES VS. ANTICYCLONES). THIS APPROACH USES AN EVENT DETECTION ALGORITHM TO LOCATE INDIVIDUAL ANOMALIES IN THE ALONG-TRACK DATA, WHICH IN TURN THEN FORM THE BASIS FOR AN ESTIMATION OF THE LOCAL POPULATIONS AND PROPERTIES OF THE UNDERLYING EDDY FIELD USING AN INVERSE METHOD APPROACH. CAREFUL ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO DISTINGUISHING THE DIFFERING CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDDIES VERSUS CURRENT MEANDERS OR EXCURSIONS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THIS CENSUS. THE NET RESULT WILL BE AN ABILITY TO ESTIMATE THE LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDDY KINETIC ENERGY AND CIRCULATION ASSOCIATED DIRECTLY WITH COHERENT EDDIES, AND TO IDENTIFY THE REGIONS IN WHICH THESE ARE SIGNIFICANT. SINCE WE WILL BE WORKING WITH CONSIDERABLY HIGHER RESOLUTION THAN WAS POSSIBLE IN PREVIOUS STUDIES, NEW RESULTS CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THE EDDY FIELD AT THESE UNRESOLVED SCALES ARE ANTICIPATED. ANALYSIS TOOLS AND DATA PRODUCTS CREATED HERE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OF BROAD INTEREST AND WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE COMMUNITY. | $173K |
| Jul 28, 2016 | Department of DefenseFA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL PZL AFRL/PZL | FA865016C1760 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF - SBIR II - INFLUENCE OF LONG-RANGE IONOSPHERIC AND ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SURVEILLANCE AND COMMUNICATION | $563K |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Department of CommerceDEPT OF COMMERCE NOAA | DOCWC133R16CN0116 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF "OTHER FUNCTIONS" - THIS AWARD IS FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PHASE II FOR FY2015'S PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS OFFICE UNDER THE OFFICE OF ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH IN SILVER SPRING, MD. THIS AWARD IS FOR PROPOSAL 15-2-040 A PROJECT TITLED "MONITORING ACTIVE REGION DEVELOPMENT ON THE FAR-SIDE OF THE SUN." | $400K |
| Jul 21, 2016 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945314C0306 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES ON COORDINATE REGISTRATION | $300K |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Department of DefenseNAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY | N0017316P1690 | 541330 | IGF::OT::IGF ENGINEERING SERVICES | $181K |
| May 31, 2016 | National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA HEADQUARTERS | NNH13CI14C | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF RESEARCH EFFORT ON THE DYNAMICAL EFFECTS OF SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING EVENTS ON THE THERMOSPHERE. THE DYNAMICALLY ACTIVE STRATOSPHERE DURING NORTHERN HEMISPHERE WINTER SOMETIMES UNDERGOES DRAMATIC CHANGES, CALLED STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARNINGS (SSW). DURING A SSW EVENT, TEMPERATURES CAN INCREASE DRAMATICALLY OVER A PERIOD OF DAYS AND THE NORMALLY STRONG POLAR WESTERLY WINDS MAY REVERSE TO EASTERLIES. THESE EVENTS ALSO HAVE IMPACTS BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW, CAUSING DRAMATIC COOLING IN THE MESOSPHERE OF UP TO 20 K WITH ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT AND CHEMISTRY CHANGES, AND FORETELLING STATISTICAL SHIFTS IN SURFACE WEATHER PATTERNS WITH ENHANCED SKIN AT INTRASEASONAL TIMESCALES. RECENT MODELING AND OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE ALSO SUGGESTS THAT SSW EVENTS CAN HAVE AN IMPACT WITHIN THE THERMOSPHERE. OUR RESEARCH WILL EXAMINE THE DYNAMICAL CONNECTIONS THAT ARE IN FORCE DURING SSW EVENTS. THESE CONNECTIONS INCLUDE ANOMALOUS MEAN MERIDIONAL CIRCULATIONS SET UP BY NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WAVES AND THE MEAN FLOW, THE FILTERING AND REFRACTION OF VARIOUS WAVES BY ANOMALOUS FLOW CONDITIONS DURING AN SSW, AND THE NONLINEAR INTERACTION BETWEEN TIDES AND PLANETARY WAVES THAT GIVE RISE TO TIDE VARIABILITY DURING THE RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS WHEN AN SSW IS UNDER WAY. WE WILL SPECIFICALLY FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING GOALS: 1) QUANTIFY HOW GRAVITY WAVE FILTERING AND FORCING DRIVES THE EVOLUTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE UP INTO THE THERMOSPHERE DURING SSW; 2) CHARACTERIZE NONMIGRATING TIDE VARIABILITY ARISING FROM ALL SOURCES AND ISOLATE THE SOURCE DUE TO INTERACTION BETWEEN THE LARGE MIGRATING TIDES AND PLANETARY WAVE AMPLIFICATION. OUR STUDY WILL EMPLOY A GLOBAL MECHANISTIC MODEL THAT EXTENDS FROM THE SURFACE TO 300 KM. THIS MODEL DIRECTLY SIMULATES ALL LARGE SCALE WAVE DYNAMICS, INCLUDING TIDES, PLANETARY WAVES AND TROPICAL WAVES, AND IT INCLUDES SMALL-SCALE GRAVITY WAVES VIA PARAMETERIZATION. ALL THE WAVE-WAVE AND WAVE MEAN FLOW INTERACTIONS NEEDED TO DESCRIBE THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE ARE PRESENT IN OUR SIMULATED SSW EVENTS. THE MODEL WILL BE FURTHER CONSTRAINED TO VARIOUS DEGREES BY WIND AND TEMPERATURE FIELDS FROM THE NASA REANALYSIS DATA, MERRA, UP INTO THE MID-STRATOSPHERE, BUT WILL BE ALLOWED TO EVOLVE FREELY ABOVE, UP TO THE MODEL TOP. WE WILL ALSO EXAMINE SIMULATIONS OF THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODEL (WACCM) RUN FREELY AND IN SPECIFIED DYNAMICS MODE. BOTH MODEL RESULTS WILL BE VALIDATED BY COMPARING THE EVOLUTION DURING AN SSW TO THE REAL ATMOSPHERE AS OBSERVED IN TIMED-SABER AND AURA-MLS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS IN THE MESOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE. NATURE HAS PROVIDED A NICE SET OF SSW EXPERIMENTS FOR OUR STUDY IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS OF THESE DATA. THERE IS ALSO A MINOR SSW IN EARLY 2012 THAT SHOWS UNUSUALLY DRAMATIC EFFECTS AT MESOSPHERIC HEIGHTS APPARENTLY MORE SIMILAR TO CONDITIONS DURING A MAJOR SSW. SINCE THE EVOLUTION OF AN SSW IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE IS QUITE SENSITIVE TO THE GRAVITY WAVES IN THE MODEL, OUR GOAL WILL BE TO USE THESE COMPARISONS TO CONSTRAIN THE GRAVITY WAVE SOURCE SPECTRA USED AS INPUT TO THE GRAVITY WAVE PARAMETERIZATION. WE WILL ALSO DERIVE THE SHORT TERM VARIABILITY OF TIDES FROM THE TEMPERATURE DATA, AND USE THE MODEL SIMULATIONS TO DETERMINE THE SOURCE OF THIS VARIABILITY. THROUGH COLLABORATION WITH NCAR, THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY WILL LEAD TO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PARAMETERIZED GRAVITY WAVES IN THE WACCM. | $74K |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Department of DefenseNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL | N6227116M1130 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION | $39K |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Department of DefenseNAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY | N0017316P0660 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF ENGINEERING SERVICE | $114K |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Department of DefenseFA9453 AFRL RVK | FA945314C0306 | 541712 | IGF::OT::IGF IMPACT OF IONOSPHERIC WAVE STRUCTURES ON COORDINATE REGISTRATION | $450K |
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