Contract award
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS INVESTIGATION LIDAR" PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR SUPPORT FOR THE GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS INVESTIGATION LIDAR INVESTIGATION. THE GEDI LIDAR INVESTIGATION WILL REQUIRE A LASER-BASED SYSTEM DEVELOPED AT NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER TO OBSERVE THE STRUCTURE OF FOREST CANOPY. THE PROJECT WILL USE A LASER-BASED SYSTEM TO STUDY A RANGE OF CLIMATES, INCLUDING THE OBSERVATION OF THE FOREST CANOPY STRUCTURE OVER THE TROPICS, AND THE TUNDRA IN HIGH NORTHERN LATITUDES. THIS DATA WILL HELP SCIENTISTS BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CHANGES IN NATURAL CARBON STORAGE WITHIN THE CARBON CYCLE FROM BOTH HUMAN-INFLUENCED ACTIVITIES AND NATURAL CLIMATE VARIATIONS.
- PIID
- NNL15AA03C
- Award key
- CONT_AWD_NNL15AA03C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
- Recipient UEI
- NPU8ULVAAS23
- Source as of
- Aug 6, 2026
Current award value
$17,330,4373
Obligated to date
$13,530,1712
Potential with options
$17,330,4373
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Contractor
- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
- Place of performance
- College Park, Maryland
- Set-aside
- No set-aside used
- Pricing
- COST SHARING
- Competition
- —20 offers received
- Period of performance
- Feb 25, 2015 — Sep 30, 2027Through Sep 30, 2027 if all options are exercised
- Benchmark category
- Unclassified
Transaction history
Every action recorded against this award, in the order the government reported them.
| Mod | Action date | Reason | Obligation | Value at action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P00026 | Mar 12, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $2,089,000.00 | $17,330,437.00 |
| P00027 | Jun 23, 2026 | SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEME | $0.00 | $17,330,437.00 |
Provenance
Which source record produced each displayed rollup figure.
| Field | Source | File | Retrieved | Parser | Artifact hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| awarding_agency_id | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
| contractor_id | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
| current_award_value | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
| naics_code | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
| potential_award_value | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
| psc_code | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
| total_obligated | USAspending.gov | FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv | Aug 10, 2026 | usaspending_contract_csv@2026.08.1 | 24edb1916585 |
Sources and method
Figures on this page are computed from public federal award records. Numbers are never estimated or generated; where a figure is withheld, the reason is stated rather than filled in.
This page is a record of one federal award, assembled from the transactions the government published against it. Note 1 describes where the rollup came from. Values are award values, not unit prices.
- 1Rollup values derive from 2 transaction records parsed from USAspending.gov (FY2026_All_Contracts_Full_20260807_1.csv), retrieved Aug 10, 2026 by transform awards@2026.08.1.
- 2Obligations are the sum of signed federal action obligations across all transactions; deobligations are negative and remain negative.
- 3Current and potential award values are taken from the latest reported action, not summed across modifications.