80GSFC24CA050↗

Name: 80GSFC24CA050: Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling-X (Daphne) Phase a
Creator: SpendQuery
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DYNAMICAL NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING-X (DAPHNE) PHASE A

Definitive Contract · National Aeronautics and Space Administration · to The Regents of the University of Colorado (UEI SPVKK1RC2MZ3) · data as of 2026-10-22

Obligated to date$5.88M8 actions

Current value$5.88Mwith options exercised

Period2024-08-29 → 2027-02-01current end date

Passed on$1.15Mto 2 subcontractors

Up for re-bid: ends 2027-02-01. Recompete brief → · HYDROSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, & GEOPHYSICS (HBG) SUPPORT SERVICES II - FINAL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (FRFP) ↗

What it is

Product or service: Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research and Supporting Activities; Basic Research (PSC AR11)
Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (Except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) (NAICS 541715)
Contracting office: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center (80GSFC)
Competition: Full and open competition · 4 offers received
Pricing: Cost no fee
How it was bought: Standalone contract
Solicitation: NNH23ZDA019O
Where the work is: Boulder, CO · district CO-02

Obligations by fiscal year

FY2024$1.88M

FY2025$0

FY2026$4.00M

SpendQuery holds FY2023 on; earlier years are on USAspending.gov.

Subcontractors: where the money went next

2 subawards totaling $1.15M (19.6% of what was obligated), as The Regents of the University of Colorado reported them. Primes report subawards of $30,000 or more; smaller ones and unreported ones aren't here.

Subcontractor	Amount	Subawards	Where	First	Last
Ball Corporation	$950.0K	1	CO	2026-09-23	2026-09-23
Bae Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc.	$200.0K	1	CO	2025-01-16	2025-01-16

The largest single subawards

Date	To	Amount	For
2026-09-23	Bae Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc.	$950.0K	THIS STATEMENT OF WORK DESCRIBES THE SCOPE OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS, INC. (BAE SMS), IN COLLABORATION WITH LASP. THE WORK DESCRIBED IN THE SOW WILL BE PERFORMED AT THE DIRECTION OF…
2025-01-16	Bae Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc.	$200.0K	THIS STATEMENT OF WORK DESCRIBES THE SCOPE OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY BAE SYSTEMS SPACE & MISSION SYSTEMS, INC. (BAE SMS), IN COLLABORATION WITH LASP. THE WORK DESCRIBED IN THE SOW WILL BE PERFORMED AT THE DIRECTION OF…

Every action

8 actions since 2024-08-29. Each is a modification or amendment with the money it added or took back.

Date	Modification	Kind	Amount	What the agency wrote
2026-08-28	P00007	Change order	$4.00M	DYNAMIC IS A MISSION TO DELINEATE THE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR AND STRUCTURE OF THE IONOSPHERE, THERMOSPHERE, AND MESOSPHERE SYSTEMS.
2026-07-13	P00006	Administrative change	$0	DYNAMIC IS A MISSION TO DELINEATE THE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR AND STRUCTURE OF THE IONOSPHERE, THERMOSPHERE, AND MESOSPHERE SYSTEMS..
2026-05-11	P00005	Administrative change	$0	DYNAMIC IS A MISSION TO DELINEATE THE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR AND STRUCTURE OF THE IONOSPHERE, THERMOSPHERE, AND MESOSPHERE SYSTEMS.
2026-03-19	P00004	Administrative change	$0	DYNAMIC IS MISSION TO DELINEATE THE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR AND STRUCTURE OF THE IONOSPHERE, THERMOSPHERE AND MESOSPHERE SYSTEM.
2025-12-16	P00003	Administrative change	$0	DYNAMIC IS A MISSION TO DELINEATE THE DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR AND STRUCTURE OF THE IONOSPHERE, THERMOSPHERE, AND MESOSPHERE SYSTEM.
2025-04-30	P00002	Administrative change	$0	REMOVAL OF CLAUSES/DRD'S IAW EO 14173 AND E.O. 14168.
2025-03-27	P00001	Administrative change	$0	DYNAMICAL NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING-X (DAPHNE) PHASE A
2024-08-29	0		$1.88M	DYNAMICAL NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING-X (DAPHNE) PHASE A

Source: USAspending.gov prime award transactions and FSRS subaward reports, as loaded by SpendQuery (data as of 2026-10-22). Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays. The official record on USAspending.gov ↗

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