Contracts - AWARD SUMMARY
NORTHROP GRUMMAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC
Climate in a Box? (CIB) is intended to simplify the process of distributing NASAs climate models and related science analysis tools to investigators. At present the software associated with such tools is complex and does not easily execute on non-NASA systems, and thus new investigators require substantial assistance from NASA scientists. The intent of CIB is to recover these opportunity costs by using advanced information technology to reduce the complexity of the software deployment for external systems, resulting in a more rapid deployment to researchers with less burden on NASA scientists.
| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
NNG06HN01D |
Funding Agency |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Total Award Amount |
$264,997 |
Project Location - City |
Greenbelt |
| Award Date |
04/23/2010 |
Project Location - State |
MD |
| Project Status |
Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
20771-0000
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| Jobs Reported |
0.00 |
Congressional District |
05 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
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Recipient Information
(Contracts)
| Recipient Information (Contracts) |
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Recipient Name
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NORTHROP GRUMMAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
052272044
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| Recipient Address |
7575 COLSHIRE DR |
| Recipient City |
MCLEAN |
| Recipient State |
Virginia |
| Recipient Zip |
22102-7508 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
08 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
Federal Contract |
| Project Status |
Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
Yes |
| Project Activities Description |
Computer Systems Design Services |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
Technical work concluded on September 30, 2010 so no technical activities occurred in the current reporting quarter. |
| Jobs Created |
0.00 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
The Desktop Supercomputing initiative (a.k.a. ?Climate in a Box? or CIB) is intended to simplify the process of distributing NASA?s climate models and related science analysis tools to investigators. At present the software associated with such tools is complex and does not easily execute on non-NASA systems, and thus new investigators require
substantial assistance from NASA scientists. The intent of CIB is to recover these opportunity costs by using advanced information technology to reduce the complexity of the software deployment for external systems, resulting in a more rapid deployment to researchers with less burden on NASA scientists.
The work described under this task plan would augment the ongoing development of a scientific workflow tool that will make the configuration and monitoring of climate
experiments less burdensome for new investigators. The use of a standard workflow tool has the potential to significantly reduce the cost and risk of conducting model-based climate research, because it provides a user-friendly interface for model execution setup and helps investigators better manage output from experiments.
During this period of performance the contractor will implement the NASA Experiment Designer (NED) workflow tool as a part of the standard software suite of the CIB
on a desktop supercomputer class system. The contractor will implement NED on the system and demonstrate the capability to execute the NASA GEOS5 model for a 5 day
simulation.
The contractor will design an extension to the workflow tool such that investigators can seamlessly transition the GEOS5 model from the CIB system to more computationally powerful runs on NASA?s High End Computing (HEC) systems. This would enable them to run simulations that are larger or much longer in duration. The contractor will also deliver a feasibility study that addresses (a) the extensions which would be needed for autonomously switching the model between the two compute platforms and (b) how a data system would support interoperability between the CIB and the HEC facilities at Goddard.
This project requires a number of skills in the area of scientific tool development, including version control tools to manage the model and workflow codes, model building, Linux operating system experience, science model execution and model execution experience for the climate model selected. Additionally experience in managing and running servers, extending client-server architectures and enhancing existing legacy codes, including reorganizing codes in order to be able to run them on multiple systems easily (generalization and porting) skills are critical. The project primarily involves the use of the following languages: Java, Python and shell scripting, as well as familiarity with XML. |
Purchaser Information
(Contracts)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
GSFC0 |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
80-0119 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
04/23/2010 |
| Award Number |
NNG06HN01D |
| Order Number |
TO 53 |
| Award Type |
Contracts |
| Funding Agency ID |
80 |
| Funding Agency Name |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
80 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| Amount of Award |
$264,997 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$261,116 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
Not Reported |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
Not Reported |
Product or Service Information
(Contracts)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
541512 |
| Activity Description |
Computer Systems Design Services |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
1 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$40,902 |
| Sub-Awards to Individuals |
0 |
| Sub-Award Amounts to Individuals |
$0 |
| Number of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Amount of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors greater than $25,000 |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
Sub-award 7500074704 - GLOBAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, INC.
| Sub-Award Amount |
$40,902 |
| Sub-Award Date |
05/07/2010 |
| Sub-Awards Disbursed |
$0.00 |
| Project Location - City |
Greenbelt |
| Project Location - State |
MD |
| Project Location - Zip Code |
20770-3239 |
| Project Location - Congressional District |
05 |
| Sub-Recipient DUNS Number |
803721679
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| Sub-Recipient Address |
7855 WALKER DRIVE, STE 200 |
| Sub-Recipient City |
GREENBELT |
| Sub-Recipient State |
Maryland |
| Sub-Recipient Zip Code |
20770-3239 |
| Sub-Recipient Congressional District |
05 |
Required To Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
38º 59' 48",
-76º 51' 16" |
| Congressional District |
05 |
| Address 1 |
NASA GSFC |
| Address 2 |
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| City |
Greenbelt |
| County |
Prince George's |
| State |
MD |
| Zip |
20771-0000 |
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