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NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute of Sonoma, Calif., to support Earth science research at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The Ames Cooperative for Research in Earth Science and Technology (ARC-CREST) agreement has a total value of approximately $137 million, which will be funded annually up to $14 million. The 10-year agreement covers the period from March 1, 2012 through Feb. 28, 2022. The agreement is based...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute of Sonoma, Calif., to support Earth science research at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Ames Cooperative for Research in Earth Science and Technology (ARC-CREST) agreement has a total value of approximately $137 million, which will be funded...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency's open source software development. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Open source development, which invites the public access to view and improve software source code, is transforming the way software is created, improved and used. NASA uses open source code to address project and mission needs, accelerate...
NASA's Third Rock Radio just got mobile. Updates to the NASA App for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android now include a feature to listen to the agency's new online alternative rock radio station. "Now you can listen to great music in the same app that still provides all of NASA's amazing content wherever you are," said Jerry Colen, NASA App project manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Third Rock - America's Space Station launched with a new...
Three of Google’s top-tier executives have purportedly made a $33 million bid to renovate NASA’s historic Hangar One. Insiders say the three multi-billionaires want to use the facility to house their own growing private-jet collection. Together with the company’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt, brainy Google co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page say that 198-foot tall, almost 80-year-old hangar would even remain the property of NASA. The Google trio insists that they would only...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a Tweetup for 50 of its Twitter followers on Oct. 14 at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The Tweetup includes a tour of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft, which will visit Ames. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) SOFIA is a highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a telescope with a 100-inch reflecting mirror to...
Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 11 a.m. PDT, Sept. 15 MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news briefing at 11 a.m. PDT, Thursday, Sept. 15, to announce a new discovery by the Kepler mission. The briefing will be held in the Syvertson auditorium, building N-201, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. (Logo:...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has exercised Option Period #2 on the Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support (ISRDS) contract. Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc., (SGT, Inc.), Greenbelt, Md., received the option award to continue to support intelligent systems research at the agency's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The option period has a maximum value of $60...
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The TEDxNASA@SiliconValley event, which will feature presentations on "extreme green ideas," will be streamed live online on Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 2:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. PDT. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) NASA's four research centers -- Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.; Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif.; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; Langley Research Center and...
Journalists are invited to attend NASA's first open source software development summit March 29-30 at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on both days.The event will bring together engineers, policy makers and members of the open source community. They will discuss challenges within the existing open source policy framework and propose modifications to enhance NASA's development, release and use of software.Tsengdar Lee, the...
