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$55,252,567

National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

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ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_80NSSC23M0011_080
Award description

SOLE SOURCE COLLABORATIVE EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE RESEARCH BETWEEN NASA/GSFC AND UMD/ESSIC

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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In plain English

Collaborative Earth system science research between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center.

Sub-sectors
earth-scienceclimate-researchsatellite-systems
Why this matters

Strengthens U.S. climate monitoring and Earth observation capabilities through sustained university-agency partnership in critical environmental science.

Supply-chain signal

Supports demand for satellite instrumentation, data processing systems, and specialized scientific computing infrastructure.

U.S.–China competition angle

Advances U.S. Earth observation and climate science leadership; China actively develops competing satellite systems for environmental monitoring.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001346.

Period of performance
Start
2023-01-01
End
2027-12-31
Status
activein 596 days
Sources

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