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$46,979,167

National Science Foundation·National Science Foundation

to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

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ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2121686_049
Award description

U.S. CMS OPERATIONS AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds U.S. operations and maintenance of the CMS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

Sub-sectors
particle-physicsscientific-researchinternational-collaboration
Why this matters

Sustains U.S. leadership in fundamental physics research and maintains critical international scientific infrastructure for particle physics discoveries.

Supply-chain signal

Supports specialized detector equipment suppliers and high-energy physics instrumentation vendors serving CERN experiments.

U.S.–China competition angle

Demonstrates U.S. commitment to cutting-edge physics research; China is developing competing particle accelerator capabilities.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001334.

Period of performance
Start
2022-01-01
End
2027-12-31
Status
activein 596 days
Sources

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