Federal grant · cooperative agreement (b)
In October 2020 as Part of Its Strategic Goal to Support Open Interdisciplinary Science Nasa Requested the Ads Team to Develop a Plan to Extend Ads's Services to All the Scientific Disciplines Supported by the Science Mission Directorate (SMD). Ads Would No Longer Primarily Serve Astrophysics (AP) But Become the Digital Library for Planetary Science (PS) Heliophysics (HP) Earth Science (ES) and Nasa-funded Research in Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS).
Committed
$6.5 Million
Paid out
$3.7M
57%
Committed, not yet paid
$2.8M
43%
Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .
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