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NASA records eight awards on Sept 20, largest $74.3M to Bay Area institute

NASA recorded eight awards on Sept 20 totaling $131.9M by this paper's arithmetic, led by a $74.3M cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute.

Caleb Mbeki
Planetary Science Reporter
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NASA recorded eight awards on Sept 20 totaling $131.9M by this paper's arithmetic. The largest, a $74.3M renewal of the ARC-CREST cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, grew from $63.1M across four observed revisions, with $50.9M outlaid to date. [6]