WiscSIMS receives a subsidy from NSF/EAR Instrumentation and Facilities Program (link), and external NSF-funded investigators receive priority in allocation of instrument time and are eligible to perform analyses at a subsidized rate.
- The current subsidized rate is $1,800/day (12 hours), applied to US federally-funded research.
- The unsubsidized academic rate is $3,600/day (12 hours).
- Commercial or confidential analysis is also available at a rate of $10,000/day (12 hours).
Analysis of extraterrestrial samples is outside the scope of the NSF/EAR Facility Program. Under the support from NASA PSEF Program, NASA Planetary Science Division (PSD) funded users are qualified for subsidized rate of $1,800/day (12 hours) for extraterrestrial sample analyses and the unsubsidized academic rate is $3,600/day (12 hours).
Rate for University of Wisconsin-Madison users is $1,200/day (12 hours).