The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,987 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  Department Of Army
  W4GG HQ US ARMY TACOM
  THIS CONTRACT IS A 2011.3 PHASE I SBIR CONTRACT, SOLICITED UNDER TOPIC A11-139 INTELLIGENT SIC-BASED HIGH POWER DENSITY POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR MILITARY GROUND VEHICLE APPLICATIONS. THE CONTRACTOR PROPOSES TO INCREASE ELECTRIFICATION OF THE MODERN MILITARY GROUND VEHICLE FLEET PLACES EVER-INCREASING DEMAND ON EACH VEHICLE S ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS.

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• $749,958 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - THERE ARE A NUMBER OF CRITICAL TELEMETRY MEASUREMENTS TO BE MONITORED UNDER CONTINUOUS FIELD OPERATION, INCLUDING TEMPERATURE DATA ACROSS THE REACTOR CHAMBER AND THE NOZZLE, PRESSURE DATA, NEUTRON FLUX DENSITY AND FLOW RATE OF THE PROPELLANT. REAL-TIME MONITORING OF THIS DATA IN NUCLEAR THERMAL ENGINES WOULD GREATLY IMPROVE OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE, REDUCE OPERATIONAL COSTS, AND SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT MAINTENANCE COSTS AND RELIABILITY. EVEN THOUGH SOME EXTREME ENVIRONMENT SENSORS BECOME AVAILABLE RECENTLY, IT IS STILL IMPOSSIBLE TO DIRECTLY AND ACCURATELY MEASURE THE CRITICAL OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS OF NTP ENGINES DUE TO THE LACK OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENT ELECTRONICS FOR THOSE SENSORS. DATA FROM EXTREME ENVIRONMENT SENSORS IS DELIVERED VIA WIRE-LINE TO AN EXTERNAL ACTIVELY COOLED ELECTRONICS BOX, WHERE IT IS PROCESSED. THIS APPROACH PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT DRAWBACKS SUCH AS THE NEED FOR COMPLEX SHIELDED WIRING HARNESSES THAT NOT ONLY ARE HEAVY BUT ALSO LIMIT SENSOR LOCATION AND SIGNAL QUALITY (I.E., SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO). ADDITIONALLY, THESE SYSTEMS SUFFER FROM RELIABILITY ISSUES DUE TO WIRING CONNECTIONS. IN THIS PHASE II SBIR, APEI, INC. WILL BUILD ON THE SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURE WIRELESS TRANSMITTER DESIGNS DURING PHASE I, TO DELIVER A SET OF SIC BASED, INTEGRATED WIRELESS SENSOR-TRANSMITTER SUITES FOR EXTREME TEMPERATURE OPERATION (450 DEG C) IN NTP ENGINES. THESE SENSOR SUITES WILL ALLOW FOR THE REAL TIME MONITORING OF CRITICAL ENGINE COMPONENTS, REDUCING THE RISK OF CATASTROPHIC FAILURE AND DECREASING THE INHERENT RISK ASSOCIATED WITH NTP OPERATION. THE FINAL WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEMS WILL BE FULLY INTEGRATED INTO AN AUTONOMOUS 'DROP-IN' SOLUTION FOR ADVANCED SENSING SYSTEMS, INCLUDING WIRELESS ENERGY HARVESTING.

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• $70,000 - Friday the 2nd of March 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV LKE
  EXERCISE THE OPTION

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• $50,000 - Monday the 7th of April 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN THIS SBIR PROJECT, APEI, INC. IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A HIGH EFFICIENCY, RAD-HARD 3.8 KW SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) POWER SUPPLY FOR THE POWER PROCESSING UNIT (PPU) OF HALL EFFECT THRUSTERS. THIS PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TARGETS THE DESIGN OF A PPU FOR THE HIVHAC (HIGH VOLTAGE HALL ACCELERATOR) THRUSTER, WITH TARGET SPECIFICATIONS OF 80-160V INPUT, 200-700V / 5A OUTPUT, EFFICIENCY GREATER THAN 96%, AND PEAK POWER DENSITY IN EXCESS OF 2.5 KW/KG. THE PPU UNDER DEVELOPMENT UTILIZES SIC JFET POWER SWITCHES; COMPONENTS WHICH APEI, INC. HAS IRRADIATED UNDER TID CONDITIONS TO GREATER THAN 3 MRAD WITH LITTLE TO ZERO CHANGE IN DEVICE PERFORMANCE.

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• $451,207 - Thursday the 16th of February 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4GG HQ US ARMY TACOM
  THE PHASE II EFFORT WILL BUILD FROM WHAT WAS COMPLETED IN PHASE I AND WILL BE FOCUSED AROUND DEVELOPING, FABRICATING AND TESTING COMPACT, HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH PERFORMANCE ISOLATED GATE DRIVERS UTILIZING HTSOI INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, DISCRETE SIC DEVICES, AND HIGH FREQUENCY CORELESS MAGNETICS. LEVERAGING ITS EXISTING HIGH PERFORMANCE HIGH TEMPERATURE SIC POWER MODULES, APEI, INC. WILL INTEGRATE THE DEVELOPED GATE DRIVER INTO THIS SIC POWER MODULE AND DEMONSTRATE A COMPLETE HIGH TEMPERATURE INTELLIGENT POWER MODULE.

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• $200,000 - Monday the 7th of April 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN THIS SBIR PROJECT, APEI, INC. IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A HIGH EFFICIENCY, RAD-HARD 3.8 KW SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) POWER SUPPLY FOR THE POWER PROCESSING UNIT (PPU) OF HALL EFFECT THRUSTERS. THIS PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY TARGETS THE DESIGN OF A PPU FOR THE HIVHAC (HIGH VOLTAGE HALL ACCELERATOR) THRUSTER, WITH TARGET SPECIFICATIONS OF 80-160V INPUT, 200-700V / 5A OUTPUT, EFFICIENCY GREATER THAN 96%, AND PEAK POWER DENSITY IN EXCESS OF 2.5 KW/KG. THE PPU UNDER DEVELOPMENT UTILIZES SIC JFET POWER SWITCHES; COMPONENTS WHICH APEI, INC. HAS IRRADIATED UNDER TID CONDITIONS TO GREATER THAN 3 MRAD WITH LITTLE TO ZERO CHANGE IN DEVICE PERFORMANCE.

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• $149,983 - Friday the 19th of October 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9453 DET 8 AFRL PKV8
  MULTI-MODULE, SCALABLE, HIGH POWER DENSITY, RADIATION-HARDENED POWER CONVERTER INTERFACE SYSTEMS FOR SPACE RATED LI-ION

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• $149,961 - Friday the 19th of September 2014
  Immediate Office Of Secretary Of Transportation
  DOT-OR&T 00057
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION FRA SBIR PHASE I 12.1-FR3 ARKANSAS POWER ELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL INC., PROJECT TITLE, "HIGH EFFICIENCY, UNIVERSALLY-APPLICABLE, BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE RAILCAR WITH REGENERATIVE BRAKING CAPABILITY"

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