The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $71,000 - Wednesday the 20th of June 2012
  Smithsonian Institution
  SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  INITIAL ANALYSIS OF RAW DATA (BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC) COLLECTED DURING PHASE I OF THIS PROJECT.

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• $68,035 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  CARBON PLAYS CRUCIAL ROLES IN THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF STARS, PLANETS, AND LIFE. PRIMITIVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIALS CONTAIN ABUNDANT C, MOSTLY IN ORGANIC FORM, AND IN FACT WERE PROBABLY EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN DELIVERING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TO THE EARLY EARTH. H AND N ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES (GENERALLY ENRICHMENTS IN D AND/OR 15N) IN THIS ORGANIC MATTER INDICATE AN ORIGIN EITHER IN PRESOLAR MOLECULAR CLOUDS OR THE IN COLD OUTER REACHES OF THE SUN S PROTOPLANETARY DISK. WE PROPOSE TO CONTINUE OUR SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH PROGRAM TO INVESTIGATE THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC MATTER IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, BASED ON A MULTI-TECHNIQUE MICROANALYTICAL APPROACH. OUR MAIN SCIENTIFIC GOALS ARE: 1) DETERMINE THE MICROSCALE DISTRIBUTION OF H, C AND N ISOTOPIC RATIOS IN ORGANICS FROM A RANGE OF METEORITE CLASSES, BOTH IN SITU AND IN WELL-CHARACTERIZED INSOLUBLE ORGANIC (IOM) RESIDUES. SAMPLES WITH A RANGE OF ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS WILL BE TARGETED FOR SUBSEQUENT CORRELATED ANALYSES. 2) INVESTIGATE THE STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF METEORITIC ORGANIC MATTER ON SUB-MICRON SCALES WITH THE GOAL OF BETTER UNDERSTANDING ITS ORIGINS AND PROCESSING HISTORIES IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. FOR EXAMPLE, WE WILL SEARCH FOR DISTINCT CHEMICAL BONDING SIGNATURES IN THE MOST ISOTOPICALLY ANOMALOUS MATERIALS TO PROVIDE CONSTRAINTS ON THE INTERSTELLAR CHEMICAL PROCESSES THAT PRODUCED THEM. 3) INVESTIGATE THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF SO-CALLED "NANOGLOBULES" THAT ARE NOW KNOWN TO BE A COMMON CONSTITUENT OF PRIMITIVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORGANIC MATTER. 4) INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIC MATTER AND SURROUNDING INORGANIC MATERIALS IN SITU IN MATRICES OF DIFFERENT CLASSES OF PRIMITIVE METEORITES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW PARENT-BODY PROCESSES AFFECT ORGANIC MATTER ON MICROSCOPIC SCALES AND HOW SOME MICROSCALE ISOTOPICALLY PRIMITIVE MATERIAL SURVIVES IN SOME METEORITES, EVEN WHEN THE BULK OF THE ORGANIC MATTER HAS BEEN MODIFIED. 5) COMPARE THE RANGE OF CHEMICAL, ISOTOPIC AND MICROSTRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF IOM TO THOSE OF ORGANICS FOUND IN SITU IN THE SAME METEORITES TO ACCURATELY ASSESS ANY POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THE DEMINERALIZING ACIDS USED TO PURIFY IOM. THESE GOALS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY PERFORMING HIGHLY COORDINATED ANALYSES OF THE SAME MATERIALS USING SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY, MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, FOCUSED ION BEAM MICROSCOPY, SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, AND SYNCHROTRON X-RAY TRANSMISSION MICROSCOPY. THE RESEARCH PROPOSED HERE IS ALIGNED WITH THE GOALS OF THE ORIGINS PROGRAM IN THAT IT WILL INCREASE "UNDERSTANDING [OF] THE FORMATION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS" BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AS TO HOW A KEY COMPONENT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM - ORGANIC MATTER - FORMED AND EVOLVED ON THE PATH FROM MOLECULAR CLOUD TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM WE KNOW TODAY.

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• $6,017,546 - Friday the 21st of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  THE MISSION DESIGN ORIGINALLY PROPOSED IN THE 1999 CONCEPT STUDY REPORT WAS FOR A LAUNCH WINDOW IN MARCH 2004. THE CRUISE PHASE OF THE MISSION INVOLVED FIVE PLANETARY FLYBYS (ONE OF EARTH, TWO OF VENUS, AND TWO OF MERCURY) AND LASTED 5.5 YEARS BEFORE MERCURY ORBIT INSERTION ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2009. THE ORBITAL PHASE OF THE MISSION LASTED ONE EARTH YEAR (UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010), AND THE PROJECT EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER YEAR FOLLOWING THE END OF THE NOMINAL MISSION (TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2011) TO PERMIT COMPLETION OF DATA ARCHIVING AND ANALYSIS. CIW WILL PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TO THE MESSENGER PI, IN HIS PERFORMANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TASKS DURING THE MISSION OPERATIONS AND DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, ANALYSIS, AND ARCHIVING OF SCIENCE DATA, INCLUDING: 1. PROVIDE CONTINUING OVERALL LEADERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF THE MESSENGER PROJECT. 2. CONTINUE TO CHAIR THE MESSENGER SCIENCE TEAM AND THE SCIENCE STEERING COMMITTEE. 3. OVERSEE THE DAY-TO-DAY GROUND STATION OPERATIONS OF THE MISSION OPERATIONS CENTER (MOC) FOR DATA COLLECTION AND SPACECRAFT HEALTH AND STATUS MONITORING. 4. OVERSEE THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS FOR PRODUCING VALIDATED SCIENCE DATA AND DELIVERING IT IN A TIMELY MANNER TO THE MESSENGER SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER (SOC), PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM, AND PUBLIC ARCHIVES. 5. OVERSEE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MESSENGER NAVIGATION TEAM. 6. OVERSEE MESSENGER EPO ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATE IN REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE MESSENGER EPO PARTNERS. 7. LEAD THE ANALYSIS OF MESSENGER SCIENCE DATA, THE DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND TO THE PUBLIC, AND THE TIMELY PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESULTS IN REFEREED JOURNALS. 8. PROVIDE MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF SUBCONTRACTS TO CO-INVESTIGATOR, NAVIGATION TEAM, AND EPO TEAM MEMBER INSTITUTIONS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE MESSENGER PROJECT. 9. CONTINUE DAILY MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PHASE E IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES. MONTHLY STATUS REPORTING ON ALL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION SHALL BE PERFORMED AND SUBMITTED TO THE DISCOVERY PROGRAM MANAGER ON TECHNICAL, SCHEDULE, AND FISCAL PROGRESS. PREPARATION AND PLANNING FOR CONTINUING PHASE E ACTIVITIES SHALL BE PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROJECT MASTER SCHEDULE, SUBCONTRACTING PLANS AND DOCUMENTATION, RISK ASSESSMENT LIST, AND DETAILED TASK DESCRIPTIONS AND COST ESTIMATES FOR PHASE E CONTRACTING.

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• $60,000 - Tuesday the 14th of June 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ALAN BOSS/CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON MIXING AND TRANSPORT OF SOLIDS IN THE SOLAR NEBULA OBJECTIVES: THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS SUPPORT FOR THE PI AND COLLEAGUES TO WORK ON 3D HYDRODYNAMICAL MODELS OF MIXING AND TRANSPORT IN THE SOLAR NEBULA, IN ORDER TO (1) LEARN THE EXTENT TO WHICH A SUPERNOVA SHOCK WAVE CAN BE EXPECTED TO SIMULTANEOUSLY TRIGGER THE COLLAPSE OF THE PRESOLAR CLOUD WHILE INJECTING SHORT-LIVED ISOTOPES, (2) STUDY THE SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES IN THE SOLAR NEBULA, AND (3) FOLLOW THE THERMAL HISTORIES OF SOLIDS IN THE SOLAR NEBULA AND DETERMINE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR VOLATILES (WATER) AND ORGANICS. SIGNIFICANCE: THIS RESEARCH WILL LEAD TO AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF THE EARLIEST PHASES OF PLANETARY SYSTEM FORMATION BY INVESTIGATING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE FOR SHORT-LIVED ISOTOPES IN REFRACTORY INCLUSIONS AND CHONDRULES CAN BE EXPLAINED BY SHOCK-TRIGGERED INJECTION OF SUPERNOVA-SYNTHESIZED RADIOACTIVITIES, THE COMPETING CLAIMS FOR ISOTOPIC HOMOGENEITY (26AL) AND HETEROGENEITY (16O,17O,18O), AND THE DELIVERY OF WATER AND ORGANICS TO THE TERRESTRIAL PLANET ZONE OF THE SOLAR NEBULA. PROPOSED WORK: WE PROPOSE WORK IN THREE RELATED AREAS AS FOLLOWS. (1) WE WILL USE THE FLASH CODE TO RETURN TO THE PROBLEM OF WHETHER A SUPERNOVA SHOCK WAVE CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY ACHIEVE TRIGGERING AND INJECTION WITH REALISTIC POST-SHOCK TEMPERATURES. WHILE ISOTHERMAL SHOCK FRONTS ARE CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUS TRIGGERING AND INJECTION, IT IS UNCLEAR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DETAILED HEATING AND COOLING PROCESSES IN THE SHOCK FRONT ARE CONSIDERED. THIS PROBLEM WILL BE STUDIED IN 2D ON THE DC101 CLUSTER WITH THE FLASH2.5 CODE. WE PLAN TO INSTALL THE FLASH3.0 CODE ON THE MUCH LARGER XENIA CLUSTER, ALLOWING US TO EXTEND THE MODELS TO 3D. WE WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE EFFECTS OF ROTATION IN THE PRESOLAR CLOUD, ALLOWING THE FORMATION OF THE ROTATIONALLY-SUPPORTED SOLAR NEBULA TO BE REALISTICALLY MODELED AS WELL. (2) WE WILL USE THE PI'S 3D DISK CODE TO CONTINUE STUDIES OF MIXING AND TRANSPORT IN THE NEBULA. HERE WE WILL CONSIDER WHAT HAPPENS IN LESS GRAVITATIONALLY UNSTABLE DISKS, AS WELL AS DISKS WITH TRANSIENT PERIODS OF INSTABILITY. WE WILL ALSO TEST THE DEPENDENCE OF THE ISOTOPIC DISPERSION ON THE SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF THE 3D HYDRO CODE. (3) WE WILL FOLLOW THE TRAJECTORIES OF A LARGE ENSEMBLE OF INDIVIDUAL DUST GRAINS IN THE 3D DISK MODELS, TO LEARN THE EXTENT TO WHICH THESE GRAINS ACQUIRE AND LOSE MANTLES OF VOLATILES AND ORGANICS AS THEY PASS THROUGH REGIONS WITH STRONGLY VARYING GAS DENSITIES AND TEMPERATURES. SOLIDS WITH SIZES RANGING FROM SUB-MICRON (TIED TO THE GAS) TO METER-SIZED (SUBJECT TO STRONG GAS DRAG) WILL BE FOLLOWED TO BEGIN TO MAKE A CLOSER TIE BETWEEN THESE GASEOUS DISK MODELS AND THE FIRST PHASES OF THE ACCUMULATION OF SOLIDS IN THE SOLAR NEBULA.

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• $45,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE TO IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERIZE PRESOLAR MATERIAL IN METEORITES AND INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES (IDPS) USING A WIDE RANGE OF MICROANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES (PRIMARILY NANOSIMS, RAMAN, TEM AND STXM). THE STUDIES WILL PROVIDE FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STELLAR AND GALACTIC EVOLUTION, DUST FORMATION IN STARS, INTERSTELLAR CHEMISTRY, AND PROCESSES IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM AND ARE DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO NASA'S GOALS. THE RESEARCH WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ADVANCED NANOSIMS 50L AT THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. MAJOR SCIENTIFIC GOALS ARE TO: (1) CREATE LARGE, UNBIASED MULTI-ISOTOPE DATABASES OF SINGLE PRESOLAR GRAINS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THEIR ORIGINS. (2) IDENTIFY LARGE PRESOLAR SILICATES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN UNBIASED MULTI-ELEMENT ISOTOPIC DISTRIBUTIONS. (3) INVESTIGATE THE RANGE OF PRESOLAR SILICATE MINERALS. (4) INVESTIGATE THE RELATIVE ABUNDANCES OF PRESOLAR GRAINS (MAINLY SILICATES, OXIDES AND SIC) AND THEIR SUB-GROUPS IN DIFFERENT METEORITE CLASSES AND IDPS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THEY ARE AFFECTED BY EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM AND PARENT BODY PROCESSES. (5) INVESTIGATE THE MICROSTRUCTURES OF PRESOLAR OXIDE, SILICATE, SIC, GRAPHITE AND SI3N4 GRAINS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND DUST FORMATION PROCESSES IN STARS AND DUST PROCESSING IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM AND EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. (6) IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERIZE - OR PUT MORE STRINGENT LIMITS ON THAN ARE PRESENTLY AVAILABLE PRESERVED PRESOLAR ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES IN IDPS, INCLUDING H, C AND N ANOMALIES ON ORGANICS AND O, MG, SI, S, CA, FE ANOMALIES IN PRESOLAR GRAINS. (8) CHEMICALLY, MINERALOGICALLY AND STRUCTURALLY CHARACTERIZE ISOTOPICALLY ANOMALOUS MATERIAL IN IDPS USING CORRELATED MICROANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES ON THE SAME PARTICLES ANALYZED BY SIMS.

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• $292,645 - Friday the 21st of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  THE MISSION DESIGN ORIGINALLY PROPOSED IN THE 1999 CONCEPT STUDY REPORT WAS FOR A LAUNCH WINDOW IN MARCH 2004. THE CRUISE PHASE OF THE MISSION INVOLVED FIVE PLANETARY FLYBYS (ONE OF EARTH, TWO OF VENUS, AND TWO OF MERCURY) AND LASTED 5.5 YEARS BEFORE MERCURY ORBIT INSERTION ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2009. THE ORBITAL PHASE OF THE MISSION LASTED ONE EARTH YEAR (UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010), AND THE PROJECT EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER YEAR FOLLOWING THE END OF THE NOMINAL MISSION (TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2011) TO PERMIT COMPLETION OF DATA ARCHIVING AND ANALYSIS. CIW WILL PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TO THE MESSENGER PI, IN HIS PERFORMANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TASKS DURING THE MISSION OPERATIONS AND DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, ANALYSIS, AND ARCHIVING OF SCIENCE DATA, INCLUDING: 1. PROVIDE CONTINUING OVERALL LEADERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF THE MESSENGER PROJECT. 2. CONTINUE TO CHAIR THE MESSENGER SCIENCE TEAM AND THE SCIENCE STEERING COMMITTEE. 3. OVERSEE THE DAY-TO-DAY GROUND STATION OPERATIONS OF THE MISSION OPERATIONS CENTER (MOC) FOR DATA COLLECTION AND SPACECRAFT HEALTH AND STATUS MONITORING. 4. OVERSEE THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS FOR PRODUCING VALIDATED SCIENCE DATA AND DELIVERING IT IN A TIMELY MANNER TO THE MESSENGER SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER (SOC), PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM, AND PUBLIC ARCHIVES. 5. OVERSEE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MESSENGER NAVIGATION TEAM. 6. OVERSEE MESSENGER EPO ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATE IN REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE MESSENGER EPO PARTNERS. 7. LEAD THE ANALYSIS OF MESSENGER SCIENCE DATA, THE DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND TO THE PUBLIC, AND THE TIMELY PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESULTS IN REFEREED JOURNALS. 8. PROVIDE MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF SUBCONTRACTS TO CO-INVESTIGATOR, NAVIGATION TEAM, AND EPO TEAM MEMBER INSTITUTIONS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE MESSENGER PROJECT. 9. CONTINUE DAILY MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PHASE E IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES. MONTHLY STATUS REPORTING ON ALL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION SHALL BE PERFORMED AND SUBMITTED TO THE DISCOVERY PROGRAM MANAGER ON TECHNICAL, SCHEDULE, AND FISCAL PROGRESS. PREPARATION AND PLANNING FOR CONTINUING PHASE E ACTIVITIES SHALL BE PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROJECT MASTER SCHEDULE, SUBCONTRACTING PLANS AND DOCUMENTATION, RISK ASSESSMENT LIST, AND DETAILED TASK DESCRIPTIONS AND COST ESTIMATES FOR PHASE E CONTRACTING.

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• $21,923 - Tuesday the 9th of May 2017
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE WILL DETERMINE THE FRACTION OF PLANETARY NEBULAE (PN) IN THE KEPLER FIELD THAT HAVE CENTRAL STARS WITH CLOSE BINARY COMPANIONS. GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF THE BINARY RATE OF PN CENTRAL STARS IS ABOUT 20% WHEREAS THE OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE BASED ON A DIVERSE SET OF ARGUMENTS IS THAT THIS FRACTION SHOULD BE 50-80%. THE OBSERVATIONS ARE SO CHALLENGING FROM THE GROUND THAT WE CANNOT SAY WHETHER THERE IS A CONFLICT OR NOT. KEPLER'S UNIQUE ABILITY TO MEASURE SMALL PHOTOMETRIC VARIATIONS WILL ALLOW AN ACCURATE ESTIMATE OF BINARY CENTRAL STARS FOR THE PNE IN THE FIELD OF VIEW. THE QUESTION OF BINARY FREQUENCY HAS WIDE-RANGING CONSEQUENCES THAT IMPACT STELLAR AND GALACTIC EVOLUTION.

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• $1,469,877 - Friday the 21st of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  THE MISSION DESIGN ORIGINALLY PROPOSED IN THE 1999 CONCEPT STUDY REPORT WAS FOR A LAUNCH WINDOW IN MARCH 2004. THE CRUISE PHASE OF THE MISSION INVOLVED FIVE PLANETARY FLYBYS (ONE OF EARTH, TWO OF VENUS, AND TWO OF MERCURY) AND LASTED 5.5 YEARS BEFORE MERCURY ORBIT INSERTION ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2009. THE ORBITAL PHASE OF THE MISSION LASTED ONE EARTH YEAR (UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010), AND THE PROJECT EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER YEAR FOLLOWING THE END OF THE NOMINAL MISSION (TO 30 SEPTEMBER 2011) TO PERMIT COMPLETION OF DATA ARCHIVING AND ANALYSIS. CIW WILL PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT TO THE MESSENGER PI, IN HIS PERFORMANCE OF THE FOLLOWING TASKS DURING THE MISSION OPERATIONS AND DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, ANALYSIS, AND ARCHIVING OF SCIENCE DATA, INCLUDING: 1. PROVIDE CONTINUING OVERALL LEADERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF THE MESSENGER PROJECT. 2. CONTINUE TO CHAIR THE MESSENGER SCIENCE TEAM AND THE SCIENCE STEERING COMMITTEE. 3. OVERSEE THE DAY-TO-DAY GROUND STATION OPERATIONS OF THE MISSION OPERATIONS CENTER (MOC) FOR DATA COLLECTION AND SPACECRAFT HEALTH AND STATUS MONITORING. 4. OVERSEE THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS FOR PRODUCING VALIDATED SCIENCE DATA AND DELIVERING IT IN A TIMELY MANNER TO THE MESSENGER SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER (SOC), PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM, AND PUBLIC ARCHIVES. 5. OVERSEE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MESSENGER NAVIGATION TEAM. 6. OVERSEE MESSENGER EPO ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATE IN REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE MESSENGER EPO PARTNERS. 7. LEAD THE ANALYSIS OF MESSENGER SCIENCE DATA, THE DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND TO THE PUBLIC, AND THE TIMELY PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESULTS IN REFEREED JOURNALS. 8. PROVIDE MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT OF SUBCONTRACTS TO CO-INVESTIGATOR, NAVIGATION TEAM, AND EPO TEAM MEMBER INSTITUTIONS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE MESSENGER PROJECT. 9. CONTINUE DAILY MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PHASE E IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES. MONTHLY STATUS REPORTING ON ALL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION SHALL BE PERFORMED AND SUBMITTED TO THE DISCOVERY PROGRAM MANAGER ON TECHNICAL, SCHEDULE, AND FISCAL PROGRESS. PREPARATION AND PLANNING FOR CONTINUING PHASE E ACTIVITIES SHALL BE PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROJECT MASTER SCHEDULE, SUBCONTRACTING PLANS AND DOCUMENTATION, RISK ASSESSMENT LIST, AND DETAILED TASK DESCRIPTIONS AND COST ESTIMATES FOR PHASE E CONTRACTING.

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• $126,651 - Thursday the 8th of October 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE NASA WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE) MISSION DATA RELEASE CONTAINS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF MID-INFRARED IMAGING OF GALAXIES LIKELY TO EXIST FOR DECADES. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IMPRESSIVE RESOURCE WILL BE UNDER-UTILIZED FOR NEARBY RESOLVED GALAXIES BECAUSE THE STANDARD WISE SOURCE CATALOGS ARE ONLY DESIGNED TO PROPERLY MEASURE POINT SOURCES. WE PROPOSE TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND UNLOCK THIS GREAT WEALTH OF DATA OBTAINED BY NASA BY CONSTRUCTING THE WISE NEARBY GALAXY ATLAS (WNGA) OF ALL WISE OBSERVED GALAXIES WITH DIAMETERS OF AT LEAST 1 ARCMINUTE, VELOCITIES LESS THAN 30,000 KILOMETERS PER SECOND, AND THAT LIE ABOVE/BELOW GALACTIC LATITUDE OF |B|>20 DEGREES. THE EXTENDED SOURCE PIPELINE SOFTWARE HAS ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED AND WORKS WITH IMAGE DATA FROM SEVERAL NASA MISSIONS AND PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE GALAXY EVOLUTION EXPLORER (GALEX), THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE INFRARED ARRAY CAMERA (IRAC), THE 2 MICRON ALL-SKY SURVEY (2MASS) AS WELL AS NON-NASA IMAGING FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY. THE WNGA WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE ASTRONOMICAL COMMUNITY VIA THE NASA/IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE (NED). THE WNGA WILL ENHANCE THE LEGACY OF THE WISE MISSION AND EXPEDITE MANY RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT REQUIRE SURFACE PHOTOMETRY AND RADIAL PROFILES OF EXTENDED NEARBY GALAXIES. THE SAMPLE CONSISTS OF 8,996 GALAXIES FROM THE PRELIMINARY PUBLIC DATA RELEASE (55% OF THE SKY) AND AN ADDITIONAL 10,644 GALAXIES FROM THE UPCOMING SECOND DATA RELEASE FOR A TOTAL OF 19,640 GALAXIES.

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