The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $8,000 - Thursday the 6th of August 2015
  Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
  DEPT OF HHS/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
  DEVELOPMENT OF R SOFTWARE FOR DISINFECTION KINETIC ANALYSIS

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• $699,379 - Wednesday the 17th of October 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8750 AFRL RIK
  ACTIVE AUTHENTICATION VIA LINGUISTIC MODALITIES

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• $5,499 - Tuesday the 17th of April 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV LKE
  DESIGN CLINIC/CAPSTONE PROJECT

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• $5,499 - Tuesday the 17th of April 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV LKE
  DESIGN CLINIC/CAPSTONE PROJECT

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• $50,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE WORK TO BE DONE IS DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING BULLETS AND IS ASSIGNED TO DREXEL WITH GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT PROVIDED BY GSFC. OLSON WILL MAINTAIN A REPOSITORY OF THE ARGOS CODE AT DREXEL USING THE SUBVERSION SOFTWARE SYSTEM. ALL RESEARCHERS CONTRIBUTING TO THE CODE BASE WILL BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE REPOSITORY SO THAT ONLY A SINGLE CODE BASE IS BEING DEVELOPED AT ONE TIME AND ALL CHANGES CAN BE TRACKED. OLSON WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THE PARAMESH ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT PACKAGE AS PER THE NEEDS OF THIS PROJECT AND MODIFY IT AS NEEDED. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO INCORPORATE A MULTISPECIES CAPABILITY INTO THE ARGOS HYDRODYNAMICS CODE THAT WILL ALLOW SIMULATION OF PLASMAS THAT CONTAIN BOTH IONIZED AND NEUTRAL SPECIES. COLLABORATORS AT GSFC WILL PROVIDE A NON-LINEAR EQUATION OF STATE. THE INPUT VARIABLES FOR THE EQUATION OF STATE WILL BE THE MASS DENSITY AND EITHER THE INTERNAL ENERGY DENSITY OR THE TEMPERATURE. ON OUTPUT DEPENDENT VARIABLES WILL INCLUDE THE PRESSURE, THE SOUND SPEED, THE HEAT CAPACITY, THE RATIO OF SPECIFIC HEATS, AND EITHER (A) THE TEMPERATURE OR (B) THE INTERNAL ENERGY DENSITY. OLSON WILL MODIFY ARGOS TO INCLUDE THE NEW EQUATION OF STATE BY MODIFYING THE RIEMANN SOLVER USED IN ARGOS AND REPLACING CALLS TO THE SIMPLE EQUATION OF STATE CURRENTLY USED IN ARGOS WITH CALLS TO THE NEW EQUATION OF STATE. OLSON WILL MODIFY THE ARGOS CODE SO THAT IT INCORPORATES A NEW RADIATIVE COOLING RATE FUNCTION APPROPRIATE IN THE NEUTRAL, OPTICALLY THICK REGIME BELOW 10'* K. IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THIS PROJECT, OLSON WILL WORK WITH RESEARCHERS AT GSFC IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ARGOS A MULTIFIUID CODE WHERE THE NEUTRAL AND IONIC SPECIES ARE TREATED AS SEPARATE FLUIDS, BUT COUPLED THROUGH MOMENTUM DRAG TERMS. OLSON WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE EFFORT TO MODEL THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF PARTIALLY IONIZED PROMINENCE CONDENSATIONS BY RUNNING NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS USING THE MODIFIED ARGOS CODE AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY. ADDITIONALLY, OLSON WILL CONTRIBUTE TO WRITING AND PUBLISHING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS DESCRIBING THE RESULTS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS. THE RESULTS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL BE USED TO GUIDE RUNS TO BE PERFORMED USING THE ARMS CODE IN LATER YEARS.

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• $47,975 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE MULTI-WAVELENGTH QUASAR CATALOG BY COMBINING MODERATELYDEEP, WIDE-FIELD DATA IN THE NASA ARCHIVES (FROM GALEX, 2MASS, SPITZER, AND WISE) WITH PUBLIC OPTICAL IMAGING DATA FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY. THIS CATALOG WILL EXTEND FROM DEEP SAMPLES WITH SIGNFICANT MULTI-WAVELENGTH COVERAGE IN A SMALL AREA (E.G., SDSS "STRIPE 82"), TO SHALLOWER SAMPLES OVER A LARGER AREA WITH LESS MULTIWAVELENGTH COVERAGE. OUR EFFORTS ARE A CRUCIAL STEP TO BRIDGING BETWEEN EXISTING SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS AND FUTURE PHOTOMETRIC SURVEYS. USING THIS CATALOG, WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE CLUSTERING AND LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF FAINT (I 21-23), HIGH-REDSHIFT (Z>2.5) QUASARS IN ORDER TO BREAK DEGENERACIES BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODELS OF "FEEDBACK" FROM ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN). OUR APPROACH IS UNIQUE IN ITS APPLICATION OF A BAYESIAN QUASAR SELECTION ALGORITHM THAT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO OUT-PERFORM STANDARD METHODS AND THAT HAS BEEN TESTED ON MULTI-WAVELENGTH DATA. ONCE QUASARS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, WE WILL APPLY OUR EXISTING PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT ALGORITHMS. RICHARDS AND MYERS ARE AMONG THE WORLD'S EXPERTS IN FINDING QUASARS AND USING THEIR CLUSTERING AND LUMINOSITY FUNCTION TO DO CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE. QUASAR CLUSTERING ANALYSIS WILL MAKE USE OF THE TEAM#S EXISTING ALGORITHMS, WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO HANDLE THE INHERENTLY PHOTOMETRIC NATURE OF THE QUASAR SAMPLE. THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION ALGORITHMS ARE ALREADY IN PLACE, ALLOWING FOR TIMELY COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT ONCE THE MULTI-WAVELENGTH NASA DATA HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED. AS WITH ALL QUASAR CATALOGS THAT REPRESENT THE NEXT GENERATION IN IMPROVEMENTS, THIS MULTI-WAVELENGTH QUASAR CATALOG WILL HAVE AN IMPACT THAT EXTENDS FAR BEYOND OUR OWN SCIENCE GOALS. THIS TIME IS RIPE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SUCH A CATALOG AS ONLY IN THE PAST YEAR HAS THIS DATASET COVERED SUCH A LARGE RANGE OF WAVELENGTHS AND AREA. IN TERMS OF OUR OWN SCIENCE, UNDERSTANDING THE FORM OF AGN FEEDBACK AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH IT CONTRIBUTES TO THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN EXTRAGALACTIC ASTROPHYSICS TODAY. OUR CLUSTERING AND LUMINOSITY FUNCTION ANALYSES, USING A RICH MULTI-WAVELENGTH DATASET, WILL PROVIDE IMPORTANT CONSTRAINTS ON AGN FEEDBACK MODELS. THIS PROJECT IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES AND TO NASA'S GOAL OF BETTER UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE. MOREOVER, NASA#S DATA ARCHIVE IS CRUCIAL TO THE PROJECT: IT IS ONLY BY USING DATA FROM GALEX, 2MASS, SPITZER, AND WISE THAT WE CAN TURN AN INCOMPLETE, BIASED SAMPLE OF OPTICAL QUASARS INTO THE ULTIMATE MULTI-WAVELENGTH QUASAR CATALOG.

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• $186,000 - Wednesday the 21st of March 2012
  Department Of Navy
  SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS
  R&D SERVICES IAW THE SOW, "TACTICAL HETEROGENEOUS ONTOLOTY REPRESENTATION (THOR)."

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• $1,503,892 - Tuesday the 14th of February 2012
  Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
  BASE PERIOD- INCREMENTAL FUNDING

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