The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,844 - Wednesday the 17th of October 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8750 AFRL RIK
  A PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT MASSIVELY PAR

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• $375,000 - Monday the 5th of December 2011
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9550 AFRL AFOSR
  (STTR PH. 2) ULTRAFAST HYBRID ACTIVE MATERIALS AND DEVICES FOR COMPACT RF PHOTONICS

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• $361,668 - Tuesday the 14th of February 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-RSA
  THIS MODIFICATION IS FOR THE SECOND INCREMENT

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• $221,730 - Monday the 5th of December 2011
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9550 AFRL AFOSR
  (STTR PH II) ACCELERATED LINEAR ALGEBRA SOLVERS FOR MULTI-CORE GPU-BASED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES

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• $124,959 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  DESPITE ITS PROMISE, OPENCL ADOPTION IS SLOW, OWING TO A LACK OF LIBRARIES AND TOOLS. VENDORS HAVE SHOWN FEW SIGNS OF PLANS TO PROVIDE OPENCL LIBRARIES, AND WERE THEY TO DO SO THEY WOULD LIKELY BE INCOMPATIBLE WITH ONE ANOTHER, MUCH AS NVIDIA'S BLAS (CUDA) IS PRESENTLY NOT INTERCHANGEABLE WITH INTEL'S BLAS (MKL). THE UNIFIED LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT OF OPENCL ALLOWS THE COMMUNITY TO ENSURE THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LANGUAGE ITS INTERCHANGEABILITY IS REFLECTED IN ITS LIBRARY AND TOOLS ECOSYSTEM. EM PHOTONICS IS WELL POSITIONED TO LEAD THIS EFFORT; WE HAVE STRONG TIES TO SEVERAL HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS, TO APPLICATION DEVELOPERS, AND WE MAINTAIN A WORLD-CLASS LAPACK LIBRARY FOR NVIDIA GPUS. TO BEGIN THIS PROCESS, EM PHOTONICS PROPOSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SET OF OPENCL BLAS ROUTINES AND THE FRAMEWORK NECESSARY TO ALLOW RESEARCHERS, DEVELOPERS, AND HARDWARE MANUFACTURES TO INTEGRATE PLATFORM OPTIMIZED VERSIONS OF BLAS LIBRARIES. THIS SOFTWARE WILL BE MADE OPEN SOURCE TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE WITH THE WITH FUTURE HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY. UPON COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT, EM PHOTONICS WILL HAVE DEVELOPED A COMPLETE SET OF OPENCL BLAS ROUTINES. IN ADDITION, WE WILL HAVE THE FRAMEWORK NECESSARY FOR THEIR EFFICIENT EXECUTION THAT ALSO ALLOWS NEW ROUTINES TO BE ADDED BY EITHER EM PHOTONICS OR THIRD PARTIES. THIS PACKAGE WILL BE RELEASED UNDER AN OPEN SOURCE LICENSE TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND ALLOW FOR WIDESPREAD ADOPTION, AND EM PHOTONICS WILL BE ITS ONGOING STEWARD. THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF OUR CULA PRODUCT HAS BOTH OPENED DOORS FOR PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND PROVIDED US COMMERCIALIZATION OPPORTUNITIES THAT CAN BE FURTHER LEVERAGED ONCE THIS PROJECT IS COMPLETE. BASED ON THIS COMBINATION OF TECHNOLOGY, EXPERIENCE, PARTNERSHIPS, AND COMMERCIAL MOMENTUM, WE ARE CONVINCED THIS PROJECT WILL SUCCESSFULLY MEET OUR SBIR OBJECTIVES AND CONTINUE TO FLOURISH BEYOND.

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• $124,955 - Thursday the 7th of February 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  FLIGHT-TESTING IS A CRUCIAL COMPONENT IN NASA'S MISSION TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP OF NEW AERONAUTICAL CONCEPTS, ALLOWING FOR VERIFICATION OF SIMULATED AND WIND-TUNNEL RESULTS, AND EXPOSING PREVIOUSLY UNFORESEEN DESIGN PROBLEMS. VIDEO IS AN INVALUABLE TOOL FOR FLIGHT-TESTING, ALLOWING THE COLLECTION OF A WEALTH OF INFORMATION; HOWEVER, COLLECTED LONG-RANGE IMAGERY TYPICALLY SUFFERS FROM SCINTILLATION, BLURRING, POOR SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND LOW CONTRAST. FOR DECADES, ASTRONOMERS HAVE DEVELOPED EFFECTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF IMAGING THROUGH LONG STRETCHES OF ATMOSPHERE. ONE SUCH IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE, BISPECTRUM AVERAGING SPECKLE IMAGING, HAS BEEN PROVEN TO COMPENSATE FOR HEAVY ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS AT BOTH VISIBLE AND IR WAVELENGTHS. THE COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, HOWEVER, MADE FIELD DEPLOYMENT OF A REAL TIME SOLUTION DIFFICULT. IN 2007, WE ACCELERATED THE SPECKLE ALGORITHM FOR NASA USING A FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY. THIS WORK DEMONSTRATED THAT THE REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPLEX ALGORITHM SUCH AS THIS ONE IS POSSIBLE WITH A HARDWARE PLATFORM. ALTHOUGH THIS IMPLEMENTATION COULD IMPROVE IMAGERY UNDER MANY SCENARIOS, LARGE POWER REQUIREMENTS DUE TO HARDWARE USE LIMITED THE SCENARIOS IN WHICH THE PLATFORM COULD BE DEPLOYED. LASTLY, THIS WORK DOES NOT CONTAIN MANY OF THE ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABS HAVE MADE TO THE SOFTWARE ALGORITHM SINCE THAT DATE. WE PROPOSE TO EVOLVE THE PREVIOUS HARDWARE DESIGN BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS TO MANUFACTURING THAT HAVE COME TO INDUSTRY OVER THE PAST 3 YEARS. BY COUPLING NEWER, LESS-EXPENSIVE HARDWARE WITH ENHANCEMENTS AND SIMPLIFICATIONS TO THE SPECKLE ALGORITHM, WE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO OFFER A SOLUTION THAT IS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER COST AND LOWER POWER. A NEW DESIGN WILL VASTLY INCREASE THE CAPABILITY AND FEASIBILITY OF DEPLOYED ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTING TECHNOLOGIES, WHICH WILL IN TURN BENEFIT NASA BY MAKING FLIGHT-TESTING MORE SAFE.

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