The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $803,993 - Tuesday the 3rd of July 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  SERVICE BASED CLUSTER FLIGHT ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE DARPA BAA 01-11

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• $581,640 - Tuesday the 3rd of July 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  SERVICE BASED CLUSTER FLIGHT ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE DARPA BAA 01-11

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• $50,000 - Monday the 22nd of September 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS - SBIR PHASE III EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES GROUND ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SUPPORT (GEMS) ENHANCEMENT APPLIED TO THE SBIR PHASE III EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES NASA JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL) ADVANCED MULTI-MISSION OPERATING SYSTEM (AMMOS). PHASE I AWARDED UNDER NNX08CA72P

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• $2,381,784 - Tuesday the 3rd of July 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  SERVICE BASED CLUSTER FLIGHT ALGORITHMS AND SOFTWARE DARPA BAA 01-11

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• $214,520 - Wednesday the 13th of June 2012
  Broadcasting Board Of Governors
  OFFICE OF CONTRACTS
  THIS IS A REQUISTION FOR TECHNICAL SERVICES FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING, USING BOTH SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY AND WEB DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE. _________________________________ MARCIA JONES, T/R

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• $199,972 - Wednesday the 18th of March 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  EARLY HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP (HWIL) SIMULATION IS ESSENTIAL TO EARLY RETIREMENT OF SPACE MISSION DEVELOPMENT RISKS. UPCOMING NASA MISSIONS SUCH AS MMS INVOLVE COMPLEX HIGH EARTH ORBITS MAKING THE USE OF GPS DIFFICULT, THOUGH NASA HAS DEVELOPED GPS RECEIVERS CAPABLE OF PERFORMING IN THESE ENVIRONMENTS. SPACE GPS SIMULATION NEEDS ARE TYPICALLY SEEN AS A NICHE MARKET, AND THE RESULTING SOLUTIONS, WHICH ARE OFTEN SIMPLY ADAPTATIONS OF TERRESTRIAL PRODUCTS, CAN BE SUB-OPTIMAL AND AT BEST HANDLE SIMPLE, LOW DYNAMIC LEO MISSIONS. FURTHER, SPACE SIMULATION SOLUTIONS ARE FREQUENTLY INFLEXIBLE AND CANNOT BE MODIFIED BY THE END-USER. GIVEN THE BROAD BUT UNIQUE NEEDS OF HWIL TESTING INVOLVING RF SYSTEMS, EMERGENT PROPOSES TO DEVELOP THE MULTI-PURPOSE RADIO SIGNAL GENERATION (MRSIG) SYSTEM TO ADDRESS THESE NEEDS, WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL TO EARLY RISK MITIGATION. THE MRSIG SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE FOR EASY MISSION SPECIFIC CUSTOMIZATION AND GENERATION OF MULTIPLE WAVEFORMS USED IN GROUND TESTING APPLICATIONS AND WILL RETURN THE EXPERTISE TO SIMULATE THESE COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS TO NASA. MRSIG WILL ACCOMPLISH THIS DIFFICULT TASK BY HARNESSING THE LATEST IN OPEN SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO (SDR) TECHNOLOGIES. SIMULATION COMPLEXITY FOR RF SIGNAL GENERATION IS MOVED INTO SOFTWARE, ENABLING THE EMULATION OF MANY RF WAVEFORMS/PROTOCOLS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO GPS, 802.11, S-BAND, WIMAX, ETC.

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• $149,959 - Tuesday the 28th of August 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9451 DET 8 AFRL PKD
  SBIR I FEATURE IDENTIFICATION FROM UNRESOLVED EO DATA

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• $124,925 - Tuesday the 20th of November 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE PROPOSED INNOVATION IS TO USE THE COMM-BASED MEASUREMENTS AVAILABLE FROM MANY ADVANCED SATELLITE CLUSTER WIRELESS NETWORKS TO IMPROVE THE FLEXIBILITY AND ROBUSTNESS OF RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS WITHOUT THE ADDITIONAL EXPENSE, WEIGHT AND POWER THAT A TRADITIONAL NAVIGATION BACKUP SYSTEMS (LIKE AN EXTRA GPS RECEIVER) WOULD REQUIRE. THIS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY COMPARING THE RANGE, RANGE-RATE OR ANGLE MEASUREMENTS PREDICTED BY GPS-BASED NAVIGATION SOLUTIONS TO THE ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS OBTAINED FROM THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. BY MONITORING THESE PARITY EQUATIONS AND THE INNOVATIONS OF THE GPS FILTERS, FDIR CAN BE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED. THESE PARITY RELATIONS BETWEEN REDUNDANT RANGE MEASUREMENTS CREATE A MORE SENSITIVE RESIDUAL THAN FILTER-BASED RESIDUALS BECAUSE MOST FILTERS NATURALLY MASK THE FAULTS. RECOVERY TO GPS FAILURE CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED BY RELYING ON THE COMM MEASUREMENTS THEMSELVES TO MAINTAIN RELATIVE STATE OBSERVABILITY. ATTEMPTED RECOVERY OF GPS OR OTHER STRATEGIES CAN THEN BE IMPLEMENTED WITHOUT REQUIRING THE CLUSTER TO DISPERSE. BY BUILDING OFF OF CARRIER-PHASE DIFFERENTIAL GPS (CDGPS) NAVIGATION FILTERS AND CLUSTER FLIGHT SIMULATIONS CURRENTLY BEING BUILT BY EMERGENT UNDER ITS DARPA SYSTEM F6 CONTRACT, WE WILL DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS FDIR TECHNIQUE IN SIMULATION.

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• $124,866 - Monday the 26th of November 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  NASA IS INSTALLING THE COMMUNICATIONS, NAVIGATION, AND NETWORKING RECONFIGURABLE TESTBED (CONNECT) ONTO THE TRUSS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TO DEMONSTRATE SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO (SDR) TECHNOLOGY, AND IS NOW ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR NEW AND USEFUL SDR EXPERIMENTS TO FLY ON CONNECT THAT ARE COMPLIANT WITH THE SPACE TELECOMMUNICATIONS RADIO SYSTEM (STRS) SDR STANDARD. EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN STRS-COMPLIANT SOFTWARE-DEFINED GPS RECEIVER THAT CAN BE FLOWN ON CONNECT THAT IS BASED ON A PROVEN TERRESTRIAL COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY WHICH SHARES HERITAGE WITH THE JPL BLACKJACK RECEIVER. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM IS CALLED THE RADIO NAVIGATION WAVEFORM EXPERIMENT (RANE) AND UTILIZES A CODELESS SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE, CALLED SPECTRAL COMPRESSION POSITIONING (SCP), TO ESTIMATE POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING (PNT) SOLUTIONS. RANE WILL HAVE A SMALL ELECTRONIC FOOTPRINT, BE MULTI-FREQUENCY CAPABLE, AND REQUIRE LESS POWER THAN TRADITIONAL CODE-CORRELATOR GPS RECEIVERS. ON CONNECT, RANE WILL DEMONSTRATE THE PORTABILITY AND USE OF SCP FOR PNT SOLUTIONS FOR NASA.

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• $124,262 - Friday the 4th of January 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE NEED FOR SCIENCE-GRADE POSITION, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING (PNT) SENSORS THAT ARE LOW SIZE, WEIGHT, AND POWER (SWAP) IS WELL RECOGNIZED. THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE PRECISE POSITIONING AND POINTING IN REAL-TIME IS A CAPABILITY NEEDED FOR FORMATION FLYING, RENDEZVOUS AND PROXIMITY OPERATIONS, AND RADIO AND LASER ALTIMETRY. TO ADDRESS THIS NEED, EMERGENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES WILL DEVELOP A LOW SWAP CODELESS GPS RECEIVER THAT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRECISE AND REAL-TIME ORBIT DETERMINATION. CURRENTLY, PRECISE ORBITAL DETERMINATION IS PERFORMED ON THE GROUND SINCE REAL-TIME GPS DIFFERENTIAL CORRECTIONS WON'T BE AVAILABLE ON ORBIT UNTIL THEY ARE BROADCAST BY THE TDRSS AUGMENTATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (TASS). THE PROPOSED INNOVATION WILL COMBINE THE CAPABILITY TO RECEIVE TASS MESSAGES WITH SCP AND THE GODDARD ENHANCED ORBITAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM (GEONS) TO PROVIDE PRECISE PNT CAPABILITIES. SCP CAN TRACK THE L1 P(Y) CHIPPING CODE-PHASE WITHOUT AN ENCRYPTION MODULE SINCE IT IS CODELESS. COMBINING THIS CAPABILITY WITH THE ABILITY TO RECEIVE TASS MESSAGES IN GEONS, ON A SUITABLE HARDWARE PLATFORM WILL ENABLE KINEMATIC GPS CAPABLE OF DECIMETER-LEVEL POSITIONING IN REAL-TIME. THIS EFFORT DETERMINES HOW TO BEST INTEGRATE THESE TECHNOLOGIES, AND TO FIND A SUITABLE HOST

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