The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,996 - Thursday the 12th of January 2012
  Missile Defense Agency
  MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)
  PH I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT

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• $79,993 - Tuesday the 28th of February 2012
  Environmental Protection Agency
  RTP PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS DIVISION (RTPPOD)
  SBIR PHASE I - INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS

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• $51,629 - Tuesday the 28th of August 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG
  SBIR PHASE II MODIFICATION TO ADD INCREMENTAL FUNDING

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• $508,552 - Friday the 3rd of August 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG
  SBIR PHASE II-IMPROVED M8 TEST PAPER FOR CHEMICAL AGENT DETECTION

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• $3,460 - Thursday the 30th of January 2014
  Food And Drug Administration
  DEPT OF HHS/FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS- REPAIR OF CYRANO 320 E-NOSE.

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• $149,995 - Friday the 16th of December 2011
  Department Of Army
  W4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACT
  SBIR PHASE I OSD 2011.2 LOG#: 11271005, PROPOSAL#: O112-H08-3126

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• $149,943 - Wednesday the 19th of September 2012
  Office Of Procurement Operations
  DOMESTIC NUCLEAR DETECTION OFFICE ACQUISITION DIVISION
  THIS IS A PLANNING PR FOR THE FY12 SBIR PROGRAM TO SET ASIDE $150,000.00 FOR PLACEHOLDER COMPANY A. ALC:70230001 APP:70 12 14 0860

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• $124,955 - Tuesday the 14th of February 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE ABILITY TO INTEGRATE A SENSOR PLATFORM WITH A CELL PHONE FOR HEALTH MONITORING AND DISEASE DIAGNOSIS FOR ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE EXPLORATION HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE COST EFFECTIVE AND SPACE SAVING. IN THIS PROPOSAL, INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS (IOS) WILL BUILD UPON EXPERTISE IN LATERAL FLOW TEST STRIP (LFTS) ASSAYS BY INTEGRATING AN LFTS WITH A CELL PHONE FOR THE QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF BLOOD-BASED BIOMARKERS. OUR INNOVATIVE AND EXTREMELY COST-EFFECTIVE MULTI-ANALYTE LFTS APPROACH IS IMMINENTLY SUITED FOR SPACE TRAVEL. ALL "MICROFLUIDICS" (SAMPLE TRANSPORT, REAGENT STORAGE, MIXING, ETC.) TAKE PLACE VIA CAPILLARY ACTION WITH NO MOVING PARTS, NO FLOW CHANNELS, AND IN A 5 MM X 5 MM X 30 MM SPACE. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE BUILT-IN FLASH AND HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA, WE WILL MODIFY A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE CELL PHONE WITH OPTICAL FILTERS, LENSES, A UV LED EXCITATION SOURCE AND A CASSETTE HOLDER FOR LFTS IMAGE CAPTURE. QUANTUM DOTS (QD) WILL BE INCORPORATED AS LABELS WITH HIGH QUANTUM YIELD, RESULTING IN HIGHER SENSITIVITY AND NARROW EMISSION PEAKS IN A MULTIPLEXED ASSAY. IN PHASE I, WE WILL DEVELOP AND OPTIMIZE A CELL PHONE-BASED LFTS PLATFORM WITH THE ABILITY TO QUANTITATIVELY DETECT MULTIPLE BIOMARKERS WITHIN CLINICALLY RELEVANT RANGES. THE IMAGES OF THE LFTS WILL BE CAPTURED ON THE CELL PHONE AND ANALYZED ON A COMPUTER BY THE END OF THE PHASE I. IN PHASE II, WE WILL DEVELOP CELL PHONE-BASED SOFTWARE FOR ON-CELL PHONE DETECTION AND DATA PROCESSING WITH EXPANDED PANELS OF BIOMARKERS; ADVANCING THE TRL FROM 5 TO 7.

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• $124,926 - Wednesday the 26th of December 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ADVANCED SPACE SUIT TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRE LIGHTWEIGHT, LOW-POWER, DURABLE SENSORS FOR MONITORING CRITICAL LIFE SUPPORT CONSTITUENTS. CURRENT TECHNOLOGY CANNOT PROVIDE THE COMPACT SENSORS WITH A TOLERANCE FOR LIQUID WATER THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED FOR NEXT-GENERATION PORTABLE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS (PLSS). INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS (IOS) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A LUMINESCENCE-BASED OPTICAL SENSOR SUITE TO MONITOR CARBON DIOXIDE, OXYGEN AND HUMIDITY. OPTICAL SENSORS ARE SUPERIOR TO ELECTRICAL SENSORS, IN TERMS OF ROBUSTNESS, RELIABILITY AND MAINTENANCE. THESE ADVANTAGES ARE MOST NOTABLE IN MOIST ENVIRONMENTS. OUR MONITOR WILL INCORPORATE ROBUST SENSORS FOR CARBON DIOXIDE, OXYGEN, AND HUMIDITY PARTIAL PRESSURE, INTERROGATED USING A COMPACT, LOW-POWER OPTOELECTRONIC UNIT. THE PROPOSED SENSORS WILL NOT ONLY TOLERATE LIQUID WATER BUT WILL ACTUALLY OPERATE WHILE WET, AND CAN BE REMOTELY CONNECTED TO THE ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY BY AN ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE (EMI)-PROOF OPTICAL FIBER CABLE. FOR SPACE SYSTEMS CONTROL, MINIATURE FIBER OPTIC SENSORS CONNECTED TO THE ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY BY AN OPTICAL FIBER CABLE ALLOW GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN PLACING THE SENSOR IN HIGHLY CONSTRAINED VOLUME SYSTEMS SUCH AS PLLS. OUR FLOW-THROUGH MONITOR WILL INCLUDE A 1 MM DIAMETER OPTICAL SENSOR WE ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING FOR PLSS HUMIDITY MONITORING AND AN OPTICAL OXYGEN SENSOR THAT USES SIMILAR IOS TECHNOLOGY. BUILDING ON THIS WORK, IN THE PROPOSED PHASE I, IOS WILL DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE A CARBON DIOXIDE SENSOR BASED ON THE SAME APPROACH, AND A PROTOTYPE PPCO2-H2O-O2 SENSOR PROBE WILL BE FABRICATED AND TESTED IN RELEVANT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. IN PHASE II, WE WILL MANUFACTURE PROTOTYPES FOR SPACE QUALIFICATION AND CONDUCT EXTENSIVE TESTING UNDER SIMULATED ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS CULMINATING IN VALIDATION IN NASA SYSTEMS, BRINGING THE MONITOR TO TRL 7.

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