The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $50,000 - Friday the 18th of November 2011
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN SUB-TOPIC X4.01, NASA HAS IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR ADVANCED RADIATION-SHIELDING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES TO PROTECT HUMANS FROM THE HAZARDS OF GALACTIC COSMIC RADIATION (GCR) AND SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES (SEP) ON LONG-DURATION MISSIONS, OUTSIDE THE EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE. THE RADIATION SPECIES OF GREATEST INTEREST ARE LIGHT IONS (PARTICULARLY PROTONS), HEAVY IONS (SUCH AS IRON-56) AND NEUTRONS. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC., IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, IN ITS PHASE I PROGRAM DEVELOPED LIGHTWEIGHT, MULTI-LAYERED, POLYMERIC SHIELDING AGAINST GCR AND SEP. THE PHASE II OBJECTIVES INCLUDE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF SINGLE AND MULTI-LAYERED NANOCOMPOSITE POLYMERIC RADIATION SHIELDS USING OLTARIS MODELING PROTOCOLS TO SUPPLEMENT THE EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF PHASE I, FABRICATION OF NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS AND MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURES, ACQUISITION OF FAMILIES OF TEST DATA TO DETERMINE KEY PARAMETERS OF SINGLE AND MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURES TAILORED TO STOPPING GCR AND SEP, OPTIMIZATION OF PROTOTYPE MULTI-LAYERED POLYMERIC SHIELDS USING STATISTICAL DESIGN AND OLTARIS MODELING FOR A RANGE OF MANNED AND UNMANNED NASA APPLICATIONS PRIOR TO COMMERCIALIZATION IN PHASE III. THE ANTICIPATED RESULT OF THE PHASE I AND PHASE II PROGRAMS IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-LAYERED SHIELDS WITH AN OUTER LAYER OF HYDROGENOUS POLYMERIC MATERIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT DOSE REDUCTION OF INCIDENT GCR IONS AND INNER LAYERS OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITES CONTAINING ADDITIVES CHOSEN TO MODERATE AND ABSORB NEUTRONS RESULTING FROM FRAGMENTATION OF INCOMING HEAVY IONS AND TO ABSORB SHORT WAVELENGTH ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION RESULTING FROM THE SLOWING OF THE GCR PARTICLES AND CAPTURE OF NEUTRONS. THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL) AT THE BEGINNING OF PHASE II IS 4. AT THE END OF PHASE II, THE TRL WILL BE 5.

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• $200,000 - Friday the 24th of February 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN SUB-TOPIC X4.01, NASA HAS IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR ADVANCED RADIATION-SHIELDING MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES TO PROTECT HUMANS FROM THE HAZARDS OF GALACTIC COSMIC RADIATION (GCR) AND SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES (SEP) ON LONG-DURATION MISSIONS, OUTSIDE THE EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE. THE RADIATION SPECIES OF GREATEST INTEREST ARE LIGHT IONS (PARTICULARLY PROTONS), HEAVY IONS (SUCH AS IRON-56) AND NEUTRONS. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC., IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, IN ITS PHASE I PROGRAM DEVELOPED LIGHTWEIGHT, MULTI-LAYERED, POLYMERIC SHIELDING AGAINST GCR AND SEP. THE PHASE II OBJECTIVES INCLUDE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF SINGLE AND MULTI-LAYERED NANOCOMPOSITE POLYMERIC RADIATION SHIELDS USING OLTARIS MODELING PROTOCOLS TO SUPPLEMENT THE EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF PHASE I, FABRICATION OF NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS AND MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURES, ACQUISITION OF FAMILIES OF TEST DATA TO DETERMINE KEY PARAMETERS OF SINGLE AND MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURES TAILORED TO STOPPING GCR AND SEP, OPTIMIZATION OF PROTOTYPE MULTI-LAYERED POLYMERIC SHIELDS USING STATISTICAL DESIGN AND OLTARIS MODELING FOR A RANGE OF MANNED AND UNMANNED NASA APPLICATIONS PRIOR TO COMMERCIALIZATION IN PHASE III. THE ANTICIPATED RESULT OF THE PHASE I AND PHASE II PROGRAMS IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-LAYERED SHIELDS WITH AN OUTER LAYER OF HYDROGENOUS POLYMERIC MATERIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT DOSE REDUCTION OF INCIDENT GCR IONS AND INNER LAYERS OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITES CONTAINING ADDITIVES CHOSEN TO MODERATE AND ABSORB NEUTRONS RESULTING FROM FRAGMENTATION OF INCOMING HEAVY IONS AND TO ABSORB SHORT WAVELENGTH ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION RESULTING FROM THE SLOWING OF THE GCR PARTICLES AND CAPTURE OF NEUTRONS. THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL) AT THE BEGINNING OF PHASE II IS 4. AT THE END OF PHASE II, THE TRL WILL BE 5.

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• $125,000 - Friday the 4th of January 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN SUBTOPIC X11.01, NASA HAS IDENTIFIED THE NEED TO DEVELOP ADVANCED RADIATION-SHIELDING MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS TO PROTECT HUMANS FROM THE HAZARDS OF SPACE RADIATION DURING NASA MISSIONS. THE RADIATION COMPONENTS OF INTEREST INCLUDE PROTONS, ALPHA PARTICLES AND HEAVY IONS FROM GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS, PROTONS AND OTHER IONS FROM SOLAR PARTICLE EVENTS, AND HIGH ENERGY ELECTRONS AND NEUTRONS. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC., IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, PROPOSES TO RAISE THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL OF SELECTED POLYMERIC RADIATION-SHIELDING MATERIALS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN THE MATERIALS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EXPERIMENT PROGRAM, NAMED MISSE-X. PHASE I TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES WILL INCLUDE ASSESSMENT OF THE RADIATION ENVIRONMENT IN THE ORBITAL PATH OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, SELECTION OF RADIATION-SHIELDING POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR LONG-DURATION EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE, SPECIFICATION OF ACTIVE DETECTORS/DOSIMETERS FOR MEASUREMENTS OF RADIATION IN SPACE, AND DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN EXPERIMENT PACKAGE FOR INCLUSION ON THE MISSE-X PLATFORM FOR SPACE-RADIATION ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY. THE ANTICIPATED RESULT OF THE PHASE I PROGRAM IS A PROOF-OF-FEASIBILITY THAT WILL SHOW THE PATH TOWARD A PHASE II TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION ON BOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

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• $124,999 - Wednesday the 24th of October 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN SUB-TOPIC O3.04, NASA HAS IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR CONTROL OF MATERIAL DEGRADATION TO EXTEND THE LIFE AND REDUCE THE LIFE-CYCLE COSTS OF PIPING SYSTEMS SUBJECT TO MICROBIAL INFLUENCED CORROSION IN THE PRESENCE OF UNTREATED OR BRACKISH WATER. THE CORROSION MECHANISMS OF GREATEST INTEREST ARE SALT AND ACID ATTACK DUE TO EXPOSURE TO BRACKISH OR UNTREATED WATERS AND BACTERIA, FUNGI, AND ARCHAEA. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC., IN CONJUNCTION WITH FERRUM COLLEGE, PROPOSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTECTIVE BARRIER CONVERSION COATING TO PREVENT CORROSION CELL FORMATION IN STEEL SUBSTRATES. PHASE I TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES INCLUDE SELECTION, CHARACTERIZATION AND FABRICATION OF POLYOXOMETALATE BUILDING BLOCKS TO COMPLEMENT ZIRCONIUM-PHOSPHATE CONVERSION COATING, POLYOXOMETALATE-ZIRCONIUM PHOSPHATE CONVERSION-COATING SYSTEM DESIGN, AND MEASUREMENT AND TEST OF INDIVIDUAL AND LAYERED POLYOXOMETALATE CONVERSION COATINGS FOR CORROSION INHIBITION EFFICIENCY TO SALT AND ACID. THE ANTICIPATED RESULT OF THE PHASE I AND PHASE II PROGRAMS IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CORROSION-RESISTANT CONVERSION COATING THAT CAN BE UTILIZED ON COATED AND UN-COATED FERROUS MATERIALS.

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