The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $9,989 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  HUNTING H FSRQ WITH SWIFT AND FERMI AMONG BLAZARS, THE H-FSRQ ARE THOSE OBJECTS WITH THE OPTICAL THERMAL PROPERTIES OF FSRQ (BROAD AND STRONG EMISSION LINES, BLUE BUMP) BUT FREQUENCIES OFTHE PEAK IN THEIR SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION COMPARABLE TO THOSE OF "HIGH-ENERGY PEAKED" BL LACS (HBL). THEY REPRESENT A CHALLENGE FOR STANDARD BLAZAR SCENARIOS, BUT SO FAR ONLY ONE WAS DISCOVERED. WE USE THE SPECTRAL DATA FROM FERMI-LA R TO SELECT NEW H-ESRQ CANDIDATES BASED ON THEIR HARD GAMMA-RAY SPECTRUM. WE PROPOSE TO OBSERVE THE 6 HARDEST SOURCES WITH SWIFT IN ORDER TO CHARACTERIZE THEIR BROAD BAND OPTICAL TO X-RAY SPECTRUM AND TO FIRMLY ESTABLISH IF THEY ARE H-FSRQ OR NOT, AND IF NOT TO EXPLAIN THEIR PECULIAR GAMMA-RAY PROPERTIES. IHIS WILL HOPEFULLY SHED LIGHT ON THE THERMAL/NON-THERMAL CONDITIONS AND EMISSION MECHANISMS AROUND SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES, WITHIN NASA GOALS SUB-SECTION 3D: "DISCOVER THE ORIGIN, STRUCTURE, EVOLUTION, AND DESTINY OF THE UNIVERSE, AND SEARCH FOR EARTH-LIKE PLANETS." SWIFT PROPOSAL NUMBER: 7100136

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• $9,927 - Tuesday the 31st of March 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  REALISTIC NUMERICAL MHD SIMULATIONS OF THE SUBSURFACE FLOWS AND MAGNETIC STRUCTURES HAVE BECOME ACHIEVABLE BECAUSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAST SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS AND EFFICIENT PARALLEL COMPUTER CODES. THESE SIMULATIONS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLICATED PHYSICS OF THE UPPER TURBULENT CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER OF THE SUN. THE DYNAMICS OF THIS LAYER IS CRITICAL FOR UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATION OF MAGNETIC REGIONS ON THE SUN AND THEIR ACTIVITY. THIS LAYER IS ALSO A SOURCE OF SOLAR OSCILLATIONS. THE WAVE EXCITATION AND PROPAGATION PROPERTIES CHANGE DRAMATICALLY IN STRONG FIELD REGIONS. THEIR MODELING AND INVESTIGATION ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR LOCAL HELIOSEISMOLOGY AND HELIOSEISMIC DATA ANALYSIS FROM THE SPACE MISSIONS, SOHO, HINODE AND SDO. WE PROPOSE EXTENSIVE NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE SUBSURFACE DYNAMICS AND OSCILLATIONS IN MAGNETIC REGIONS USING A 3D RADIATIVE MHD COMPUTER CODE DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS TYPE OF STUDIES AT THE NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER AND THE STANFORD CENTER FOR TURBULENCE RESEARCH. THE UNIQUE FEATURE OF THIS CODE IS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MODERN SUBGRID-SCALE TURBULENCE MODELS. THESE MODELS PROVIDE A REALISTIC DESCRIPTION OF EFFECTS OF SMALL-SCALE UNRESOLVED TURBULENCE, PARTICULARLY, IMPORTANT FOR STUDYING THE WAVE EXCITATION. THE PROPOSED PROJECT INCLUDES FOUR MAJOR TASKS: 1) INVESTIGATION OF SOLAR CONVECTION AND ACOUSTIC AND SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES IN STRONG FIELD REGIONS, INCLUDING REGIONS WITH INCLINED FIELD; 2) SIMULATIONS OF THE DYNAMICS OF SUNSPOT-LIKE STRUCTURES; 3) DEVELOPMENT OF REALISTIC ARTIFICIAL DATA FOR VERIFICATION AND TESTING OF LOCAL HELIOSEISMOLOGY METHODS IN STRONG FIELD REGIONS; 4) IMPROVEMENT OF THE SUBGRID-SCALE TURBULENCE MODELS IN MAGNETIC REGIONS. THE RESULTS OF THIS INVESTIGATION WILL PROVIDE IMPORTANT INSIGHT INTO THE TURBULENT SUBSURFACE DYNAMICS OF MAGNETIC REGIONS, PROCESSES OF EXCITATION OF SOLAR WAVES AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH MAGNETIC FIELD, AND ALSO INPUT PARAMETERS AND TEST DATA FOR LOCAL HELIOSEISMOLOGY. THIS INVESTIGATION WILL LEAD TO SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN HELIOSEISMIC DATA ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF HELIOSEISMOLOGY INFERENCES, PARTICULARLY, FROM THE SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY.

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• $96,673 - Friday the 26th of February 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE TO PERFORM A STUDY OF VARIATIONS OF THE GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM THE SUN OVER THE SOLAR CYCLE USING ALL AVAILABLE DATA FROM THE START OF THE FERMI MISSION. THE OUTCOME OF THIS WORK WILL BE (I) A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE MODEL OF THE SOLAR EMISSION (BOTH COMPONENTS) TO USE WITH THE FERMI-LAT SCIENCE TOOLS WHICH CAN BE UPDATED AS THE SOLAR ACTIVITY CHANGES, AND (II) THE DERIVED SPECTRA OF CR ELECTRONS IN THE INNER HELIOSPHERE AND THEIR VARIATIONS OVER THE SOLAR CYCLE. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANALYSIS OF POINT SOURCES AND TO STUDIES OF THE HELIOSPHERIC MODULATION. THE TOOLS DEVELOPED IN THIS WORK CAN BE EASILY GENERALIZED TO INCLUDE THE MOON, ANOTHER BRIGHT VARIABLE AND MOVING SOURCE.

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• $95,007 - Tuesday the 13th of December 2016
  Energy Department
  OAK RIDGE OFFICE (OFFICE OF SCIENCE)
  OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY

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• $94,988 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH DR. GEORGE RAICHE, CHIEF OF THE THERMOPHYSICS FACILITIES BRANCH, AT NASA-AMES RESEARCH CENTER TO DEVELOP TUNABLE DIODE LASER (TDL) DIAGNOSTICS TO MONITOR PERFORMANCE FOR THE LARGE-SCALE ARCJET TEST FACILITIES. DURING PREVIOUS NASA-AMES CONSORTIUM COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS, THE FEASIBILITY TDL MONITORING OF THE ARCJET PLENUM WAS DEMONSTRATED AND A SECONDGENERATION TDL INSTRUMENTATION WAS DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED BY AN OUTSIDE VENDOR. THIS INSTRUMENT WAS TESTED IN STANFORD UNIVERSITY LABORATORIES AND AT NASA AMES IN THE PLENUM OF THE ARC-COLUMN OF AHF AND THE IHF. THE TESTS AT NASA AMES ILLUSTRATED THAT ALTHOUGH THE TDL SCHEME HAD MUCH PROMISE FOR MONITORING THE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF THE ARC-HEATER, SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH WILL BE NEEDED TO DEVELOP ROBUST MEASURING TECHNIQUES FOR ROUTINE MEASUREMENT. FOUR TASKS ARE PROPOSED FOR CONTINUING COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TASK 1 -DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-LINE-OF-SIGHT 0-ATOM ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS TO EXPLORE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE UNIFORMITY OFTHE GAS TEMPERATURE IN THE PLENUM. TASK 2 - DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF ROBUST OPTICAL ACCESS INTO THE ARC-COLUMN PACKAGE, TASK 3 - EXTENSION OF THE TEMPERATURE SENSOR TO HEALTH MONITORING OF COPPER ATOMS PRODUCED BY ELECTRODE EROSION, AND TASK 4 DEVELOPMENT O FA NEW TDL ABSORPTION SCHEME FOR SENSITIVE DETECTION OF WATER VAPOR IN THE ARC HEATER PRIOR TO THE ARC IGNITION SEQUENCE. THESE FOUR TDL SENSOR TASKS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE ARCJET OPERATORS WITH NEW TOOLS TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF THE TEST

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• $945,000 - Friday the 12th of December 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY PROJECT HELIOSEISMIC AND MAGNETIC IMAGER INVESTIGATION (HMI) PHASE B/C/D/E THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE PERSONNEL, MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR DESIGN, ANALYSIS, DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, ASSEMBLY, INTEGRATION, TESTING, CALIBRATION, QUALIFICATION AND DELIVERY OF A FLIGHT INSTRUMENT FOR SPACECRAFT INTEGRATION. DURING SPACECRAFT INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL SUPPORT INSTRUMENT INSTALLATION AND INTEGRATION, INTEGRATED SPACECRAFT TESTING AND FLIGHT QUALIFICATION, LAUNCH PROCESSING AND LAUNCH. FOLLOWING LAUNCH, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE RESOURCES TO PERFORM INITIAL ON-ORBIT CHECKOUT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INSTRUMENT AND SHALL CONDUCT SCIENCE OPERATIONS FOR THE REMAINING DURATION OF THE MISSION. THE PRINCIPAL HARDWARE DELIVERABLES OF THIS EFFORT ARE THE FLIGHT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CONSTITUTING THE FLIGHT INSTRUMENT PACKAGE AND THE NECESSARY SCIENCE PROCESSING AND SCIENCE OPERATIONS GROUND SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE REQUIRED TO ANALYZE, PROCESS, DISTRIBUTE AND ARCHIVE THE SCIENCE MEASUREMENTS PERFORMED BY THE INSTRUMENT.

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• $91,981 - Monday the 22nd of February 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE A PROGRAM OF OPTICAL IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY TO STUDY COUNTERPARTS FOR THE HANDFUL OF UNASSOCIATED SOURCES REMAINING IN THE BRIGHT LAT SAMPLE. THESE ARE LIKELY BINARY MILLISECOND PULSARS AND THE DATA WILL CONSTRAIN THE ORBITAL PROPERTIES, ALLOWING A MEANINGFUL SEARCH FOR PULSATIONS DIRECTLY IN THE LAT GAMMA-RAY DATA. THIS PROGRAM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO FIND THE FIRST RADIO-QUIET MSP AND WILL PROVIDE A COMPLETE ASSESSMENT OF THE PULSAR AND BLAZAR CONTENT OF THIS FLUX LIMITED SAMPLE, MAKING IT PARTICULARLY VALUABLE FOR BACKGROUND AND POPULATION STUDIES.

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• $90,000 - Thursday the 20th of March 2014
  Veterans Affairs Department
  261-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 21
  MEDICAL SERVICES BOA PERFUSION IGF::OT::IGF

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• $855 - Wednesday the 23rd of May 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVY MEDICINE PROFESSIONAL
  TUITION AND FEES

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• $85,000 - Tuesday the 29th of January 2013
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9453 DET 8 AFRL PKV8
  FUNDING $85K THRU 31 DEC 12

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