The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $980,876 - Friday the 1st of June 2012
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  DEF ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGCY
  LIVING FOUNDRIES, PHASE I

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• $968,750 - Wednesday the 11th of July 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG DURHAM
  T.O. 5 - SRA 3

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• $954,062 - Monday the 7th of May 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG DURHAM
  TO 2 ISN UARC (BASIC RESEARCH) FY 2012 FUNDING

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• $952,632 - Wednesday the 4th of April 2012
  Department Of Navy
  SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS
  ACCOUNTABLE INFORMATION USAGE

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• $9,424 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS

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• $937,000 - Tuesday the 28th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL IS SUBMITTED TO THE NASA RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES PROGRAM (ROSES-2010) IN RESPONSE TO NASA RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT NNH10ZDA001N-SAT. IT IS TARGETED TO THE STRATEGIC ASTROPHYSICS TECHNOLOGY (SAT) PROGRAM ELEMENT. WE PROPOSE TO ACCELERATE DEVELOPMENT OF KEY TECHNOLOGY FOR A CRITICAL-ANGLE TRANSMISSION GRATING SPECTROMETER (CATGS) FOR THE INTERNATIONAL X-RAY OBSERVATORY (IXO) AND EXPLORER-CLASS MISSIONS, TARGETING GRATING FABRICATION STEPS WHICH ARE CRITICALLY NECESSARY TO PROPEL THE INSTRUMENT FROM THE CURRENT TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL OF TRL 3/4 TO TRL 6. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IN ADVANCED X-RAY DIFFRACTION GRATING TECHNOLOGY FALLS SQUARELY WITHIN THE NRA'S CALL FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR PHYSICS OF THE COSMOS PROGRAM (TPCOS) UNDER THE THIRD CATEGORY AREA OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS. A CAT GRATING SPECTROMETER WILL MEET OR EXCEED IXO SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY IN THE SOFT X-RAY BAND, INCLUDING HIGH RESOLUTION AND EFFECTIVE AREA, ENABLING UNPRECEDENTED STUDIES OF THE DISTRIBUTION AND STRUCTURE OF MATTER IN AND AROUND GALAXIES AND IN THE WHIM, OF INTERSTELLAR DUST, OF STELLAR ATMOSPHERES, AND MORE. A CAT GRATING SPECTROMETER NATURALLY COMPLEMENTS THE X-RAY MICROCALORIMETER SPECTROMETER (XMS) PLANNED FOR IXO AND CAN BE OBTAINED WITH MUCH LOWER MASS, RISK AND COST THAN COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES, SUCH AS REFLECTION GRATINGS. CAT GRATING PRINCIPLES AND TECHNOLOGY HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY DEMONSTRATED WITH PROTOTYPES UNDER ONGOING NASA APRA SUPPORT. X-RAY AND ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS AND COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS ARE BEING USED TO VERIFY GRATING PERFORMANCE AND LAUNCH/SPACE SURVIVABILITY. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO BOOST THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL) OF THE SPECTROMETER FROM THE CURRENT TRL 3 TO TRL 6. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP IMPROVED NANO- AND MICRO-FABRICATION PROCESSES THAT WILL INCREASE GRATING SIZE AND THROUGHPUT AND PROVIDE INTEGRATED AND OPTIMIZED HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES TO SUPPORT THE FREE-STANDING GRATINGS. OPTIMIZING THESE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES IS CRITICALLY NECESSARY IN ORDER FOR THE GRATING ELEMENTS TO SURVIVE LAUNCH AND SPACE CONDITIONS, WHILE PROVIDING THE VERY LOW X-RAY BLOCKAGE AND THUS HIGH EFFECTIVE AREA REQUIRED TO MEET MISSION SCIENCE GOALS. FOR THIS PURPOSE WE PROPOSE TO ACQUIRE AN ADVANCED SILICON DEEP-ETCH TOOL. WE ARE CURRENTLY USING SUCH A TOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUT IT IS NO LONGER ADEQUATE.

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• $913,740 - Monday the 21st of November 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS FIVE YEARS OF CONTINUING FUNDING FOR THE MULTI-NATIONAL, GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT PROGRAM ENTITLED ADVANCED GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC GASES EXPERIMENT (AGAGE). THE CASE FOR REAL-TIME, HIGH-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT NETWORKS IS VERY STRONG AND THE OBSERVATIONS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION ARE RECOGNIZED WIDELY FOR THEIR IMPORTANCE TO OZONE DEPLETION AND CLIMATE CHANGE STUDIES AND TO VERIFICATION ISSUES ARISING FROM THE MONTREAL (OZONE) AND KYOTO (CLIMATE) PROTOCOLS. AGAGE IS DISTINGUISHED BY ITS CAPABILITY TO MEASURE GLOBALLY, AT HIGH-FREQUENCY, ALL IMPORTANT SPECIES IN THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL AND ALL NON-CO2 GASES IN THE KYOTO PROTOCOL. THE SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES OF AGAGE ARE IMPORTANT IN FURTHERING UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL CHEMICAL AND CLIMATIC PHENOMENA. THEY ARE: (1) TO DETERMINE OPTIMALLY FROM OBSERVATIONS THE GLOBAL RATES OF EMISSION AND/OR DESTRUCTION (I.E. LIFETIMES) OF ANTHROPOGENIC CHLOROCARBONS, CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS (CFCS), BROMOCARBONS, HYDROCHLOROFLUOROCARBONS (HCFCS), HYDROFLUOROCARBONS (HFCS) AND PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS (PFCS, AND SF6) THAT CONTRIBUTE MOST OF THE REACTIVE HALOGEN TO THE STRATOSPHERE AND/OR ARE STRONG INFRARED ABSORBERS. (2) TO DOCUMENT ACCURATELY THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND TEMPORAL BEHAVIORS OF BIOGENIC/ANTHROPOGENIC GASES IMPORTANT IN CLIMATE CHANGE AND/OR OZONE DEPLETION: METHANE, NITROUS OXIDE, CARBON MONOXIDE, HYDROGEN, METHYL CHLORIDE AND METHYL BROMIDE. (3) TO IDENTIFY AND MEASURE NEW GREENHOUSE AND OZONE-DEPLETING GASES (E.G. RECENTLY SO2F2, NF3, C4F10, C5F12, C6F14, C7F16 AND C8F18 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED), BEGIN THEIR REAL-TIME MONITORING, AND RECONSTRUCT THEIR PAST HISTORIES FROM AGAGE AND OTHER AIR ARCHIVES. (4) TO DETERMINE OPTIMALLY THE AVERAGE CONCENTRATIONS AND TRENDS OF TROPOSPHERIC HYDROXYL RADICAL FROM THE RATES OF DESTRUCTION OF ATMOSPHERIC METHYL CHLOROFORM, HFCS AND HCFCS, AND ESTIMATES OF THEIR EMISSIONS. (5) TO DETERMINE OPTIMALLY, FROM ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS AND ESTIMATES OF THEIR DESTRUCTION RATES, THE MAGNITUDES AND DISTRIBUTIONS BY REGION OF SURFACE SOURCES/SINKS OF THESE GASES. (6) TO PROVIDE ACCURATE DATA ON THE GLOBAL ACCUMULATION OF THESE TRACE GASES, WHICH ARE USED TO TEST THE SYNOPTIC/REGIONAL/GLOBAL-SCALE CIRCULATIONS PREDICTED BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS. (7) TO PROVIDE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF METHANE, CARBON MONOXIDE AND HYDROGEN, AND ESTIMATES OF HYDROXYL LEVELS, TO TEST PRIMARY ATMOSPHERIC OXIDATION PATHWAYS AT MID-LATITUDES AND THE TROPICS.

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• $90,677 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE TO EVOLVE THE CARBON MONITORING SYSTEM FLUX PILOT PROJECT FUNDED UNDER PHASE 1 INTO A FRAMEWORK THAT INTEGRATES OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON ALL MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE CARBON-CYCLE-ANTHROPOGENIC SYSTEM ANTHROPOGENIC, TERRESTRIAL, OCEANIC, ATMOSPHERIC IN A TOP-DOWN CO2 ATTRIBUTION SYSTEM CONSTRAINED BY ATMOSPHERIC SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS. THIS EXPANDED FRAMEWORK WILL ENABLE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE AND A MEANS OF QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICIES. THIS CMS-FPP IS MOTIVATED BY THE INCREASE IN TROPOSPHERIC CO2 FROM ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS, WHICH IS THE SINGLE LARGEST DRIVER OF OBSERVED AND PREDICTED CLIMATE CHANGE [FORSTER ET AL, 2007]. HOWEVER, ROUGHLY HALF OF THE CO2 PRODUCED FROM THESE EMISSIONS HAS BEEN REMOVED BY TERRESTRIAL AND OCEAN SINKS. CONSEQUENTLY, THE FUTURE TRAJECTORY OF CLIMATE FORCING WILL DEPEND ON FUTURE EMISSIONS AND ON THE CAPACITY OF THE CARBON-CYCLE TO ABSORB MORE CO2 [FRIEDLINGSTEIN, 2008]. RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN AN ACCELERATION OF FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS AND SIGNS OF AN ONSET OF CARBON-CYCLE FEEDBACKS [CANADELL ET AL, 2007]. SINCE 2005, FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGIONALLY REDISTRIBUTED TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, WHICH NOW MAKE UP MORE THAN HALF OF CO2 EMISSIONS (>4 PGC/YR) [PETERS ET AL, 2012]. WHILE THE GLOBAL CARBON BUDGET AND ITS PARTITIONING BETWEEN ANTHROPOGENIC, TERRESTRIAL, AND OCEANIC FLUXES ARE REASONABLY UNDERSTOOD, THE CONTRIBUTION OF REGIONAL DRIVERS TO THAT BUDGET ARE NOT [CANADELL ET AL, 2010]. CONSEQUENTLY, UNCERTAINTY IN THE ATTRIBUTION OF CO2 ACCUMULATION RATE ON A YEAR-TO-YEAR BASIS TO THOSE DRIVERS LIMITS OUR CAPACITY TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICIES [LE QUERE ET AL, 2009]. IN ORDER TO REDUCE UNCERTAINTY IN CO2 ATTRIBUTION, WE WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPROVE AND AUGMENT ALL MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE CURRENT CMS-FPP: NEW SATELLITES OBSERVATIONS, AN ADDITIONAL TERRESTRIAL ECO-SYSTEM MODEL, A NEW FOSSIL FUEL ASSIMILATION SYSTEM, UPDATED OCEAN ASSIMILATION ALGORITHMS, AND IMPROVED ATMOSPHERIC INVERSION ALGORITHMS. THE CMS-FPP PHASE 2 WILL GENERATE A SUITE OF NEW AND UPDATED PRODUCTS COVERING 7/2009-2011 INCLUDING NEW GLOBAL SPATIALLY RESOLVED CO2 SOURCES AND SINKS, NEW HIGH RESOLUTION GLOBAL FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS, BETTER ESTIMATES OF OCEANIC CO2 AIR-SEA EXCHANGE, NEW ESTIMATES OF GLOBAL ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS, AND REFINEMENTS IN TOP-DOWN ATTRIBUTION AND UNCERTAINTY ALGORITHMS. PRODUCTS GENERATED FROM BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN ESTIMATES WILL BE MADE PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE THROUGH CARBON.NASA.GOV AND LINKED TO CMSFLUX.JPL.NASA.GOV. THROUGH THESE UPDATES, THE CMS-FPP WILL PLAY A CRUCIAL AND ON-GOING ROLE IN ASSESSING THE CURRENT CAPABILITY OF SPACE-BORNE OBSERVING SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTEGRATED CARBON-CYCLE-ANTHROPOGENIC SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE FORCING

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• $9,000 - Friday the 21st of September 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - RESTON
  ANALYSIS SVCS

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• $870,024 - Friday the 30th of March 2012
  Department Of Navy
  SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS
  NEW CONTRACT AWARRD FOR R&D DARPA EFFORT UNDER BAA 11-42

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