The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $749,988 - Friday the 24th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - FORMALDEHYDE (HCHO) IS A KEY TRACE SPECIES THAT IS OF GREAT INTEREST TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTISTS IN NASA AND OTHER RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. IN THIS SBIR PROJECT, WE PROPOSED TO BUILD AN AIRBORNE ATMOSPHERIC FORMALDEHYDE (HCHO) PROFILER IMPLEMENTING A LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (LIF) TECHNIQUE. THIS AIRBORNE INSTRUMENT CAN ALSO BE USED ON THE GROUND FOR MEASURING VERTICAL HCHO PROFILES. TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, THERE EXISTS NO PREVIOUS FORMALDEHYDE REMOTE SENSOR THAT CAN MEASURE RANGE RESOLVED FORMALDEHYDE PROFILE BY ANY TECHNIQUE. THE INSTRUMENT WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE AN HCHO PROFILE FROM AN AIRCRAFT FLYING AT 20 KM ALTITUDE TO THE GROUND AT A 1 KM RANGE RESOLUTION, AND ACHIEVE SENSITIVITIES BETTER THAN 70 PART-PER-TRILLION-BY-VOLUME (PPTV) CONCENTRATION LEVELS AT A RANGE OF 1 KM AT NIGHTTIME WITH ONE SECOND AVERAGING TIME. IN ADDITION, WE WILL EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF DAYTIME OPERATION ACHIEVING SENSITIVITY OF LESS THAN 1 PART-PER-BILLION-BY-VOLUME (PPBV) AT A RANGE OF 3 KM. IN PHASE I WE HAVE BUILT A BREADBOARD FORMALDEHYDE PROFILER INSTRUMENT AND DEMONSTRATED THE CAPABILITY OF PERFORMING HIGHLY SENSITIVE NIGHTTIME FORMALDEHYDE MEASUREMENTS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PHASE I WORK ESTABLISHED THE FEASIBILITY FOR HIGH SENSITIVITY DETECTION OF RANGE RESOLVED HCHO, AND PROVIDES THE DESIGN OF THE PROTOTYPE SENSOR.

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• $53,333 - Tuesday the 27th of May 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STANDOFF SENSOR THAT CAN MEASURE 3D COMPONENTS OF WIND VELOCITY IN THE VICINITY OF AN AIRPORT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE AIRPORT THROUGHPUT, SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY. THE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A LIDAR WIND PROFILER (LWP) THAT USES MULTIPLE NEAR-PARALLEL LIDAR BEAMS TO TRACK THE MOTION OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL STRUCTURES AND EXTRACT MULTI-COMPONENT WIND DATA. IN PHASE I, THE MEASUREMENT REQUIREMENTS WERE ANALYZED AND USED TO DEVELOP A NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE PERFORMANCE OF A PROTOTYPE SYSTEM. IN ADDITION, AN EYE SAFETY ANALYSIS WAS CONDUCTED AND A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE LWP PROTOTYPE WAS DEVELOPED. STUDIES WERE CONDUCTED WITH A BREADBOARD IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE IMPROVEMENTS IN SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM AND TO OBTAIN MORE DATA TO FURTHER REFINE THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENT AND ALGORITHM. IN PHASE II, THE LWP DESIGN WILL BE FINALIZED AND A HIGH POWER LASER DESIGN WILL BE COMBINED WITH NARROW PULSE-WIDTH GENERATION TECHNOLOGY AS WELL AS AN OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR IN ORDER TO GENERATE A WAVELENGTH OF 1550. THE ALGORITHM WILL BE OPTIMIZED AND EXTENDED TO MEASUREMENTS IN ALL THREE DIMENSIONS USING A MULTI-BEAM LIDAR SYSTEM. TECHNIQUES TO EXTRACT ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE AND DETECT AIRCRAFT WAKE VORTICES WILL BE DEVELOPED. A SOFTWARE PACKAGE WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: A FRONT-END GUI FOR DISPLAYING THE DATA AND FOR INTERFACING WITH THE OPERATOR; A REAL-TIME DATA-PROCESSING MODULE; A DATA ACQUISITION MODULE; A DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL MODULE. AT THE END OF PHASE II, THE LWP PROTOTYPE WILL BE FIELD TESTED AND EVALUATED USING VALIDATION DATA FROM ULTRASONIC ANEMOMETERS.

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• $374,151 - Thursday the 15th of March 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV LKE
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SBIR TOPIC N091-029

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• $124,998 - Monday the 3rd of December 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  AIRCRAFT WAKE VORTICES IS ESPECIALLY HAZARDOUS DURING THE LANDING AND TAKING-OFF PHASES OF FLIGHT. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO OBTAIN AN ACCURATE ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE PROFILE IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE FOR A BETTER PREDICTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF AIRCRAFT WAKE VORTEX. IN THIS NASA SBIR PROJECT, WE PROPOSE TO BUILD A LIDAR INSTRUMENT THAT IS CAPABLE OF MEASURING BOTH THE DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE PROFILE IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE. ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT USING RAMAN LIDAR TECHNIQUE IS WELL ESTABLISHED AND HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY A LOT OF RESEARCH GROUPS. THE MAJOR INNOVATION OF OUR APPROACH IS TO USE A LOW-POWER, HIGH-REPETITIVE-RATE LASER, INSTEAD OF THE HIGH-POWER, LOW-REPETITIVE-RATE FLASH-LAMP-PUMPED LASER SYSTEMS COMMONLY USED FOR SUCH INSTRUMENTS. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF BUILDING AN EYE-SAFE, COMPACT, ROBUST, RELIABLE, RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE AND LOW MAINTENANCE INSTRUMENT. THE PROPOSED LIDAR WILL BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE 1K ACCURACY, GOOD RANGE RESOLUTION (~100M) WITH A RANGE UP TO 3 KM AT BOTH DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME WITH UNDER 10 MINUTES OF AVERAGING. WE WILL BUILD A BREADBOARD SYSTEM FOR PHASE I AND PERFORM A PROOF OF CONCEPT TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT. WE WILL BRING THE DEVELOPMENT TO PRELIMINARY DESIGN SO THAT PHASE II MAY BEGIN WITH THE FINAL SYSTEM DESIGN AND BEGIN CONSTRUCTION AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. PHASE II WILL PROVIDE FOR DELIVERY OF A PROTOTYPE AND CULMINATE IN A SERIES OF VALIDATION FIELD TRIALS, COMPARING OUR MEASURED PROFILES WITH OTHER MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES.

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