The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $964,923 - Monday the 13th of February 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-RSA
  ARMY SBIR PHASE II ENHANCEMENT

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• $86,245 - Friday the 23rd of March 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9453 DET 8 AFRL PKV8
  PLUG AND PLAY RESPONSIVE TECHNOLOGIES

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• $781,338 - Thursday the 19th of January 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-RSA
  BASE YEAR, ARMY SBIR PHASE III

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• $50,000 - Monday the 6th of May 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  MICROCOSM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SCOPRIUS SPACE LAUNCH COMPANY (SSLC), WILL DEVELOP A UNIBODY COMPOSITE PRESSURIZED STRUCTURE (UCPS) FOR IN-SPACE PROPULSION THAT CONSTITUTES A CLEAN BREAK FROM TRADITIONAL SPACECRAFT DESIGN BY COMBINING WHAT WERE TRADITIONALLY SEPARATE SPACECRAFT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUPPORT STRUCTURES AND METAL PROPELLANT TANKS INTO A SINGLE UNIBODY, ALL-COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION THAT IS STRONGER, MUCH LIGHTER WEIGHT, MORE ROBUST AND RELIABLE, AND CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING MUCH HIGHER PRESSURES AND SMALLER VOLUME THAN PREVIOUS APPROACHES. THE SINGLE, ALL-COMPOSITE STRUCTURE WILL INCLUDE LINERLESS, HIGH-PRESSURE PROPELLANT TANK(S), COMPOSITE BOSSES, FLANGES, LONGITUDINAL AND CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRINGERS WITH INTEGRAL SHELVES, HOLDING MECHANISMS, AND ATTACH FEATURES TO SUPPORT ALL OF THE SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT AND REPLACE THE SEPARATE, MISSION-CRITICAL PRIMARY SUPPORT STRUCTURE, TANKS, STRUTS, STRAPS, BRACES, CLAMPS, AND BRACKETS TRADITIONALLY REQUIRED TO HOLD SUBSYSTEM PARTS IN PLACE. THE NEW STRUCTURE HAS NEARLY 0 CTE OVER A TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM CRYOGENIC TO OVER 100 C. PHASE I WILL DETERMINE REQUIREMENTS, CREATE A PRELIMINARY UCPS DESIGN RELEVANT TO A POTENTIAL SMD MISSION, AND TEST MATERIAL COMPATIBILITY WITH VARIOUS IN-SPACE PROPELLANTS. PHASE II WILL BUILD TWO UCPS STRUCTURES EMPLOYING TEST MASSES FOR SPACECRAFT COMPONENTS, AND COMPLETE QUALIFICATION AND BURST TESTING ON ONE OF THEM (INCLUDING 0-G TESTING).

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• $266 - Friday the 18th of November 2011
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG
  FULLY FUND CLIN 0001

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• $200,000 - Monday the 6th of May 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  MICROCOSM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SCOPRIUS SPACE LAUNCH COMPANY (SSLC), WILL DEVELOP A UNIBODY COMPOSITE PRESSURIZED STRUCTURE (UCPS) FOR IN-SPACE PROPULSION THAT CONSTITUTES A CLEAN BREAK FROM TRADITIONAL SPACECRAFT DESIGN BY COMBINING WHAT WERE TRADITIONALLY SEPARATE SPACECRAFT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUPPORT STRUCTURES AND METAL PROPELLANT TANKS INTO A SINGLE UNIBODY, ALL-COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION THAT IS STRONGER, MUCH LIGHTER WEIGHT, MORE ROBUST AND RELIABLE, AND CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING MUCH HIGHER PRESSURES AND SMALLER VOLUME THAN PREVIOUS APPROACHES. THE SINGLE, ALL-COMPOSITE STRUCTURE WILL INCLUDE LINERLESS, HIGH-PRESSURE PROPELLANT TANK(S), COMPOSITE BOSSES, FLANGES, LONGITUDINAL AND CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRINGERS WITH INTEGRAL SHELVES, HOLDING MECHANISMS, AND ATTACH FEATURES TO SUPPORT ALL OF THE SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT AND REPLACE THE SEPARATE, MISSION-CRITICAL PRIMARY SUPPORT STRUCTURE, TANKS, STRUTS, STRAPS, BRACES, CLAMPS, AND BRACKETS TRADITIONALLY REQUIRED TO HOLD SUBSYSTEM PARTS IN PLACE. THE NEW STRUCTURE HAS NEARLY 0 CTE OVER A TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM CRYOGENIC TO OVER 100 C. PHASE I WILL DETERMINE REQUIREMENTS, CREATE A PRELIMINARY UCPS DESIGN RELEVANT TO A POTENTIAL SMD MISSION, AND TEST MATERIAL COMPATIBILITY WITH VARIOUS IN-SPACE PROPELLANTS. PHASE II WILL BUILD TWO UCPS STRUCTURES EMPLOYING TEST MASSES FOR SPACECRAFT COMPONENTS, AND COMPLETE QUALIFICATION AND BURST TESTING ON ONE OF THEM (INCLUDING 0-G TESTING).

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• $199,969 - Monday the 6th of May 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  MICROCOSM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SCOPRIUS SPACE LAUNCH COMPANY (SSLC), WILL DEVELOP A UNIBODY COMPOSITE PRESSURIZED STRUCTURE (UCPS) FOR IN-SPACE PROPULSION THAT CONSTITUTES A CLEAN BREAK FROM TRADITIONAL SPACECRAFT DESIGN BY COMBINING WHAT WERE TRADITIONALLY SEPARATE SPACECRAFT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUPPORT STRUCTURES AND METAL PROPELLANT TANKS INTO A SINGLE UNIBODY, ALL-COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION THAT IS STRONGER, MUCH LIGHTER WEIGHT, MORE ROBUST AND RELIABLE, AND CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING MUCH HIGHER PRESSURES AND SMALLER VOLUME THAN PREVIOUS APPROACHES. THE SINGLE, ALL-COMPOSITE STRUCTURE WILL INCLUDE LINERLESS, HIGH-PRESSURE PROPELLANT TANK(S), COMPOSITE BOSSES, FLANGES, LONGITUDINAL AND CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRINGERS WITH INTEGRAL SHELVES, HOLDING MECHANISMS, AND ATTACH FEATURES TO SUPPORT ALL OF THE SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT AND REPLACE THE SEPARATE, MISSION-CRITICAL PRIMARY SUPPORT STRUCTURE, TANKS, STRUTS, STRAPS, BRACES, CLAMPS, AND BRACKETS TRADITIONALLY REQUIRED TO HOLD SUBSYSTEM PARTS IN PLACE. THE NEW STRUCTURE HAS NEARLY 0 CTE OVER A TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM CRYOGENIC TO OVER 100 C. PHASE I WILL DETERMINE REQUIREMENTS, CREATE A PRELIMINARY UCPS DESIGN RELEVANT TO A POTENTIAL SMD MISSION, AND TEST MATERIAL COMPATIBILITY WITH VARIOUS IN-SPACE PROPELLANTS. PHASE II WILL BUILD TWO UCPS STRUCTURES EMPLOYING TEST MASSES FOR SPACECRAFT COMPONENTS, AND COMPLETE QUALIFICATION AND BURST TESTING ON ONE OF THEM (INCLUDING 0-G TESTING).

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• $197,239 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE MICROCOSM TEAM WILL COMPLETE THE SIMULATION TOOL ARCHITECTURE EARLY IN PHASE II, AND IN PARALLEL BEGIN TO DEVELOP THE SIMULATION. THE TOOL IS ARCHITECTED FOR CARRYING OUT PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND RAPID TRADE STUDY ASSESSMENTS OF COMPETING NAVIGATION/TIMING ARCHITECTURE OPTIONS FOR FUTURE NASA MISSIONS, INCORPORATING STATE-OF-THE ART RADIOMETRIC, X-RAY PULSAR, AND LASER COMMUNICATIONS MEASUREMENTS, AMONG OTHERS, IN THE ORBIT DETERMINATION TOOLBOX (ODTBX) ENVIRONMENT. THE SOLUTION CENTERS ON INCLUSION OF A NAVIGATION LAYER AS PART OF THE COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE AND ON THE MAINTENANCE AND PROPAGATION OF NAVIGATION STATES, TIME AND ASSOCIATED UNCERTAINTIES ONBOARD EACH PLATFORM WITH FILTERING CAPABILITIES ENABLING UPDATES BASED ON ANY AVAILABLE MEASUREMENTS. SUCH MEASUREMENTS INCLUDE: DIRECT STATE AND UNCERTAINTY UPDATES VIA GROUND COMMUNICATION, RADIOMETRIC- AND LASERCOM-BASED RANGE AND RANGE RATE DATA FROM COMMUNICATION WITH GROUND STATIONS AND OTHER SPACECRAFT, TIME TRANSFER FROM GROUND STATIONS AND OTHER SPACECRAFT, X-RAY PULSAR-BASED NAVIGATION AND TIME MEASUREMENTS (XNAV), AND OTHERS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. THIS WOULD BE GAME-CHANGING FOR SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY ENABLING PLATFORMS TO OPERATE USING ONBOARD STATE INFORMATION RATHER THAN RELYING ALMOST ENTIRELY ON GROUND BASED TRACKING AND ACTIVITY SCHEDULING. ADDITIONALLY, ARCHITECTURES THAT INCLUDE LONG-RANGE INTERSATELLITE COMMUNICATION (E.G. RELAY SPACECRAFT) CAN PROVIDE FAVORABLE GEOMETRIES FOR SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED 3D PRECISION NAVIGATION SOLAR-SYSTEM-WIDE.

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• $124,945 - Tuesday the 5th of February 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  BASED ON MICROCOSM'S DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH DELTA-V SMALL EARTH OBSERVATION SPACECRAFT CALLED NANOEYE, WITH A PLANNED RECURRING COST OF $2 MILLION, MICROCOSM WILL DEVELOP A NEW CLASS OF VERY LOW COST, LIGHT WEIGHT, EXTREMELY CAPABLE SPACECRAFT FOR NASA SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION MISSIONS, FROM EARTH ORBIT TO DEEP SPACE. THIS NEW SPACECRAFT, CALLED HUMMINGBIRD, IS BASED ON AN ALL-COMPOSITE, UNIBODY STRUCTURE IN WHICH THE PROPELLANT TANK IS THE STRUCTURE. THE FIRST PAYLOAD WOULD BE THE 2.9 KG, 9.25-INCH APERTURE DIFFRACTION-LIMITED TELESCOPE BUILT BY ITT. SPACE-QUALIFIED 1-LBF THRUSTERS FROM AEROJET WEIGHING 8.7 GM EACH PROVIDE BOTH ORBIT CONTROL AND VERY RAPID ATTITUDE MANEUVERS. THE CURRENT NANOEYE SPACECRAFT HAS OVER 2.5 KM/SEC OF DELTA-V, ALTHOUGH DELTA-V CAN BE INCREASED CONSIDERABLY. THE WET MASS OF THE SPACECRAFT IS ABOUT 80 KG IN ITS PRESENT CONFIGURATION. THE SPACECRAFT USES CUBESAT COMPONENTS, WHICH ARE EVOLVING RAPIDLY TO BECOME MORE ROBUST AND CAPABLE. MULTIPLE HUMMINGBIRDS CAN WORK TOGETHER AS A SYSTEM AND ALSO PROVIDE ROBUSTNESS AGAINST SYSTEM FAILURES. UPDATES WITH NEW EQUIPMENT CAN BE INTRODUCED 3 TO 10 TIMES QUICKER THAN WITH TRADITIONAL SPACE SYSTEMS, ALLOWING RESPONSIVE MISSION IMPLEMENTATION AT A COST AND TIME SCALE NOT POSSIBLE WITH TRADITIONAL SPACE MISSIONS.

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• $100,000 - Wednesday the 8th of October 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN PHASE II, XNAV PERFORMANCE WILL BE ENHANCED THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SINGLE PHOTON PROCESSING ALGORITHMS, WHICH UTILIZE ALL AVAILABLE PHOTON TIME DATA TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF XNAV. A DETAILED MODEL OF THE XNAV SYSTEM, INCLUDING SINGLE PHOTON TECHNIQUES WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN ORBIT DETERMINATION TOOLBOX (ODTBX), INCREASING ITS FUNCTIONALITY AND PROVIDING A VALUABLE MISSION DESIGN TOOL. ODTBX WILL BE FURTHER REFINED BY ENHANCEMENTS TO DETECTOR AND SOURCE MODELS, INCLUDING ADDITION OF NEW PULSARS AS THEIR PROPERTIES ARE BETTER DETERMINED (INCLUDING LOW FLUX SOURCES). TIME TRANSFER AND BARYCENTER CORRECTION EFFECTS WILL BE ADDED. XNAV MEASUREMENT TYPES WILL INCLUDE ADDITIONAL ABSOLUTE RANGE MEASUREMENT TYPES AND RANGE RATE MEASUREMENTS. FUNCTIONS DEVELOPED FOR ODTBX WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR XNAV AND XTIM STUDIES INCLUDING: ENHANCED DYNAMIC FUNCTIONS AND LINEARIZED PROCESS MODELS FOR INCLUSION OF CLOCK AND OTHER BIAS STATES; AND PERFORMANCE PREDICTION FOR THE SINGLE PHOTON PROCESSING APPROACHES. THE TEAM WILL WORK WITH NRL, JHU/APL, AND NASA GSFC, FOCUSING ON SOURCES AND DETECTORS TO DEVELOP IMPROVED MODELS, AND ASSESSING TIMING ACCURACY. THIS WORK WILL FURTHER VALIDATE THE UTILITY OF XNAV FOR NASA, AND DEVELOP AND TEST RELEVANT NEW TECHNOLOGY TO PROVIDE A RAPID PATH TO FULL FLIGHT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD OPPORTUNITY ARISE.

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