The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,910 - Wednesday the 22nd of February 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9550 AFRL AFOSR
  (STTR PHASE I) - ULTRA HIGH REPETITION RATE MULTI-PARAMETER IMAGING DIAGNOSTICS FOR REACTING FLOWS

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• $80,000 - Wednesday the 20th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVSEA HQ
  STATUS REPORT

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• $750,000 - Monday the 29th of June 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - ORBITEC'S NON-THERMAL SANITATION BY ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA TECHNOLOGY SANITIZES FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WITHOUT THE USE OF CONSUMABLE CHEMICALS AND WITHOUT SIGNIFICANTLY RAISING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE FOOD, SO FOOD TASTE AND QUALITY ARE NOT AFFECTED. ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA IS WELL KNOWN TO BE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN PROMOTING OXIDATION, ENHANCING MOLECULAR DISSOCIATION, AND PRODUCING FREE RADICALS AND OTHER TYPES OF HIGH ENERGIES. IT HAS RECENTLY ATTRACTED MUCH ATTENTION IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY DUE TO ITS POTENTIAL FOR BEING A NON-THERMAL AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE SANITATION METHOD. THE PROPOSED TECHNOLOGY WILL SUPPORT SURFACE SANITATION OF DELIVERED FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, AND FRESHLY PREPARED FOODS IN A SPACE-BASED HABITAT. IT CAN FUNCTION IN REDUCED GRAVITY AND PRESSURE ENVIRONMENTS, AND IS EFFICIENT IN TERMS OF WASTE AND RESOURCE USE. DURING THIS PHASE 2 EFFORT, DESIGNS OF THE PRIMARY OPERATING COMPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM WILL BE REFINED AND INCORPORATED INTO A PLASMA PROCESSING CHAMBER PROTOTYPE CAPABLE OF TREATING ONE TO TWO SERVINGS OF FRESH FOOD AT A TIME. THE ANTIMICROBIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE PROTOTYPE WILL BE TESTED WITH A NUMBER OF FRUITS/VEGETABLES AND DIFFERENT INOCULUMS. THE PROTOTYPE WILL ALSO BE EVALUATED FOR THE EFFECT OF PLASMA TREATMENT ON FOOD QUALITY.

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• $70,000 - Tuesday the 22nd of May 2012
  Department Of Navy
  OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)

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• $50,000 - Wednesday the 27th of June 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9300 AFTC PZR
  PHASE II EXTENSION

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• $50,000 - Monday the 7th of April 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ORBITEC PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AND TEST NEW, NON-TOXIC IONIC LIQUID FUELS FOR PROPULSION APPLICATIONS. VINTAGE PROPULSION SYSTEMS FREQUENTLY USE HIGHLY TOXIC PROPELLANTS SUCH AS MMH. THE TOXICITY OF THESE PROPELLANTS INCREASES NOT ONLY THE RISK OF THE MISSIONS BUT ALSO THE EXPENSE, DUE TO SPECIAL HANDLING REQUIRED DURING THE ENTIRE LIFETIME OF THE PROPELLANT. REPLACING TOXIC PROPELLANTS WITH STRONG-PERFORMING, NON-TOXIC FORMULATIONS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE COST OF PROPULSION SYSTEMS. THE PHASE I PROJECT DEMONSTRATED THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING SEVERAL IONIC LIQUID FORMULATIONS THAT ESSENTIALLY EQUALED MMH IN PERFORMANCE WHILE OFFERING LOW VOLATILITY AND LOW TOXICITY. THE PHASE II WORK WILL CONTINUE THE SYNTHESIS STRATEGY TO REFINE THE FORMULATIONS, CONDUCT MORE EXTENSIVE MATERIAL PROPERTY TESTING, CONDUCT IGNITION DELAY TESTS, AND DEMONSTRATE THE FUELS IN A SMALL-SCALE THRUSTER. THE COLLECTIVE RESULT OF THESE TASKS WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF NEW, SAFER FUELS FOR PROPULSION APPLICATIONS.

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• $403,694 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
  THE DEPLOYABLE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION SYSTEM (VEGGIE) WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED BY ORBITEC IN 1996 AS A WAY TO PRODUCE PALATABLE, NUTRITIOUS, AND SAFE FRESH FOOD IN A SPACE HABITAT WITH MINIMAL RESOURCES. IN 2003 A SBIR PHASE I GRANT WAS AWARDED TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VEGGIE CONCEPT. THE SYSTEM WAS FURTHER DEVELOPED UNDER A SUBSEQUENT PHASE II SBIR AWARDED IN 2004 (CONTRACT NO. NNK04OA5C). THESE TWO SBIR S HAVE LED TO ORBITEC PARTICIPATING IN THE VEGGIE INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (IPP) IN 2009-2010 (PHASE III CONTRACT NNK09EA88P) WITH NASA S KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (KSC). AS PART OF THE VEGGIE IPP, ORBITEC ADVANCED THE DESIGN OF THE VEGGIE UNIT CLOSER TO A FLIGHT QUALIFIABLE PACKAGE, DEVELOPED AN UPDATED PROTOTYPE (FIGURE 1) AND CONDUCTED PRELIMINARY VERIFICATION TESTING ON THIS HARDWARE WHICH WAS THEN DELIVERED TO KSC. THIS PROPOSED PHASE III EFFORT UTILIZES THE WORK PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTED TO FABRICATE, VERIFY, AND PROVIDE VEGGIE FLIGHT UNITS TO KSC FOR USE ON ISS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO RAPIDLY PROVIDE TWO (2) VEGGIE FLIGHT HARDWARE SYSTEMS FOR TESTING (IN THE FORM OF A DETAILED TEST OBJECTIVE (DTO)) ABOARD THE ISS. IT IS DESIRABLE TO IMPLEMENT THESE SYSTEMS WHILE A LONG-DURATION MICROGRAVITY TEST PLATFORM (ISS) IS AVAILABLE, AND SO THAT THE TECHNOLOGY CAN BE ADEQUATELY PROVEN IN TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION FOR FUTURE MISSIONS SUCH AS THE LUNAR SURFACE AND A MARS TRANSIT ENVIRONMENT. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WOULD LEVERAGE PREVIOUS VEGGIE WORK TO ACCELERATE THE HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT AND REDUCE PROGRAM RISK. THE OVERALL PROJECT PLAN DIVIDES MAJOR ACTIVITIES INTO (1) HARDWARE DESIGN UPDATES, (2) HARDWARE FABRICATION, (3) HARDWARE VERIFICATION, (4) SAFETY DATA PACKAGE/REVIEWS, (5) INTEGRATION SUPPORT, (6) CREW TRAINING AIDS, AND (7) FLIGHT OPERATION SUPPORT. THE VEGGIE CONCEPT IS BASED ON THE USE OF COLLAPSIBLE GROWING MODULES THAT CAN BE STORED IN A SMALL VOLUME (FIGURE 2). APPROXIMATELY 1M2 OF GROWING AREA CAN BE STOWED WITHIN THE EQUIVALENT OF A SINGLE CARGO TRANSFER BAG (JSC-39233 REV. D, CARGO TRANSFER BAG INTERFACE DESIGN DOCUMENT). VEGGIE PROVIDES LIGHTING AND WATER/ NUTRIENT DELIVERY, BUT UTILIZES THE CABIN ENVIRONMENT FOR TEMPERATURE CONTROL AND AS A SOURCE OF CO2 TO MINIMIZE COMPLEXITY AND POWER REQUIREMENTS. THE VEGGIE SYSTEM COMPRISES THREE MAJOR COMPONENTS: THE LIGHT CAP, THE ENCLOSURE, AND THE ROOTING MAT. THE CORE OF THE VEGGIE SYSTEM IS THE SOLID-STATE LIGHTING UNIT. THE COMPACT CONFIGURATION OF THIS SYSTEM IS ONLY POSSIBLE USING VERY LOW PROFILE ARRAYS OF LEDS. THESE SOLID-STATE LIGHTS HAVE PROPERTIES THAT CAN BE MANIPULATED TO PRODUCE HIGH LIGHT LEVELS WITH LESS POWER THAN OTHER LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES. LEDS ALSO ELIMINATE MANY OF THE HAZARDS OF STANDARD LIGHTING SYSTEMS LIKE HIGH TOUCH TEMPERATURES AND THE USED OF TOXIC MATERIALS LIKE MERCURY. THE VEGGIE ENCLOSURE IS IN A BELLOWS CONFIGURATION AS THIS FORM REQUIRES MINIMUM HARDWARE (LIGHTWEIGHT AND LOW VOLUME), ALLOWS RAPID DEPLOYMENT AND RESTOW, PROVIDES A SOFT ENCLOSURE FOR THE GROWING AREA, SUPPORTS ELEVATED HUMIDITY LEVELS IN THE GROWING AREA, AND ALLOWS ADJUSTMENT TO MAINTAIN A FIXED DISTANCE BETWEEN THE GROWING PLANT CANOPY AND THE LIGHT CAP. DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROOTING SYSTEMS CAN BE USED WITH THE VEGGIE DESIGN. THE ORIGINAL ROOTING SYSTEM DESIGN CONSISTS OF A CAPILLARY ROOTING MAT TO PROVIDE WATER AND NUTRIENT DELIVERY IN REDUCED GRAVITY. THE SYSTEM USES A THIN MAT FORMED FROM NOMEX THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE A VARIETY OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS AND CAN BE SWAPPED OUT OF THE GROWING UNIT WHEN DESIRED. THE ROOT MAT CAN ACCOMMODATE A NUTRIENT SOLUTION SUPPLY SUFFICIENT FOR SEVERAL DAYS, DEPENDING ON THE CROP, AND MEETS ALL NASA SAFETY REQUIREMENTS. THE NOMEX MAT IS PARTIALLY SEALED INTO A TEFLON RESERVOIR, AND HOUSED IN AN OPAQUE TEFLON POUCH. WATER OR NUTRIENT SOLUTION IS WICKED FROM THE SEALED RESERVOIR INTO THE NOMEX MAT. NOMEX WAS USED BECAUSE IT IS A GOOD WICKING MATERIAL WHILE ALSO MEETING NASA FLAMMABILITY AND OUTGASSING REQUIREMEN

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• $371,528 - Wednesday the 2nd of May 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9300 AFTC PZR
  INCREMENTAL FUNDING

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• $299,448 - Monday the 31st of August 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS. THE DEPLOYABLE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION SYSTEM (VEGGIE) WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED BY ORBITEC IN 1996 AS A WAY TO PRODUCE PALATABLE, NUTRITIOUS, AND SAFE FRESH FOOD IN A SPACE HABITAT WITH MINIMAL RESOURCES. IN 2003 A SBIR PHASE I GRANT WAS AWARDED TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VEGGIE CONCEPT. THE SYSTEM WAS FURTHER DEVELOPED UNDER A SUBSEQUENT PHASE II SBIR AWARDED IN 2004 (CONTRACT NO. NNK04OA5C). THESE TWO SBIR S HAVE LED TO ORBITEC PARTICIPATING IN THE VEGGIE INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM(IPP) IN 2009-2010 (PHASE III CONTRACT NNK09EA88P) WITH NASA S KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (KSC). AS PART OF THE VEGGIE IPP, ORBITEC ADVANCED THE DESIGN OF THE VEGGIE UNIT CLOSER TO A FLIGHT QUALIFIABLE PACKAGE, DEVELOPED AN UPDATED PROTOTYPE (FIGURE 1) AND CONDUCTED PRELIMINARY VERIFICATION TESTING ON THIS HARDWARE WHICH WAS THEN DELIVERED TO KSC. THIS PROPOSED PHASE III EFFORT UTILIZES THE WORK PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTED TO FABRICATE, VERIFY, AND PROVIDE VEGGIE FLIGHT UNITS TO KSC FOR USE ON ISS.THE VEGGIE CONCEPT IS BASED ON THE USE OF COLLAPSIBLE GROWING MODULES THAT CAN BE STORED IN A SMALL VOLUME (FIGURE 2). APPROXIMATELY 1M2 OF GROWING AREA CAN BE STOWED WITHIN THE EQUIVALENT OF A SINGLE CARGO TRANSFER BAG (JSC-39233 REV. D, CARGO TRANSFER BAG INTERFACE DESIGN DOCUMENT). VEGGIE PROVIDES LIGHTING AND WATER/ NUTRIENT DELIVERY, BUT UTILIZES THE CABIN ENVIRONMENT FOR TEMPERATURE CONTROL AND AS A SOURCE OF CO2 TO MINIMIZE COMPLEXITY AND POWER REQUIREMENTS. THE VEGGIE SYSTEM COMPRISES THREE MAJOR COMPONENTS: THE LIGHT CAP, THE ENCLOSURE, AND THE ROOTING MAT. THE CORE OF THE VEGGIE SYSTEM IS THE SOLID-STATE LIGHTING UNIT. THE COMPACT CONFIGURATION OF THIS SYSTEM IS ONLY POSSIBLE USING VERY LOW PROFILE ARRAYS OF LEDS. THESE SOLID-STATE LIGHTS HAVE PROPERTIES THAT CAN BE MANIPULATED TO PRODUCE HIGH LIGHT LEVELS WITH LESS POWER THAN OTHER LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES. LEDS ALSO ELIMINATE MANY OF THE HAZARDS OF STANDARD LIGHTING SYSTEMS LIKE HIGH TOUCH TEMPERATURES AND THE USED OF TOXIC MATERIALS LIKE MERCURY. THE VEGGIE ENCLOSURE IS IN A BELLOWS CONFIGURATION AS THIS FORM REQUIRES MINIMUM HARDWARE (LIGHTWEIGHT AND LOW VOLUME), ALLOWS RAPID DEPLOYMENT AND RE-STOW, PROVIDES A SOFT ENCLOSURE FOR THE GROWING AREA, SUPPORTS ELEVATED HUMIDITY LEVELS IN THE GROWING AREA, AND ALLOWS ADJUSTMENT TO MAINTAIN A FIXED DISTANCE BETWEEN THE GROWING PLANT CANOPY AND THE LIGHT CAP. DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROOTING SYSTEMS CAN BE USED WITH THE VEGGIE DESIGN.

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• $264,413 - Thursday the 20th of December 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
  PAYLOAD INTEGRATION AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES/ADVANCED PLANT HABITAT (APH) - PHASE 1 THIS IS AN INDEFINITE DELIVERY/INDEFINITE QUANTITY (IDIQ) CONTRACT FOR ADVANCED PLANT HABITAT (APH). THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) PLANS TO DESIGN, DEVELOP, CERTIFY, AND FABRICATE FOR IMPLEMENTATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) AN ADVANCED PLANT HABITAT FACILITY THAT WILL PROVIDE THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY A LARGE ENVIRONMENTALLY CONTROLLED GROWTH CHAMBER FOR USE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION REQUIRES DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, CERTIFICATION, AND IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS FACILITY. THE PROJECT WILL BE A NASA LEAD EFFORT WITH THE CONTRACTOR PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES IN THREE (3) PROPOSED PHASES, WITH A TOTAL PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE ANTICIPATED TO BE THREE (3) YEARS. PHASE I OF THE EFFORT WILL ENCOMPASS, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, PROVIDING DESIGN SUPPORT TO THE NASA LED DESIGN TEAM IN THE FORM OF DESIGN REVIEW, CONCEPT ANALYSIS, APPLICATIONS OF PREVIOUS LESSONS LEARNED TO THE DESIGN EFFORT, AND SUPPORTING DESIGN REVIEW MEETINGS. PHASE II IS ENVISIONED TO DEVELOP FLIGHT AND GROUND HARDWARE PRODUCTION EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT THE DESIGN REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPED IN PHASE I. PHASE II WILL CONCLUDE WITH THE FINISHED PRODUCTION OF ONE GROUND SUPPORT UNIT AND ONE FLIGHT ADVANCED PLANT HABITAT UNIT READY FOR CERTIFICATION TESTING FOR IMPLEMENTATION ON THE ISS. THE FINAL PHASE, PHASE III, WILL PERFORM THE CERTIFICATION TESTING AND ANALYSIS REQUIRED FOR FLIGHT TO AND USE ON THE ISS. PHASE III WILL CONCLUDE WITH THE APH FLIGHT UNIT BEING CERTIFIED FOR FLIGHT ALONG WITH A COMPLETED LOGISTICS ANALYSIS AND SPARES PLAN AND WILL INCLUDE THE COMPLETED GROUND AND FLIGHT SAFETY REVIEWS. ALL WORK REQUIREMENTS WILL BE CITED IN INDIVIDUAL TASK ORDERS ISSUED BY THE CONTRACTING OFFICER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TASK ORDERING PROCEDURES PROVIDED IN SECTION H OF THIS CONTRACT. TASK ORDERS MAY BE ISSUED AS FIRM FIXED PRICE (FFP) OR TIME AND MATERIAL (T&M) TASK ORDERS. TASK ORDERS WILL BE FUNDED AS THEY ARE ISSUED UNDER THIS CONTRACT AND THE TOTAL VALUE OF TASK ORDERS ISSUED UNDER THIS CONTRACT SHALL NOT EXCEED $3,000,000 FOR THE THREE-YEAR ORDERING PERIOD. ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING ATTACHMENTS, ARE APPLICABLE TO EVERY TASK ORDER ISSUED HEREUNDER, UNLESS SPECIFIED OTHERWISE.

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