The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,104 - Wednesday the 5th of August 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE HERE TO USE IMAGERY OF ENA EMISSIONS FROM EARTH'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE AND IN SITU MEASUREMENTS OF PRECIPITATING IONS TO INVESTIGATE GEOMAGNETIC STORM-TIME ION PRECIPITATION AND THE RESULTANT LOW ALTITUDE EMISSION OF ENERGETIC NEUTRAL ATOMS. IN PARTICULAR, WE WILL MAKE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS TOWARD ANSWERING FOUR SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS THAT ARE DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO STORM-TIME MAGNETOSPHERE/THERMOSPHERE COUPLING. WE FOCUS ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE PRECIPITATING IONS AND THE TOPSIDE ATMOSPHERE THAT GIVE RISE TO EMERGENT LOW ALTITUDE ENA DISTRIBUTIONS, AND THAT ARE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS IN ENABLING THE USE OF OBSERVATIONS OF THESE ENAS TO INFER CHARACTERISTICS OF PARENT MAGNETOSPHERIC ION DISTRIBUTIONS. THESE QUESTIONS ARE: 1) SQ1: HOW IS THE ENA EMISSION, FROM A POINT WHERE ION ENERGY IS BEING PRECIPITATED, DISTRIBUTED IN BOTH ENA VELOCITY SPACE AND CONFIGURATION SPACE? 2) SQ2: WHAT IS THE ALBEDO, IN THE FORM OF EMERGENT ENAS, OF EARTH'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE TO RING CURRENT AND PLASMA SHEET ION PRECIPITATION AT ENERGIES LESS 10 KEV? 3) SQ2: HOW IS STORM-TIME ENERGY DEPOSITION FROM PRECIPITATING IONS DISTRIBUTED IN SPACE (LATITUDE, ML T) AND HOW DOES THAT SPATIAL DEPENDENCE VARY WITH GEOMAGNETIC STORM PHASE? 4) SQ3: HOW MUCH ENERGY IS DEPOSITED INTO THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE BY PRECIPITATING RING CURRENT PARTICLES DURING MAGNETIC STORMS, AS FUNCTION OF STORM PHASE? THESE QUESTIONS DIRECTLY ADDRESS THE GEOMAGNETIC STORM-TIME ENERGY AND MASS EXCHANGE BETWEEN EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE. AS SUCH, THEIR ANSWERS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO NASA STRATEGIC SUBGOAL 3B: "UNDERSTAND THE SUN AND ITS EFFECTS ON EARTH AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM", BY CONTRIBUTING TO ACHIEVING NASA'S RESEARCH OBJECTIVE 3B.L: UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL PROCESSES OF THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE SUN TO EARTH, TO OTHER PLANETS, AND BEYOND TO THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM.

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• $9,902 - Wednesday the 25th of May 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE PROPOSED EFFORT INVESTIGATES THE INTERACTION BETWEEN CONVECTIVE CLOUDS AND THE ENVIRONMENT ON TITAN. THE RESULTS WILL PROVIDE CONSTRAINTS ON THE LARGE-SCALE MOISTURE FIELD AND ON MERIDIONAL WINDS THROUGH THE DEPTH OF THE CONVECTIVE LAYER, BOTH OF WHICH ARE STILL LARGELY UNKNOWN. THE WORK WILL ALSO FURTHER CONSTRAIN THE PROPERTIES AND DYNAMICS OF THE CONVECTIVE CLOUDS, WHICH ARE DETERMINED LARGELY BY THE LARGE-SCALE STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO: 1) CONSTRAIN THE LARGELY UNDETERMINED LATITUDINAL GRADIENT OF METHANE, THE LARGE-SCALE TROPOSPHERIC MERIDIONAL WIND FIELD, AND THE LARGE-SCALE VERTICAL MOTION DRIVEN BY CLOUD UPDRAFTS AND COMPENSATING SUBSIDENCE AS PART OF A PRESUMED HADLEY CELL; 2) DETERMINE THE INFLUENCE OF THE LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENT (CAPE AND SHEAR) ON CLOUD DYNAMICS AND BOUND ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER SPACE BASED ON CLOUD OBSERVATIONS AND CLOUD MODEL RESULTS; 3) DETERMINE THE INFLUENCE OF LARGE-SCALE FORCING ON THE NATURE AND DYNAMICS OF CLOUDS; AND, 4) VERIFY THAT THE QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM ASSUMPTION AND PROGNOSTIC CUMULUS KINETIC ENERGY CLOSURE (DESCRIBED BELOW) ARE VALID FOR TITAN. THE OBJECTIVES WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH A COMBINATION OF CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS, CONSTRAINED BY OBSERVATIONS AND APPLICATION OF THEORY THAT DESCRIBES THE INTERACTION BETWEEN CONVECTION AND THE LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENT. CLOUDS AND THE LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENT AND CIRCULATIONS WITHIN TITAN'S ATMOSPHERE HAVE YET TO BE TREATED AS A COUPLED SYSTEM. IN MANY STUDIES, CLOUDS ARE VIEWED ONLY AS A RESPONSE TO THE LARGE-SCALE THERMODYNAMIC FIELDS OR IN RESPONSE TO FORCING BY THE LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION. WE WILL PROPERLY TREAT, FOR FIRST TIME, THE INTERDEPENDENCY OF CLOUDS AND AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND WE WILL DO SO BY LEVERAGING EXISTING TERRESTRIAL THEORY THAT SHOULD BE EXTENSIBLE TO TITAN. EXISTING OBSERVATIONS DO NOT PROVIDE DIRECT MEASUREMENTS OF PROPERTIES WITHIN CLOUDS, BUT THE INFORMATION ON THE CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS, SPECTRAL SIGNATURES, AND LIFETIMES PROVIDE ENOUGH CONSTRAINTS THAT BOTH THE CLOUD PROPERTIES AND THE STATE OF THE LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERE CAN BE DETERMINED. THEREFORE, THIS WORKS EXTRACTS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE EXISTING MISSION DATA SETS. OVERALL, THE GREATEST IMPACT OF THIS WORK WILL BE TO ESTABLISH WITHIN THE TITAN COMMUNITY, THE PARADIGM OF CLOUD-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION AND FEEDBACK THAT IS WELL ESTABLISHED IN THE EARTH CLIMATE SCIENCES. THE PROPOSED EFFORT FALLS UNDER SUB-GOAL3C OF NASA'S STRATEGIC PLAN (2006) TO "ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE OF LIFE, AND PREPARE FOR HUMAN EXPLORATION." UNDERSTANDING THE METHANE CYCLE OF TITAN CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR AREA OF INTEREST. TITAN'S CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE CASSINI MISSION OPERATIONS, WAS A MAJOR INVESTIGATION OBJECTIVE OF THE FIRST OUTER PLANETS FLAGSHIP STUDY (2006), AND WILL LIKELY BE A MAJOR ELEMENT IN THE FOLLOW ON STUDY. THE NASA COMMUNITY ALSO RECOGNIZES THE SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE OF TITAN, AS DISCUSSED IN THE OUTER PLANETS ASSESSMENT GROUP REPORT (OPAG,2006). THE OPAG REPORT ECHOES THE NRC DECADAL SURVEY, AND GOES FURTHER BY SPECIFICALLY CALLING OUT THE RELEVANCE OF UNDERSTANDING THE ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE OF TITAN. THE ANALOG BETWEEN TITANS METHANE CYCLE AND EARTH'S HYDROLOGIC CYCLE IS EXTREMELY COMPELLING, AND TITAN PROVIDES A NATURAL LABORATORY FOR EXPLORING THE VALIDITY OF TERRESTRIAL THEORY.

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• $98,541 - Monday the 30th of September 2013
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION
  TA FOR HYDROGEOLOGIST/HYDROLOGIST TO SUPPORT DECOMMISSIONING AND URANIUM RECOVERY ACTIVITIES -- MOD. 5: ADD INCREMENTAL FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $98,541.

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• $983,242 - Tuesday the 17th of April 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4GG HQ US ARMY TACOM
  SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. INVESTIGATION OF ARMOR SYSTEMS CONCEPTS

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• $9,829 - Friday the 11th of May 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4GG HQ US ARMY TACOM
  MODIFICATION P00001 TO THE SUBJECT CONTRACT ADDS $9,829 IN FUNDING TO PROVIDE A VISIT BY CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL TO THE DYNAMOMETER INSTALLATION SITE IN CHANGWON, SOUTH KOREA.

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• $98,158 - Thursday the 12th of June 2014
  Defense Logistics Agency
  DLA ENERGY
  FUNDING AUTHORIZATION FOR CLIN 1007.

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• $9,794 - Thursday the 12th of June 2014
  Defense Logistics Agency
  DLA ENERGY
  LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF DELEK FUEL FOULING OF TURBOMECA HELICOPTER ENGINES AT FT. POLK LA.

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• $975,980 - Thursday the 20th of September 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8540 AFLCMC WNKCB
  ENGINEERING SERVIES FOR ALQ-131

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• $970,000 - Tuesday the 12th of February 2013
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8124 AFLCMC LPSK
  NSPCT REQUIREMENTS

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• $963,750 - Monday the 1st of December 2014
  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  DEPT OF TRANS/NAT HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADM
  IGF::CL::IGF MOTORCOACH FIRE SAFETY RESEARCH CONDUCT RESEARCH TO DEVELOP PROCEDURES TO ASSESS TECHNOLOGIES THAT PREVENT OR DELAY FORE PRESENTATION INTO THE OCCUPANT COMPARTMENT, IN ORDER TO INCREASE PASSENGER EVACUATION TIME THROUGH THE FOLLOWING: DETECTTION/WARNING SUPPRESSION/EXTINGUISHMENT FLAMMABILITY/FIRE HARDENING OF EXTERIOR MATERIALS MAPS ID NVS-12315

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