The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $749,983 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - THE MULTI-SPECIMEN VARIABLE-G FACILITY (MVF) IS A SINGLE LOCKER SIZED CENTRIFUGE FACILITY FOR LIFE AND MICROGRAVITY SCIENCES RESEARCH ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. THE MVF IS A REAR BREATHER EXPRESS RACK PAYLOAD THAT LEVERAGES MANY OF THE EXISTING SUBSYSTEMS OF FLIGHT PROVEN (STS-108) AVIAN DEVELOPMENT FACILITY (ADF) THEREBY REDUCING COSTS AND TIME TO FLIGHT FOR NEW SCIENTIFIC CAPABILITY. TWO CENTRIFUGE ROTOR PLATFORMS ARE CAPABLE OF APPLYING 0 2 G'S TO THE MODULAR SPECIMEN CONTAINERS WHICH CAN BE MODIFIED TO ACCOMMODATE A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIMENT SAMPLES. CURVED CELL CULTURE SPECIMEN CONTAINERS ARE DESIGNED TO MAINTAIN A CONSTANT RADIUS (WITHIN ? 1 MM) WITHOUT INERTIAL-GRADIENT SHEARING OR SIGNIFICANT CORIOLIS ACCELERATION. EACH ROTOR CAN ACCOMMODATE 10 GENERIC MODULAR EXPERIMENT SPECIMEN HOLDERS WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED IN REAL-TIME ON-ORBIT ANY TIME DURING AN EXPERIMENT. THE CENTRIFUGE PLATFORMS INCLUDE AN ACTIVE BALANCING SYSTEM TO ENSURE BALANCED ROTATION WHEN THE EXPERIMENT SAMPLE MODULES CONTAIN SLIGHTLY VARIABLE MASS. THE MVF WILL CONTROL G-LEVELS, TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY, ETHYLENE, CO2 AND OTHER GASES, AND PROVIDES VIDEO OBSERVATION CAPABILITY WITH ITS REMOVABLE MODULAR SUBSYSTEM ALLOWING ON-ORBIT CLEANING AND/OR REPLACEMENT. THE POTENTIAL USES OF THE MVF ARE NUMEROUS, SUCH AS CELL CULTURE, AQUATICS, PLANTS, ALGAE, AND INVERTEBRATE ORGANISMS. THE MODULAR MULTI-SPECIMEN HOLDER CAN BE UTILIZED AS A PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELL CULTURE VESSEL. IT CAN BE USED TO CONTAIN AQUATIC ORGANISMS SUCH AS ZEBRA FISH, MEDAKA, TADPOLES, AND EVEN DEVELOPING AMPHIBIAN EGGS. SEEDLINGS, SMALL ADULT PLANTS (ARABADOPSIS), AND EVEN FERN SPORES COULD BE LOCATED WITHIN THE SPECIMEN HOLDER. OTHER POSSIBILITIES INCLUDE ALGAE (CHARA) AND FUNGI (S. CEREVISIAE). DURING THE PHASE II PROJECT, TECHSHOT WILL COMPLETE THE MVF DESIGN, FABRICATE A FLIGHT-LIKE PROTOTYPE, AND TEST THE HARDWARE BY PERFORMING SELECTED BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS TO DEMONSTRATE ITS SCIENTIFIC UTILITY.

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• $749,979 - Tuesday the 29th of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - WITH RETIREMENT OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM, MICROGRAVITY RESEARCHERS CAN NO LONGER COUNT ON BRINGING EXPERIMENT SAMPLES BACK TO EARTH FOR POST-FLIGHT ANALYSIS. LOCKER-SIZED PROCESSING FACILITIES, WHICH WERE TYPICALLY TRANSPORTED UP TO AND DOWN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION DURING THE SHUTTLE ERA, QUITE SIMPLY CONSUME TOO MUCH VOLUME, MASS, AND POWER TO BE ACCOMMODATED AS PART OF BOTH THE UPMASS AND DOWNMASS ON CURRENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES. AS A RESULT, MORE ANALYSIS MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED ON ISS, WHICH MAKES ON-ORBIT ANALYTICAL TOOLS CRITICAL TO THE CONTINUED SUCCESS OF MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH. THE ANALYTICAL CASSETTE TRANSFER TOOL (ACT) IS A LOW-COST, DISPOSABLE DEVICE THAT EFFICIENTLY TRANSFERS EXPERIMENT SAMPLES IN A SAFE AND CONTAINED MANNER FROM UNIQUE EXPERIMENT SPECIFIC SPACEFLIGHT HARDWARE TO ON-ORBIT ANALYTICAL TOOLS THAT ENABLE REAL-TIME ANALYSIS IN MICROGRAVITY. ACT INTERFACES WITH SEVERAL FLIGHT QUALIFIED PROCESSING PAYLOADS TO EXTRACT EXPERIMENT SAMPLES VIA A NEEDLE-LESS SEPTUM AND THEN ALLOWS TRANSFER OF THOSE SAMPLES INTO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ON-ORBIT ANALYTICAL DEVICES, INCLUDING SUCH INSTRUMENTATION AS THE LIGHT MICROSCOPY MODULE, THE MICROFLUIDIC FLOW CYTOMETER, A SPECTROPHOTOMETER, AND/OR A MASS SPECTROMETER. APPLICATIONS IN LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDE SAMPLING LIQUID CULTURES/SUSPENSIONS OR SAMPLING SPACECRAFT WATER FOR QUALITY EVALUATION. ACT FUNCTIONS WITHIN OR OUTSIDE OF ON-ORBIT GLOVEBOXES TO SAFELY TRANSFER ANY LIQUID MATERIAL FROM ONE CONTAINER FITTED WITH THE ACT MATING RECEPTACLE TO ANOTHER CONTAINER FITTED WITH A RECEPTACLE. ITS SAFE, SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE, AND WITH ITS ECONOMICAL ADVANTAGE, ACT IS DESTINED TO BECOME THE NEW STANDARD FLUID TRANSFER DEVICE FOR THE ISS AND FUTURE SPACE RESEARCH VENUES. FOR THE PHASE II PROJECT, TECHSHOT WILL DEVELOP A FLIGHT VERSION OF THE ACT AND SUBJECT IT TO THE MAJOR SPACEFLIGHT INTEGRATION TESTS.

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• $50,000 - Monday the 17th of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH IS THE COMPLETION OF AN OBSERVATION PLATFORM FOR THE ISS LIGHT MICROSCOPY MODULE (LMM) AS IT CURRENTLY RESIDES ON THE U.S. FLUIDS INTEGRATION RACK (FIR). IN ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION THE LMM ACCOMMODATES A CONTAINED BUBBLE EXPERIMENT, AND IT HAS NO SUBSTAGE ILLUMINATOR AND LIMITED EPI-ILLUMINATION. THERE IS A NEED FOR FUTURE USE OF THE LMM IN MORE VERSATILE FLUIDS AND BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS. A MODULAR OBSERVATION PLATFORM CONSISTING OF AN ELECTRONICS MODULE AND THE FIRST TWO OF AN EVENTUAL SUITE OF EXPERIMENT MODULES IS PROPOSED. A LIFE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULE THAT ALLOWS INVESTIGATORS TO LOAD UP TO TWO DIFFERENT FLUIDS AND COMBINE THEM IN A HOLLOW GLASS SLIDE UNDER THE LMM OBJECTIVE LENSES HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND BUILT. IT IS SUITABLE FOR THE IMAGING, ENUMERATION AND EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS IN SUSPENSION OR ATTACHED TO THE GLASS SURFACE OF THE HOLLOW SLIDE FOR ON-ORBIT, REAL-TIME IMAGE CYTOMETRY. FLUIDS CAN BE CHANGED TO INITIATE A PROCESS, FIX BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES OR RETRIEVE SUSPENDED CELLS. THE COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULE WILL BE DESIGNED FOR CONDUCT OF CERTAIN MICROPARTICLE AND NANOPARTICLE EXPERIMENTS FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE COLLOID SELF-ASSEMBLY (CSA) PHENOMENON, AMONG OTHERS. THE COLLOID SCIENCE MODULE IS BEING DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO THE HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN SUCH A FACILITY. IT INCLUDES A HOLLOW GLASS SLIDE AND HEATING ELEMENTS FOR THE CREATION OF A THERMAL GRADIENT FROM ONE END OF THE SLIDE TO THE OTHER. THE LIFE SCIENCE AND COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULES MOUNT ATOP THE ELECTRONICS MODULE IN THE POSITION ON THE LMM WHERE THE STAGE WOULD BE. THE ELECTRONICS MODULE THAT CONTAINS A DIFFUSE ILLUMINATOR, POWER SUPPLIES FOR TWO PIEZO PUMPS, CONTROLLER BOARDS FOR PUMPS, VALVES AND ILLUMINATOR THE ELECTRONICS MODULE IS DESIGNED TO RECEIVE POWER AND CONTROL SIGNALS FROM THE FIR/LMM SYSTEM. THE SAME ELECTRONICS MODULE WILL SUPPORT THE LIFE SCIENCE AND COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULES.

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• $49,995 - Wednesday the 28th of November 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACT
  SBIR PHASE I A102-117-0032

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• $476,024 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  ARMSTRONG FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS. PROPOSAL TITLE: DYNAMIC MICROSCOPE SYSTEM FOR SUBORBITAL EXPERIMENTS. PROPOSAL NO. 12-12GCTA_PRO_0062. THE KEY CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT DYNAMIC MICROSCOPY SYSTEM FOR SUBORBITAL EXPERIMENTS ARE TO PROVIDE A MICROSCOPE AND A MICROSCOPE STAGE THAT FUNCTIONS AS AN AUTOMATED MINIATURE LABORATORY AND TO MEET EXPERIMENTERS REQUIREMENTS ON THE FORTHCOMING GENERATION OF SUBORBITAL SPACECRAFT BEING DEVELOPED BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR. THE SPACECRAFT CURRENTLY BEING BUILT ACCOMMODATE A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, PROVIDE LIMITED SPACE FOR SAFETY-QUALIFIED RESEARCH EQUIPMENT, AND THEY OFFER THREE TO SEVEN MINUTES OF LOW-GRAVITY EXPOSURE DURING WHICH CHANGES OCCUR AT THE MICROSCOPIC LEVEL. TECHSHOT, INC. WILL USE ITS CORPORATE HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF SIMILAR HARDWARE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND WILL INCORPORATE A ROBUST DIGITAL MICROSCOPE TO PRODUCE A VERSATILE MINI-MICROSCOPY LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF FLUID PHENOMENA, COLLOID SCIENCE, MOTILE CELLS SUCH AS ALGAE AND PROTOZOA, MODEL ORGANISMS SUCH AS NEMATODES, AND PLANT SCIENCE. AT THE CORE OF THE SYSTEM IS A HOLLOW SLIDE WHOSE DIMENSIONS CAN BE TAILORED TO EACH EXPERIMENT AND WITHIN WHICH FLUIDS CAN BE EXCHANGED AT ANY TIME BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER FLIGHT. THE CONVENIENT DIMENSIONS OF THE PACKAGE WILL FACILITATE LATE LOADING ONTO THE SPACECRAFT JUST BEFORE FLIGHT AND EARLY RECOVERY AFTER FLIGHT. THE PERCEIVED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPOSED INSTRUMENTATION WILL BE ITS READY AVAILABILITY FOR SCIENCE PROJECTS SUCH AS THESE AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE POSSIBILITY OF MULTIPLE REPETITIONS OF MICROSCOPE OBSERVATIONS IN LOW GRAVITY A LONG-STANDING WISH OF NASA SCIENTISTS AND THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

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• $405,900 - Wednesday the 28th of November 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4PZ USA MED RSCH ACQUIS ACT
  SBIR PHASE II

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• $29,975 - Wednesday the 16th of November 2011
  Department Of Navy
  COMMANDER
  INITIAL PROGRESS

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• $2,501 - Saturday the 19th of March 2016
  Department Of Navy
  NSWC DAHLGREN
  SEAPORT ENHANCED

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• $200,000 - Monday the 17th of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH IS THE COMPLETION OF AN OBSERVATION PLATFORM FOR THE ISS LIGHT MICROSCOPY MODULE (LMM) AS IT CURRENTLY RESIDES ON THE U.S. FLUIDS INTEGRATION RACK (FIR). IN ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION THE LMM ACCOMMODATES A CONTAINED BUBBLE EXPERIMENT, AND IT HAS NO SUBSTAGE ILLUMINATOR AND LIMITED EPI-ILLUMINATION. THERE IS A NEED FOR FUTURE USE OF THE LMM IN MORE VERSATILE FLUIDS AND BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS. A MODULAR OBSERVATION PLATFORM CONSISTING OF AN ELECTRONICS MODULE AND THE FIRST TWO OF AN EVENTUAL SUITE OF EXPERIMENT MODULES IS PROPOSED. A LIFE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULE THAT ALLOWS INVESTIGATORS TO LOAD UP TO TWO DIFFERENT FLUIDS AND COMBINE THEM IN A HOLLOW GLASS SLIDE UNDER THE LMM OBJECTIVE LENSES HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND BUILT. IT IS SUITABLE FOR THE IMAGING, ENUMERATION AND EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS IN SUSPENSION OR ATTACHED TO THE GLASS SURFACE OF THE HOLLOW SLIDE FOR ON-ORBIT, REAL-TIME IMAGE CYTOMETRY. FLUIDS CAN BE CHANGED TO INITIATE A PROCESS, FIX BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES OR RETRIEVE SUSPENDED CELLS. THE COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULE WILL BE DESIGNED FOR CONDUCT OF CERTAIN MICROPARTICLE AND NANOPARTICLE EXPERIMENTS FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE COLLOID SELF-ASSEMBLY (CSA) PHENOMENON, AMONG OTHERS. THE COLLOID SCIENCE MODULE IS BEING DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO THE HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN SUCH A FACILITY. IT INCLUDES A HOLLOW GLASS SLIDE AND HEATING ELEMENTS FOR THE CREATION OF A THERMAL GRADIENT FROM ONE END OF THE SLIDE TO THE OTHER. THE LIFE SCIENCE AND COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULES MOUNT ATOP THE ELECTRONICS MODULE IN THE POSITION ON THE LMM WHERE THE STAGE WOULD BE. THE ELECTRONICS MODULE THAT CONTAINS A DIFFUSE ILLUMINATOR, POWER SUPPLIES FOR TWO PIEZO PUMPS, CONTROLLER BOARDS FOR PUMPS, VALVES AND ILLUMINATOR THE ELECTRONICS MODULE IS DESIGNED TO RECEIVE POWER AND CONTROL SIGNALS FROM THE FIR/LMM SYSTEM. THE SAME ELECTRONICS MODULE WILL SUPPORT THE LIFE SCIENCE AND COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULES.

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• $199,966 - Monday the 17th of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH IS THE COMPLETION OF AN OBSERVATION PLATFORM FOR THE ISS LIGHT MICROSCOPY MODULE (LMM) AS IT CURRENTLY RESIDES ON THE U.S. FLUIDS INTEGRATION RACK (FIR). IN ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION THE LMM ACCOMMODATES A CONTAINED BUBBLE EXPERIMENT, AND IT HAS NO SUBSTAGE ILLUMINATOR AND LIMITED EPI-ILLUMINATION. THERE IS A NEED FOR FUTURE USE OF THE LMM IN MORE VERSATILE FLUIDS AND BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS. A MODULAR OBSERVATION PLATFORM CONSISTING OF AN ELECTRONICS MODULE AND THE FIRST TWO OF AN EVENTUAL SUITE OF EXPERIMENT MODULES IS PROPOSED. A LIFE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULE THAT ALLOWS INVESTIGATORS TO LOAD UP TO TWO DIFFERENT FLUIDS AND COMBINE THEM IN A HOLLOW GLASS SLIDE UNDER THE LMM OBJECTIVE LENSES HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND BUILT. IT IS SUITABLE FOR THE IMAGING, ENUMERATION AND EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL CELLS IN SUSPENSION OR ATTACHED TO THE GLASS SURFACE OF THE HOLLOW SLIDE FOR ON-ORBIT, REAL-TIME IMAGE CYTOMETRY. FLUIDS CAN BE CHANGED TO INITIATE A PROCESS, FIX BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES OR RETRIEVE SUSPENDED CELLS. THE COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULE WILL BE DESIGNED FOR CONDUCT OF CERTAIN MICROPARTICLE AND NANOPARTICLE EXPERIMENTS FOR INVESTIGATION OF THE COLLOID SELF-ASSEMBLY (CSA) PHENOMENON, AMONG OTHERS. THE COLLOID SCIENCE MODULE IS BEING DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO THE HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN SUCH A FACILITY. IT INCLUDES A HOLLOW GLASS SLIDE AND HEATING ELEMENTS FOR THE CREATION OF A THERMAL GRADIENT FROM ONE END OF THE SLIDE TO THE OTHER. THE LIFE SCIENCE AND COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULES MOUNT ATOP THE ELECTRONICS MODULE IN THE POSITION ON THE LMM WHERE THE STAGE WOULD BE. THE ELECTRONICS MODULE THAT CONTAINS A DIFFUSE ILLUMINATOR, POWER SUPPLIES FOR TWO PIEZO PUMPS, CONTROLLER BOARDS FOR PUMPS, VALVES AND ILLUMINATOR THE ELECTRONICS MODULE IS DESIGNED TO RECEIVE POWER AND CONTROL SIGNALS FROM THE FIR/LMM SYSTEM. THE SAME ELECTRONICS MODULE WILL SUPPORT THE LIFE SCIENCE AND COLLOID SCIENCE EXPERIMENT MODULES.

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