The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $75,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL SUPPORTS GOES-R GLM NEEDS FOR PROXY DATA, VALIDATION DATASETS, AND OPERATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF TOTAL LIGHTNING DATA (IN THE GOES-R PROVING GROUND) THOROUGH SUSTAINING SUPPORT FOR THE WEST TEXAS LIGHTNING MAPPING ARRAY (WTLMA), OPERATED BY TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. THE WTLMA NETWORK IS BEING COMPLETED IN EARLY FY2012, WITH OPERATIONAL STATUS EXPECTED THIS FALL. DETECTION OF TOTAL LIGHTNING WILL COMPLEMENT THE OKLAHOMA LIGHTNING MAPPING ARRAY, CREATING A UNIQUE REGIONAL-SCALE DOMAIN WHERE TOTAL FLASH RATES CAN BE RETRIEVED FOR LARGER MESOSCALE STORM COMPLEXES AND OTHER SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAKS THAT ARE FREQUENT PRODUCERS OF DAMAGING WIND AND TORNADOES. THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THIS NETWORK WILL ALLOW FOR THE DETERMINATION OF INSTANTANEOUS LOCAL FLASH RATES AND A REGIONAL TOTAL LIGHTNING CLIMATOLOGY THAT WILL SERVE AS VALIDATION DATASETS FOR THE GOES-R GLM. THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS FUNDS FOR NETWORK FOR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, INCLUDING SALARY SUPPORT FOR PI AND TECHNICIAN FIELD VISITS TO NETWORK SITES. DATA WILL BE PROCESSED AND DELIVERED IN REAL TIME TO THE LOCAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE AND NATIONAL CENTERS SUCH AS NSSL, SPC AND NOAA S HAZARDOUS WEATHER TESTBED IN NORMAN, OK. RELATIONSHIPS HAVE ALSO BEEN ESTABLISHED WITH FORECASTERS AND THE SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS OFFICER AT THE LUBBOCK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE, WHO WILL RECEIVE THE DATA IN REAL-TIME FOR NOWCAST AND WARNING OPERATIONS. TTU IS DEVELOPING NEW LIGHTNING TRAINING MATERIALS USING WTLMA DATA THAT WILL BE USED TO TRAIN NWS LUBBOCK FORECASTERS VIA A COMET PROJECT THAT RUNS THROUGH NEXT SUMMER. WTLMA DATA WILL BE SHARED AND A CLOSE COLLABORATION WILL BE MAINTAINED WITH THE NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (MSFC) AND ITS NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER (NSSTC) PARTNERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF GOES-R PROXY DATA UNDER THE GOES-R ALGORITHM WORKING GROUP, RISK REDUCTION, PROVING GROUND, AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES. THE PI WILL MAKE AVAILABLE THESE DATASETS TO OTHER GOES-R PROJECTS, INCLUDING MULTI-SENSOR BLENDED ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS AND THE NATIONAL LIGHTING JUMP FIELD TRIAL REQUESTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE LIGHTNING DATA COMPLEMENT THE HIGH-RESOLUTION SURFACE PRECIPITATION AND THERMODYNAMIC DATA AVAILABLE FROM THE WEST TEXAS MESONET.

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• $7,500 - Wednesday the 27th of June 2012
  National Park Service
  NER REGIONAL CONTRACTING
  COTTON LOOM BEAMS

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• $74,000 - Friday the 27th of July 2012
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NLM, OD OA OA OFC ACQUISITIONS
  LHC/PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR DR. HAMED SARI-SARRAF, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY, PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE 9/1/2010-8/31/2011.

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• $389,785 - Saturday the 1st of February 2014
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8903 772 ESS PK
  FOCUSED REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION OF ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PERFUORINATED COMPOUNDS AND ASSOCIATED HUMAN EXPOSURES FROM FISH CONSUMPTION--LUBBOCK,TX

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• $35,291 - Wednesday the 6th of June 2012
  Department Of Army
  W7N2 USPFO ACTIVITY TX ARNG
  LODGING AND MEALS

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• $24,999 - Thursday the 6th of August 2015
  Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
  CDC - PITTSBURG
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - COMPUTER BASED PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR RESPIRATOR FIT AND CONFORT.

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• $101,494 - Thursday the 14th of May 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYHAS OVER 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE DESIGNING, BUILDING AND TESTING BIOLOGICAL PROCESSORS FOR TREATMENT OF SPACE BASED WASTE STREAMS. THIS WORK CULMINATED IN THE DESIGN AND TESTING OF A TRL 5 SINGLE STAGE SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION REACTOR, COMANDR (CODIFFUSION MEMBRANE AERATED NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION REACTOR). CURRENTLY, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF REBUILDING THE SECOND GENERATION OF COMANDR TO INCORPORATE MODIFICATIONS IDENTIFIED IN THE PHASE I TESTING. OUR OVERALL OBJECTIVE IS TO EVALUATE THE 2ND GENERATION COMANDR REACTOR FOR THE FULL RANGE OF POSSIBLE LOADINGS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR HUMAN EXPLORATION AND FOR THE POTENTIAL OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS THAT MAY BE REQUIRED. SPECIFICALLY WE PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES: 1) EVALUATION OF COMANDR UNDER MICRO-GRAVITY COMPATIBLE OPERATING CONDITIONS; 2) DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF INTERMITTENT O2 FLOW TO REDUCE O2 INPUT TO THE CABIN; 3) DETERMINE IF COMANDR CAN BE OPERATED IN AN ON-PRODUCTION FEED MODE (I.E. NO FEED TANK); 4) DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF WASTE COMPOSITION AND LOADING ON COMANDR DESIGN; AND 5) DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF INTERMITTENT LOADING. THE COMPLETION OF THESE OBJECTIVES WILL GREATLY ADVANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING OF SPACE ORIENTED WASTEWATER PROCESSING, WHICH MAY GREATLY INCREASE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FUTURE MANNED SPACE EXPLORATION AND HABITATION.

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