The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $88,074 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  National Institute Of Standards And Technology
  DEPT OF COMM/NAT INST STAND AND TECHNOL
  IGF::OT::IGF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SERVICES OTHER FUNCTIONS

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• $852,903 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES TOPIC 2.3 "MODELING OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES AND ENGINES" OF THE A-2 SUBSONIC FIXED WING (SFW) PROJECT IN NASA ROA 2010 WITH A FOCUS ON POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS LISTED THEREIN SUCH AS "ADAPTIVE MATERIALS FOR ACTUATION DEVICES FOR RESHAPING WING FLAPS, TURBINE NOZZLES, AND FAN OR COMPRESSOR BLADES, ETC." SPECIFICALLY, THE PROPOSED WORK IS FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONALLY-EFFICIENT FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING THE EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS (SMAS) UNDER THERMO-MECHANICAL LOADS. TO THIS END, WE MAKE USE OF A NOVEL, MULTI-MECHANISM BASED, APPROACH FOR SMA MODELING, TOGETHER WITH EXTENSIVE SETS OF TEST RESULTS, INCLUDING IN SITU NEUTRON DIFFRACTION EXPERIMENTS AT STRESS AND TEMPERATURE, FOR MODEL VALIDATION AND CALIBRATION. IN PARTICULAR, THERE ARE SEVERAL UNIQUE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE PROPOSED WORK: (I) ON THE MODELING SIDE, WITHIN THE SAME FRAMEWORK, THE COMPREHENSIVE MODELING CAPABILITIES OF ORDINARY (MECHANICAL AND THERMAL RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS) AS WELL AS HIGH TEMPERATURE SMAS (WITH THEIR SIGNIFICANT DEGREE OF LOADING RATES/TIME DEPENDENCY) UNDER GENERAL MULTI-AXIAL CONDITIONS ARE COMBINED; (II) ON THE EXPERIMENTAL SIDE, THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE FOLLOWING CRITICAL ISSUES IN SMA MODELING: (A) LINKAGE OF EXPERIMENTALLY OBSERVED MICROMECHANICAL CHANGES TO SUCH THEORETICAL NOTIONS AS INTERNAL STATE VARIABLES AND THEIR EVOLUTION; (B) IDENTIFYING CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS FOR CALIBRATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENERAL, MULTI-AXIAL, SMA MODELS; AND (C) DEVELOPING MEANS TO TRACE AND VISUALIZE THE TRANSFORMATION-INDUCED LIMIT/ATTRACTION SURFACES IN THE SUBSPACES OF CONJUGATE STRESSES AND STRAINS; (III) ON THE COMPUTATIONAL SIDE, DEVELOPMENT OF A SET OF ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR STRESS INTEGRATION, AND UPDATING OF CYCLICALLY EVOLVING INTERNAL STATE VARIABLES, NEEDED FOR LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS, ARE PROPOSED; (IV) ON THE FABRICATION AND APPLICATION SIDE, THE WORK AIMS TO THEORETICALLY IDENTIFY AND SUBSEQUENTLY VALIDATE EXPERIMENTALLY: (A) EFFICIENT ROUTES FOR CYCLIC TRAINING OF THE SMA MATERIAL SYSTEMS; AND (B) THE GREATER POTENTIAL AFFORDED BY USING SMAS UNDER MULTI-AXIAL CONDITIONS IN ACTUATION DEVICES. FINALLY, IN ADDITION TO MEETING THE BROAD NASA GOALS UNDER THE SFW PROJECT FOR LOWER NOISE, LOWER EMISSIONS, AND HIGHER PERFORMANCE FOR SUBSONIC AIRCRAFT, THIS WORK IS IMMEDIATELY EXPECTED TO IMPACT TWO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - THE FIRST, NEWLY IMPLEMENTED CHEVRONS ON THE ENGINES OF BOEING 787 AND 747-8 (THE NEXT GENERATION 747) AIRCRAFT THAT REDUCE NOISE DURING TAKE-OFF AND LANDING. ACTIVE SMAS WERE USED DURING THE TESTING AND DESIGN PHASE OF THIS IMPLEMENTATION AND WORK IS ONGOING TO EXTEND THESE PASSIVE CHEVRONS TO ACTIVE VARIABLE GEOMETRY CHEVRONS THAT CAN OFFER ADDITIONAL REDUCTIONS IN NOISE AND INCREASE EFFICIENCY BY INCORPORATING ACTIVE SMA BEAMS. THE SECOND APPLICATION IS SMA-BASED TORQUE TUBES IN ADAPTIVE WING TRAILING EDGES. THE IMPLEMENTATION BY BOEING IS PART OF THE FAA S CONTINUOUS LOWER ENERGY, EMISSIONS AND NOISE (CLEEN) TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. CURRENT PLANS CALL FOR FLIGHT TESTING ON A BOEING 737 IN 2012 AND A TWIN-AISLE AIRPLANE IN 2013. WHILE ALL ASPECTS OF THIS PROPOSAL WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT THE ADVANCEMENT OF THESE AFOREMENTIONED AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGIES, TWO ASPECTS ARE PARTICULARLY UNIQUE - ONE, THE EMPHASIS ON MULTI-AXIAL LOADING AND TWO, THE EMPHASIS ON CAPTURING THE EVOLUTIONARY BEHAVIOR OF SMAS AND OFFERING EFFICIENT ROUTES FOR TRAINING AND STABILIZATION OF THE ALLOYS.

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• $60,000 - Tuesday the 31st of January 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
  THIN FILM AEROGELS

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• $522,360 - Thursday the 19th of April 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
  MODIFICATION PUT FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $522,360.00

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• $50,000 - Tuesday the 3rd of July 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9453 DET 8 AFRL PKV8
  INCREMENTAL FUNDING

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• $49,999 - Tuesday the 15th of November 2011
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
  PURCHASE ORDER FOR THE PURCHASE OF GIGA-CYCLE TESTING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

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• $400,000 - Thursday the 2nd of February 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
  INCREMENTAL FUNDING THE FINAL YEAR OF THE CONTRACT BY $400,000.00.

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• $40,000 - Monday the 23rd of July 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
  FILM COMPOSITE AEROGELS

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• $30,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS RESEARCH SUPPORTS TWO GOALS OF EARTH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM - "ENHANCE APPLICATION RESEARCH" OF APPLIED SCIENCES PROGRAM AND "ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES" WITH FOCUS ON EARTH OBSERVING INSTRUMENTATION AND MISSION COMPONENTS. NASA'S SPACE MISSIONS ARE IN QUEST FOR LIGHT WEIGHT, HEAT STABLE POLYMERIC MATERIALS TO SERVE AS ANTENNA TO FACILITATE SAFE ENTRY OF SPACE SHUTTLES INTO EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AFTER EARTH OBSERVING MISSIONS. SUCH POLYMERIC MATERIALS MUST MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF LOW DENSITY, EASY STORAGE DURING THE FLIGHT, FACILE, QUICK DEPLOYMENT BY SHAPE MEMORY FUNCTIONS DURING RETURN TO EARTH S ATMOSPHERE, AND STABILITY AGAINST FRICTIONAL HEAT GENERATION. THIS RESEARCH MEETS THESE REQUIREMENTS BY COMBINING THE SHAPE MEMORY FUNCTIONS OF POLYURETHANE LINKS WITH THE THERMAL STABILITY OF LOW DENSITY, THERMALLY INSULATING, AND LOAD BEARING POLYIMIDE AEROGELS. THESE AEROGELS ARE EXPECTED TO OFFER DENSITY AS LOW AS 0.003 G/CM3 AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF THE ORDER OF 0.005 W/MK. THE SHAPE MEMORY FUNCTIONS OF THESE AEROGEL MATERIALS WILL ALLOW COMPRESSION OF ANTENNA INTO SMALL VOLUMES FOR EASY STORAGE AND HANDLING DURING FLIGHT AND SHAPE RECOVERY AND DEPLOYMENT OF THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURES AT THE TIME OF ENTRY INTO ATMOSPHERE. A DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS PROCEDURE WILL BE USED TO PRODUCE SHAPE MEMORY POLYIMIDE AEROGELS. THE POLYIMIDE/POLYURETHANE COMPOSITIONS WILL BE OPTIMIZED AGAINST SEVERAL OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE AEROGELS, SUCH AS THE SPEED OF SHAPE RECOVERY, THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, DENSITY, THERMAL STABILITY, AND TENSILE AND FLEXURAL STRENGTHS. THE WORK WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH POLYMERS BRANCH OF NASA GLENN.

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• $180,000 - Wednesday the 14th of December 2011
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER
  INCREMENTAL FUNDING THE FINAL YEAR OF THE CONTRACT BY $180,000.00.

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