The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $98,184 - Thursday the 8th of January 2015
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  IGF::CT::IGF PULMONARY SLEEP STUDY CONSULTING SERVICES.

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• $9,583 - Monday the 6th of February 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SERVICES

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• $94,788 - Wednesday the 4th of November 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE STATED PURPOSE OF THE CRYOSAT MISSION IS TO DETERMINE THE MASS CHANGES OF THE EARTH'S CRYOSPHERE, IN PARTICULAR THE MAJOR ICE SHEETS AND ARCTIC SEA ICE. THE PRIMARY INSTRUMENT ABOARD CRYOSAT-2 IS SIRAL, THE SYNTHETIC APERTURE INTERFEROMETRIC RADAR ALTIMETER. AS ITS NAME SUGGESTS, SIRAL USES SYNTHETIC APERTURE AND INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE SPATIAL RESOLUTION. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO PERFORM GROUND-BASED VALIDATION FOR TWO UNIQUE DATA PRODUCTS THAT CAN SIGNIFICANTLY EXPAND CRYOSAT-2'S CAPABILITY: 1) THE ABILITY TO DETECT SUBSURFACE LAYERS THAT SERVE AS ISCOHRONOUS TIME HORIZONS, ALLOWING DETERMINATION OF ACCUULATION PATTERNS, AND 2) THE ABILITY, IN AREAS OF RELATIVELY STEEP SLOPE (FOR AN ICE SHEET) TO DETERMINE MULTIPLE ACROSS-TRACK ELEVATION POINTS FROM EACH RADAR WAVEFORM. EACH OF THESE TWO DATA PRODUCTS REQUIRES VALIDATION IN ORDER TO MAKE FULL USE OF THE INFORMATION OBTAINED. EACH MUST BE VALIDATED IN DIFFERENT PLACES. INTERNAL LAYERING IS BEST STUDIED IN THE DRY INTERIOR OF THE ICE SHEETS, AND ACROSS-TRACK ELEVATION RETREIVALS NEED TO BE VALIDATED IN AREAS OF HIGH SLOPE, SUCH AS THE ICE SHEET MARGINS. ACCORDINGLY, THIS PROJECT PLANS A TARGET FIELD CAMPAIGN IN TWO AREAS OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET, TO MEASURE THE SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES UNDER THE CRYOSAT-2 INSTRUMENT. TO INVESTIGATE INTERNAL LAYERING, WE WILL WORK OUTSIDE SUMMIT CAMP, IN CENTRAL GREENLAND. TO VALIDATE ACROSS-TRACK RETRIEVALS, WE WILL WORK AT A SLOPING (-5 DEGREES) AREA NEAR ILLULISAT, ON THE WEST COAST OF GREENLAND, TO FACILITATE AIR TRANSPORT.

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• $85,414 - Thursday the 29th of March 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  QUALITY SCHOLARS

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• $62,113 - Friday the 10th of June 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE CENTRAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO VALIDATE ICE-SHEET SURFACE ELEVATION RETRIEVALS FROM THE ESA MISSION CRYOSAT-2. CRYOSAT-2 WILL FLY A NEW TYPE OF RADAR ALTIMETER, WHICH USES SYNTHETIC APERTURE PROCESSING IN THE ALONG-TRACK DIRECTION AND INTERFEROMETRIC PROCESSING IN THE ACROSS-TRACK DIRECTION IN ORDER TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL IMITATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL RADAR ALTIMETERS. NO SINGLE PROJECT CAN COMPLETELY VALIDATE THE RETRIEVALS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE ICE SHEET; RATHER, THIS INDIVIDUAL PROJECT WILL BE A KEY COMPONENT IN THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO ENSURE THAT THE ELEVATIONS RETRIEVED BY CRYOSAT-2 REFLECT THE PHYSICAL REALITY AT THE SURFACE. THIS PROJECT TAKES ON 2 KEY ISSUES INVOLVING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE RADAR ALTIMETER OVER ICE SHEETS: I) INCREASING THE DENSITY OF ELEVATION POINTS RETRIEVED IN THE STEEP, RAPIDLY CHANGING MARGINS OF THE ICE SHEETS, AND 2) UNDERSTANDING HOW DENSITY, GRAIN SIZE, AND SNOW MORPHOLOGY CONTROL PENETRATION OF THE RADAR SIGNAL INTO NEAR-SURFACE SNOW AND FIRM AND GENERATE SUBSURFACE ECHOES IN THE DRY INTERIOR OF THE LARGE ICE SHEETS. THIS PROJECT WILL UNDERTAKE TO ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT AND VERIFICATION OF A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR PROCESSING INTERFEROMETRIC RADAR ALTIMETER DATA, AND A DATA-DRIVEN CAMPAIGN TO: I) DETERMINE AND VERIFY ICE-SHEET ELEVATIONS AT THE MARGINS AND INTERIOR OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET, 2) IDENTIFY AND INTERPRET "SWATH-LIKE" ALTIMETER RETURNS IN SIRAL LEVEL DATA, AND 3) IDENTIFY AND INTERPRET SUBSURFACE ECHOES IN SIRAL DATA. BOTH PHENOMENA HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN PRELIMINARY AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC RADAR ALTIMETER DATA. THIS PROJECT IS SIGNIFICANT TO THE EARTH SCIENCE COMMUNITY, THE EARTH OBSERVING COMMUNITY, AND THE POPULATION AT LARGE. IN PARTICULAR THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES NASA'S STRATEGIC GOALS I) "HOW IS THE GLOBAL EARTH SYSTEM CHANGING" THROUGH ENABLING MONITORING OF THE ICE SHEETS, 3) "HOW DOES THE EARTH SYSTEM RESPOND TO NATURAL AND HUMAN-INDUCED CHANGES?" BECAUSE THE ICE SHEETS ARE RESPONDING TO BOTH NATURAL FORCINGS AND ALSO ANTHROPOGENIC ONES, AND 4) "WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR HUMAN CIVILIZATION?" BY PROVIDING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GEOMETRY OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET, WHICH WILL LEAD TO BETTER PREDICTIONS OF THE IMPACT GREENLAND MELTING WILL HAVE FOR HUMAN CIVILIZATION. THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO HELP ANSWER NASA KEY SCIENCE QUESTIONS- TO: 4) "QUANTIFY THE KEY RESERVOIRS AND FLUXES IN THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE AND IMPROVE MODELS OF WATER CYCLE CHANGE AND FRESH WATER AVAILABILITY: AND 5) "UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF OCEANS, ATMOSPHERE, AND ICE IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM AND IMPROVE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY FOR ITS FUTURE EVOLUTION".

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• $5,720 - Tuesday the 27th of December 2011
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  CLINCAL PHARMACOLOGY TEACHING SERVICES PROVIDED BY DR. LIONEL LEWIS 1 HOUR PER WEEK.

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• $50,700 - Wednesday the 27th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVY MEDICINE PROFESSIONAL
  TUITION AND FEES

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• $5,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION: INSTITUTIONAL BIOSAFETY COMMITTEE AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE BY THE WRJVAMC

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• $499,540 - Tuesday the 19th of June 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  QUALITY SCHOLARS

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• $493,822 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Health Resources And Services Administration
  OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
  IGF::CL::IGF CLOSELY ASSOCIATED PRIMARY CARE SERVICE AREA SYSTEM UPDATES ENHANCEMENTS DATA BASE MAINTENANCE AND ANALYTIC STUDIES CAN 3764202

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