The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $9,963 - Thursday the 21st of May 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IF WE BELIEVE THAT ACTIVE REGIONS ON THE SOLAR SURFACE ORIGINATE FROM A STRONG, PREDOMINANTLY TOROIDAL MAGNETIC MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATED AT THE BASE OF THE SOLAR CONVECTION ZONE, THEN WE NEED TO EXPLAIN HOW THE MAGNETIC FLUX TUBES RISE THROUGH THE SOLAR CONVECTION ZONE TO THE SURFACE. IN THIS PROJECT, WE PROPOSE TO USE BOTH A THIN FLUX TUBE MODEL AS WELL AS DIRECT 3D ANELASTIC MHD SIMULATIONS IN ROTATING SPHERICAL SHELL GEOMETRIES TO STUDY HOW ACTIVE REGION SCALE FLUX TUBES RISE BUOYANTLY FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE CONVECTION ZONE TO THE SURFACE, IN THE PRESENCE OF TURBULENT CONVECTIVE FLOWS. RECENT SOLAR CYCLE DYNAMO MODELS WHICH TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF THE LORENTZ FORCE FROM THE LARGE-SCALE MEAN FIELDS HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THE TOROIDAL MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATED AT THE BASE OF THE SOLAR CONVECTION ZONE IS ON THE ORDER OF 10 KG, AND MOST LIKELY CANNOT EXCEED 30 KG. AT SUCH FIELD STRENGTHS, IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT STRONG DOWN-DRAFTS FROM TURBULENT CONVECTION CAN OVERCOME THE MAGNETIC BUOYANCY OF THE FLUX TUBES AND PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN DETERMINING THE STRUCTURE AND CONDITIONS OF THE EMERGING OMEGA-SHAPED TUBES. WE WILL CARRY OUT SIMULATIONS IN REALISTIC ROTATING SPHERICAL GEOMETRY AND WITH THE PRESENCE OF TURBULENT CONVECTIVE FLOWS, TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER BUOYANT FLUX TUBES OF SUCH FIELD STRENGTHS CAN RISE THROUGH THE SOLAR CONVECTION ZONE AS EMERGING OMEGA-SHAPED TUBES WITH PROPERTIES THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBSERVED PROPERTIES OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS: E.G. THE LATITUDES OF SUNSPOT ZONES, THE JOY'S LAW OF ACTIVE REGION TILTS, AND THE VARIOUS OBSERVED ASYMMETRIES BETWEEN THE LEADING AND THE FOLLOWING POLARITIES. THE RESULTS OF THIS INVESTIGATION WILL PUT IMPORTANT INSIGHT INTO THE SOLAR CYCLE DYNAMO AND THE FORMATION OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS.

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• $989,309 - Monday the 7th of July 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF POLLUTION IN TROPOSHERE (MOPITT) TEAM LEADER.

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• $97,669 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) IS A MULTI-YEAR MISSION SPECIFICALLY TARGETED TO INVESTIGATE THE PROCESSES THAT UNDERLIE HURRICANE FORMATION AND INTENSITY CHANGE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BASIN. HS3 IS MOTIVATED BY HYPOTHESES RELATED TO THE RELATIVE ROLES OF THE LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENT AND STORM-SCALE INTERNAL PROCESSES. HS3 ADDRESSES THE CONTROVERSIAL ROLE OF THE SAHARAN AIR LAYER (SAL) IN TROPICAL STORM FORMATION AND INTENSIFICATION AS WELL AS THE ROLE OF DEEP CONVECTION IN THE INNER-CORE REGION OF STORMS. ADDRESSING THESE SCIENCE QUESTIONS REQUIRES SUSTAINED MEASUREMENTS OVER SEVERAL YEARS DUE TO THE LIMITED SAMPLING OPPORTUNITIES IN ANY GIVEN HURRICANE SEASON. THE NASA GLOBAL HAWK (GH) UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) WILL BE THE PLATFORMS USED FOR INVESTIGATIONS OF HURRICANES, CAPABLE OF FLIGHT ALTITUDES GREATER THAN 55,000 FT AND FLIGHT DURATIONS OF UP TO 30 HOURS. HS3 WILL UTILIZE TWO GLOBAL HAWKS, ONE WITH AN INSTRUMENT SUITE GEARED TOWARD MEASUREMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THE OTHER WITH INSTRUMENTS SUITED TO INNER-CORE STRUCTURE AND PROCESSES. THE GH ENVIRONMENTAL PAYLOAD INSTRUMENTATION WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTS: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCANNING HIGH-RESOLUTION INTERFEROMETER SOUNDER (HIS), NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (NCAR) AUTOMATED DROPSONDE SYSTEM, THE NASA TWILITE DOPPLER WIND LIDAR, AND THE NASA CLOUD PHYSICS LIDAR (CPL). THE AIRCRAFT WILL BE DEPLOYED FROM GODDARD S WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY (WFF) ALLOWING ACCESS TO UNRESTRICTED AIR SPACE, COVERAGE OF THE ENTIRE ATLANTIC OCEAN BASIN, AND ON-STATION TIMES UP TO 10-24 H DEPENDING ON STORM LOCATION. DEPLOYMENTS WILL BE FROM MID-AUGUST TO MID-SEPTEMBER 2012-2014. NCAR STAFF WILL BE PART OF THE HS3 TEAMS WORKING WITH MULTIPLE PARTNERS FROM NASA CENTERS, NOAA, DOD, AND MULTIPLE UNIVERSITIES. NCAR STAFF WILL PROVIDE DROPSONDE DATA TO COMPLEMENT THE COMPLETE SUITE OF INSTRUMENTS FOR TESTING OF NEW PARADIGMS AND MODELS THAT WILL ENHANCE BOTH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HURRICANE INTENSIFICATION AND OUR MODELING AND PREDICTION CAPABILITIES.THE HS3 ENVIRONMENTAL PAYLOAD WILL DELIVER A COMPREHENSIVE DATA SET PROVIDING INFORMATION ON THE DETAILED STRUCTURE OF THE SAL, THE AEW TROUGH INCLUDING ITS PROTECTIVE WAVE POUCH (DUNKERTON ET AL. 2009), AND THE UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW. SCANNING HIS WILL PROVIDE HIGH-RESOLUTION TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY PROFILES THAT WILL BE VALIDATED WITH INFORMATION FROM THE DROPSONDES. THE DROPSONDES AND THE TWILITE WIND LIDAR WILL PROVIDE KEY INFORMATION ON THE WINDS IN THE STORM ENVIRONMENT, PARTICULARLY ON THE UPPERTROPOSPHERIC FLOW. THE CPL INSTRUMENT WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF AEROSOLS IN THE SAL. THESE MEASUREMENTS PROVIDE THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO MAP OUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE SAL AND THEREBY ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON HURRICANE INTENSITY CHANGE.

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• $940,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ONE OF THE MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING THE LIVING WITH A STAR PROGRAM (LWS) IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH COMMUNITY THAT CROSSES TRADITIONAL DISCIPLINE BOUNDARIES TO ATTACK SYSTEM-WIDE PROBLEMS CENTRAL TO UNDERSTANDING AND MODELING THE SUN-SOLAR SYSTEM CONNECTION. THE VISITING SCIENTIST PROGRAMS OFFICE (VSP) OF THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH (UCAR) HAS PARTNERED WITH THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP A FOCUSED HELIOPHYSICS SUMMER SCHOOL (HELD YEARLY SINCE 2007) AND A SUCCESSFUL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (SINCE 2009) TO ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE. THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO ESTABLISH A MULTI-YEAR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH NASA FOR THE CONTINUATION OF VSP S SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS TO FACILITATE THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF A NEW GENERATION OF HELIOPHYSICISTS AND SUPPORT INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE HELIOPHYSICS COMMUNITY. VSP S MISSION: TO HELP PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTIFIC LEADERS AND WORKFORCE BY SUPPORTING EFFECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE FELLOWSHIP, VISITOR, AND WORKSHOP PROGRAMS THAT MEET EMERGING TRAINING AND RESEARCH NEEDS. IN SUPPORT OF THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS DIVISION S LONG-TERM GOAL OF DEVELOPING THE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING NEEDED FOR THE UNITED STATES TO EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THOSE ASPECTS OF THE CONNECTED SUN-EARTH SYSTEM THAT MAY AFFECT LIFE AND SOCIETY, THE VISITING SCIENTIST PROGRAMS OFFICE HELPS EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENTISTS DEVELOP A NEW RESEARCH COMMUNITY AND BUILD PRODUCTIVE, COLLABORATIVE, WORKING RELATIONSHIPS. TO REACH THIS GOAL, VSP: -ORGANIZES, HOSTS, AND ADMINISTERS THE ANNUAL HELIOPHYSICS SUMMER SCHOOLS TO FOSTER LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF HELIOPHYSICS AS A BROAD, COHERENT DISCIPLINE. THIS INCLUDES SUPPORT IN DEVELOPING ADDITIONAL TEACHING TOOLS THAT MAY INCLUDE TEXTBOOKS, PROBLEMS SETS, LABS, AND DISTANCE LEARNING MODULES. -ESTABLISHED AND ADMINISTERS THE JACK EDDY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, WHICH MATCHES EARLY CAREER PHDS WITH HOSTING MENTORS IN ORDER TO BUILD A NEW GENERATION OF HELIOPHYSICSTS. -HOSTS AND ADMINISTERS THE ANNUAL SPACE WEATHER ENTERPRISE FORUM AND SPACE WEATHER WORKSHOP TO ADVANCE COLLABORATION BETWEEN INDUSTRY, ACADEMIA, AND GOVERNMENT, RAISING AWARENESS AND IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE WEATHER. -PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AND ADMINISTER THE JACK EDDY SUMMER INSTITUTE AS PART OF THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. WHEN THE PROGRAM HAS DEVELOPED A CRITICAL MASS OF PROGRAM GRADUATES, A BIENNIAL WORKSHOP WILL PROVIDE ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALUMNI TO BUILD THEIR COMMUNITY. THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS WILL SPEND SEVERAL DAYS SHARING AND DISCUSSING THE IMPLICATIONS OF THEIR SCIENCE ON GLOBAL POLICY AND SOCIETAL IMPACTS. EXPERIENCED HOST SCIENTISTS WILL ALSO BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE.

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• $80,000 - Thursday the 12th of June 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  MOPPITT SIPS - THIS PROCURMENT IS FOR UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RES.(UCAR) TO ENSURE THE PROCESSING

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• $80,000 - Thursday the 12th of June 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  MOPPITT SIPS - THIS PROCURMENT IS FOR UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RES.(UCAR) TO ENSURE THE PROCESSING

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• $79,786 - Friday the 5th of September 2014
  Federal Highway Administration
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS MANAGEMENT
  INCREASE TASK ORDER VALUE FOR ADDED WORK WITHIN SCOPE AND OBLIGATE FUNDING.

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• $74,730 - Monday the 21st of November 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  DESPITE ITS LOW CONCENTRATION, STRATOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR HAS LARGE IMPACTS ON THE EARTH'S ENERGY BUDGET AND CLIMATE. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT EVEN SMALL CHANGES IN STRATOSPHERIC HUMIDITY MAY HAVE CLIMATE IMPACTS THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT COMPARED TO THOSE OF DECADAL INCREASES IN GREENHOUSE GASES. WHILE THE TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR CLIMATE FEEDBACK IS WELL REPRESENTED IN GLOBAL MODELS, PREDICTIONS OF FUTURE CHANGES IN STRATOSPHERIC HUMIDITY ARE HIGHLY UNCERTAIN BECAUSE OF GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES OCCURRING IN THE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER (TTL, ~13-18 KM), THE REGION OF THE ATMOSPHERE THAT CONTROLS THE COMPOSITION OF THE STRATOSPHERE. UNCERTAINTIES IN THE TTL CHEMICAL COMPOSITION ALSO LIMIT OUR ABILITY TO PREDICT FUTURE CHANGES IN STRATOSPHERIC OZONE. POORLY UNDERSTOOD PROCESSES AFFECTING TTL COMPOSITION AND STRATOSPHERIC HUMIDITY INCLUDE DEEP CONVECTION, THIN CIRRUS (WHICH HAVE IMPORTANT RADIATIVE EFFECTS AND LIMIT THE HUMIDITY OF AIR ENTERING THE STRATOSPHERE), LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORT, ATMOSPHERIC WAVES, AND THE CHEMISTRY OF SHORT-LIVED TRACE GASES. WE PROPOSE A SERIES OF MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGNS USING THE THE LONG-RANGE NASA GLOBAL HAWK (GH) UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (UAS) TO DIRECTLY ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM. SCIENCE QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: 1. WHAT PROCESSES CONTROL THE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE TEMPERATURE AND THE HUMIDITY OF AIR ENTERING THE STRATOSPHERE (INCLUDING THEIR SEASONAL CYCLES)? 2. WHAT ARE THE DOMINANT PATHWAYS FOR VERTICAL TRANSPORT FROM CONVECTIVE DETRAINMENT ALTITUDES IN THE TTL UP TO THE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE IN DIFFERENT SEASONS? 3. WHAT ARE THE FORMATION PROCESSES, MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, AND CLIMATE IMPACT OF TTL CIRRUS, AND HOW DO THESE CLOUDS REGULATE THE HUMIDITY OF AIR ENTERING THE STRATOSPHERE? 4. WHAT ARE THE CHEMICAL AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES THAT DRIVE THE BUDGETS OF PRECURSERS OF OZONE-DESTROYING SUBSTANCES SUCH AS SHORT-LIVED HALOGEN COMPOUNDS? 5. HOW WILL TTL CIRRUS, STRATOSPHERIC HUMIDITY, AND STRATOSPHERIC OZONE RESPOND TO A CHANGING CLIMATE, AND WHAT ARE THE RESULTING FEEDBACK EFFECTS? THE PROPOSED INVESTIGATION (AIRBORNE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE EXPERIMENT, ATTREX) ADDRESSES THESE SCIENCE QUESTIONS WITH FOUR AIRBORNE CAMPAIGNS USING THE GH UAS. THE GH, WITH A 30-HR DURATION, A 65,000 FT CEILING, AND A 1000 LB PAYLOAD CAPACITY, IS UNIQUELY SUITED FOR TTL SCIENCE OBJECTIVES. THE PROPOSED INSTRU-MENTS (TABLE 1) WILL PROVIDE MEASUREMENTS OF TTL TRACERS WITH A BROAD RANGE OF LIFETIMES, CLOUD MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, DYNAMIC AND THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES, RADIATIVE FLUXES, WATER VAPOR, AND BROMINE CONTAINING GASES. EACH OF THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENTS USES STATE-OF-THE-ART, DEMONSTRATED TECHNIQUES. BY PROVIDING MEASUREMENTS AT HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION OVER LARGE GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS, ATTREX WILL FILLS THE GAP BETWEEN COARSE-RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA AND SINGLE, LIMITED-DOMAIN CONVENTIONAL HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT CAMPAIGNS. ATTREX WILL CONSIST OF FOUR CAMPAIGNS BASED IN NASA DRYDEN, GUAM, HAWAII, AND DARWIN TAKING PLACE IN BOREAL SUMMER, WINTER, FALL, AND SUMMER, RESPECTIVELY (TABLE 2). SYNTHESIS OF THE AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS WITH SATELLITE DATA AND MODELING STUDIES IS ESSENTIAL TO ADDRESS THE SCIENCE QUESTIONS. THE THEORY TEAM IS EXPERIENCED IN BOTH AIRCRAFT AND SATELLITE DATA ANALYSIS AS WELL AS IN MODELING OF CLOUD, TRANSPORT, AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES. THE INVESTIGATION WILL RESULT IN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF TTL PROCESSES IN THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE, IMPROVED REPRESENTATIONS OF THESE PROCESSES IN CLIMATE MODELS, AND MORE ACCURATE PREDICTIONS OF FEEDBACK EFFECTS CAUSED BY CHANGES IN TTL CLOUDS AND COMPOSITION IN A CHANGING CLIMATE. WE HAVE ASSEMBLED A HIGHLY QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED TEAM TO SUCCESSFULLY CARRY OUT THIS MISSION. THE MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE INCLUDES THE PI (XXX), A PROJECT MANAGER (XXX) AND THE EARTH SCIENCE PROJECT OFFICE), AND THE GLOBAL HAWK PROJECT OFFICE.

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• $63,000 - Wednesday the 16th of November 2011
  Department Of Navy
  OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)

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• $59,980 - Monday the 9th of April 2012
  Department Of Army
  W2R2 COLD RGNS RSCH ENG LAB
  U437G00 -- BAA #11-0034 "WEATHER RESEARCH FORECAST"

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