The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $91,751 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE WORK TO BE CONDUCTED IS A CONTINUATION OF EFFORTS FOR FAHNESTOCK AS A MEMBER OF THE ICEBRIDGE SCIENCE TEAM, IN SUPPORT OF DEVELOPING AND TRACKING MISSION REQUIREMENTS AND PARTICIPATING IN AND SUPPORTING SCIENCE FLIGHT PLANNING. THE WORK DESCRIBED BELOW IS AS IN THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL, AMENDED HERE ONLY TO REFLECT THE OPERATION AS IT HAS EVOLVED OVER THE FIRST YEAR. THE GOALS, PRODUCTS, AND LEVEL OF EFFORT REMAIN AS STATED IN THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL. IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE THE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE GAINED TO DATE, WORK ON THE WEBBASED TOOLS WILL BE SUBCONTRACTED FROM UAF BACK TO UNH, WITH MILLIMAN IN HIS ORIGINAL ROLE (DETAILS BELOW) AND STEVE FROLKING SUPPORTED FOR OVERSIGHT AT UNH AS THE PI ON THE SUBCONTRACT. THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS MARK FAHNESTOCK S PARTICIPATION ON THE ICEBRIDGE SCIENCE TEAM, WHERE HE IS INVOLVED IN PLANNING MEETINGS AND TELECONS THAT SET THE FLIGHT PLANS FOR ICEBRIDGE AIRCRAFT IN THE ANNUAL CAMPAIGNS IN GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA. IT ALSO SUPPORTS A DATA TECHNICIAN THAT WORKS WITH FAHNESTOCK IN MAINTAINING AND UPDATING A WEB-BASED PLANNING DATA REPOSITORY THAT IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE MAPS OF PAST AND PLANNED FLIGHT TRACKS, SUCCESSFUL MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS, AND ANCILLARY DATA USEFUL TO THE PLANNING WORK OF THE TEAM, SUCH AS SURFACE VELOCITY FIELDS. THIS WORK IS AN ONGOING EFFORT THAT INCLUDES UPDATING THE PLANNING TOOL WITH SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS FROM EACH SEASON. AFTER TRANSFER OF THE AWARD TO UAF, FAHNESTOCK WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH TOM MILLIMAN ON THIS PLANNING TOOL, WITH A SUBCONTRACT BACK TO UNH TO SUPPORT MILLIMAN S EFFORT. SKYPE VIDEO AND TELEPHONE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AS NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH THE WORK ON THE PLANNING TOOL. DATASETS THAT WILL BE UPDATED IN THE PLANNING TOOL BEFORE EACH GREENLAND OR ANTARCTIC PLANNING MEETING WILL INCLUDE THE LOCATIONS OF LASER SHOTS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR S CAMPAIGN, AS ARCHIVED AT NSIDC; LOCATIONS OF SUCCESSFUL SOUNDING OF THE ICE, AS ARCHIVED AT NSIDC; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORIES; AND ADDITIONAL DATA LAYERS THAT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR PLANNING. SUPPORT INCLUDES TRAVEL FOR FAHNESTOCK TO ATTEND PLANNING MEETINGS, AND TRAVEL FOR FAHNESTOCK AND MILLIMAN TO MEET FOR PLANNING TOOL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS IF NEEDED.

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• $8,550 - Wednesday the 14th of December 2011
  Geological Survey
  ALASKA SCIENCE CENTER
  NON PERSONAL SERVICES FOR ZOOPLANKTON SAMPLE ANALYSIS

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• $80,783 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  RETREATING MOUNTAIN GLACIERS AND ICE CAPS (MG&IC) CONTRIBUTED ABOUT 0.5 MM YR-1 TO SEA-LEVEL RISE (SLR) OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS, AND ABOUT A FIFTH OF THIS CONTRIBUTION IS ESTIMATED TO ORIGINATE FROM GLACIERS IN ALASKA. HENCE, GLACIERS IN ALASKA CONSTITUTE ONE OF THE LARGEST SINGLE CRYOSPHERIC CONTRIBUTORS TO GLOBAL SLR OF GLACIERS OUTSIDE THE GREENLAND AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS, AND CURRENTLY SHOW SOME OF THE HIGHEST GLACIER WASTAGE RATES ON EARTH. A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF THESE GLACIERS HAVE MARINE-TERMINATING CALVING FRONTS, THROUGH WHICH ICE IS DIRECTLY DISCHARGED TO THE OCEANS BY ICEBERG CALVING. HOWEVER LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF ICE DISCHARGE VERSUS SURFACE MELTING IN THE MASS BUDGET OF MG&IC. IN FACT, THE FRACTION OF MG&IC AREA DRAINED THROUGH MARINE-TERMINATING GLACIER FRONTS IS UNMEASURED AND REMAINS AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. THESE QUANTITIES MUST BE KNOWN IF WE ARE TO IMPROVE BOTH PRESENT-DAY ESTIMATES AND FUTURE FORECASTS OF MG&IC MASS LOSS INCLUDING ICEBERG CALVING. WE AIM AT IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALASKAN GLACIERS' CONTRIBUTION TO SLR BY SEPARATING THE CLIMATIC AND DYNAMIC COMPONENTS OF THE CURRENT MASS BUDGET. CORE ELEMENT OF OUR ANALYSIS IS THE GENERATION OF 2-D GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY FIELDS IN ORDER TO ESTIMATE REGIONAL-SCALE CALVING FLUXES. SPECIFICALLY, WE WILL (1) EXPAND AND REFINE EXISTING GLACIER INVENTORY DATA BASED ON MULTI-SPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY FOCUSING ON PARAMETERS RELEVANT TO ESTIMATING CALVING LOSSES, (2) DERIVE SURFACE VELOCITY FIELDS FROM REPEAT SAR ACQUISITIONS AND (3) USE THESE DATA IN CONJUNCTION WITH DERIVED ICE THICKNESSES AT FLUX GATES CLOSE TO TIDEWATER GLACIER TERMINI TO COMPUTE CALVING FLUXES, (4) PERFORM LARGE-SCALE SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED MASS BALANCE MODELING TO DETERMINE THE CLIMATIC COMPONENT OF THE MASS BALANCE, (5) COMBINE THE LATTER AND THE DYNAMIC COMPONENT TO ARRIVE AT THE TOTAL MASS BALANCE, AND (6) USE UPDATED GLACIER MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES FROM THE ICESAT GLAS, ICEBRIDGE MISSIONS AND AIRBORNE LASER ALTIMETRY AS WELL AS THE SPATIALLY INTEGRATED MASS CHANGES FROM GRACE MASCON DATA SETS TO CALIBRATE AND VALIDATE OUR METHODOLOGY. OUR PROJECT WILL MAKE INTENSIVE USE OF VARIOUS NASA SATELLITE MISSION DATA AND DATA FROM COOPERATIVE DATA PROVIDERS. IN PARTICULAR WE WILL RELY ON THE REPEAT COVERAGE WITH ALOS PALSAR FINE BEAM MODE IMAGERY AND FOR SELECTED AREAS WE WILL INCORPORATE TERRASAR-X, ENVISAT AND ERS SAR DATA AS ADDITIONAL SOURCES. LANDSAT AND ASTER WILL PROVIDE OPTICAL IMAGERY FOR DISTINCT ANALYSIS STEPS AS THE ASTER GDEM AND THE SPOT SPIRIT DEM WILL DO. THIS WORK WILL PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED SPATIAL COVERAGE OF SURFACE VELOCITY FIELDS OF MOUNTAIN GLACIER SYSTEMS, AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME, QUANTIFY REGIONAL-SCALE ICE DISCHARGE OF MG&IC INTO THE OCEAN, BASED ON STATE-OF-THE-ART REMOTE SENSING AND MODELING TOOLS. RESULTS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO REDUCING UNCERTAINTIES IN THE SLR CONTRIBUTION OF MG&IC, PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK FOR SIMILAR STUDIES OUTSIDE ALASKA, AND GENERATE A UNIQUE DATASET FOR ANY ATTEMPTS TO DEVELOP REGIONAL-SCALE CALVING MODELS. RESULTS WILL ALSO AID SELECTING APPROPRIATE GLACIER SYSTEM FOR FUTURE SPACEBORNE MONITORING ACTIVITIES. THIS WORK IS RESPONSIVE TO THE NASA CRYOSPHERIC SCIENCE PROGRAM A.6: IT IS A STUDY THAT COVERS BROAD GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS, AND IS OF CONSEQUENCE TO UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMATIC IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, OR ELUCIDATING FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT CONTROL GLACIER DYNAMICS AND INVOLVES USE OF REMOTE SENSING DATA TO DEVELOP, VALIDATE, AND IMPROVE PREDICTIVE MODELS OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF LAND-BASED ICE TO SEA LEVEL CHANGE. THE PROPOSED WORK IS A COLLABORATIVE ENDEAVOR BETWEEN M. BRAUN (PI), R. HOCK (CO-I) AND A. ARENDT (CO-I) ALL FROM THE GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA, AND COLLABORATORS R. FOSTER (UNIV. UTAH), W.T. PFEFFER (UNIV. COLORADO), R. WHEATE (UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BC, PRINCE GEORGE), E. BERTHIER (CNRS, UNIV. TOULOUSE), D. FARINOTTI (ETH Z RICH).

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• $79,618 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE WORK TO BE CONDUCTED IS A CONTINUATION OF EFFORTS FOR FAHNESTOCK AS A MEMBER OF THE ICEBRIDGE SCIENCE TEAM, IN SUPPORT OF DEVELOPING AND TRACKING MISSION REQUIREMENTS AND PARTICIPATING IN AND SUPPORTING SCIENCE FLIGHT PLANNING. THE WORK DESCRIBED BELOW IS AS IN THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL, AMENDED HERE ONLY TO REFLECT THE OPERATION AS IT HAS EVOLVED OVER THE FIRST YEAR. THE GOALS, PRODUCTS, AND LEVEL OF EFFORT REMAIN AS STATED IN THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL. IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE THE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE GAINED TO DATE, WORK ON THE WEBBASED TOOLS WILL BE SUBCONTRACTED FROM UAF BACK TO UNH, WITH MILLIMAN IN HIS ORIGINAL ROLE (DETAILS BELOW) AND STEVE FROLKING SUPPORTED FOR OVERSIGHT AT UNH AS THE PI ON THE SUBCONTRACT. THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS MARK FAHNESTOCK S PARTICIPATION ON THE ICEBRIDGE SCIENCE TEAM, WHERE HE IS INVOLVED IN PLANNING MEETINGS AND TELECONS THAT SET THE FLIGHT PLANS FOR ICEBRIDGE AIRCRAFT IN THE ANNUAL CAMPAIGNS IN GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA. IT ALSO SUPPORTS A DATA TECHNICIAN THAT WORKS WITH FAHNESTOCK IN MAINTAINING AND UPDATING A WEB-BASED PLANNING DATA REPOSITORY THAT IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE MAPS OF PAST AND PLANNED FLIGHT TRACKS, SUCCESSFUL MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS, AND ANCILLARY DATA USEFUL TO THE PLANNING WORK OF THE TEAM, SUCH AS SURFACE VELOCITY FIELDS. THIS WORK IS AN ONGOING EFFORT THAT INCLUDES UPDATING THE PLANNING TOOL WITH SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS FROM EACH SEASON. AFTER TRANSFER OF THE AWARD TO UAF, FAHNESTOCK WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH TOM MILLIMAN ON THIS PLANNING TOOL, WITH A SUBCONTRACT BACK TO UNH TO SUPPORT MILLIMAN S EFFORT. SKYPE VIDEO AND TELEPHONE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AS NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH THE WORK ON THE PLANNING TOOL. DATASETS THAT WILL BE UPDATED IN THE PLANNING TOOL BEFORE EACH GREENLAND OR ANTARCTIC PLANNING MEETING WILL INCLUDE THE LOCATIONS OF LASER SHOTS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR S CAMPAIGN, AS ARCHIVED AT NSIDC; LOCATIONS OF SUCCESSFUL SOUNDING OF THE ICE, AS ARCHIVED AT NSIDC; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORIES; AND ADDITIONAL DATA LAYERS THAT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR PLANNING. SUPPORT INCLUDES TRAVEL FOR FAHNESTOCK TO ATTEND PLANNING MEETINGS, AND TRAVEL FOR FAHNESTOCK AND MILLIMAN TO MEET FOR PLANNING TOOL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS IF NEEDED.

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• $75,002 - Thursday the 20th of September 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  WESTERN FIELD DELEGATES NMFS
  HYDRO POWER STUDY

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• $6,000 - Wednesday the 29th of August 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  WESTERN FIELD DELEGATES NMFS
  WHALE SAMPLES

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• $500,000 - Thursday the 5th of January 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  THE CONTRACTOR WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT IN THE FOLLOWING GENERAL AREAS: FACILITY OPERATION&MAINTENANCE; MISSION LAUNCH AND PRELAUNCH SUPPORT; AND FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS. THE NASA CONTRACTING OFFICER WILL ASSIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCH SUPPORT ON AN INDIVIDUAL TASK ORDER BASIS. AREAS OF SUPPORT INCLUDE OPERATIONS&MAINTENANCE, SOUNDING ROCKET MISSION LAUNCH SUPPORT, AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENT.

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• $500,000 - Wednesday the 16th of July 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  THE CONTRACTOR WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT IN THE FOLLOWING GENERAL AREAS: FACILITY OPERATION&MAINTENANCE; MISSION LAUNCH AND PRELAUNCH SUPPORT; AND FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS. THE NASA CONTRACTING OFFICER WILL ASSIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCH SUPPORT ON AN INDIVIDUAL TASK ORDER BASIS. AREAS OF SUPPORT INCLUDE OPERATIONS&MAINTENANCE, SOUNDING ROCKET MISSION LAUNCH SUPPORT, AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENT.

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• $5,000 - Tuesday the 11th of September 2012
  US Fish And Wildlife Service
  CONTRACTING AND GENERAL SERVICES DIV
  AM ST MATTHEW ARTHROPODS 2012

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• $40,000 - Thursday the 20th of September 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  NOT IN USE
  VERTICAL ANALYTICAL MODELING

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