The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $96,730 - Friday the 23rd of October 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE FINAL STAGES OF PLANETARY ACCRETION INVOLVED OCCASIONAL, MASSIVE IMPACTS WHICH HELPED SCULPT THE PRESENT-DAY PLANETS. FRAGMENTATION PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH IMPACTS ARE PROBABLY THE REASONS FOR MERCURY'S THIN SILICATE MANTLE AND THE EXISTENCE OF EARTH'S MOON. IT HAS ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE BULK COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH DIFFERS FROM ITS CHONDRITIC PRECURSORS BECAUSE OF PREFERENTIAL STRIPPING OF CRUSTAL MATERIAL DURING IMPACTS. HOWEVER, OWING TO COMPUTATIONAL LIMITATIONS, MOST MODELS OF LATE-STAGE ACCRETION HAVE BEEN FORCED TO NEGLECT FRAGMENTATION. WE PROPOSE TO USE N-BODY MODELS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF EROSION/FRAGMENTATION ON BOTH THE BULK CHEMISTRY AND THE ISOTOPIC EVOLUTION OF PLANETARY BODIES. OUR PROPOSED WORK IS RELEVANT TO TWO OF ORIGINS PROGRAM'S CATEGORIES: ``THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS" AND ``STUDIES OF CHEMICAL AND ATOMIC PROCESSES RELATED TO THE FORMATION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS". IT IS ALSO EXPLICITLY INTERDISCIPLINARY, IN THAT IT MAKES USE OF BOTH DYNAMICAL AND COSMOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS. FINALLY, IT SATISIFES THE GOAL OF ``ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM'' (NASA STRATEGIC PLAN).

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• $945,997 - Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT (UARC) THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE TO MANAGE, OPERATE, AND STAFF THE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CO-LOCATED AT AMES. THIS CONTRACT IS TO CONDUCT BASIC RESEARCH AND FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE LEADING TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $945,996.52

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• $888,187 - Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD INCREMENTAL FUNDING ONTO THE CONTRACT. UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT (UARC) THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE TO MANAGE, OPERATE, AND STAFF THE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CO-LOCATED AT AMES. THIS CONTRACT IS TO CONDUCT BASIC RESEARCH AND FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE LEADING TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

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• $765,334 - Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT (UARC) THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE TO MANAGE, OPERATE, AND STAFF THE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CO-LOCATED AT AMES. THIS CONTRACT IS TO CONDUCT BASIC RESEARCH AND FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE LEADING TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

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• $67,611 - Monday the 30th of November 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  UC SANTA CRUZ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JONATHAN FORTNEY WILL WORK IN COLLABORATION WITH NASA AMES' SCIENTIST MARK MARLEY ON MODELS TO UNDERSTAND THE ATMOSPHERES OF PLANETS AROUND OTHER STARS (EXOPLANETS). FORTNEY AND MARLEY CURRENTLY WORK IN CLOSE COLLABORATION, AND THE NASA GRANT AWARDED TO DR. MARLEY, AS PI, WILL FUND 1/2 OF A UCSC GRADUATE STUDENT WITH FORTNEY, FOR EACH OF THE THREE YEARS OF THE GRANT. THE STUDENT WILL ALSO INTERACT WITH AND LEARN FROM DR. MARLEY. THE RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON THE STRUCTURE, SPECTRA, AND CHEMISTRY OF EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES. THE PARTICULAR PLANETS TO BE STUDIED ARE YOUNG JUPITER-LIKE EXOPLANETS THAT CAN BE DIRECTLY IMAGED WITH LARGE TELESCOPES. COMPARISONS WITH OBSERVATIONAL DATA WILL BE MADE. PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE PAID TO HOW OBSERVATIONS IN THE NEAR FUTURE WILL ALLOW TO BE CHARACTERIZE, AND MORE ACCURATELY MODEL, THESE PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES.

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• $60,981 - Wednesday the 31st of August 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE TO CONDUCT FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS WITH VERITAS AT VERY HIGH ENERGY (VHE;>100 GEV) OF GRBS DETECTED BY FERMI, TO ANALYZE THE RESULTING DATA, AND TO ENGAGE IN OTHER ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT THE OBSERVATIONS. MANY AFTERGLOW EMISSION MODELS SHOW THE SEDS OF GRBS TO BE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF BLAZARS AND PREDICT AN INVERSE COMPTON COMPONENT WITH LUMINOSITY COMPARABLE TO THE SYNCHROTRON COMPONENT, EXTENDING TO VHE ENERGIES. YET THIS COMPONENT HAS ELUDED DEFINITIVE DETECTION. RESULTS FROM FERMI REINFORCE THE EVIDENCE FROM EGRET OF DELAYED HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM SOME BURSTS, MOTIVATING A SEARCH FOR SUCH EMISSION AT THE STILL HIGHER ENERGIES ACCESSIBLE TO VERITAS.

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• $60,953 - Wednesday the 31st of August 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE TO CONDUCT FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS WITH VERITAS AT VERY HIGH ENERGY (VHE;>100 GEV) OF GRBS DETECTED BY FERMI, TO ANALYZE THE RESULTING DATA, AND TO ENGAGE IN OTHER ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT THE OBSERVATIONS. MANY AFTERGLOW EMISSION MODELS SHOW THE SEDS OF GRBS TO BE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF BLAZARS AND PREDICT AN INVERSE COMPTON COMPONENT WITH LUMINOSITY COMPARABLE TO THE SYNCHROTRON COMPONENT, EXTENDING TO VHE ENERGIES. YET THIS COMPONENT HAS ELUDED DEFINITIVE DETECTION. RESULTS FROM FERMI REINFORCE THE EVIDENCE FROM EGRET OF DELAYED HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM SOME BURSTS, MOTIVATING A SEARCH FOR SUCH EMISSION AT THE STILL HIGHER ENERGIES ACCESSIBLE TO VERITAS.

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• $5,839,287 - Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD INCREMENTAL FUNDING ONTO THE CONTRACT. UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT (UARC) THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE TO MANAGE, OPERATE, AND STAFF THE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CO-LOCATED AT AMES. THIS CONTRACT IS TO CONDUCT BASIC RESEARCH AND FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE LEADING TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

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• $50,000 - Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE TO MANAGE, OPERATE, AND STAFF THE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CO-LOCATED AT AMES. THIS CONTRACT IS TO CONDUCT BASIC RESEARCH AND FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE LEADING TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

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• $4,020,031 - Wednesday the 2nd of September 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  THE PURPOSE OF THIS MODIFICATION IS TO ADD INCREMENTAL FUNDING ONTO THE CONTRACT. UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT (UARC) THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE THE INTELLECTUAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE NECESSARY AND APPROPRIATE TO MANAGE, OPERATE, AND STAFF THE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER (UARC) CO-LOCATED AT AMES. THIS CONTRACT IS TO CONDUCT BASIC RESEARCH AND FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE LEADING TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

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