The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $999,948 - Tuesday the 25th of September 2012
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NIAID DEA OA OFC ACQUISITIONS
  TAS::75 0885::TAS

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• $689,431 - Saturday the 1st of February 2014
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8903 772 ESS PK
  BAA - IN-SITU ENZYMATIC OXIDATIVE TREATMENT FOR PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS

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• $57,879 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  COMBINING SATELLITE DATA AND MODELS TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF URBANIZATION ON THE CONTINENTAL US SURFACE CLIMATE. URBANIZATION REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT OF LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE THAT HAS IMPORTANT YET UNDOCUMENTED IMPACTS ON THE LOCAL, REGIONAL AND CONTINENTAL CLIMATE OF THE US. WE PROPOSE TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF THIS LAND TRANSFORMATION ON PAST, CURRENT AND NEAR-FUTURE CLIMATE AND THE POTENTIAL FEEDBACKS FROM THESE CHANGES ON THE ATMOSPHERIC, HYDROLOGIC, BIOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOECONOMIC PROPERTIES BEYOND THE IMMEDIATE METROPOLITAN REGIONS OF CITIES AND THEIR NEAR SUBURBS. THE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE OF THE STUDY WILL BE CONTINENTAL IN SCALE YET IT WILL INVOLVE A RANGE OF EARTH SYSTEM PROCESSES TO MAKE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DIFFERENT URBAN AREAS AND ALLOWS FOR AN OBJECTIVE INTERCOMPARISON BETWEEN THEM. SPECIFICALLY, WE PROPOSE TO USE A FULL RANGE OF AVAILABLE SATELLITE DATA (TABLE 1) ALONG WITH GROUND OBSERVATIONS TO DEVELOP TWO OBSERVATION-BASED MAPS AND TWO SCENARIOBASED MAPS CHARACTERIZING DISTANT-PAST, RECENT-PAST, PRESENT AND NEAR-FUTURE LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE MAPS INCLUDING URBAN AREAS, AND SIMULATE THEIR IMPACTS ON THE CONTINENTAL US CLIMATE USING A NASA MODELING TEST-BED THAT INCLUDES A SUITE OF BIOPHYSICAL LAND SURFACE MODELS (LSMS) AND PROVIDES A MEANS TO EXECUTE THEM WITHIN A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITY. WE WILL ANALYZE THE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON SURFACE CLIMATE AT SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALES RANGING FROM LOCAL TO CONTINENTAL AND FROM DIURNAL TO ANNUAL FOR THE FOUR TIME-PERIODS AND EXPLORE THE RATE OF CHANGE OF URBANIZATION AS A FUNCTION OF POPULATION GROWTH IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE US AND HOW THESE CHANGES ARE AFFECTING LOCAL AND REGIONAL BIOLOGY, HYDROLOGY AND ENERGY. WE WILL ALSO USE THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODELING SYSTEM TO EXPLORE THE NATURE AND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE TWO-WAY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN URBAN LANDS AND THE ATMOSPHERE AND ASSESS THE OVERALL REGIONAL DYNAMIC EFFECT OF URBAN EXPANSION ON THE NORTHEASTERN US WEATHER AND CLIMATE. THESE REGIONAL SIMULATIONS WILL PROVIDE FIDELITY TO OUR LAND SURFACE SIMULATIONS AND ALLOW US TO LEVERAGE AN EMERGING AIRCRAFT, LIDAR-BASED DATASET OF URBAN MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FROM THE NATIONAL URBAN DATABASE (NUD). THESE REGIONAL SCALE SIMULATIONS WILL BE PERFORMED USING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SCENARIOS AND WILL SPAN THE NORTHEASTERN `URBAN CORRIDOR PROVIDING DETAILED IMPACTS OF URBAN LANDS ON PRECIPITATION EVENTS AND MAGNITUDES, CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE IN LARGE METROPOLITAN REGIONS SUCH AS WASHINGTON-DC, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND BOSTON, AND WILL EXPLORE THE EMERGING EFFECT OF URBAN ARCHIPELAGOS OR `URBAN-CHAIN ON REGIONAL MESOSCALE CLIMATE. A KEY NOVELTY OF THIS RESEARCH WILL BE EXPLORING THE AGGREGATE EFFECTS OF THE NORTHEASTERN URBAN ARCHIPELAGO ON REGIONAL CLIMATE. GROUNDBREAKING STUDIES IN JAPAN HAVE SHOWN THAT ARCHIPELAGOS OF CITIES CAN HAVE AN AMPLIFIED AFFECT ON CLIMATE (OHASHI AND KIDA 2002). HOWEVER, NO ROBUST STUDY HAS BEEN CONDUCTED ON THE URBAN ARCHIPELAGO EFFECT (UAE) ON ANY OTHER CLIMATE REGIME AND THE US MID-ATLANTIC `URBAN CORRIDOR IS IDEAL FOR SUCH A STUDY. ASPECTS OF THESE CHANGES WILL BE ANALYZED IN A SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT AND INTEGRATED POLICY RELEVANT INDICATORS WILL BE DEVELOPED. FOR EXAMPLE, THE IMPACT OF URBAN LAND REPLACING AGRICULTURE WILL BE QUANTIFIED IN TERMS OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION LOSSES, GAIN IN SURFACE FRESHWATER AVAILABILITY AND IMPACT ON AQUIFERS RECHARGE, INCREASE IN SURFACE WARMING AND THEIR IMPACTS ON URBAN SOCIOECONOMIC LIFE. THIS WILL HELP ELUCIDATE IMPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION APPROACHES SUCH AS IMPLEMENTING GREEN ROOFTOPS OR USING MORE REFLECTIVE MATERIAL IN URBAN BUILDINGS AND SURFACES TO ALLEVIATE THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT. IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING URBAN IMPACT ASSESSMENTS FOR THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SCENARIO AT THE URBAN SPACE AND TIME SCALES, OUR PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE INTERNALLY CONSISTENT, CONTINUOUS, BOTH

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• $53,876 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  COMBINING SATELLITE DATA AND MODELS TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF URBANIZATION ON THE CONTINENTAL US SURFACE CLIMATE. URBANIZATION REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT OF LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE THAT HAS IMPORTANT YET UNDOCUMENTED IMPACTS ON THE LOCAL, REGIONAL AND CONTINENTAL CLIMATE OF THE US. WE PROPOSE TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF THIS LAND TRANSFORMATION ON PAST, CURRENT AND NEAR-FUTURE CLIMATE AND THE POTENTIAL FEEDBACKS FROM THESE CHANGES ON THE ATMOSPHERIC, HYDROLOGIC, BIOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOECONOMIC PROPERTIES BEYOND THE IMMEDIATE METROPOLITAN REGIONS OF CITIES AND THEIR NEAR SUBURBS. THE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE OF THE STUDY WILL BE CONTINENTAL IN SCALE YET IT WILL INVOLVE A RANGE OF EARTH SYSTEM PROCESSES TO MAKE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DIFFERENT URBAN AREAS AND ALLOWS FOR AN OBJECTIVE INTERCOMPARISON BETWEEN THEM. SPECIFICALLY, WE PROPOSE TO USE A FULL RANGE OF AVAILABLE SATELLITE DATA (TABLE 1) ALONG WITH GROUND OBSERVATIONS TO DEVELOP TWO OBSERVATION-BASED MAPS AND TWO SCENARIOBASED MAPS CHARACTERIZING DISTANT-PAST, RECENT-PAST, PRESENT AND NEAR-FUTURE LAND COVER AND LAND USE CHANGE MAPS INCLUDING URBAN AREAS, AND SIMULATE THEIR IMPACTS ON THE CONTINENTAL US CLIMATE USING A NASA MODELING TEST-BED THAT INCLUDES A SUITE OF BIOPHYSICAL LAND SURFACE MODELS (LSMS) AND PROVIDES A MEANS TO EXECUTE THEM WITHIN A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITY. WE WILL ANALYZE THE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON SURFACE CLIMATE AT SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALES RANGING FROM LOCAL TO CONTINENTAL AND FROM DIURNAL TO ANNUAL FOR THE FOUR TIME-PERIODS AND EXPLORE THE RATE OF CHANGE OF URBANIZATION AS A FUNCTION OF POPULATION GROWTH IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE US AND HOW THESE CHANGES ARE AFFECTING LOCAL AND REGIONAL BIOLOGY, HYDROLOGY AND ENERGY. WE WILL ALSO USE THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODELING SYSTEM TO EXPLORE THE NATURE AND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE TWO-WAY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN URBAN LANDS AND THE ATMOSPHERE AND ASSESS THE OVERALL REGIONAL DYNAMIC EFFECT OF URBAN EXPANSION ON THE NORTHEASTERN US WEATHER AND CLIMATE. THESE REGIONAL SIMULATIONS WILL PROVIDE FIDELITY TO OUR LAND SURFACE SIMULATIONS AND ALLOW US TO LEVERAGE AN EMERGING AIRCRAFT, LIDAR-BASED DATASET OF URBAN MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS FROM THE NATIONAL URBAN DATABASE (NUD). THESE REGIONAL SCALE SIMULATIONS WILL BE PERFORMED USING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE SCENARIOS AND WILL SPAN THE NORTHEASTERN `URBAN CORRIDOR PROVIDING DETAILED IMPACTS OF URBAN LANDS ON PRECIPITATION EVENTS AND MAGNITUDES, CHANGES IN TEMPERATURE IN LARGE METROPOLITAN REGIONS SUCH AS WASHINGTON-DC, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND BOSTON, AND WILL EXPLORE THE EMERGING EFFECT OF URBAN ARCHIPELAGOS OR `URBAN-CHAIN ON REGIONAL MESOSCALE CLIMATE. A KEY NOVELTY OF THIS RESEARCH WILL BE EXPLORING THE AGGREGATE EFFECTS OF THE NORTHEASTERN URBAN ARCHIPELAGO ON REGIONAL CLIMATE. GROUNDBREAKING STUDIES IN JAPAN HAVE SHOWN THAT ARCHIPELAGOS OF CITIES CAN HAVE AN AMPLIFIED AFFECT ON CLIMATE (OHASHI AND KIDA 2002). HOWEVER, NO ROBUST STUDY HAS BEEN CONDUCTED ON THE URBAN ARCHIPELAGO EFFECT (UAE) ON ANY OTHER CLIMATE REGIME AND THE US MID-ATLANTIC `URBAN CORRIDOR IS IDEAL FOR SUCH A STUDY. ASPECTS OF THESE CHANGES WILL BE ANALYZED IN A SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT AND INTEGRATED POLICY RELEVANT INDICATORS WILL BE DEVELOPED. FOR EXAMPLE, THE IMPACT OF URBAN LAND REPLACING AGRICULTURE WILL BE QUANTIFIED IN TERMS OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION LOSSES, GAIN IN SURFACE FRESHWATER AVAILABILITY AND IMPACT ON AQUIFERS RECHARGE, INCREASE IN SURFACE WARMING AND THEIR IMPACTS ON URBAN SOCIOECONOMIC LIFE. THIS WILL HELP ELUCIDATE IMPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION APPROACHES SUCH AS IMPLEMENTING GREEN ROOFTOPS OR USING MORE REFLECTIVE MATERIAL IN URBAN BUILDINGS AND SURFACES TO ALLEVIATE THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT. IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING URBAN IMPACT ASSESSMENTS FOR THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SCENARIO AT THE URBAN SPACE AND TIME SCALES, OUR PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE INTERNALLY CONSISTENT, CONTINUOUS, BOTH

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• $5,000 - Saturday the 12th of July 2014
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NIAID DEA OA OFC ACQUISITIONS
  IGF::OT::IGF COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATE RESEARCH (AMBIS #1593786)

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• $417,916 - Monday the 27th of August 2012
  Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
  BASE PERIOD

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• $35,892 - Monday the 13th of February 2012
  Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
  ANIMAL & PLANT HLTH INSPECT SVC
  FY 2012 BSE LABORATORY TESTING SERVICES

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• $33,678 - Monday the 7th of May 2012
  Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
  USDA APHIS MRPBS
  ATTN: DEBBIE HALVORSON//AG-6395-B-08-0074//MPL-6197-2-67 PL66728

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• $312,260 - Wednesday the 28th of March 2012
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NIAID DEA OA OFC ACQUISITIONS
  TAS::75 0885::TAS OTHER FUNCTIONS MALAYI ADULT WORMS AND/OR MALAYI INFECTIVE LAVAE

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• $25,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Geological Survey
  ALASKA SCIENCE CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF "OTHER FUNCTIONS" LABORATORY SERVICES FOR VIRUS ISOLATIONS AND SEROLOGIC ANALYSIS OF WATERBIRD SAMPLES.

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