The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $9,876 - Tuesday the 31st of January 2012
  Forest Service
  NORTHEASTERN RESEARCH STATION
  CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF WEEKLY SAMPLES AND NADP COORDINATION COSTS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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• $9,876 - Tuesday the 17th of July 2012
  National Park Service
  NER REGIONAL CONTRACTING
  ELECTION OF OPTION YEAR.

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• $9,876 - Monday the 10th of September 2012
  Forest Service
  MEDICINE BOW-ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST
  SAMPLE ANALYSIS LABORATORY ASSOICATED WITH THE NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC DESPOSITION PROGRAM.

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• $98,000 - Tuesday the 22nd of March 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE LMC AND SMC ARE THE ONLY GALAXIES, BESIDES THE MILKY WAY, THAT ARE WELL-RESOLVED BY FERMI, AND THUS THEY PROVIDE A UNIQUE LABORATORY TO STUDY THE GENERATION AND DIFFUSION OF COSMIC RAYS (CRS). WE PROPOSE TO (1) USE THE STAR FORMATION HISTORY, RESOLVED IN SPACE AND TIME, TO ASSESS THE SUPERNOVA ENERGY INPUTS AND CR ACCELERATION EFFICIENCY, AND (2) COMPARE THE GAMMA-RAY EMISSION WITH THE INTERSTELLAR STRUCTURE TO ASSESS THE CR DIFFUSION LENGTH. IN FERMI CYCLE 4, WE WERE AWARDED FUNDS TO STUDY THE LMC. IN THIS CYCLE, WE PROPOSE TO EXTEND OUR WORK TO THE SMC AND COMPARE THE LMC AND SMC TO BETTER ESTABLISH THE GENERALITY OF THE CR GENERATION AND DIFFUSION MECHANISMS.

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• $9,162 - Saturday the 23rd of February 2013
  Department Of Army
  W2R2 CONST ENGRG LAB
  U435CFM RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES

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• $8,609 - Saturday the 23rd of February 2013
  Department Of Army
  W2R2 CONST ENGRG LAB
  U435000 RESEARCH SUPPORT SERVICES

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• $8,320 - Thursday the 6th of December 2012
  Agricultural Research Service
  USDA ARS SEA 4604
  IGF::CL::IGF SEQUENCING FOR TWO WATERMELON GENOMES USING THE ILLUMINA PLATFORM.

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• $82,767 - Tuesday the 24th of April 2012
  Defense Logistics Agency
  DES DSCP CONTRACTING SERVICES OFC
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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• $7,912 - Thursday the 8th of March 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NROTCU UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
  TO MODIFY CONTRACT TO REFLECT INCREASE IN TUITION AND FEES FOR MIDSHIPMEN DURING THE FALL 2011 SEMESTER. INCREASE OF $7912.00 FROM $453,769.00 TO $461,681.00.

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• $75,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  PERITECTIC ALLOYS CONSTITUTE AN IMPORTANT CLASS OF INDUSTRIAL ALLOYS. THE PROPERTIES OF THESE ALLOYS DEPEND STRONGLY ON THEIR SOLIDIFICATION HISTORY, AND THE POTENTIAL EXISTS TO CREATE NOVEL MATERIALS WITH UNIQUE PROPERTIES BY CONTROLLING THE SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS. PERITECTIC ALLOYS UNDERGO AN INVARIANT REACTION, IN WHICH A LIQUID PHASE REACTS WITH AN EXISTING SOLID PHASE A TO FORM A SECOND SOLID PHASE {3. WHEN SOLIDIFICATION OCCURS AT VERY LOW GROWTH RATE IN A HIGH TEMPERATURE GRADIENT, THIS REACTION CAN PRODUCE VERY COMPLICATED, NON-EQUILIBRIUM MICROSTRUCTURES DUE TO THE LIMITED DIFFUSION IN THE SOLID STATE, AND CONVECTION IN THE LIQUID. ESA HAS AN ONGOING MULTI-NATIONAL, MULTI-INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM, CALLED METCOMP, TO STUDY PERITECTIC ALLOYS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE MODELING SUPPORT FOR ONE OF THESE METCOMP PROJECTS, FOCUSING ON DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION IN CU-SN ALLOYS. EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED ON EARTH ARE DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION. SUCH EXPERIMENTS ARE NECESSARY, HOWEVER, TO PROVIDE THE SCIENTIFIC BASE FOR INTERPRETING THE SPACE EXPERIMENTS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP AND USE MODELS THAT DO TWO THINGS: (1) INTERACT WITH THE EXPERIMENTAL WORK SO AS TO IMPROVE THE EXPERIMENTS THEMSELVES; AND (2) PROVIDE DETAILED AND PREDICTIVE MODELS TO ASSIST IN INTERPRETATION OF THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS. IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THE FIRST OBJECTIVE, SEPARATE MODELS FOR THE MACROSCALE TRANSPORT PHENOMENA AND MICROSTRUCTURE FORMATION WILL BE DEVELOPED FIRST. THESE MODELS WILL THEN BE MERGED INTO A SINGLE CODE THAT COMPUTES THE TRANSPORT AND MICROSTRUCTURE AT THE SAME TIME. THIS IS FEASIBLE BECAUSE THE CODE WILL BUILD ON AN EXISTING CODE THAT USES ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT TO ALLOCATE COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES EFFICIENTLY.

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