The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $94,574 - Thursday the 6th of October 2011
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG NATICK
  RESEARCH ON THE COST OF BASIC COMBAT TRAINING INJURIES IN THE US ARMY

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• $79,390 - Monday the 19th of December 2011
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG NATICK
  R&D BASE

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• $75,000 - Monday the 2nd of July 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  NOT IN USE
  FIELD EXPERIMENTS

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• $68,640 - Thursday the 25th of August 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF THE DIFFUSE SOFT X-RAY EMISSION FROM NON-AGN GALAXIES? PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF XMM-NEWTON RGS SPECTRA SHOWS THAT A SUBSTANTIAL FRACTION OF THE EMISSION CANNOT ARISE FROM OPTICALLY-THIN THERMAL PLASMA, AS COMMONLY ASSUMED, AND MAY ORIGINATE IN CHARGE EXCHANGE AT THE INTERFACE WITH NEUTRAL GAS. WE REQUEST THE SUPPORT FOR A COMPREHENSIVE OBSERVING, DATA ANALYSIS, AND MODELING PROGRAM TO SPECTROSCOPICALLY DETERMINE THE ORIGINS OF THE EMISSION. FIRST, WE WILL USE OUR SCHEDULED XMM-NEWTON AO-10 368 KS OBSERVATIONS OF THE NEAREST COMPACT ELLIPTICAL GALAXY M32 TO OBTAIN THE FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC CALIBRATION OF THE CUMULATIVE SOFT X-RAY EMISSION FROM THE OLD STELLAR POPULATION AND WILL DEVELOP A SPECTRAL MODEL FOR THE CHARGE EXCHANGE, AS WELL AS ANALYSIS TOOLS TO MEASURE THE SPATIAL AND KINEMATIC PROPERTIES OF THE X-RAY LINE-EMITTING PLASMA. SECOND, WE WILL CHARACTERIZE THE TRULY DIFFUSE EMISSION FROM THE HOT PLASMA AND/OR ITS INTERPLAY WITH THE NEUTRAL GAS IN A SAMPLE OF GALACTIC SPHEROIDS AND ACTIVE STAR FORMING/STARBURST REGIONS IN NEARBY GALAXIES OBSERVED BY XMM-NEWTON. IN PARTICULAR, WE WILL MAP OUT THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF KEY EMISSION LINES AND MEASURE (OR TIGHTLY CONSTRAIN) THE KINEMATICS OF HOT PLASMA OUTFLOWS FOR A FEW X-RAY-EMITTING REGIONS WITH HIGH-QUALITY RGS DATA. FOR GALAXIES WITH INSUFFICIENT COUNTING STATISTICS IN INDIVIDUAL EMISSION LINES, WE WILL CONDUCT A SPECTRAL STACKING ANALYSIS TO CONSTRAIN THE AVERAGE PROPERTIES OF THE X-RAY-EMITTING PLASMA. WE WILL USE THE RESULTS OF THESE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSES, TOGETHER WITH COMPLEMENTARY X-RAY CCD IMAGING/SPECTRAL DATA AND OBSERVATIONS IN OTHER WAVELENGTH BANDS, TO TEST THE MODELS OF THE EMISSION. IN ADDITION TO THE CHARGE EXCHANGE, ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS SUCH AS RESONANCE SCATTERING AND RELIC AGN PHOTO-IONIZATION WILL ALSO BE EXAMINED FOR SUITABLE REGIONS. THESE STUDIES ARE IMPORTANT TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DIFFUSE SOFT X-RAY EMISSION AND VARIOUS HIGH-ENERGY FEEDBACK PROCESSES OF THE GALAXIES.

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• $60,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NCI, OD OM OA OFC ACQUISITIONS
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS:1105996 [12-059929]

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• $5,200 - Wednesday the 19th of September 2012
  Geological Survey
  OFFICE OF ACQUISITION AND GRANTS - RESTON
  UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

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• $50,000 - Friday the 24th of April 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WHAT CONTROLS THE MATTER CIRCULATION AROUND NEARBY DISK GALAXIES? IT IS OFTEN SUGGESTED THAT VARIOUS FORMS OF THE GALACTIC FEEDBACK, PRODUCED BY STAR FORMATION, AGN, AND/OR TYPE IA SNE, PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE. HOWEVER, THE ENERGY, MASS, AND METAL CONTENTS OF THE GALACTIC FEEDBACK, AS WELL AS ITS INTERPLAY WITH THE ISM, ARE STILL POORLY UNDERSTOOD. WE REQUEST THE SUPPORT FOR A COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM TO SYSTEMATICALLY STUDY A LARGE SAMPLE OF 64 NEARBY EDGE-ON DISK GALAXIES, BASED ON OUR RECENTLY APPROVED XMM-NEWTON AND SUZAKU OBSERVATIONS, AS WELL AS A WEALTH OF ARCHIVAL X-RAY DATA. WE WILL MEASURE THE OVERALL X-RAY LUMINOSITY, SIZE, ELONGATION, LOPSIDEDNESS, AVERAGE TEMPERATURE, AND MASS/ENERGY CONTENT OF THE HOT GASEOUS HALOS AROUND INDIVIDUAL GALAXIES. THE X-RAY RESULTS WILL BE COMPARED WITH OTHER PROPERTIES OF THE HOST GALAXIES. IN PARTICULAR, FOR ABOUT HALF OF THE SAMPLE GALAXIES, WE WILL MAP OUT THE MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURE AND COSMIC RAY EMISSION IN AN ONGOING EVLA RADIO CONTINUUM SURVEY. THE COMPARISONS WILL BE DONE MORPHOLOGICALLY AND/OR ERGETICALLY, WHICH WILL ENABLE US TO EXAMINE THE RELATIVE ROLES OF THE HOT GAS, MAGNETIC FIELD, AND COSMIC RAY IN REGULATING THE GALACTIC HALOS. FOR GALAXIES WITH DEEP ENOUGH X-RAY OBSERVATIONS, WE WILL ALSO CONDUCT DETAILED SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL MODELING, AIMING AT DETERMINING OR TIGHTLY CONSTRAINING THE DYNAMICAL, THERMAL, AND CHEMICAL STATES OF THE HALO HOT GAS. FOR GALAXIES WITH INSUFFICIENT COUNTING STATISTICS, WE WILL CONDUCT BOTH IMAGING AND SPECTRAL STACKING ANALYSES, IN ORDER TO DETECT EXTREMELY FAINT EMISSION AND TO DETERMINE THE AVERAGE SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS, ESPECIALLY AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE HALOS. THESE STUDIES OF THE GALAXY HALOS, BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND STATISTICALLY, WILL HELP US TO CHARACTERIZE THE ROLE OF THE FEEDBACK IN SHAPING THE ECOSYSTEM OF THE GALAXIES AND HENCE THEIR EVOLUTION.

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• $5,000 - Tuesday the 15th of May 2012
  Forest Service
  NORTHEASTERN RESEARCH STATION
  2012 IUFRO FORESTRY CONFERENCE

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• $443,215 - Thursday the 29th of March 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4LD USA HECSA
  RC-2204

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• $37,171 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  FOR THE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS COMPONENT OF THE UPCOMING DESDYNI-R MISSION, NEW CHALLENGES HAVE EMERGED RELATED TO HOW TO MAKE BEST USE OF THE MISSION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY AND ECOSYSTEM S COMMUNITY WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE REDUCED MISSIONS CAPABILITIES AND COST LIMITATIONS. PRIMARY AMONG THE EFFECTS OF THE ELIMINATION OF THE LIDAR COMPONENT FOR THE MISSION IS THE INCREASED DIFFICULTY IN ASSESSING FOREST STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS, SUCH AS STAND HEIGHT, DENSITY AND BIOMASS, WHICH PUTS AN ADDED EMPHASIS ON COMPARATIVE APPLICATIONS IN TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY, SUCH AS CHANGE DETECTION, SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION. THE CHANGE IN MISSION CAPABILITY ALSO CREATES AN INCREASED SCRUTINY ON THE ACCURACY OF EXISTING RADAR-ONLY METHODS WHICH RELATE BACKSCATTER POWER AND POLARIMETRIC PRODUCTS TO FOREST BIOMASS IN THE OVERALL SYSTEM FORMULATION. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO MAKE A STRONG CASE FOR THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, PROF. PAUL SIQUEIRA, TO BECOME PART OF TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY COMPONENT OF THE DESDYNI-R SCIENCE DEFINITION TEAM (SDT). THE BASIS FOR THIS PARTICIPATION REQUEST IS FOUNDED ON THE PROPOSER'S BACKGROUND IN RADAR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) AND INTERFEROMETRIC SAR (INSAR) PROCESSING AND ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT, AND THE APPLICATION OF THESE REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES TO APPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH NASA S TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY PROGRAM. THIS PROPOSAL PROVIDES A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE PROJECT'S RELEVANCE TO NASA'S STRATEGIC GOALS FOR EARTH SCIENCES, A DETAILED SUMMARY OF THIS PROJECT'S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES, AND THEN A TECHNICAL PLAN THAT DESCRIBES THE PI'S SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND HOW IT APPLIES TO THE UPCOMING NEEDS OF DESDYNI-R'S SCIENCE DEFINITION TEAM.

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