The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $98,474 - Friday the 21st of September 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG
  SURFACE SCIENCE

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• $94,217 - Thursday the 27th of October 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  GROUNDBREAKING STUDIES WITH SPITZER HAVE SHOWN THAT ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN) CAN BE EFFICIENTLY IDENTIFIED IN THE MID-INFRARED (~3-24 MICRONS), OPENING A POWERFUL NEW WINDOW FOR STUDYING RAPID ACCRETION ONTO SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES. MID-IR SELECTION IS UNIQUELY EFFICIENT AT IDENTIFYING "HIDDEN" AGN THAT ARE OBSCURED BY GAS AND DUST. WE INITIATED SOME OF THE FIRST LARGE STATISTICAL STUDIES OF OBSCURED QUASARS AT MODERATE TO HIGH REDSHIFT, HOWEVER WE REMAIN LIMITED BY THE SMALL AREA OF SPITZER SURVEYS. WITH THE LAUNCH OF WISE, WHICH HAS A SIMILAR COMPLEMENT OF IR BANDS TO SPITZER, WE CAN NOW IDENTIFY QUASARS IN THE MID-IR ACROSS THE ENTIRE SKY. COUPLED WITH NEARLY 14500 SQUARE DEGREES OF SDSS IMAGING, WE HAVE AN UNPARALLELED OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY COMPLETE SAMPLES OF OBSCURED AND UNOBSCURED QUASARS OVER LARGE AREAS OF THE SKY. WITH LARGE SAMPLES OF UNOBSCURED AND OBSCURED QUASARS WE WILL ADDRESS KEY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: ARE POWERFUL OBSCURED QUASARS PART OF AN EVOLUTIONARY SEQUENCE, PERHAPS INVOLVING MAJOR MERGERS THAT DRIVE GAS AND DUST INTO THE CENTRAL REGIONS OF GALAXIES? OR ARE LUMINOUS, OBSCURED AGN AT HIGH REDSHIFT ANALOGS OF THEIR NEARBY COUNTERPARTS, IN WHICH A NUCLEAR "TORUS" OBSCURES OUR LINE OF SIGHT? OUR PRIMARY TOOL TO ADDRESS THESE QUESTIONS IS SPATIAL CLUSTERING, WHICH MEASURES THE MASS OF THE DARK MATTER HALOS THAT HOST QUASARS AND TRACES THEIR COSMIC EVOLUTION IN TANDEM WITH THE GROWTH OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE. THE FIRST SUCH ANALYSIS FOR LUMINOUS IR-SELECTED QUASARS WAS A NASA ADAP FUNDED STUDY IN WHICH WE MEASURED THE CLUSTERING OF ROUGHLY 1000 OBSCURED AND UNOBSCURED QUASARS, SELECTED USING SPITZER AND CHARACTERIZED USING CHANDRA, IN THE 9 SQUARE DEGREE BOOTES FIELD. THIS STUDY YIELDED TANTALIZING HINTS THAT OBSCURED QUASARS MAY RESIDE IN MORE MASSIVE DARK MATTER HALOS THAN THEIR UNOBSCURED COUNTERPARTS (A SIGNATURE OF EVOLUTION). WE WILL USE WISE TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE STATISTICAL POWER OF SUCH CLUSTERING ANALYSES BY SELECTING MILLIONS OF OBSCURED AND UNOBSCURED QUASARS OVER A VAST AREA. WE CAREFULLY DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF OUR PROPOSED WISE SELECTION USING WISE OBSERVATIONS OF CONFIRMED SDSS QUASARS IN THE SPITZER SWIRE AREA. OUR PROGRAM WILL FURTHER CHARACTERIZE THE WISE QUASAR SAMPLES USING X-RAY DATA FROM CHANDRA AND XMM. OUR MOST PRECISE CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE USES FULLY PROBABILISTIC PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT INFORMATION AND WE SHOW THAT, EVEN AT LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE, GALEX CAN GREATLY IMPROVE SUCH PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT INFORMATION. WE WILL FOCUS ON THREE CLUSTERING MEASUREMENTS: (1) AN ALL-SKY MEASUREMENT OF QUASAR CLUSTERING INDEPENDENT OF OBSCURATION IN A BROAD BIN OF LUMINOSITY AND REDSHIFT USING WISE; (2) A MEASUREMENT THAT COMPARES THE CLUSTERING OF OBSCURED AND UNOBSCURED QUASARS AS A FUNCTION OF LUMINOSITY AND REDSHIFT IN THE AREA WHERE WISE OVERLAPS THE SDSS; (3) AN OPTIMAL MEASUREMENT OF THE CLUSTERING OF OBSCURED QUASARS USING SDSS SPECTROSCOPIC QUASARS AND PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS DERIVED FROM WISE, GALEX AND THE SDSS. THIS ADAP PROGRAM WILL ALLOW US TO USE WISE, SPITZER, XMM AND CHANDRA TO REFINE THE SELECTION OF OBSCURED AND UNOBSCURED QUASARS AND CHARACTERIZE THE NATURE OF IR-SELECTED QUASARS IN COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS X-RAY AND OPTICAL SAMPLES. IT WILL ALLOW US TO USE WISE AND GALEX TO NEWLY COMPARE THE CLUSTERING OF UNOBSCURED AND OBSCURED QUASARS TO HIGH REDSHIFT AT HIGH PRECISION. THIS WILL ENABLE A DRAMATIC STEP FORWARD IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES THAT DRIVE THE COSMIC EVOLUTION OF HIDDEN, RAPIDLY-GROWING BLACK HOLES. OUR WORK IS PERFECT FOR THE ADAP, AS IT DRAWS ON THE UNIQUE CAPABILITIES OF MULTIPLE NASA SURVEYS TO EXTEND THE FRONTIER OF OUR EXISTING KNOWLEDGE IN A FUNDAMENTAL AND IMPORTANT MANNER. FURTHER, OUR WORK IS CLEARLY ALIGNED WITH NASA'S BROAD RESEARCH OBJECTIVES TO STUDY PHENOMENA NEAR BLACK HOLES, AND TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE FIRST STARS AND GALAXIES FORMED, AND HOW THEY CHANGED OVER TIME INTO THE OBJECTS RECOGNIZED IN THE PRESENT UNIVERSE.

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• $8,885 - Friday the 3rd of August 2012
  Bureau Of Land Management
  ID - IDAHO STATE OFFICE
  WYOMING SEED LAB 2 INVOICES

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• $860,000 - Wednesday the 31st of August 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE PRIMARY MISSION OF THE WYOMING NASA SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM (WSGC), BASED ON NASA'S EDUCATION OUTCOMES, IS: 1) TO PROMOTE A STRONG EDUCATIONAL BASE IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) FROM THE ELEMENTARY GRADES THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY LEVELS, 2) TO ENCOURAGE COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION AMONG INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 3) TO ENCOURAGE INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING, RESEARCH, AND PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS RELATED TO AEROSPACE, 4) TO RECRUIT AND TRAIN PROFESSIONALS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES, FOR CAREERS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS, 5) TO DEVELOP STATE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENHANCE WORKFORCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN WYOMING, AND 6) TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SPACE GRANT PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION, THE WSGC PLACES A GREAT EMPHASIS ON FELLOWSHIP/SCHOLARSHIP, RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE, AND HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS. ADDITIONALLY, ALTHOUGH LESS HEAVILY FUNDED, OUR PRECOLLEGE AND INFORMAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE IMPORTANT AND DESIGNED TO REACH A WIDELY DISTRIBUTED POPULATION IN ORDER TO BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS OF A WORKFORCE PIPELINE BY GETTING STUDENTS INTERESTED IN AND EXCITED ABOUT STEM FIELDS RELATED TO NASA INTERESTS. LIKE THE STATE OF WYOMING, OUR CONSORTIUM NETWORK IS VERY DIVERSE AND GEOGRAPHICALLY WIDESPREAD, WHICH HELPS SERVE A LARGE SECTION OF THE STATE POPULATION. WYOMING'S SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM INCLUDES ALL OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN THE STATE (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE), THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, WHICH IS THE ONE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN OUR STATE, AS WELL AS EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY, A PRIVATE MILITARY COLLEGE LOCATED ON F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING. IN ADDITION TO OUR ACADEMIC AFFILIATES, WSGC ALSO INCLUDES THE CASPER PLANETARIUM (AN INFORMAL EDUCATION AFFILIATE), SEVERAL INDUSTRY PARTNERS, AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE IN CHEYENNE. WE CONTINUE TO SEEK OUT NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND HOPE TO ATTRACT NORTHWEST COLLEGE, THE LAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE NOT IN THE WSGC, ADDITIONAL INDUSTRY PARTNERS, AND A MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTION TO JOIN THE CONSORTIUM. THE LEAD INSTITUTION IS THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, IN LARAMIE. THIS IS WHERE OUR MAIN OFFICE IS LOCATED AND WHERE COORDINATION OF PROGRAMS AND AFFILIATES OCCURS. THE WSGC IS DIRECTED BY PAUL JOHNSON, A PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY. THE WSGC OFFICE IS STAFFED BY AN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PROJECT COORDINATOR, AND OFFICE ASSOCIATE. THE AFFILIATE REPRESENTATIVES AND DIRECTOR, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE OFFICE STAFF, WORK TOGETHER TO DETERMINE THE GOALS AND DIRECTION OF THE PROGRAM AND MEET TWICE A YEAR IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS TO DISCUSS SPACE GRANT ISSUES. THE WSGC IS A BROAD NETWORK SPREAD ACROSS THE STATE WHICH HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR MEANINGFUL IMPACTS THROUGHOUT ITS DIVERSE REGIONS. DUE TO THE SMALL POPULATION IN WYOMING, WE ARE ABLE TO ALLOCATE FUNDING THAT SERVES A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THE RESIDENTS THAN OTHER STATES WITH LARGER POPULATIONS. WE ARE ABLE TO PULL TOGETHER NETWORKS OF STEM EDUCATORS, STATE GOVERNMENT, AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY IN ORDER TO MOBILIZE ON PROGRAMS, GRANTS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES QUICKLY, AND WE ARE WELL VERSED IN TECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS TO OVERCOME LARGE DISTANCES AND ENSURE ACCESS TO QUALITY PROGRAMMING INDEPENDENT OF GEOGRAPHY. AS A CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT GRANT, WSGC HAS MANY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS FOR K-12 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS, UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, AND FACULTY MEMBERS AT ALL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE STATE. THE WSGC HAS REACHED STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND TEACHERS IN ALL REACHES OF THE STATE AND WE PLAN TO CONTINUE THIS WORK IN THE FUTURE.

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• $800 - Thursday the 6th of September 2012
  Education Department
  PRINCIPAL OFFICES
  NON-FEDERAL REVIEWER SANDRA ROOT-ELLEDGE FOR THE 84.224D AT AFP COMPETITION SEPTEMBER 10,11,12 AND 13 2012

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• $6,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Forest Service
  REGION 4 UTAH ACQUISITION SUPPORT CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS - NATURAL HERITAGE DATABASE EXPORTS PERTAINING TO SENSITIVE SPECIES WITHIN R4 WYOMING FORESTS.

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• $5,400 - Friday the 15th of June 2012
  Geological Survey
  ALASKA SCIENCE CENTER
  NON PERSONAL SERVICES FOR ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS

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• $51,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  BIO-MIMETIC OPTICAL SENSOR FOR REAL-TIME MEASUREMENT OF AIRCRAFT WING DEFLECTION. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF PROPOSED CONCEPT RESEARCH AT NASA FOCUSED ON REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AVIATION DEPENDS ON ACCURATE WING DEFORMATION MEASUREMENTS TO TAILOR A WING S AERODYNAMIC PROPERTIES FOR INCREASED AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY. CURRENT APPROACHES TO MEASURING WING DEFORMATION UTILIZE STRAIN MEASUREMENT DEVICES, ACCELEROMETERS, OR GPS SOLUTIONS. EXISTING SENSOR SOLUTIONS ARE HINDERED BY HIGH COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND THE COMPLEXITY OF CALIBRATING THE MEASUREMENTS WITH RESULTING DEFLECTION. HENCE A REAL-TIME SOLUTION IS NOT FEASIBLE AT THIS TIME. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVE IS TO DESIGN, BUILD, AND DEMONSTRATE A PROTOTYPE BIO-MIMETIC (INSPIRED BY BIOLOGY) SENSOR BASED ON THE COMMON HOUSE FLY EYE FOR DETECTING AIRCRAFT WING DEFORMATION IN REAL-TIME. THE SENSOR MAKES USE OF REVOLUTIONARY OPTICAL SENSOR DESIGN RESULTING IN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED MOTION DETECTION CAPABILITIES WHEN COMPARED WITH CONVENTIONAL OPTICAL SENSORS. THE SIMPLE ANALOG ARCHITECTURE ALLOWS FOR REAL-TIME SOLUTION AT ANY DESIRED BANDWIDTH TO ENABLE ACCURATE 3-D ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS OF MULTIPLE POINTS ALONG A WING OR FUSELAGE. OBJECTIVES AND TECHNICAL APPROACH FOR PHASE I EFFORT 1) CREATE PROTOTYPE BIO-MIMETIC FLY EYE BASED SENSOR. A. DETERMINE EFFECTIVE TARGET PATTERN, CONTRAST LEVEL, AND MEASUREMENT WAVELENGTHS. B. DESIGN OPTIMAL PIXEL POSITIONS AND OVERLAP TO OBTAIN ACCURATE DEFLECTION MEASUREMENTS FOR APPLICATION. C. BUILD SENSOR WITH HARDWARE OPTIMIZATIONS TO IMPROVE PROCESSING TIME FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION OF DEFLECTION MEASUREMENT AND WITH AUTOMATIC LIGHT ADAPTATION CAPABILITY FOR OPERATING IN A WIDE RANGE OF AMBIENT LIGHTING CONDITIONS. 2) DEVELOP REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHMS FOR MEASUREMENT AT DESIRED BANDWIDTH. 3) DESIGN AND BUILD PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP REPRESENTING SCALED VERSION OF WING ATTACHED TO FUSELAGE WITH SENSOR AND DEFLECTION MEASUREMENT TARGETS. 4) TEST PROTOTYPE SENSOR AND COMPARE WITH BASELINE DEFLECTION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM.

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• $46,082 - Wednesday the 19th of July 2017
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  CFD HAS A LONG HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND USE FOR ENABLING BETTER DESIGNS AND FOR REDUCING COST, RISK AND DESIGN CYCLE TIME FOR FIXED WING AIRCRAFT. HOWEVER, OFTENTIMES CFD CAN ONLY BE USED WITH CONFIDENCE AT NEAR DESIGN CONDITIONS WHERE THE FLOW IS MOSTLY ATTACHED. THE ABILITY TO RELIABLY PREDICT FLOW SEPARATION, INCLUDING SEPARATION ONSET AND PROGRESSION, HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE MAJOR IMPEDIMENTS TO MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS THROUGHOUT THE DESIGN CYCLE. SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION OF THIS CAPABILITY WILL ENABLE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF COMPLEX FLOW PHYSICS DRIVING IMPORTANT DESIGN METRICS, WHICH IN TURN WILL ENABLE MORE AGGRESSIVE DESIGNS AT LOWER RISK. NEW CONCEPTS AND CONFIGURATIONS OFTEN RELY ON DIFFERENT FLOW PHYSICS THAT PROGRAMS MUST BE ABLE TO SIMULATE WITH CONFIDENCE IN ORDER TO OPTIMIZE DESIGNS AND REDUCE RISK. AT THE SAME TIME, SIMULATIONS FOR TRADITIONAL FIXED WING CONFIGURATIONS ARE SEVERELY LACKING IN CRITICAL REGIONS OF THE FLIGHT REGIME SUCH AS NEAR STALL, AT HIGH-LIFT CONDITIONS, IN DEFLECTED CONTROL SURFACE CONDITIONS, AND AT THE EDGES OF THE FLIGHT ENVELOPE. IN ALL THESE CASES, THE ABILITY TO EXPAND THE USE OF CFD TO A WIDER VARIETY OF CONFIGURATIONS AND THROUGH ALL REGIONS OF THE FLIGHT ENVELOPE WILL GREATLY IMPACT ALL THE IMPORTANT PERFORMANCE METRICS SUCH AS DRAG, FUEL BURN AND EMISSIONS, ACOUSTICS, FLOW CONTROL, HIGH LIFT EFFECTIVENESS, AND STABILITY AND CONTROL. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE A CAPABILITY FOR ACCURATELY PREDICTING AERODYNAMIC FLOWS OVER REALISTIC AND COMPLEX CONFIGURATIONS INVOLVING SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF FLOW SEPARATION. ALTHOUGH REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES (RANS) TURBULENCE MODELS CAN BE USED WITH HIGH CONFIDENCE FOR FULLY ATTACHED FLOWS OR FOR FLOWS WITH SMALL REGIONS OF SEPARATION, RELIABLE AND ACCURATE SIMULATION OF AERODYNAMIC FLOWS WITH MODERATE TO MASSIVE REGIONS OF SEPARATION REMAINS CHALLENGING. BY RESOLVING A LARGER PORTION OF THE TURBULENCE SPECTRA, TECHNIQUES SUCH AS LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION (LES) OFFER THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE UNIVERSALLY ACCURATE MODELS APPLICABLE TO A WIDER RANGE OF SEPARATED FLOWS. HOWEVER, EXISTING LES METHODS FACE THREE BASIC PROBLEMS: A HUGE VARIETY OF LES MODELS ARE CURRENTLY APPLIED, DYNAMIC LES METHODS ARE EITHER VERY EXPENSIVE OR HAVE TO BE COMBINED WITH FLOW-DEPENDENT EMPIRICAL STABILIZATION TECHNIQUES, AND THE COST OF LES FOR WALL-BOUNDED FLOW SIMULATIONS ARE WAY TOO HIGH FOR MOST APPLICATIONS. A SOLUTION APPROACH FOR THESE THREE PROBLEMS WAS RECENTLY SUGGESTED BY THE PI. BY USING A STOCHASTIC TURBULENCE MODEL HE DEVELOPED A HIERARCHY OF REALIZABLE LES MODELS, CORRESPONDING DYNAMIC LES METHODS THAT OVER-COME THE STABILITY PROBLEMS OF EXISTING DYNAMIC LES METHODS, AND UNIFIED RANS-LES MODELS THAT ENABLE A HUGE COMPUTATIONAL COST REDUCTION BY A FACTOR OF 5.7 RE^0.42 (RE REFERS TO THE REYNOLDS NUMBER). THESE NEW UNIFIED AND DYNAMIC LES METHODS HAVE SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGES COMPARED TO EXISTING METHODS. ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT THESE METHODS DO NOT REPRESENT THE FINAL ANSWER TO THE THREE LES PROBLEMS DESCRIBED ABOVE BECAUSE OF THEIR DEFICIENCIES IN ACCURATELY REPRESENTING THE SPATIOTEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF TURBULENT FLOWS. THE FIRST SPECIFIC PROJECT GOAL IS TO OVERCOME THIS PROBLEM BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REALIZABLE STOCHASTIC TURBULENCE MODEL THAT PRESERVES THE SPACE-TIME STRUCTURE OF TURBULENCE, AND TO USE THIS MODEL FOR THE DERIVATION OF HIERARCHICAL LES, DYNAMIC LES, AND UNIFIED RANS-LES METHODS. THE SECOND SPECIFIC PROJECT GOAL IS TO SHOW THE SUCCESS OF DYNAMIC LES AND UNIFIED RANS-LES METHODS THROUGH APPLICATIONS INVOLVING FLOW SEPARATION. THIS GOAL WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY A CAREFULLY ORGANIZED VALIDATION PLAN INVOLVING CANONICAL TEST CASES, THE VALIDATION OF AIRFOIL SEPARATION AND STALL BEHAVIOR AND FINALLY THE STUDY OF COMPLEX VALIDATION CASES (MULTI-ELEMENT AIRFOILS/WINGS, TIP VORTEX PREDICTION AND SHOCK BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTION).

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• $3,396 - Friday the 6th of April 2012
  Bureau Of Land Management
  NV - NEVADA STATE OFFICE
  WYOMING SEED LAB -SEED TESTING SERVICES

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