The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $85 - Wednesday the 27th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVY MEDICINE PROFESSIONAL
  TUITION AND FEES

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• $8,333 - Tuesday the 31st of July 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  LAB SERVICES 3 MONTH EXT

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• $8,333 - Wednesday the 1st of August 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  LAB SERVICES 1 MONTH EXT

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• $81,500 - Wednesday the 17th of December 2014
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  IGF::OT::IGF TELRADIOLOGY SERVICES

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• $80,000 - Friday the 22nd of May 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION (BAO) METHOD IS A KEY COMPONENT OF ANY STAGE IV DARK ENERGY PROGRAM, INCLUDING A POSSIBLE NASA JOINT DARK ENERGY MISSION. SOUND WAVES IN THE PLASMA OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE GET FROZEN INTO THE MATTER DISTRIBUTION WHEN THE UNIVERSE TRANSITIONS INTO A NEUTRAL STATE, IMPRINTING A CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE IN THE GALAXY CORRELATION FUNCTION. THIS FEATURE CAN BE USED AS A STANDARD RULER TO CONSTRAIN THE EXPANSION HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, AND PROBE THE REDSHIFT EVOLUTION OF THE DARK ENERGY. HOWEVER, THE STATISTICAL PRECISION OF THE METHOD IS LIMITED BY LARGE SCALE VELOCITY FLOWS, WHICH SMOOTH OUT THE ACOUSTIC FEATURE AND REDUCE ITS CONTRAST. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP "RECONSTRUCTION" ALGORITHMS WHICH UNDO THIS SMOOTHING, AND INCREASE THE STATISTICAL ACCURACY OF THE BAO METHOD. A FIRST SUCH ALGORITHM ALREADY EXISTS, AND HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO WORK, BOTH THEORETICALLY AS WELL AS ON N##]BODY SIMULATIONS. HOWEVER, CURRENT IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THIS ALGORITHM USE SYMMETRY PROPERTIES OF THE SIMULATIONS, WHICH ARE NOT REALIZED IN REAL SURVEY DATA. THE FIRST GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO EXTEND THIS ALGORITHM TO WORK ON REALISTIC SURVEY DATA WITH IRREGULAR BOUNDARIES AND MISSING DATA. WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED SUCH AN ALGORITHM IN PRINCIPLE, AND PLAN TO FURTHER REFINE IT, APPLYING TO MORE REALISTIC SIMULATIONS. WE ALSO PLAN ON EXPLORING DIFFERENT "INTERPOLATION" SCHEMES TO FILL IN MISSING DATA, TESTING TO ENSURE THAT THEY DO NOT BIAS THE STANDARD RULER. THE SECOND GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO CHARACTERIZE THE REQUIREMENTS THAT RECONSTRUCTION WOULD PLACE ON THE DESIGN OF FUTURE SURVEYS. THE FIRST OF THESE, AND THE MOST RELEVANT FOR A POSSIBLE JDEM MISSION, IS TO UNDERSTAND THE REQUIREMENT ON THE CONTIGUITY OF THE SURVEY##] WHETHER RECONSTRUCTION WORKS WITH GAPS IN THE SURVEY, AND WHAT SCALES AND SPATIAL FREQUENCIES OF GAPS CAN BE TOLERATED. WE ALSO PLAN TO UNDERSTAND HOW RECONSTRUCTION DEGRADES FOR LOW NUMBER DENSITY TRACERS, AND IF RECONSTRUCTION IS SENSITIVE TO GALAXY TYPE. THE FINAL ASPECT OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO GO BEYOND THE EXISTING ALGORITHM TO SEE IF IMPROVED RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES ARE POSSIBLE. A NUMBER OF ALGORITHMS EXIST FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE INITIAL LINEAR DENSITY FIELD. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BAO RECONSTRUCTION ARE SIGNIFICANTLY EASIER. WE PLAN ON EXPLORING THESE ALGORITHMS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF BAO RECONSTRUCTION TO SEE IF ANY OF THESE PROVIDE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE. THE ABILITY TO RECONSTRUCT THE BAO FEATURE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES THE DARK ENERGY REACH OF REDSHIFT SURVEYS, DOUBLING EG. THE DARK ENERGY TASK FORCE FIGURE OF MERIT. THIS PROPOSAL AIMS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS TECHNIQUE AND UNDERSTAND ITS REQUIREMENTS. THESE ARE ASPECTS ESSENTIAL FOR DESIGNING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BAO EXPERIMENTS, INCLUDING POSSIBLE SPACE MISSIONS.

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• $768,583 - Friday the 13th of January 2012
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NICHD, OD OAM OFC ADMIN MGMT
  TAS::75 0846::TAS NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STUDY

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• $76,664 - Monday the 5th of March 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  UROLOGY SERVICES

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• $760,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION: TESTING OF DNA SAMPLES

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• $75,000 - Tuesday the 22nd of May 2012
  National Institutes Of Health
  NIH, NIDA, OD OM OA OFC ACQUISITIONS
  FURTHER ADVANCE BSR'S RESEARCH PROGRAM AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR GENETICS

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• $75,000 - Wednesday the 16th of November 2011
  Veterans Affairs Department
  241-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 01
  CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY SERVICES

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