The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,962 - Thursday the 31st of May 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9550 AFRL AFOSR
  "(STTR PHASE 1) SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS METHODS FOR COMPLEX, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS"

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• $99,938 - Tuesday the 5th of June 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9550 AFRL AFOSR
  (STTR PH. 1) STICK-TO-STRESS DYNAMIC FLIGHT SIMULATION FOR VIRTUAL FLIGHT TEST

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• $9,982 - Tuesday the 18th of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ZONA TECHNOLOGY, INC. (ZONA) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN ON-LINE FLUTTER PREDICTION TOOL USING THE PARAMETER VARYING ESTIMATION (PVE) METHODOLOGY, CALLED THE PVE TOOLBOX, TO ENSURE THE FLIGHT SAFETY DURING THE FLIGHT FLUTTER TEST AND TO PREVENT THE DAMAGE TO THE WIND TUNNEL HARDWARE FROM THE STRUCTURAL FAILURE OF THE FLUTTER MODEL DURING WIND TUNNEL FLUTTER TEST. THIS TOOL CAN BE APPLIED TO RAPIDLY IDENTIFY PARAMETERS, SUCH AS MODAL DAMPING AND FREQUENCY FROM TEST DATA MEASURED AT PRE-FLUTTER FLIGHT/WIND TUNNEL CONDITIONS, THEN SUBSEQUENTLY TO ASSESS THE FLUTTER BOUNDARY OF AIRCRAFT/WIND TUNNEL MODEL IN REAL TIME. IN THIS PVE TOOLBOX, SEVERAL SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES ARE EMPLOYED TO CONSISTENTLY ESTIMATE THE DAMPING/FREQUENCY OF THE PHYSICAL MODES, FOLLOWED BY THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ZIMMERMAN-WEISSENBURGER FLUTTER MARGIN, DAMPING TRENDS EXTRAPOLATION, LINEAR PARAMETER VARYING MODELING COMBINED WITH MU-ANALYSIS, AND THIN PLATE INTERPOLATION METHOD FOR FLUTTER BOUNDARY PREDICTION. SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATION OF THE PVE TOOLBOX INTO IADS (A REAL-TIME FLIGHT TEST DATA ACQUISITION SOFTWARE SYSTEM) WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE ON-LINE FLUTTER PREDICTION CAPABILITY OF THE PVE TOOLBOX. THIS ROBUST, PRODUCTION-READY, AND FLIGHT TEST DEMONSTRATED PVE TOOLBOX WILL PROVIDE FLIGHT/WIND TUNNEL TEST ENGINEERS AN ON-LINE FLUTTER PREDICTION CAPABILITY IN THE CONTROL ROOM FOR DECISION-MAKING DURING FLIGHT/WIND TUNNEL FLUTTER TESTS.

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• $50,000 - Monday the 10th of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  ZONA TECHNOLOGY, INC. PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED FLIGHT DYNAMICS SIMULATION CAPABILITY WITH NONLINEAR AEROELASTIC INTERACTIONS BY COMBINING A FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL AND AN ADD-ON NONLINEAR AEROELASTIC SOLVER IN A SIMULINK ENVIRONMENT. THIS NONLINEAR AEROELASTIC SOLVER IS GENERATED BY INTERACTING A NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL REDUCED ORDER MODEL (ROM) WITH A NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED (NN-BASED) AERODYNAMIC ROM AND A GUST ROM TO PROVIDE THE INCREMENTAL AEROELASTIC FORCES AND MOMENTS OF A CLASSICAL FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL. IN THIS WAY, THE FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL IS KEPT WITH MINIMUM CHANGES SO THAT THIS INTEGRATED FLIGHT DYNAMICS SIMULATION REMAINS IN THE FRAME WORK OF A 6-DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT. THE NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL ROM EMPLOYS AN ELSTEP/FAT PROCEDURE THAT OPERATES ON A COMMERCIAL NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE TO CONSTRUCT THE NONLINEAR STIFFNESS MATRICES. THE NN-BASED AND GUST AERODYNAMIC ROM IS GENERATED USING A SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUE OPERATING ON A CFD CODE TO EVALUATE THE WEIGHTS AND BIASES IN A TWO-LAYER FEED-FORWARD NN SYSTEM. THE END PRODUCT IS CALLED FUNL-DFS THAT CAN SIMULATE THE KEY AEROELASTIC COUPLING MECHANISM BETWEEN NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND NONLINEAR UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS WITH CLASSICAL RIGID BODY DYNAMICS AND CAN BE USED FOR CONTROL LAW DEVELOPMENT, MANEUVERING FLIGHT SIMULATION, FLIGHT LOADS PREDICTION AND HANDLING QUALITY ASSESSMENT. THE FUNL-DFS SYSTEM WILL BE VALIDATED WITH THE FLIGHT TEST DATA OF THE PREDATOR B AIRCRAFT.

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• $50,000 - Wednesday the 20th of February 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  MULTISCALE GASKINETICS/PARTICLE (MGP) SIMULATION FOR ROCKET PLUME/LUNAR DUST INTERACTIONS AN EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE SOFTWARE PACKAGE NAMED ZMGP (ZONA MULTI-SCALE GASKINETIC/PARTICLE SIMULATION PACKAGE) IS PROPOSED AS A 3D TOOL TO PREDICT THE LUNAR DUST TRAJECTORY AND CRATER FORMATION PROCESS WHEN A RETRO-ROCKET LANDS ON THE LUNAR SURFACE. ZMGP HAS MANY SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING: 1, THE HYBRID FLOW MODULE BY COUPLING THE GASKINETIC BHATNAGAR-GROSS-KROOK (BGK) MODEL AND THE DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO (DSMC) METHOD (BGK/DSMC) TO EFFICIENTLY COMPUTE THE RAREFIED FLOWFIELD; 2. BY DIVIDING THE CRATER INTO DIFFERENT SMALL SLICES, THE DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD (DEM) PROVIDES AN ACCURATE EXTERNAL MASS EROSION RATE (MER) DATABASE; 3. ONE REDUCED ORDER MODELING (ROM) IS BUILT UP FROM THE VAST DEM RUNS WITH THE NEURAL NETWORK (NNW) METHOD, AND THEN COUPLED WITH THE BGK/DSMC MODULE TO PREDICT THE MER FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE; 4. INTEGRATING THE LUNAR CRATER MER RESULTS PROVIDES THE INITIAL VELOCITIES FOR THE DUST PARTICLES OFF THE LUNAR CRATER; 5. ZMGP UTILIZES AN OVERLAY MODULE OR A TWO-SPECIES BGK MODULE ALTERNATIVELY TO PRODUCE THE TRAJECTORIES AND SHOOTOUT VELOCITY OF EJECTED PARTICLES. WITH FINISHED CONCEPT VERIFICATION FOR 2D CASE IN PHASE I, WE PLAN TO FULLY DEVELOP THE SOFTWARE FOR 3D CASE AND VALIDATE IT WITH AVAILABLE EXPERIMENT DATA IN PHASE II.

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• $44,000 - Wednesday the 11th of April 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8604 AFLCMC PZI
  ZAERO SOFTWARE

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• $24,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  ARMSTRONG FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS ZONA TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE

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• $24,000 - Friday the 31st of August 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIR DIV
  ZAERO OPTION III SOFTWARE

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• $17,000 - Sunday the 23rd of September 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER
  ZAERO OPTION III

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• $149,906 - Thursday the 17th of May 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9302 AFTC PZIE
  ZONA TECHNOLOGY, INC. NEW PHASE I - AF12-1-208

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