The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $55,500 - Tuesday the 28th of August 2012
  National Institute Of Standards And Technology
  DEPT OF COMM/NAT INST STAND AND TECHNOL
  UPGRADE TO EXISTING LDA

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• $49,600 - Wednesday the 19th of September 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA2823 AFTC PZIO
  UPGRADE EXISTING PDI FLIGHT PROBE

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• $364,043 - Friday the 27th of April 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6EC PEO STRI ORLANDO
  PHASE II YEAR 1

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• $292,887 - Wednesday the 26th of September 2012
  Department Of Army
  W4GG HQ US ARMY TACOM
  DEVELOPMENT OF IN-LINE OPTICAL FUEL SENSOR

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• $149,598 - Thursday the 2nd of February 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL/RQK
  SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY RESOLVED IMAGING OF DENSE SPRAYS

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• $124,945 - Wednesday the 19th of December 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS EFFORT PROPOSES TO DESIGN, BUILD, AND DEMONSTRATE A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR ICING RESEARCH AND FLIGHT SAFETY CAPABLE OF DISCRIMINATING LIQUID WATER FROM ICE WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY MEASURING THE DIAMETER, VELOCITY, AND TEMPERATURE OF DROPLETS OR THE VELOCITY AND SIZE FOR ICE CRYSTALS. FROM THESE INDIVIDUAL PARTICLE CHARACTERISTICS THE TOTAL LIQUID WATER CONTENT (LWC) AND THE TOTAL WATER CONTENT (TWC) OF THE FLOW MAY BE FOUND. THIS NON-INTRUSIVE, LASER-BASED, POINT MEASUREMENT DIAGNOSTIC WILL OPERATE IN AN OFF-AXIS, BACK SCATTER CONFIGURATION AT A RANGE OF WORKING DISTANCES APPROPRIATE TO CHARACTERIZE LABORATORY-SCALE EXPERIMENTS, ICING TUNNEL FLOWS, FREE JET TEST FACILITIES, OR FLIGHT CONDITIONS AT ALTITUDE. THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT WILL APPLY PHASE-DOPPLER INTERFEROMETRY, POLARIZATION RATIO PHASE DISCRIMINATION, DROPLET RAINBOW THERMOMETRY, AND CROSS-POLARIZATION IMAGING TO EACH PARTICLE MEASURED (SEE PART 4 FOR DETAILS ON THESE TECHNIQUES). THIS WILL PROVIDE JOINT MEASURES OF LIQUID/SOLID PHASE, VELOCITY, DIAMETER OR PARTICLE SIZE, AND DROPLET TEMPERATURE. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS REDUNDANCY BUILT INTO THE MEASUREMENTS. FOR INSTANCE, THE DROPLET DIAMETER CAN BE MEASURED BOTH BY PHASE-DOPPLER INTERFEROMETRY AND BY RAINBOW THERMOMETRY AND ALL FOUR MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES CAN DISCRIMINATE SOLID ICE FROM LIQUID DROPLETS. WHILE NO SINGLE INSTRUMENT CAN MEASURE ALL POSSIBLE CLOUD DROPLETS, THE PROPOSED INSTRUMENT CAN BE CONFIGURED TO MEASURE DROPLETS FROM AS SMALL AS 3?M TO LARGER THAN 3 MM IN DIAMETER.

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• $124,615 - Monday the 3rd of December 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESS INNOVATIONS TO THE LASER-INDUCED INCANDESCENCE METHOD AIMED AT (1) IMPROVING THE LOWER DETECTION LIMIT OF SOOT VOLUME FRACTION BY AS MUCH AS TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE AND INCREASING OVERALL MEASUREMENT RANGE BY TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE TO MEET NEW REGULATION THAT ARE IN PLACE OR ANTICIPATED AND (2) PROVIDE PM MEAN VOLUMETRIC PARTICLE SIZE AND NUMBER DENSITY MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES. THE PROPOSED ADVANCES IN THE LII TECHNIQUE WILL SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE THE CAPABILITIES FOR REAL-TIME PARTICULATE MATTER MEASUREMENTS OVER ANY ENGINE TRANSIENT OPERATION. IT WILL ALSO HAVE SEVERAL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE GREATER SENSITIVITY THAN THE GRAVIMETRIC TECHNIQUES OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE METHOD. THE WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE AND LOWER DETECTION LIMIT OF LII WILL MAKE THIS TECHNIQUE THE PREFERRED STANDARD INSTRUMENT FOR PARTICULATE MATTER MEASUREMENTS.

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• $1,000 - Friday the 17th of February 2012
  National Institute Of Standards And Technology
  DEPT OF COMM/NAT INST STAND AND TECHNOL
  DIAGNOSE PROBLEMS WITH LDV DATA RATE

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