The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $79,292 - Thursday the 23rd of February 2012
  Environmental Protection Agency
  RTP PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS DIVISION (RTPPOD)
  SBIR PHASE I - LOS GATOS RESEARCH

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• $748,675 - Saturday the 29th of March 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTION - LOS GATOS RESEARCH (LGR) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP HIGHLY-ACCURATE, LIGHTWEIGHT, LOW-POWER GAS ANALYZERS FOR MEASUREMENTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2) AND WATER VAPOR (H2O) ABOARD NASAS SENSOR INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL REMOTE RESEARCH AIRCRAFT (SIERRA) UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM (UAS). THESE ANALYZERS, WHICH WILL EXPLOIT BOTH CONVENTIONAL MID AND NEAR-INFRARED TUNABLE DIODE LASER SPECTROMETRY AND LGR'S PATENTED OFF-AXIS ICOS TECHNOLOGY, WILL BE CAPABLE OF MEETING THE STRINGENT WEIGHT, POWER, AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS FOR UAS DEPLOYMENTS. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PHASE II EFFORT, LGR WILL DELIVER AND DEPLOY TWO COMPLETE SYSTEMS. THE FIRST ANALYZER WILL MAKE EXTREMELY RAPID (>20 HZ) AIRBORNE EDDY FLUX COVARIANCE MEASUREMENTS OF CO2 AND H2O. THE SECOND INSTRUMENT WILL MEASURE CO2 ISOTOPES ABOARD SIERRA, ALLOWING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHEMISTRY, TRANSPORT, AND EXCHANGE OF CARBON BETWEEN THE ATMOSPHERE, ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES, AND NATURAL CARBON SINKS AND SOURCES IN THE TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE. AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS ENABLE REGIONAL-SCALE INVESTIGATIONS OF CARBON SOURCES AND SINKS AS WELL AS MEASUREMENTS WHERE CONVENTIONAL TOWER FLUX DEPLOYMENTS ARE INFEASIBLE. THESE DATA WILL COMPLEMENT CURRENT SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS BY PROVIDING HIGHER HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION AND VERTICAL PROFILING, ENABLING BETTER QUANTIFICATION OF CARBON SOURCES AND SINKS. SUCH DEPLOYMENTS ARE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO NASA'S EARTH SCIENCE DIVISION, BECAUSE THEY ENABLE MORE EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE EARTH OBSERVATIONS.

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• $748,216 - Wednesday the 5th of August 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF IN THIS STTR EFFORT, LOS GATOS RESEARCH LGR AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN UW PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A HIGHLY ACCURATE SENSOR FOR HIGH PURITY OXYGEN DETERMINATION. THE ANALYZER, WHICH IS BASED ON LGRS PATENTED OFF AXIS ICOS TECHNIQUE, WILL BE CAPABLE OF RAPIDLY QUANTIFYING HIGH PURITY OXYGEN 95 100 WITH VERY HIGH ACCURACY (BETTER THAN 0.03, MINIMAL CALIBRATION, AND NO ZERO DRIFT. MOREOVER, THE SENSOR WILL REQUIRE NO CONSUMABLES AND BE SUFFICIENTLY COMPACT AND ROBUST FOR DEPLOYMENT ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ISS. IN PHASE I, LGR AND UW SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY BY FABRICATING A PROTOTYPE THAT QUANTIFIED HIGH-PURITY OXYGEN WITH A PRECISION OF 0.017 AND A 24 HOUR DRIFT OF LESS THAN 0.05. THE ANALYZER DISTINGUISHED A 0.1 CHANGE IN HIGHLY PURE OXYGEN AND PROVIDED A LINEAR RESPONSE R2 = 0.999997 OVER A WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE 0 100 OXYGEN. THE PROTOTYPE WAS FOUND TO BE ACCURATE TO 0.07 BY TESTING IT AT NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ON OXYGEN PURIFIED BY THE CABIN AIR SEPARATOR FOR EVA OXYGEN CASEO PROJECT. DUE TO THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM, LGR RELEASED A COMMERCIAL O2 CO2 ANALYZER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS. IN PHASE II, LGR AND UW WILL REFINE THE MEASUREMENT STRATEGY, MINIATURIZE THE HARDWARE, RUGGEDIZE THE ANALYZER, AND TEST THE RESULTING INSTRUMENT. THE MEASUREMENT STRATEGY WILL BE IMPROVED TO REDUCE LONG TERM DRIFT AND EXTENDED TO INCLUDE OTHER SPECIES H2O, O2 ISOTOPES, N2. THE HARDWARE WILL BE MODIFIED TO MEET THE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR DEPLOYMENT ABOARD THE ISS E.G. POWER, SIZE, WEIGHT, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS. THE PROTOTYPE WILL BE MANUFACTURED AND TESTED TO EMPIRICALLY DETERMINE ITS ACCURACY, PRECISION, LINEARITY, LONG TERM DRIFT, AND TIME RESPONSE. FINALLY, THE PHASE II INSTRUMENT WILL BE DELIVERED TO RESEARCHERS IN THE LIFE SUPPORT AND HABITABILITY SYSTEMS BRANCH AT NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTERS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-PURITY OXYGEN GENERATORS.

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• $73,950 - Tuesday the 4th of September 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  WESTERN ACQUISITION DIVISION - BOULDER
  CARBON DIOXIDE ISOTOPE ANALYZER

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• $70,750 - Tuesday the 8th of May 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER
  CO2 H20 ANALYZER

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• $55,624 - Wednesday the 26th of September 2012
  Agricultural Research Service
  USDA ARS WBSC 32SD
  CARBON DIOXIDE ISOTOPE ANALYZER

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• $50,947 - Monday the 16th of July 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  NOVEL MICRO-CAPILLARY ELECTROCHROMATOGRAPHY FOR MARS ORGANIC DETECTOR LOS GATOS RESEARCH PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A POWERFUL NEW TECHNOLOGY - NEXT GENERATION MICRO-CAPILLARY ELECTROCHROMATOGRAPHY - A HIGH PERFORMANCE AND LOW POWER CONSUMPTION MICROFLUIDIC SAMPLE SEPARATION DEVICE SUITABLE FOR SEPARATING ORGANIC MOLECULES AS SIGNATURES AS PAST AND PRESENT LIFE ON MARS. IN THIS PHASE II EFFORT, WE WILL REFINE THIS ENABLING NEW MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED IN PHASE I IN ORDER TO INTEGRATE WITH NASA MARS ORGANIC DETECTOR. SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PHASE II WORK, WE WILL TARGET TWO IMPORTANT CLASSES OF COMPOUNDS: POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS) AND AMINO ACIDS. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE IS TO INTEGRATE THE MICRO-CEC DEVICES WITH THE EXISTING MICOR-CE ANALYZERS TO FORM A DUAL MICRO-CE/MICRO-CEC SYSTEM CAPABLE OF SEPARATING ALL NEUTRAL AND CHARGED ORGANIC MOLECULES TARGETED BY UREY, THUS SIGNIFICANTLY BROADEN NASA ORGANIC SAMPLE SEPARATION CAPABILITY. IN ADDITION, THIS RESEARCH WORK WILL ALSO BE PERFORMED IN PARALLEL WITH EFFORTS TO DEVELOP MICROFLUIDICS DEVICES FOR THE COMMERCIAL ANALYTICAL MARKETS.

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• $50,158 - Tuesday the 1st of November 2011
  Environmental Protection Agency
  HEADQUARTERS PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS DIVISION (HPOD)
  GAS CONCENTRATION ANALYZER SYSTEM

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• $50,000 - Thursday the 5th of June 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  IN THIS SBIR EFFORT, WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP, TEST AND DEPLOY THREE NOVEL COMPACT, RUGGED AND EASY-TO-USE MULTI-GAS ANALYSIS INSTRUMENTS, BASED ON TUNABLE DIODE LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY AND A PATENTED CAVITY-ENHANCED LASER ABSORPTION-BASED STRATEGY CALLED OFF-AXIS INTEGRATED CAVITY OUTPUT SPECTROSCOPY (OFF-AXIS ICOS), FOR MONITORING AND CONTROL OF EXTRAPLANETARY REGOLITH PROCESSING AND OXYGEN PRODUCTION. THE INSTRUMENTS WILL ALSO PROVE USEFUL FOR IN SITU SURFACE ANALYSIS. THE FIRST INSTRUMENT (INSTRUMENT #1), BASED ON FAST EXTRACTIVE SAMPLING, WILL RECORD MEASUREMENTS OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT GAS-PHASE CONSTITUENTS IN REGOLITH PROCESSING FACILITIES WITH EXTRAORDINARILY HIGH SENSITIVITY, ACCURACY AND SPECIFICITY IN REAL TIME. THIS INSTRUMENT WILL INTEGRATE DIRECTLY INTO HYDROGEN AND CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION TEST FACILITIES AT MAUNA KEA, HAWAII. THE MEASUREMENT QUANTITIES OF INTEREST INCLUDE THE CONCENTRATIONS OF HF, HCL, H2S, O2, H2, CH4, CO, CO2, H2O, AND H2O ISOTOPES (H2HO OR HDO AND H218O). THE SECOND INSTRUMENT (INSTRUMENT #2) WILL PROVIDE MEASUREMENTS OF H2O CONCENTRATIONS AND GAS TEMPERATURE DIRECTLY IN THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTIVE FLOW AND PRIOR TO HYDROLYSIS. THE THIRD INSTRUMENT (INSTRUMENT #3) WILL PROVIDE ACCURATE QUANTIFICATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED GASES IN A COMPACT, LOW-POWER FORM FACTOR SUITABLE FOR INTEGRATION INTO THE REGOLITH AND ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND OXYGEN AND LUNAR VOLATILE EXTRACTION (RESOLVE) PROJECT

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• $435 - Wednesday the 11th of April 2012
  National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
  WESTERN ACQUISITION DIVISION - BOULDER
  REBUILD KITS FOR INTERNAL PUMPS ON A N20/CO ANALYZER

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