The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,996 - Tuesday the 15th of November 2011
  Department Of Army
  W6QK ACC-APG
  SBIR PHASE I - TOPIC NO. A11-094

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• $69,918 - Friday the 15th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAIR WARFARE CTR AIRCRAFT DIV LKE
  EXERCISE THE OPTION

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• $68,924 - Thursday the 20th of June 2013
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  AN ALL ELECTRONIC, ADAPTIVE, FOCUSING SCHLIEREN SYSTEM FOR FLIGHT RESEARCH VISUALIZATION OF TURBULENCE AND SHOCK PHENOMENA BY SCHLIEREN IMAGING HAS LED TO IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES IN AERODYNAMICS, AND THERE HAS BEEN MUCH INTEREST IN APPLYING SCHLIEREN METHODS FOR AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCHLIEREN FOR AIRCRAFT IN FLIGHT (SAF) SYSTEMS. SAF IS A TECHNIQUE FOR OBTAINING SCHLIEREN IMAGES OF AIRCRAFT AS THEY FLY PAST THE EDGE OF THE SUN. IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM, IMAGES WERE RECORDED WITH A TIME DELAY AND INTEGRATION (TDI) CAMERA USING SLIT MASKS THAT CONFORMED TO THE EDGE OF THE SUN. PROBLEMS ARISE IF THE CUTOFF MASK IS NOT PRECISELY ALIGNED WITH EDGE OF THE SUN, OR IF THE TDI CAMERA IS NOT ALIGNED AND SYNCHRONIZED WITH THE AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PATH. THESE PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED USING THE SYNTHETIC TDI METHOD, WHERE THE AIRCRAFT TRANSIT OF THE SUN IS RECORDED ON HIGH-SPEED VIDEO, AND THEN THE TDI PROCESS IS CARRIED OUT COMPUTATIONALLY USING PROGRAMMABLE MASKS. SYNTHETIC, TDI-BASED SAF SYSTEMS ARE LESS SENSITIVE TO MOVEMENT OF THE OBSERVATION PLATFORM, AND CAN BE USED WITH NON-COOPERATIVE TARGETS WHOSE FLIGHT PATHS AND VELOCITIES ARE NOT KNOWN IN ADVANCE.

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• $55,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE SCHLIEREN TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN USED FOR FLOW DIAGNOSTICS IN WIND TUNNELS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF AEROSPACE RESEARCH DUE TO ITS ABILITY TO MAKE AIRFLOWS ESPECIALLY SHOCK WAVES AND TURBULENCE VISIBLE. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A NOVEL TYPE OF SCHLIEREN SYSTEM THAT WOULD INCREASE EFFICIENCY, CAPABILITY, AND PRODUCTIVITY FOR GROUND TEST FACILITIES. THE CONCEPT AND THE AVAILABILITY OF STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPONENTS MAKE THE SYSTEM MORE PORTABLE, EASIER TO ALIGN, AND MORE VERSATILE THAN EXISTING SYSTEMS. A MAJOR DRAWBACK OF CURRENT SCHLIEREN SYSTEMS, AND ONE THAT HAS RESTRICTED THEIR WIDESPREAD COMMERCIAL USE, IS THAT THEY REQUIRE EXACT ALIGNMENT BETWEEN A PAIR OF WIDELY SEPARATED MIRRORS OR GRIDS, WHICH TAKES TIME AND LIMITS PORTABILITY, AND COSTS ARE PROHIBITIVE FOR MOST SUCH APPLICATIONS. THIS PROBLEM IS PARTIALLY RELAXED BY FOCUSING SCHLIEREN METHODS. THE PROPOSED CONCEPT INCORPORATES FEATURES OF EXISTING SCHLIEREN SYSTEMS WHILE REMOVING THE PRIMARY LIMITATIONS. ALL OF THE ELEMENTS THAT REQUIRE PRECISE ALIGNMENT ARE CONTAINED WITHIN A CAMERA BODY AND CAN BE RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE. VERY LARGE FIELDS OF VIEW ARE MADE POSSIBLE. THIS IS ADVANTAGEOUS IN WIND TUNNEL FACILITIES, SINCE EXPERIMENTS ARE FREQUENTLY INSTALLED ONLY TO BE TORN DOWN SHORTLY AFTERWARDS.

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• $375,000 - Monday the 25th of June 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL/RQK
  SBIR I I - OPTICAL DAMAGE SENSORS FOR AUTOMATED ON-WING ENGI

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• $25,950 - Monday the 10th of September 2012
  National Institute Of Standards And Technology
  DEPT OF COMM/NAT INST STAND AND TECHNOL
  LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETER

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• $24,981 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  DEVELOPMENT OF THERMOGRAPHIC PHOSPHOR IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR TURBINE BLADE. DIAGNOSTICSMETROLASER S INVOLVEMENT SHALL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING TASKS: ANALYSIS OF THE GATED LIFETIME IMAGING APPROACH FOR 2D TEMPERATURE MAPPING OF TURBINE BLADES USING THERMOGRAPHIC PHOSPHORS, INCLUDING THE DETERMINATION OF OPTIMUM CAMERA OPERATING PARAMETERS AS A FUNCTION OF TEMPERATURE RANGE. EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF RECOMMENDED OPERATING PARAMETERS, INCLUDING CAMERA GATE WIDTHS AND INTER-IMAGE DELAYS, FOR A SELECTED TEMPERATURE RANGE. PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PHOSPHOR LIFETIME IMAGING THERMOMETRY EXPERIMENTS TO BE CONDUCTED IN THE LASER HEAT FLUX RIG AT NASA GRD. PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PHOSPHOR LIFETIME IMAGING THERMOMETRY EXPERIMENTS TO BE CONDUCTED IN A JET ENGINE EXHAUST AT ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER.

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• $149,957 - Wednesday the 25th of April 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA8650 USAF AFMC AFRL/RQK
  FLOW CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASMA FIELD

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