The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $99,946 - Thursday the 9th of February 2012
  Missile Defense Agency
  MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY (MDA)
  PH I RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT

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• $99,876 - Wednesday the 26th of September 2012
  Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
  MODIFICATION OF WIDEBAND MODEL (WMBOD)

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• $87,136 - Tuesday the 14th of August 2012
  Department Of Army
  W071 ENDIST PORTLAND
  TRUE OPTION PERIOD 3 (FY12-FY13)

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• $82,827 - Monday the 18th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)

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• $80,093 - Tuesday the 14th of June 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  AMES RESEARCH CENTER
  CONTRACTOR SHALL USE MEASUREMENTS FROM THE AIRBORNE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE EXPERIMENT (ATTREX) TO UNDERSTAND WAVE DYNAMICS IN THE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER (TTL). ATTREX IS AN AIRCRAFT ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLING MISSION USING NASA'S GLOBAL HAWK HIGH ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT. THIS CONTRACT WILL INCLUDE A BASE PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE AND FOUR (4) OPTION PERIODS OF 12 MONTHS EACH.

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• $70,413 - Tuesday the 29th of November 2011
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA HEADQUARTERS
  MODELING OF GRAVITY WAVE AND TIDAL INFLUENCES ON LOW- AND MID-LATITUDE PLASMA DYNAMICS THE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF THIS EFFORT ARE TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GRAVITY WAVE (GW) AND TIDAL MOTIONS, THEIR INTERACTIONS, AND THEIR INFLUENCES ON PLASMA DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITIES, SPECIFICALLY TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (TLDS), EQUATORIAL PLASMA BUBBLES (EPBS), AND SPORADIC-E LAYERS AND THEIR COUPLING TO THE F LAYER, OCCURRING IN THE LOW AND MID-LATITUDE E AND F REGIONS. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES INCLUDE: 1.HOW DOES GW PROPAGATION AND FILTERING INDUCED BY TIDES ENABLE NEUTRAL AND PLASMA PERTURBATIONS HAVING ORIENTATIONS CONDUCIVE TO PLASMA BUBBLE SEEDING AT THE BOTTOMSIDE F LAYER, AND WHAT ARE THE PLASMA RESPONSES? 2. HOW DO GIVS, PERHAPS VIA TIDAL FILTERING, CONTRIBUTE NEUTRAL PERTURBATIONS THAT TRIGGER TLDS AT LOW- AND MID-LATITUDES, AND WHAT ARE THE PLASMA RESPONSES TO THESE NEUTRAL MOTIONS? 3. HOW DO TIDES AND GWS CONTRIBUTE TO DESCENDING SHEAR LAYERS THAT INDUCE NEUTRAL TURBULENCE, AND HOW DO THESE CONTRIBUTE TO SPORADIC-E-IAYER FORMATION AND COUPLING TO THE F LAYER? WE WILL EMPLOY A VERSATILE, ANELASTIC CODE DESCRIBING 2D OR 3D NEUTRAL GW DYNAMICS SPANNING MULTIPLE SCALE HEIGHTS AND A LOCAL REPRESENTATION OF TIDAL MOTIONS PROVIDING THE GW PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT. THE NEUTRAL FIELDS GENERATED BY THIS CODE WILL BE EMPLOYED AS INPUTS TO THE SAMI13 AND SAMI3/ESF PLASMA MODELS TO EXAMINE THE PLASMA RESPONSES TO THESE NEUTRAL FIELDS. INITIAL EFFORTS WILL FOCUS ON THE LARGER-SCALE DYNAMICS IN OBJECTIVES 1 AND 2. CAPABILITIES FOR MODELING OF SMALL-SCALE NEUTRAL SHEAR LAYERS ARE IN PLACE AND WILL SUPPORT PLASMA STUDIES OF SPORADIC E LAYERS AS THE PLASMA CODE ACHIEVES A POTENTIAL FOR HIGHER SPATIAL RESOLUTION. OUR ANELASTIC CODE IS THE ONLY CODE AT PRESENT THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO DEFINE THESE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS SPANNING MULTIPLE SCALE HEIGHTS AND DYNAMICAL SCALES IN 3D. SAMI3IS LIKEWISE THE ONLY PLASMA CODE CAPABLE OF SIMULATING PLASMA BUBBLE DEVELOPMENT ON A GLOBAL SCALE. ADDITIONALLY, WE WILL PERFORM DIRECT COMPARISONS OF OUR MODEL RESULTS WITH OBSERVATIONS AND WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY ADDRESSING THE FOCUSED SCIENCE TOPIC "LOW- TO MID-LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES AND TURBULENCE" IN ADDRESSING: THE FOLLOWING SCIENCE OBJECTIVES: 1. UNDERSTANDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LARGE-SCALE IONOSPHERIC PROCESSES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRON DENSITY IRREGULARITIES; 2. QUANTIFYJNG THE ROLE OF E AND F REGION COUPLING ON THESE INSTABILITIES; AND 3. IMPROVING MODELS OF F REGION PLASMA INSTABILITIES. OUR PROPOSED STUDIES WILL ADDRESS THREE TOPICS THAT ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD AT PRESENT AND WHICH ARE CENTRAL TO AN IMPROVED CHARACTERIZATION OF NEUTRAL -PLASMA INTERACTIONS AT MULTIPLE LATITUDES, ALTITUDES, AND SPATIAL SCALES. WE EXPECT OUR RESULTS TO SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCE BOTH OUR UNDERSTANDING OF, AND OUR MODELING CAPABILITIES FOR DESCRIBING, THESE DYNAMICS IN A QUANTITATIVE MANNER.

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• $500,000 - Monday the 2nd of April 2012
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9453 DET 8 AFRL PKV8
  MIT MODELING

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• $49,983 - Wednesday the 19th of November 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  IGF::OT::IGF OTHER FUNCTIONS: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ME0 DISAMBIGUATION INTO THE HMI PIPELINE WILL BE COMPLETED, INCLUDING RELEVANT DOCUMENTATION. THIS TASK INCLUDES WRITING AND SUBMITTING A PEER-REVIEWED MANUSCRIPT DESCRIBING THE CODE AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. ADDITIONAL DUTIES WILL BE PERFORMED AS ASSIGNED AND AS MUTUALLY AGREEABLE TO ALL PARTIES.

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• $42,598 - Monday the 21st of November 2011
  Department Of Air Force
  FA9453 DET 8 AFRL PKV8
  MIT MODELING

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• $42,426 - Tuesday the 19th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH
  RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PHYSICAL, ENGINEERING, AND LIFE SCIENCES (EXCEPT BIOTECHNOLOGY)

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