The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $91,604 - Monday the 27th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE TO STUDY PLASMA FLOW NEAR MARTIAN MINI-MAGNETOSPHERES AND SPECIFICALLY THE FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS OBSERVED NEAR CUSP-LIKE REGIONS. THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY A FEW OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES ON THE CURRENT SYSTEMS NEAR THESE SMALL SCALE MAGNETOSPHERES, SUCH AS FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS ON RADIAL CRUSTAL FIELD LINES BY BRAIN ET AL. (2006) AND DURU ET AL. (2006); AND CURRENT LAYERS OVER THE CLOSED FIELD LINES BY DUBININ ET AL. (2008) AND OPGENOORTH ET AL. (2010). NONE OF THESE STUDIES HAVE REVEALED THE SOURCE MECHANISMS FOR THE CURRENTS, HOW THE CURRENT SYSTEMS CLOSE IN THE MARTIAN IONOSPHERE, AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE CURRENTS ON CHARGED PARTICLE MOTION IN THE IONOSPHERE. SUCH UNDERSTANDING IS POSSIBLE USING EXISTING OBSERVATIONS, AND IS CRUCIAL FOR A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXCHANGE OF PARTICLES AND ENERGY BETWEEN THE SOLAR WIND AND THE MARTIAN IONOSPHERE. ANALYSIS OF CURRENT SYSTEMS NEAR THE SMALL-SCALE MARTIAN MINI-MAGNETOSPHERES SHOULD ALSO PLACE THE AURORAL PLASMA PROCESSES AT EARTH IN A NEW PERSPECTIVE. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING THREE OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS: 1. WHAT TYPES OF CURRENT ARE CREATED AS A RESULT OF INTERACTION OF CRUSTAL FIELDS WITH THE SOLAR WIND AND WHAT ARE THEIR CHARACTERISTICS? 2. WHAT IS THE SOURCE MECHAN SM OF THESE CURRENTS? 3. WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PLASMA TRANSPORT IN THESE CURRENTS AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT THE GLOBAL SOLAR WIND INTERACTION? TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS, WE WILL ANALYZE MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (MGS) MAGNETIC FIELD (MAG) AND ANGULAR ELECTRON (ER) MEASUREMENTS AND COMPILE INPUT CONDITIONS FOR AN MHD MODEL OF MARS SOLAR WIND INTERACTION. ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVE EVENTS IN DETAIL AND ORBIT COMPARISONS TO MODEL CALCULATIONS OBTAINED UNDER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS ALLOW FOR BETTER INTERPRETATION OF THE SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS. MARS EXPRESS (MEX) ION AND ELECTRON MEASUREMENTS WILL ALLOW FOR MULTI-POINT ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATIONS. AT THE END OF THREE-YEAR PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE, WE WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS OBSERVED NEAR CRUSTAL FIELDS, AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, FORMATION MECHANISMS AND CONSEQUENCES. THIS RESEARCH WILL ALSO PROVIDE IMPLICATIONS ABOUT THE PARTICLE AND ENERGY EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE SOLAR WIND AND THE MARTIAN IONOSPHERE, AURORAL PROCESSES AND ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION AT MARS.

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• $900,000 - Monday the 26th of March 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  PHASE A CONCEPT STUDY FOR HESSI INVESTIGATION

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• $9,000 - Saturday the 1st of December 2012
  Forest Service
  PACIFIC SOUTHWEST REGION
  IGF::CT::IGF CRITICAL FUNCTION UC BERKLEY CAMP FOR LAWYERS- RENTAL OF FACILITY TO HOLD WORKSHOP

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• $85,034 - Thursday the 29th of September 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE EARTH'S IONOSPHERE VARIES DRAMATICALLY ON A WIDE RANGE OF TEMPORAL SCALES. FINDING THE SOURCE OF THIS VARIABILITY IS A KEY PRIORITY OF THE NASA GEOSPACE SCIENCE PROGRAM. PREVIOUS CASE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT SOME OF THE DAY-TO-DAY VARIABILITY OBSERVED IN THE IONOSPHERE IS CORRELATED WITH ATMOSPHERIC PLANETARY WAVES OF THE SAME FREQUENCY. HOWEVER, SUCH CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE PLANETARY WAVE FREQUENCIES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND THEIR APPARENT SIGNATURES IN THE IONOSPHERE ONLY OCCUR SOME FRACTION OF THE TIME. EXACTLY HOW PLANETARY WAVES MAY IMPACT THE IONOSPHERE IS NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD; THEIR ACTION MAY BE VIA DIRECT FORCING, OR THEY MAY ACT VIA AN INTERMEDIARY SUCH AS GRAVITY WAVES OR TIDES, THAT CARRIES THEIR SIGNATURE TO HIGHER ALTITUDES. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PLANETARY-WAVES WITH SIMILAR FREQUENCIES, WHICH CAN INTERACT DIFFERENTLY WITH THE REST OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THEREFORE, A STUDY OF THE WAVE FREQUENCIES ALONE WOULD CLASSIFY TWO OR MORE DIFFERENT WAVES AS THE SAME, WHICH WOULD ACCOUNT FOR THE APPARENTLY INTERMITTENT RESPONSE IN THE IONOSPHERE. WHAT IS NEEDED IS A STUDY OF SEVERAL YEARS OF DATA TO IDENTIFY EACH UNIQUE WAVE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY THE RESPONSE OF THE IONOSPHERE. HERE WE PROPOSE A 3-YEAR STUDY IN WHICH WE WILL USE AN IDEAL COMBINATION OF GROUND-BASED (EQUATORIAL METEOR RADARS) AND SPACE-BASED (TIMED-SABER, AURA-MLS) OBSERVATIONS TO IDENTIFY THE OCCURRENCE OF EACH WAVE (FREQUENCY, ZONAL WAVENUMBER ETC.) AND COMPARE THESE TO THE BEHAVIOR OF THE IONOSPHERE USING DATA FROM THE INTERNATIONAL GNSS SERVICE AND COSMIC SATELLITE CONSTELLATION. IDENTIFYING WHICH ACTUAL WAVES IN THE ATMOSPHERE ARE DEMONSTRABLY MOST INFLUENTIAL IN CREATING TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN THE IONOSPHERE (AND WHICH ARE NOT) WILL BE A VITAL STEP TOWARDS BOTH UNDERSTANDING HOW VARIABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE CREATES VARIABILITY IN THE IONOSPHERE AND IN DEFINING WHAT OBSERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY THE UPCOMING INCA MISSION. FORM NRESS-

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• $80 - Wednesday the 27th of June 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVY MEDICINE PROFESSIONAL
  TUITION AND FEES

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• $789,087 - Wednesday the 9th of July 2014
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  PHASE A THROUGH F - ICON. THIS CONTRACT IS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UCB) AT BERKELEY SPACE SCIENCES LABORATORY, THE PRIME CONTRACTUAL INTERFACE FOR NASA FOR THE IONOSPHERIC CONNECTION EXPLORER (LCON) MISSION INVESTIGATION TEAM, THAT COVERS PHASE A OF THE MISSION. THE NASA AO IS NNHIIZDA0020. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) DR. THOMAS IMMEL, UCB WILL BE THE PRINCIPAL CONTRACTOR TO NASA FOR ICON. UCB SHALL CONDUCT THE PHASE A CONCEPT STUDY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONCEPT STUDY GUIDELINES. IN PERFORMANCE OF THIS STUDY, THE ICON TEAM SHALL: A. CONDUCT TRADE AND RISK REDUCTION STUDIES; B. UPDATE AND REFINE THE EXISTING MISSION COST ESTIMATES AND FINANCIAL PLAN; C. INTEGRATE AND DELIVER TO NASA ALL SUBCONTRACTOR AND UCB FINANCIAL REPORTS; D. DEVELOP PLAN FOR EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT TO BE IN PLACE DURING PHASES C AND D; E. DEVELOP THE MISSION IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR PHASE B/CID, AND E; F. DEFME THE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN AND DEVELOP MITIGATION STRATEGIES; G. OUTLINE THE FABRICATION, INTEGRATION, TEST, AND OPERATION OF THE SYSTEM; H. DEFINE THE EDUCATION, OUTREACH, TECHNOLOGY, AND SMALL BUSINESS DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS PLANS; I. DEVELOP A PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (PAIP); J. DEVELOP A PRELIMINARY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PLAN; K. DOCUMENT THE RESULTS OF THE STUDIES IN THE PHASE A CONCEPT STUDY REPORT; AND L. PRESENT THE ICON CONCEPT TO THE NASA ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR.

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• $75,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  A RESEARCH PROGRAM IS PROPOSED TO STUDY THE FLAMMABILITY (IGNITION AND FLAME SPREAD) OF SEVERAL THIN MATERIALS, PARTICULARLY FABRICS AND THIN THERMOPLASTICS, THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE USED IN THE TESTS PLANNED IN THE FIRE SAFETY-1 PROJECT. THE FIRE SAFETY-1 PROJECT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND THE BEHAVIOUR OF FIRES IN SPACECRAFT ENVIRONMENTS BY CONDUCTING RELATIVELY LARGE SCALE FIRE EXPERIMENTS IN AN UNMANNED BUT PRESSURIZED CARGO TRANSFER VEHICLE SUCH AS THE ESA AUTOMATED TRANSFER VEHICLE (ATV), AFTER IT HAS COMPLETED ITS SUPPLY MISSION TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. CURRENTLY IT IS PLANNED TO CONDUCT OPPOSED AND/OR CONCURRENT FLAME SPREAD EXPERIMENTS OVER THIN MATERIALS THAT BORDERLINE PASS OR NOT PASS THE NASA FLAMMABILITY TEST 1. THE TYPE OF MATERIALS BEING CONSIDERED ARE THIN MATERIALS, PRIMARILY COTTON FABRICS OR COTTON/POLYMER FABRIC BLENDS. THE PROPOSED STUDIES AIM TO UNDERSTAND THE FLAMMABILITY OF THESE TYPES OF MATERIALS TO GUIDE IN THE SELECTION OF THE MOST APPROPRIATE MATERIALS TO BE USED IN THE FIRE SAFETY-1, OR SUBSEQUENT, PROJECTS. THE RESULTS FROM BOTH THE GROUND AND SPACE BASED EXPERIMENTS WILL ALSO BE USED TO VERIFY THE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES OF THIN COMPLEX MATERIALS FLAMMABILITY MODELS. THE TESTING METHODOLOGY PROPOSED CONSISTS OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF FLAMMABILITY DIAGRAMS (IGNITION AND FLAME SPREAD) AT NORMAL PRESSURE AND SUB-PRESSURE CONDITIONS FOR A SERIES OF MATERIALS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE USED IN THE ATV EXPERIMENTS. THE EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN FACILITIES ALREADY DEVELOPED AT UCB UNDER NASA SPONSORSHIP, SPECIFICALLY A STANDARD ATMOSPHERE FLAMMABILITY APPARATUS AND A BENCH-SCALE FLAMMABILITY TEST FIST, AND A SPACE EXPLORATION ATMOSPHERE FLAMMABILITY APPARATUS -FIST/SEA. THE TESTING METHODOLOGY WILL FOLLOW AN APPROACH CURRENTLY USED AT UCB TO STUDY THE FLAMMABILITY OF FIRE RESISTANT FABRIC MATERIALS AND WILL BE SUPPORTED WITH THEORETICAL MODELING OF THE IGNITION AND FLAME SPREAD PROCESS ON THIN COMPLEX MATERIALS. THIS RESEARCH TOGETHER WITH THE FIRE SAFETY-1 AND SUBSEQUENT PROJECTS COULD LEAD TO BETTER DETERMINATION AND RANKING OF THE FIRE HAZARD CHARACTERISTICS OF POTENTIAL MATERIALS TO BE USED IN SPACE-BASED ENVIRONMENTS, WHICH ARE NECESSARY CRITERIA FOR AN ADEQUATE FIRE PROTECTION DESIGN FOR SPACE-BASED FACILITIES.

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• $72,622 - Thursday the 30th of April 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  DEVELOPING RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF POYNTING FLUX FROM HMI OBSERVATIONS OF ACTIVE REGION MAGNETIC FIELDS ULTIMATELY, THE MAGNETIC ENERGY IN THE SUN'S ATMOSPHERE --- THE SOURCE OF DRAMATIC ERUPTIVE EVENTS SUCH AS FLARES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS --- IS GENERATED BELOW THE PHOTOSPHERE IN THE TURBULENT, DIFFERENTIALLY-ROTATING CONVECTIVE INTERIOR. THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MAGNETIC FLUX INTO THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE, THE TWISTING AND SHEARING OF EMERGED MAGNETIC FLUX BY TURBULENT MOTIONS, AND ALFVEN AND MAGNETO-ACOUSTIC WAVES FROM INTERMITTENT TURBULENT EDDIES ARE ALL VIABLE MECHANISMS THAT CAN TRANSPORT MAGNETIC ENERGY INTO THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT WE UNDERSTAND THESE PHYSICAL PROCESSES AND BE ABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THEM. THUS, WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AND APPLY TECHNIQUES TO DERIVE QUANTITATIVE MAPS OF THE FLUX OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY INTO THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE FROM BELOW THE VISIBLE SURFACE. THESE TECHNIQUES WILL BE BASED ON THE RECENTLY-DEVELOPED POLOIDAL-TOROIDAL DECOMPOSITION (PTD) METHOD OF ET AL. (2010), AND WILL USE OBSERVATIONS OF THE EVOLVING VECTOR MAGNETIC FIELD AT THE SOLAR PHOTOSPHERE, AND OBSERVED DOPPLER FLOWS. SPECIFICALLY, THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE TO (1) INCORPORATE DOPPLER LINE-OF-SIGHT DATA AND SEQUENCES OF VECTOR MAGNETOGRAMS FROM HMI INTO THE PTD FORMALISM TO DERIVE RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF THE PHOTOSPHERIC ELECTRIC FIELD AND THE ELECTROMAGNETIC POYNTING FLUX; (2) VALIDATE THIS METHOD WITH NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART MHD SIMULATIONS OF THE SOLAR INTERIOR AND ATMOSPHERE WHERE THE ELECTRIC FIELD AND POYNTING FLUX ARE KNOWN; (3) CREATE ROBUST AND EFFICIENT ELECTRIC FIELD AND POYNTING FLUX MAPPING SOFTWARE TO BE RELEASED TO THE HELIOPHYSICS COMMUNITY AND TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE HMI JOINT SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER; AND (4) APPLY THIS METHOD TO HMI DATA FOR A DIVERSE SAMPLE OF ACTIVE REGIONS.

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• $715,000 - Wednesday the 18th of July 2012
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
  STEREO PHASE A CONCEPT STUDY FOR INSITU_POP5-22-00 MEASUREMENTS OF PARTICLES&CME TRANSIENTS(IMPACT)

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• $705,082 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  WE PROPOSE THE HELIOPHYSICS EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH FORUM (HEPOF) COMPOSED OF A COLLABORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY S SPACE SCIENCES LABORATORY (UCBISSL), UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER'S LABORATORY OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE PHYSICS (CUILASP), AND CHICAGO'S ADLER PLANETARIUM AND ASTRONOMY MUSEUM. OUR TEAM OF SCIENTISTS, EDUCATORS, AND PROFESSIONALS BRINGS TOGETHER MEMBERS OF NASA'S SUN-EARTH CONNECTION EDUCATION FORUM AND EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH (EIPO) LEADS OF NASA SCIENCE MISSIONS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITH EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN HIGHER EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, INFORMAL EDUCATION, AND GENERAL OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC. WE PROPOSE TO SERVE THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS EIPO COMMUNITY WITH INNOVATIVE, STRATEGIC, AND SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCES FROM PRIOR EFFORTS. OUR OBJECTIVE WITH HEPOF IS: TO INCREASE THE OVERALL COHERENCE OF THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS EIPO PROGRAM, BY COORDINATING AND SUPPORTING THE HELIOPHYSICS E/PO COMMUNITY, LEADING TO MORE EFFECTIVE, SUSTAINABLE, AND EFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF HELIOPHYSICS SCIENCE DISCOVERIES AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES. HEPOF WILL BUILD ON OUR TEAM'S PREVIOUS FORUM WORK AND WILL BE DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO COORDINATING AND SUPPORTING THE HELIOPHYSICS EIPO COMMUNITY AND SERVING NASA SMD. NEW AREAS OF FOCUS AND SERVICES PROVIDED WILL INCLUDE: AN ADDED HIGHER EDUCATION AUDIENCE FOCUS; STRONGER INFORMAL EDUCATION FOCUS; STRONGER CONNECTIONS TO SCIENTISTS; AND NEW DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING SERVICES. THE WORK OF HEPOF WILL BE IN THREE AREAS: 1. EIPO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, 2. HELIOPHYSICS EIPO PRODUCT AND PROJECT ACTIVITY ANALYSIS, AND 3. SEPOF COORDINATION COMMITTEE SERVICE. A PROFESSIONAL EVALUATOR WILL AID US IN ENSURING THE QUALITY OF OUR WORK. THE EFFORTS OF OUR TEAM WILL TAKE THE HELIOPHYSICS E/PO COMMUNITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE THROUGH DEVELOPMENT AND COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES THAT PROVIDE COHERENCE AND EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE.

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