The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $96,737 - Thursday the 31st of March 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS A CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP POSITION DURING THE SEAC4RS CAMPAIGN. WE PROPOSE TO ANALYZE PAST DATA INCLUDING 16 YEARS (1994 TILL NOW) OF AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS (MOZAIC) AND COLLOCATED SATELLITE DATA (ISCCP), AND A-TRAIN OBSERVATIONS OVER THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGION TO HELP FLIGHT PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCIENCE PLANS. SPECIFICALLY, WE PROPOSED TO ANALYZE MOZAIC IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF H2O, O3 AND OTHER TRACE GASES (E.G., CO AND NOX) IN THE VICINITY OF CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW, IN CONJUNCTION WITH COLLOCATED SATELLITE DATA, TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF DEEP CONVECTION ON THE UT/LS COMPOSITION. THIS KIND OF ANALYSIS USING MOZAIC DATA HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE AND PUBLISHED BY THE PI AND COLLEAGUES FOR THE ATLANTIC REGION, WHERE COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS ARE FREQUENT EN ROUTE FROM BRAZIL TO EUROPE. BUT SINCE MOZAIC FLIGHTS ALSO COVER THE SEAC4RS REGION, WE PROPOSE TO EXPAND OUR PREVIOUS STUDY TO ALSO INCLUDE THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN MONSOON REGION. ANOTHER IMPORTANT QUESTION WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE IS: HOW WILL DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONVECTIVE SYSTEM AFFECT UT/LS COMPOSITION DIFFERENTLY? IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THERE IS MORE THAN JUST ONE TYPE OF TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTION: THERE ARE ISOLATED CONVECTIVE PLUMES (LIKE THOSE DURING THE MONSOON BREAK) AND THERE ARE ORGANIZED CONVECTION SUCH AS MCS. FOR EACH TYPE, THERE IS PENETRATIVE DEEP CONVECTION VERSUS ORDINARY DEEP CONVECTION. RECENT STUDY SUGGESTS THAT DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS AFFECT UT/LS COMPOSITION DIFFERENTLY. THEREFORE, WE PROPOSE TO SORT OUT THESE DIFFERENT EFFECTS USING 16 YEARS OF MOZAIC AND SATELLITE DATA. IDEALLY, THE PLANNED 12 FLIGHTS FOR THE SEAC4RS CAMPAIGN CAN BE DIVIDED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE OUTFLOW OF EACH OF THESE DIFFERENT CONVECTIVE TYPES IS SAMPLED BY ONE OR SEVERAL FLIGHTS DURING THE TWO-MONTH CAMPAIGN PERIOD. FINALLY, WE ALSO PROPOSE TO GO TO THE FIELD TO USE REAL-TIME DATA TO HELP GUIDE FLIGHT DEPLOYMENT. THE PI HAS BEEN A SCIENCE TEAM MEMBER OF THE MOZAIC PROJECT SINCE 2005 AND HAS PUBLISHED SEVERAL PAPERS SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THE USE OF MOZAIC AND CORRELATIVE SATELLITE DATA TO STUDY WATER VAPOR AND OZONE IN THE OUTFLOW OF TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTION. RECENTLY AS A MEMBER OF THE CLOUDSAT/CALIPSO TEAM, THE PI HAS STARTED A NEW LINE OF RESEARCH THAT SEEKS TO USE A-TRAIN DATA TO UNDERSTAND TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTIVE PROCESSES AND PROPERTIES. ALL THESE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES HAVE PREPARED THE PI FOR THE SEAC4RS CAMPAIGN. MOREOVER, BEING A JUNIOR SCIENTIST, THE PI HAS STRONG INTEREST IN BROADENING HIS RESEARCH SCOPE AND GAINING FIELD EXPERIENCE, AS WELL AS MAKING HIS SATELLITE EXPERTISE USEFUL TO THE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FIELDWORK. FORM NRESS-

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• $76,537 - Friday the 29th of January 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  SNOW IS A MAJOR ELEMENT OF THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLES, COVERING A LARGE PORTION OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE DURING WINTER TIME. KNOWLEDGE OF THE WATER STORED IN SNOWPACKS (E.G., SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SWE) IS CRUCIAL FOR MANY APPLICATIONS SUCH AS GLOBAL ENERGY BALANCE, REGIONAL OR GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, FRESH WATER BUDGET ESTIMATION AND WEATHER PREDICTION. IMPROVED ESTIMATES OF SNOW STORAGE CAN INDEED BENEFIT HYDROLOGICAL AND GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS, FORECAST OF DROUGHT AND FLOODS AND ESTIMATION OF DRINKABLE WATER. DAILY OPERATIONAL ESTIMATES OF SWE ARE CURRENTLY OBTAINED FROM THE ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EOS (AMSR-E), LAUNCHED ON NASA##S EOS AQUA SPACECRAFT ON MAY 4, 2002. THE AMSR-E SWE PRODUCT IS ONE OF THE FIVE KEY CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE PRODUCTS, BEING THE LATEST IN A LINEAGE OF MEASUREMENTS DATING BACK TO 1979 (SMMR AND SSM/I RADIOMETERS). IN THIS PROJECT, WE PROPOSE TO MAINTAIN AND REFINE THE CURRENT OPERATIONAL AMSR-E SWE ALGORITHM, WHICH, DIFFERENTLY FROM THE PREVIOUS ONES, MAKES USE OF A DYNAMIC APPROACH FOR ACCOUNTING FOR THE EVOLUTION OF SNOW ALONG THE SEASON. WE PROPOSE TO MAINTAIN THE CURRENT NASA AMSR-E ALGORITHM FOR HIGH QUALITY RETRIEVALS OF GLOBAL SWE ON A DAILY, PENTAD AND MONTHLY BASIS THROUGH PERIODIC MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS ON THE SOFTWARE, ITS MODIFICATION AND TESTING DUE TO REFINEMENT AND THE COMPILATION OF RELEASE NOTES FOR COLLEAGUES AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. WE WILL REFINE THE CURRENT ALGORITHM BY IMPROVING ITS CAPABILITY OF ACCOUNTING FOR DYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF SNOW; BY REDUCING THE UNCERTAINTY ON THE RETRIEVAL BY ACCOUNTING FOR RECENTLY DEVELOPED ALGORITHM BY THE CURRENT SCIENCE TEAM REGARDING WET/DRY SNOW DISCRIMINATION, WATER BODIES AND VEGETATION; BY CONTINUING THE PRODUCTION OF ERROR MAPS BASED ON PER-PIXEL STANDARD DEVIATIONS OF SWE AND UNCERTAINTY MAPS DERIVED FROM AN ANALYTICAL ESTIMATION OF UNCERTAINTY OF THE RETRIEVED SWE; BY CONTINUING THE VALIDATION OF THE CURRENT ALGORITHM (WHICH WAS VALIDATED TO VALIDATION STAGE I AT THE TIME OF THE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND WILL BE MIGRATED TO VALIDATION STAGE II BY THE END OF THE CURRENT MANDATE); BY EXTENDING AND APPLYING THE CURRENT ALGORITHM FOR IMPLEMENTATION BACK TO SSM/I AND SMMR DATA AND PERFORMING AN ANALYSIS AIMING AT STUDYING THE PORTABILITY OF THE CURRENT OPERATIONAL APPROACH TO FUTURE MISSIONS AND SENSORS, SUCH AS GCOM-W AND NPOESS. ONE NOVELTY IN THE OPERATIONAL PRODUCT THAT WE INTEND TO IMPLEMENT IS THE USE OF EMISSIVITIES OR NORMALIZED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES (TBS). THIS AIMS AT REDUCING THE UNCERTAINTY ON SWE RETRIEVAL DUE TO SHORT-TERM FLUCTUATIONS OF KINETIC TEMPERATURE AND WILL PROVIDE A MORE ROBUST FRAMEWORK FOR THE OPERATIONAL PRODUCT. THIS IS AN EOS INSTRUMENT-SPECIFIC PROJECT PRIMARILY ADDRESSING THE CALL FOR SOLICITED PROPOSALS FOR ALGORITHMS EXISTING DATA PRODUCT REFINEMENT. IN PARTICULAR, THIS PROJECT AIMS AT CONTINUING SCIENCE TEAM MEMBERS WHO WISH TO MAINTAIN OR MODESTLY REFINE THE DERIVED PRODUCT FOR ANY OF THE CURRENTLY-APPROVED ATBD ALGORITHMS. A PARALLEL PROPOSAL ADDRESSING A SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH EFFORT FOR MAINTENANCE AND REFINEMENT ARE RESPONSIVE TO SECTION 2.2 ON SCIENCE DATA ANALYSIS WILL BE SUBMITTED SEPARATELY, AS SUGGESTED IN THE PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS. THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE EOS SCIENCE MISSIONS TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF LONG-TERM, CONSISTENT, AND VALIDATED DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE EOS SPACECRAFT; THE NASA ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE ULTIMATE GOAL OF IMPROVING THE NATIONS ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE PREDICTION CAPABILITY; THE GOAL OF THE NASA TERRESTRIAL HYDROLOGY PROGRAM TO DEVELOP THE CAPABILITY TO REMOTELY SENSE WATER AT OR BELOW THE EARTHS LAND SURFACE, AS WELL AS OBSERVE AND UNDERSTAND THE INTERFACES OF THESE WATER STORES WITH THE ATMOSPHERE, CRYOSPHERE, AND OCEANS.

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• $39,478 - Tuesday the 15th of May 2012
  Department Of Army
  W6QM MICC-CARLISLE BARRACKS
  CITY COLLEGE OF NY ACADEMIC COLLOQUIA

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• $111,700 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS EFFORT COMBINES THE FINAL YEAR OF ACTIVITIES UNDER TWO TASKS. ACTIVITIES UNDER THIS INVESTIGATION SUPPORT (1) THE MAPPING OF SELECTED WETLANDS REGIONS OF NORTHERN EURASIA WITHIN THE NEESPI DOMAIN AND OF NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS REGIONS, FOCUSING PRIMARILY IN ALASKA AND CANADA AND (2) THE MAPPING OF LANDSCAPE FREEZE-THAW TRANSITIONS IN NORTH AMERICA. THESE TASKS ARE COORDINATED WITH JOINT ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY SCIENCE INVESTIGATORS AT THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. COLLABORATIONS ARE ALSO IN PLACE WITH COLLEAGUES AT THE INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, QUEBEC, CANADA, AND WITH THE SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE-PASSIVE (SMAP) PROJECT. THE EFFORTS REMAINING IN THE FINAL YEAR OF THIS STUDY WILL BE COORDINATED WITH EFFORTS IN PLACE WITH INVESTIGATORS AND COLLABORATORS AT THESE INSTITUTES. TASKS PLANNED TO BE CARRIED OUT DURING THIS FINAL YEAR ARE SUMMARIZED BELOW. COMPLETE PALSAR BASED CLASSIFICATION OF NEESPI DOMAIN SUB REGIONS, COMPLETING THE COLLECTION OF BASINS CLASSIFIED. COMPLETE INTEGRATION OF JERS AND PALSAR-BASED WETLANDS CLASSIFICATIONS INTO HYDROLOGIC PROCESS MODELING FRAMEWORK AND ASSESSMENT OF THE INTEGRATED REMOTE SENSING-MODELING FRAMEWORK. CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTS SUPPORTING DECADAL WETLANDS CHANGE MAPPINGS IN REGIONS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BOREAL DOMAIN. THIS MAY INCLUDE AUGMENTATION OF THE PALSAR-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS TO ADDITIONAL REGIONS OF EASTERN CANADA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH CANADIAN COLLABORATORS AND AS ALLOWED BY AVAILABILITY OF SAR DATASETS. EXPLORATORY EFFORTS SUPPORTING METHANE FLUX ANALYSIS USING INTEGRATED SAR AND PROCESS MODELING. INTEGRATION OF FREEZE/THAW PRODUCT DATA SETS, ALGORITHMS, AND VALIDATION FIELDS WITHIN AN ANALYSIS INFRASTRUCTURE ALLOWING FREEZE/THAW PRODUCT ACCURACY AND TRADE STUDIES SUPPORTING SMAP SCIENCE GOALS.

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