The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $27,600 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROPOSAL WILL DEVELOP A `HYDROLOGICALLY-INCLINED TECHNIQUE FOR ADVANCING THE USE OF MULTI SENSOR SATELLITE PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS, SUCH AS THOSE ANTICIPATED FROM THE PLANNED NASA GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM). FIRST, THE TOTAL ERROR OF VARIOUS MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE RAINFALL PRODUCTS WILL BE DECOMPOSED INTO MEANINGFUL COMPONENTS AT SIX OR MORE LOCATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE. SECOND, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THESE ERROR COMPONENTS WITH TOPOGRAPHY (ELEVATION), SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND CLIMATE WILL BE ASSESSED. THIRD, THE IMPACT OF ERROR COMPONENTS IN STREAMFLOW AND SOIL MOISTURE SIMULATION WILL BE INVESTIGATED THROUGH A PHYSICALLY BASED MACRO-SCALE DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL. THIS APPROACH WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR VARIOUS SATELLITE RAINFALL PRODUCTS. FINALLY, METHODOLOGIES FOR MERGING THE MAJOR MULTI-SENSOR PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS FOR OPTIMAL HYDROLOGIC MODELING WILL BE INVESTIGATED BY LEVERAGING THE EXPECTED (A PRIORI) HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE TO PRECIPITATION UNCERTAINTY AS A PROXY FOR SELECTING MERGING WEIGHTS FOR THE OPTIMUM MERGING SCHEME. A MODELING SCHEME WILL BE DEVELOPED TO TRANSFER (OR ESTIMATE) ERROR INFORMATION TO (AT) UN-GAUGED BASINS AS A FUNCTION OF EASILY AVAILABLE GEOPHYSICAL FEATURES SUCH AS CLIMATE TYPE, ELEVATION, SATELLITE RAINFALL RATE, AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE. THE BROADER IMPACT OF THE PROPOSAL IS A COMPREHENSIVE IMPROVEMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION SATELLITE-BASED PRECIPITATION RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS THAT WILL NEED A WHOLESALE CONCEPTUAL REDESIGN DURING THE POST-LAUNCH ERA OF GPM. THE IMPORTANT QUESTION THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED IS: HOW CAN MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE RAINFALL DATA READILY PROVIDE AN ESTIMATE OF ITS UNCERTAINTY ACROSS THE GLOBE FOR DIVERSE HYDROLOGIC ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION?

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• $27,600 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  DAM-DRIVEN HUMAN INTERACTIONS IN THE FORM OF AN ARTIFICIAL LAKE CREATION, EXPANSION OF IRRIGATION AND DOWNSTREAM URBANIZATION ARE PRECIPITATION-CHANGING LAND USE LAND COVER (LULC) CHANGE DRIVERS FOR IMPOUNDED BASINS. RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT DAMS IN SEMI-ARID AND MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES ARE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO SUCH LULC CHANGES AND TERRAIN THAT CAN OFTEN RESULT IN MESOSCALE MODIFICATION OF STORMS. ON THE OTHER HAND, ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS (ARS), WHICH TRANSPORT MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF WATER VAPOR FROM OCEANS TO INLAND ALONG A THINLY CONCENTRATED TRAJECTORY, ARE RELATIVELY POORLY STUDIED PHENOMENA IN THE CONTEXT OF DAMS. BECAUSE NUMEROUS LARGE DAMS ARE SITUATED ALONG THE COAST WHERE ARS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE CATASTROPHIC FLOODS AND UNSCHEDULED FLOW RELEASE BY THE UPSTREAM FLOOD CONTROL DAMS, IT IS NOW CRITICAL TO STUDY THE ROLE OF ARS IN CONTEXT OF DAM-TRIGGERED LULC CHANGE FOR UNDERSTANDING DAM INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE. THE KEY QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE INVESTIGATED IN THIS STUDY ARE: (1) HOW DO ARS, DAM-TRIGGERED LULC CHANGE AND OROGRAPHIC RAIN INDUCING TERRAIN INTERACT TOGETHER TO MODIFY EXTREME PRECIPITATION PATTERNS? (2) WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF STORM MODIFICATION FOR RESILIENCE OF THE WORLD S DAM INFRASTRUCTURE IN A WARMING PLANET? IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE AFOREMENTIONED QUESTIONS, A COUPLED NUMERICAL-MODELING AND SATELLITE OBSERVATION BASED ANALYSIS OF THE INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR (IWV) OVER THE OCEAN AND INLAND AND OVER OROGRAPHIC RAIN PRODUCING TERRAINS WILL BE CONDUCTED. PASSIVE MICROWAVE RETRIEVED DATA AND INFRARED (IR)-BASED CLOUD TRACKING WILL BE USED TO ASSESS THE EVOLUTION OF THE AR S FROM OCEANS TO INLAND FOR SELECTED STORM EPISODES. THE REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEM (RAMS) WILL BE USED FOR SCENARIO-BASED STUDIES OF DAM-TRIGGERED LULC CHANGES OVER THE REGION.

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• $155,335 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  LOW LYING DELTAS OF THE HINDU KUSH HIMALAYAN (HKH) REGION ARE VULNERABLE TO WATER RESOURCES AVAILABILITY THAT OFTEN MANIFESTS AS SHORTAGE (DROUGHT OR UPSTREAM AND UNILATERAL EXTRACTION BY DAMS), EXCESS (FLOODS), CROP DAMAGING NATURAL DISASTERS (CYCLONES AND RIVER FLOODING), AND INFLUENCED BY MOUNTAIN GLACIER ABLATIONS UNDER AN INCREASINGLY WARMING WORLD. THE VULNERABILITY IS FELT MORE ACUTELY DOWNSTREAM DUE TO THE HEAVY POPULATION DENSITY AND A WATER-INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY OF THE LOW-LYING DELTAS. AMONG VARIOUS OPTIONS TO BUILD RESILIENCE AGAINST THIS VULNERABILITY, ONE OF THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES WITH A PROVEN BENEFIT TO COST RATIO IS TO INSTITUTIONALIZE A REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION SYSTEM THAT CAN MONITOR AND PREDICT AHEAD OF TIME THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF WATER CYCLE PARAMETERS AS WELL AS PROVIDE ACCURATE POST (OR PRE)-DISASTER ASSESSMENT OF CROP DAMAGE. NASA SATELLITES WITH THEIR VANTAGE OF SPACE, SAMPLING FREQUENCY AND ABILITY TO DISTINCTLY MEASURE COMPLEMENTARY HYDROLOGIC VARIABLES WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACY, ARE UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO MEET THIS CHALLENGING REQUIREMENT FOR LOW LYING DELTAS OF THE HKH REGION. THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS ALIGNED TO SUPPORT THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF SERVIR-HIMALAYA THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-VISUALIZATION SYSTEM THAT CAN ROUTINELY PREDICT, MAP AND WARN OF WATER-RELATED VULNERABILITY ISSUES IN LOW-LYING DELTAS (COMPRISING BANGLADESH, INDIA, PAKISTAN, MYANMAR AND VIETNAM) AS WELL AS PROVIDE RAPID POST-DISASTER ASSESSMENT WHEN NEEDED. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ARE FOUR-FOLD: 1) TO PROTOTYPE A MODULAR SATELLITE-BASED WATER RESOURCES AND WATER HAZARD MAPPING, EARLY WARNING AND POST-DISASTER ASSESSMENT VISUALIZATION SYSTEM FOR BANGLADESH THAT CAN BE EASILY REPLICATED FOR ANY OF THE OTHER FOUR DELTAS OF SERVIR-HIMALAYA (HKH) REGION. 2) TO TEST THE ACCURACY OF THE WEB-VISUALIZATION SYSTEM IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH TWO KEY WATER RESOURCES OPERATIONAL AGENCIES OF THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT (IWM AND CEGIS) THAT ARE STRATEGICALLY PARTNERED WITH PI'S INSTITUTION (TTU) SINCE 2006 (UNTIL 2016). 3) TO STRENGTHEN INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE OF THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT AGAINST WATER RESOURCE VULNERABILITY THROUGH CAPACITY BUILDING AND STAFF TRAINING/EDUCATION OF IWM AND CEGIS. 4) TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON SCIENTIFIC REQUIREMENTS ON ACCURACY AND SAMPLING FOR TWO PLANNED NASA MISSIONS - GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT (GPM) AND SURFACE WATER AND OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY (SWOT). THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL USE DATA ASSIMILATED HYDROLOGIC MODELING AND AN EXTENSIVE SUITE OF NASA SATELLITE DATASETS COMPRISING TRMM PRECIPITATION, MODIS TEMPERATURE/SNOW EXTENTS, RADAR/LASER ALTIMETRY FOR LAKE/RIVER WATER LEVEL AND HIMALAYAN MOUNTAIN GLACIER ELEVATION CHANGES, GRACE ESTIMATES OF GLACIER STORAGE CHANGE AND MODIS/LANDSAT DERIVED LAND COVER CHANGES OF AGRICULTURAL CROP LAND. THE PI S TEAM IS UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO ACHIEVE ALL OF THE ABOVE FOUR OBJECTIVES DUE TO THE LONG HERITAGE OF WORKING WITH AGENCIES OF THE HKH REGION, SOLID EXPERTISE IN DYNAMIC WEB VISUALIZATION AND ON-GOING CAPACITY BUILDING/EDUCATION EFFORT WITH BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT SINCE 2006. IN ADDITION, THE PI'S TEAM REPRESENTS STATE OF THE ART RESEARCH EXPERTISE ON NASA AND NON-NASA SATELLITES COMPRISING THE FULL SPECTRUM OF THE WATER CYCLE (SNOW, GLACIER MELT, PRECIPITATION, LAND COVER, WATER LEVEL/STORAGE CHANGE AND STREAM FLOW). APART FROM BEING A NATIVE OF BANGLADESH, THE PI HAS ALSO SPENT MANY YEARS IN OTHER HKH NATIONS (INDIA, NEPAL AND PAKISTAN) AND ACQUIRED A DEEP SENSE OF APPRECIATION OF THE LOCAL CULTURE AND LANGUAGE. WITH THE PROJECT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO SUSTAIN ON-GOING EFFORTS OF THE PI TO ROUTINELY PROVIDE ADVANCED LEVEL (MS AND PHD) EDUCATION TO WATER RESOURCES STAFFS OF BANGLADESH, THE PROJECT IS GUARANTEED OF THE TRANSITION OF THE PROTOTYPED TOOLS TO ROUTINE SOCIETAL APPLICATIONS UPON THE RETURN OF THESE TRAINED STAFFS TO THE HKH REGION.

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• $11,760 - Monday the 24th of October 2011
  Offices Boards And Divisions
  EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR U.S. TRUSTEES
  341 MEETING ROOM RENTAL

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• $11,760 - Thursday the 25th of October 2012
  Offices Boards And Divisions
  EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR U.S. TRUSTEES
  MEETING ROOM RENTAL

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