The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $9,766,091 - Thursday the 13th of December 2012
  Energy Department
  CHICAGO SERVICE CENTER (OFFICE OF SCIENCE)
  MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY (PPPL).

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• $95,000 - Tuesday the 25th of September 2012
  Energy Department
  CHICAGO SERVICE CENTER (OFFICE OF SCIENCE)
  MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY (PPPL).

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• $85,624 - Monday the 6th of August 2012
  Department Of Navy
  NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
  CONTRACTOR TO SUPPORT THE EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF CONFLICT PROJECT "MODELING THE DYNAMICS OF INSURGENCY AND COUNTERINSURGENCY IN A CULTURAL PRISM" - PROVIDE DATA, MONTHLY REPORTS, AND ANALYSIS.

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• $79,800 - Thursday the 12th of November 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IS ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL, UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN COSMOLOGY. THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH INTENDS TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE OUR ABILITIES TO MAKE DETAILED PREDICTIONS WITH REGARD TO GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IN THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL, BY NOT ONLY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF OUR SIMULATIONS USING A ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT CODE BUT ALSO INCLUDING A HOST OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES, ALL OF WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE IMPORTANT AT LEAST IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES BUT MANY OF WHICH HAVE BEEN IGNORED IN CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART SIMULATIONS. IT MAY BE THAT MANY OF THE APPARENT DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL AND OBSERVATIONS ARE A RESULT OF IMPERFECT THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS. OUR SIMULATIONS SHOULD PROVIDE A MORE PRECISE FRAMEWORK TO PROPERLY INTERPRET THE VAST OBSERVATIONAL DATABASE OF GALAXIES AND IGM FROM MAJOR NASA MISSIONS (HST, FUSE, CHANDRA, XMM-NEWTON AND UPCOMING CONSTELLATION-X, AMONG OTHERS) AND TO MAXIMIZE SCIENTIFIC RETURNS OF MAJOR NASA MICROWAVE BACKGROUND EXPERIMENTS INCLUDING WMAP AND PLANCK MISSIONS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH RICH OBSERVATIONAL DATA FROM GROUND BASED FACILITIES (KECK, SDSS AND OTHERS).

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• $75,000 - Tuesday the 5th of January 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THIS PROGRAM SEEKS TO GAIN FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF SPHERICAL ONE-DIMENSIONAL DIFFUSION FLAMES PRODUCED IN MICROGRAVITY. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM ARE: (A) TO INTERROGATE THE FIDELITY OF THE CHEMICAL KINETIC MECHANISMS AND TRANSPORT SUB-MODELS USED IN THE SIMULATION OF AEROTHERMOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA, AND CONSEQUENTLY IDENTIFY POSSIBLE MODIFICATIONS; AND (B) TO CHARACTERIZE AND GAIN PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY ON SPHERICAL DIFFUSION FLAMES. THEREFORE, THE SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAM CONSISTS OF TWO MAIN PARTS: (1) MAPPING AND CHARACTERIZING THE MOVEMENT OF SPHERICAL DIFFUSION FLAMES SUBSEQUENT TO IGNITION FROM NON-STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS AND THEIR EXTINCTION BOUNDARIES DUE TO DIRECT FINITE-RATE CHEMISTRY AND INDIRECT RADIATIVE HEAT LOSS; AND (2) STUDYING THE RESPONSE OF CHARACTERISTICALLY SOOTY FLAMES TO A NON-STEADY-STATE INITIAL CONDITION WITH RESPECT TO THE ASPECTS GIVEN IN PART (1). FOR THE CURRENT STAGE OF THE PROGRAM, CONSIDERABLE INVESTIGATIONS WILL BE CONDUCTED USING GROUND-BASED EXPERIMENTS, COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION, AND THEORETICAL ANALYSES TO ASSESS THE TEST MATRIX SPECIFIED IN THE SRD AND TO AFFIRM THAT THE ACME PLANS WILL MEET THE EXPERIMENT REQUIREMENTS SET AT RDR IN ORDER TO MEET THE STATED OBJECTIVES.

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• $70,000 - Thursday the 12th of November 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IS ONE OF THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL, UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN COSMOLOGY. THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH INTENDS TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE OUR ABILITIES TO MAKE DETAILED PREDICTIONS WITH REGARD TO GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IN THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL, BY NOT ONLY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF OUR SIMULATIONS USING A ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT CODE BUT ALSO INCLUDING A HOST OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES, ALL OF WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE IMPORTANT AT LEAST IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES BUT MANY OF WHICH HAVE BEEN IGNORED IN CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART SIMULATIONS. IT MAY BE THAT MANY OF THE APPARENT DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL AND OBSERVATIONS ARE A RESULT OF IMPERFECT THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS. OUR SIMULATIONS SHOULD PROVIDE A MORE PRECISE FRAMEWORK TO PROPERLY INTERPRET THE VAST OBSERVATIONAL DATABASE OF GALAXIES AND IGM FROM MAJOR NASA MISSIONS (HST, FUSE, CHANDRA, XMM-NEWTON AND UPCOMING CONSTELLATION-X, AMONG OTHERS) AND TO MAXIMIZE SCIENTIFIC RETURNS OF MAJOR NASA MICROWAVE BACKGROUND EXPERIMENTS INCLUDING WMAP AND PLANCK MISSIONS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH RICH OBSERVATIONAL DATA FROM GROUND BASED FACILITIES (KECK, SDSS AND OTHERS).

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• $5,604,154 - Tuesday the 29th of November 2011
  Energy Department
  CHICAGO SERVICE CENTER (OFFICE OF SCIENCE)
  MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY (PPPL).

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• $559,804 - Wednesday the 30th of May 2012
  Energy Department
  CHICAGO SERVICE CENTER (OFFICE OF SCIENCE)
  MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY (PPPL).

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• $53,862 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  SOFTWARE/COMPUTING: PIS LABORATORY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY HAS ACCESS TO HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH USE. THESE INCLUDE CLUSTERS OF GIS WORKSTATIONS, AS WELL AS MULTI-NODE COMPUTATIONAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR MODEL SIMULATION AND DATA ANALYSIS. THE LAB MAINTAINS LICENSES FOR ESRI GIS SOFTWARE, AS WELL AS MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, AND IDL. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY HAS INTERNET 2 CONNECTIVITY THAT WILL FACILITATE HIGH SPEED DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN INDIANA AND PRINCETON DURING THE PROJECT DURATION. VIDEO CONFERENCING FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE WITHIN THE CEE DEPARTMENT. COMPUTING FACILITIES ALSO INCLUDE TWO SEMI-RUGGED FIELD LAPTOPS FOR USE DURING FIELD RESEARCH. ARID AND SEMIARID REGIONS COVER ABOUT 40% OF THE EARTH'S LAND SURFACE, AND ARE AMONG THE AREAS MOST PRONE TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. FIRES ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF ALL BUT THE MOST ARID DRYLANDS, AND SERVE AS FUNDAMENTAL CONTROLS ON THE DYNAMICS, COMPOSITION, AND STRUCTURE OF ARID AND SEMIARID ECOSYSTEMS. SOME OF THE MAJOR EFFECTS OF FIRES ON VEGETATION DYNAMICS ARE MEDIATED BY PHYSICAL PROCESSES, WHICH INVOLVE ECOHYDROLOGICAL FEEDBACKS ACTING AT DIFFERENT SCALES. AT THE PATCH SCALE FIRES AFFECT SOIL INFILTRATION CAPACITY AND INDUCE HETEROGENEITY IN THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOIL MOISTURE, WITH IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS ON PREFERENTIAL SITES FOR SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT AND THE RESULTING PATTERNS OF VEGETATION. AT THE LANDSCAPE SCALE, FIRES MODIFY LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES THAT AFFECT THE TRANSFER OF ENERGY AND WATER BETWEEN THE LAND SURFACE AND THE ATMOSPHERE. FIRE'S ABILITY TO IMPACT LAND-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFERS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO IMPACT LONG-TERM REGIONAL-SCALE CLIMATE AND PRECIPITATION IN THESE AREAS. IT IS STILL UNCLEAR HOW THE COMBINED EFFECT OF THESE PROCESSES ON SURFACE ENERGY AND WATER FLUXES MAY AFFECT THE DYNAMICS OF SAVANNA ECOSYSTEMS. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES SUB-ELEMENT 5 OF NNH09ZDA001N-IDS AND WILL EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF FIRE ON LAND-ATMOSPHERE TRANSFER OF WATER AND ENERGY IN THE KALAHARI DESERT OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AT MULTIPLE SCALES. REPRESENTING A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT FROM NEARLY 1000 MM IN MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION IN THE NORTH TO 150 MM IN THE SOUTH, ALL ON RELATIVELY CONSISTENT SOILS, THE KALAHARI TRANSECT IS AN IDEAL PLACE TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF FIRES ON LAND-ATMOSPHERE EXCHANGE IN THE WORLD'S DRYLANDS. THROUGH A SERIES OF FIELD, REMOTE SENSING AND MODELING ACTIVITIES THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECT OF FIRES ON ENERGY AND WATER EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE LAND SURFACE AND THE ATMOSPHERE. TO THIS END, WE WILL ADDRESS A SERIES OF HYPOTHESES SPANNING A RANGE OF SCALES. AT THE LOCAL SCALE, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THE EFFECT OF FIRE ON INFILTRATION CAPACITY OF SOILS VARIES WITH DISTANCE FROM TREE CANOPIES, LEADING TO GREATER TIME-AVERAGED SOIL MOISTURE AND PREFERENTIAL SITES FOR SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE VICINITY OF CANOPIES. AT THE LANDSCAPE SCALE, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT FIRE S IMPACT ON SURFACE ALBEDO AND INFILTRATION CAPACITY HAS A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON THE SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE AND THE PARTITIONING OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION BETWEEN TRANSPIRATION AND BARE SOIL EVAPORATION. OVER LONGER TIMESCALES, SHIFTS IN FIRE FREQUENCY ARE LIKELY TO ALTER THE WOODY VERSUS HERBACEOUS COMPOSITION OF THE SAVANNA VEGETATION, ALSO AFFECTING THE ENERGY BALANCE. AT THE REGIONAL SCALE, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THE FIRE AFFECTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER BOTH ON SHORT TIMESCALES (I.E. THROUGH ALTERATIONS TO THE SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE) AND ON LONGER TIMESCALES (I.E. THROUGH ITS CONTROL ON SHRUB ENCROACHMENT, WHICH AFFECTS MECHANICAL RESISTANCES AND SURFACE ALBEDO). WE WILL ADDRESS THE INTEGRATED IMPACTS OF THESE PROCESSES, INCLUDING HOW FIRE-INDUCED LAND SURFACE HETEROGENEITY AFFECTS PRECIPITATION PATTERNS IN THE REGION THROUGH ITS INFLUENCE ON CONVECTIVE STORMS.

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• $4,614,402 - Friday the 27th of July 2012
  Energy Department
  CHICAGO SERVICE CENTER (OFFICE OF SCIENCE)
  MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING CONTRACT FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY (PPPL).

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