The Collier Report of U.S. Government Contracting

Sampling of Federal Government Funding Actions/Set Asides

In order by amount of set aside monies.

• $96,864 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  SAP PURCHASE REQUISITION: 4200422265 - BIOLOGICAL METHANE CYCLING, ARCHAEAL METHANOGENESIS AND METHANOTROPY BY DIVERSE BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA, PLAYS A DOMINANT ROLE IN REGULATING CARBON CYCLING AND HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN REGULATING BOTH MODERN AND ANCIENT CLIMATE. IT IS POSSIBLE TO TRACE MODERN METHANE CYCLING BY A VARIETY OF METHODS, INCLUDING DIAGNOSTIC DNA/FUNCTIONAL GENE SEQUENCES, FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH), LIPID BIOMARKERS, AND HEAVILY DEPLETED CARBON ISOTOPES (13C). THESE METHODS, LISTED IN APPROXIMATE ORDER OF THEIR ABILITY TO REACH INTO THE GEOLOGIC RECORD, HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE IN GENERATING OUR MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF METHANE CYCLING. HOWEVER, MUCH IS STILL UNKNOWN ABOUT THE QUANTITATIVE IMPORTANCE OF METHANE CYCLING, PARTICULARLY ON EARLY EARTH. TO THAT END, WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW APPROACH TO PROBE METHANE CYCLING IN MODERN AND ANCIENT SETTINGS BY INVESTIGATING DIAGNOSTIC SIGNATURES OF METHANOGENESIS RECORDED IN TRANSITION METAL ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF NI. NI PLAYS CENTRAL ROLES AS ENZYME CO-FACTORS IN THE METABOLISM OF METHANOGENIC ARCHAEA AND CHANGING CONCENTRATIONS OF THESE METALS HAVE BEEN POSTULATED TO REGULATE BIOLOGICAL METHANE PRODUCTION OVER EARTH HISTORY. THESE ELEMENTS DO NOT UNDERGO REDOX CYCLING AT ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE OF THESE ELEMENTS IS ONE OF THE FEW PROCESSES KNOWN TO RESULT IN ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION. THROUGH CONTROLLED LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WE WILL CALIBRATE BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL CONTROLS ON NI ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION. DURING THIS 2 YEAR PROJECT WE WILL: 1) ASSESS BIOLOGICALLY INDUCED NI ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION FACTORS IN METHANOGENIC ARCHAEA, NON-METHANOGENIC ARCHAEA, AND BACTERIA AT TEMPERATURES OF 0-100 C AND 2) PERFORM EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION OF NI BETWEEN DIFFERENT SPECIATION RELEVANT TO THE OCEAN CONDITIONS. THIS WORK WILL REPRESENT THE FRAMEWORK TO PROBE FOR THE PRESENCE OF ARCHAEAL METHANOGENESIS IN MODERN SEDIMENTS AND THROUGHOUT KEY INTERVALS OF THE GEOLOGIC RECORD.

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• $93,651 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE BROAD GOAL OF THE WORK THAT WE PROPOSE IS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF CARBONACEOUS STARDUST NOW PRESENT AS CARBON-BEARING PRESOLAR GRAINS IN PRIMITIVE METEORITES, FROM ITS ORIGINS IN STELLAR OUTFLOWS THROUGH ITS RESIDENCE IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM, INTRODUCTION INTO THE SOLAR NEBULA, AND INCORPORATION INTO METEORITE PARENT BODIES IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED WORK CONSISTS OF: 1) UTILIZING A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES SEM/TEM/NANOSIMS/AUGER SPECTROSCOPY/FIB) TO PERFORM COORDINATED MICROANALYSES OF PRESOLAR SIC AND GRAPHITE, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THEIR STELLAR SOURCES, AND TO DETERMINE THEIR MINERALOGIES, MORPHOLOGIES, MICROSTRUCTURES, INTERNAL GRAINS, AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; 2) USING THE DATA OBTAINED TO INVESTIGATE THE HISTORY OF THE PRESOLAR GRAINS THEMSELVES, AND TO USE THEM AS TOOLS FOR ENHANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND PROCESSES OPERATING IN EACH OF THE ENVIRONMENTS TO WHICH THEY WERE EXPOSED; 3) PERFORMING MICROANALYSES OF FIBEXTRACTED CARBONACEOUS STARDUST PREVIOUSLY FOUND IN SITU IN SECTIONS OF CR METEORITES BY AUGER SPECTROSCOPY AND ISOTOPIC IMAGING; 4) MODELING OF THE MINERAL COMPOSITIONS AND FORMATION SEQUENCE REVEALED BY TEM OBSERVATIONS TO INFER THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CONDITIONS IN THE GRAIN FORMATION ENVIRONMENTS, INCLUDING MODELING THE DYNAMICS OF GRAIN FORMATION AND DESTRUCTION IN SN; 5) COORDINATED ISOTOPIC AND MICROANALYTICAL STUDIES OF PRESOLAR GRAPHITES FROM ORGUEIL (CI) AND TAGISH LAKE IN ORDER TO EXTEND SYSTEMATIC COORDINATED TEM/NANOSIMS PRESOLAR GRAIN STUDIES BEYOND THOSE OF THE EXTENSIVELY STUDIED MURCHISON (CM2) METEORITE. THE PROPOSED WORK IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO NASA STRATEGIC GOALS AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVES PUT FORTH IN ROSES-2009, SPECIFICALLY STRATEGIC SUB-GOALS 3C.1 (LEARN HOW THE SUN S FAMILY OF PLANETS AND MINOR BODIES ORIGINATED AND EVOLVED) AND 3D.3 (UNDERSTAND HOW INDIVIDUAL STARS FORM AND HOW THOSE PROCESSES ULTIMATELY AFFECT THE FORMATION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS). IT ALSO IS CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OF THE NASA COSMOCHEMISTRY PROGRAM.

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• $8,500 - Tuesday the 21st of August 2012
  Defense Information Systems Agency
  IT CONTRACTING DIVISION - PL83
  CAIT MEMBERSHIP

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• $77,541 - Friday the 12th of August 2016
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  OUR SOLAR SYSTEM CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF MATERIAL THAT FORMED IN THE ACCRETION DISK FOLLOWING GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE OF THE PROTOSTELLAR NEBULA, BUT ALSO CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNTS OF PRESOLAR (CIRCUMSTELLAR AND INTERSTELLAR) MATTER THAT SURVIVED NEBULAR COLLAPSE. BOTH TYPES OF MATERIALS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY INCORPORATED INTO THE ASTEROIDS AND PLANETS THAT MAKE UP OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND CAN BE FOUND TODAY IN PRIMITIVE EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIALS THAT HAVE LARGELY AVOIDED SECONDARY PROCESSING. OUR RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON IDENTIFYING AND CHARACTERIZING ANOMALOUS SUB-COMPONENTS IN INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES, ANTARCTIC MICROMETEORITES AND PRIMITIVE CHONDRITES, USING A COMBINATION OF NANOSIMS, AUGER SPECTROSCOPY, RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY AND FIB/TEM. CHARACTERIZATION OF THESE COMPONENTS WILL ALLOW US TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY ORIGINATED AND THE PROCESSES BY WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED. THIS, IN TURN, WILL PROVIDE CONSTRAINTS ON THE CONDITIONS OPERATIVE IN THE CIRCUMSTELLAR OUTFLOWS, INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM AND EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM IN WHICH THEY FORMED AND THROUGH WHICH THEY HAVE PASSED.

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• $66,692 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  THE BROAD GOAL OF THE WORK THAT WE PROPOSE IS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF CARBONACEOUS STARDUST NOW PRESENT AS CARBON-BEARING PRESOLAR GRAINS IN PRIMITIVE METEORITES, FROM ITS ORIGINS IN STELLAR OUTFLOWS THROUGH ITS RESIDENCE IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM, INTRODUCTION INTO THE SOLAR NEBULA, AND INCORPORATION INTO METEORITE PARENT BODIES IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED WORK CONSISTS OF: 1) UTILIZING A WIDE VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES SEM/TEM/NANOSIMS/AUGER SPECTROSCOPY/FIB) TO PERFORM COORDINATED MICROANALYSES OF PRESOLAR SIC AND GRAPHITE, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THEIR STELLAR SOURCES, AND TO DETERMINE THEIR MINERALOGIES, MORPHOLOGIES, MICROSTRUCTURES, INTERNAL GRAINS, AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; 2) USING THE DATA OBTAINED TO INVESTIGATE THE HISTORY OF THE PRESOLAR GRAINS THEMSELVES, AND TO USE THEM AS TOOLS FOR ENHANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND PROCESSES OPERATING IN EACH OF THE ENVIRONMENTS TO WHICH THEY WERE EXPOSED; 3) PERFORMING MICROANALYSES OF FIBEXTRACTED CARBONACEOUS STARDUST PREVIOUSLY FOUND IN SITU IN SECTIONS OF CR METEORITES BY AUGER SPECTROSCOPY AND ISOTOPIC IMAGING; 4) MODELING OF THE MINERAL COMPOSITIONS AND FORMATION SEQUENCE REVEALED BY TEM OBSERVATIONS TO INFER THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CONDITIONS IN THE GRAIN FORMATION ENVIRONMENTS, INCLUDING MODELING THE DYNAMICS OF GRAIN FORMATION AND DESTRUCTION IN SN; 5) COORDINATED ISOTOPIC AND MICROANALYTICAL STUDIES OF PRESOLAR GRAPHITES FROM ORGUEIL (CI) AND TAGISH LAKE IN ORDER TO EXTEND SYSTEMATIC COORDINATED TEM/NANOSIMS PRESOLAR GRAIN STUDIES BEYOND THOSE OF THE EXTENSIVELY STUDIED MURCHISON (CM2) METEORITE. THE PROPOSED WORK IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO NASA STRATEGIC GOALS AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVES PUT FORTH IN ROSES-2009, SPECIFICALLY STRATEGIC SUB-GOALS 3C.1 (LEARN HOW THE SUN S FAMILY OF PLANETS AND MINOR BODIES ORIGINATED AND EVOLVED) AND 3D.3 (UNDERSTAND HOW INDIVIDUAL STARS FORM AND HOW THOSE PROCESSES ULTIMATELY AFFECT THE FORMATION OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS). IT ALSO IS CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OF THE NASA COSMOCHEMISTRY PROGRAM.

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• $6,170 - Thursday the 27th of September 2012
  Education Department
  PRINCIPAL OFFICES
  SES DEVELOPMENT TRAINING FOR KATHRYN ELLIS/OGC. TRAINING COURSE: WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS. FROM 10/10/12-7/17/13 TRAINING FOR TRACEY SASSER

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• $60,000 - Friday the 10th of July 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  RESEARCHERS AT NASA-GLENN ARE PRESENTLY INVOLVED WITH DEVELOPING A SENSOR SYSTEM CAPABLE OF RESOLVING PSDS THROUGHOUT THE SO-CALLED RESPIRABLE FRACTION. THE PORTION OF THIS SENSOR THAT ADDRESSES THE LARGER END OF THE SIZE SPECTRUM IS IN THE FORM OF A MINIATURE OPTICAL PARTICLE COUNTER (OPC), AND IS BEING DEVELOPED IN-HOUSE. THE SUBJECT OF THIS EFFORT CONCERNS THE MEASUREMENT OF THE SMALLER SIZES (KNOWN AS THE FINES ), WHICH INCLUDES THE ULTRAFINE REGIME. RESEARCHERS AT NASA-GLENN ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ASSEMBLING AND TESTING THE OPC UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THE RESULTS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS WILL DETERMINE THE SMALLEST RESOLVABLE SIZE, AND THEREFORE THE UPPER SIZE LIMIT THAT THE FINES SENSOR MUST ACHIEVE. FOR THE PURPOSES HERE, A CONSERVATIVE VALUE OF 200 NANOMETERS IS ASSUMED. IT IS IMMEDIATELY SEEN THAT THIS VALUE EXCEEDS THE NOMINAL UPPER LIMIT OF THE ULTRAFINE REGIME (I.E. 100 NANOMETERS). AT THE OUTSET, IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE FINES SIZE SENSOR MUST BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE, OR SIZE SEGREGATE, BETWEEN THESE TWO VALUES IN ORDER TO FULFILL THE OBJECT OF SEPARATELY REPORTING ULTRAFINE CONTENT. BECAUSE THIS SENSOR WORKS TOGETHER WITH THE OPC TO ACCESS THE COMPLETE RANGE OF PARTICLE SIZES THAT IS REQUIRED, IT IS DESCRIBED AS A TANDEM FINES SPECTROMETER. THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE THE ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES NEEDED TO CONSTRUCT AN OPERATIONAL FINES SPECTROSCOPIC SENSOR.

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• $5,750 - Friday the 29th of November 2013
  Bureau Of Fiscal Service
  PSB 3
  SES TRAINING - EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP FOR AMERICA

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• $4,950 - Thursday the 16th of August 2012
  Chemical Safety And Hazard Investigation Board
  CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
  OBLIGATE FY 12 FUND FOR KARA'S LEADERSHIP TRAINING

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• $46,000 - Thursday the 11th of June 2015
  National Aeronautics And Space Administration
  NASA SHARED SERVICES CENTER
  FLAME DESIGN: A NOVEL APPROACH TO CLEAN EFFICIENT DIFFUSION FLAMES THIS PROGRAM INVOLVES INVESTIGATORS FROM NASA GLENN AS WELL AS FROM THREE UNIVERSITIES: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. RESEARCH AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (RLA) WILL PRIMARILY INVOLVE NORMAL GRAVITY FLAME RESEARCH THAT COMPLIMENTS THE MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH. ANALYTICAL MODELING OF THE FLAMES WILL BE PERFORMED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. A DETAILED NUMERICAL CODE, DEVELOPED UNDER THIS PROJECT, WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ALL INVESTIGATORS TO AID IN UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING THE EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL RESULTS. THE NUMERICAL CODE WILL BE EXECUTED PRIMARILY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (PBS). AIDED BY EXTENSIVE EXISTING DATE FROM DROP TOWER TESTS, THIS PROGRAM PROPOSES TO EXTEND THE FLAME DESIGN RESEARCH ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE EXISTING PROGRAM, WHICH IS A COMBINATION OF EXPERIMENTS IN NORMAL AND MICROGRAVITY, NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED INCLUDE DETERMINATION OF CONDITIONS LEADING TO THE ONSET OF SOOT FORMATION. OUR EARLIER WORK INDICATED THAT THERE IS A CRITICAL LOCAL CIO RATIO FOR SOOT INCEPTION FOR A GIVEN RESIDENCE TIME. WE WILL EXPAND THIS THEORY TO ACCOUNT FOR RESIDENCE TIME EFFECTS AND HAVE BEGUN DEVELOPING THE THEORY TO DO THIS. IN ADDITION, WE WILL VALIDATE THIS THEORY AGAINST MICROGRAVITY AND NORMAL GRAVITY EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING WHERE RESIDENCE TIME IS VARIED. WE PROPOSE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPERIMENTS THAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE COMBUSTION RACK ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS). THE MAIN DELIVERABLES OF THESE EFFORTS WILL BE UPDATES TO THESE TWO DOCUMENTS: ACME ADVANCED COMBUSTION VIA MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS; AND SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT FOR FLAME DESIGN. THE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE DETAILED SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS AND A DETAILED TEST MATRIX. WE WILL COORDINATE WITH NASA PERSONNEL TO ENSURE THESE REQUIREMENTS AND MATRIX ARE CONSISTENT WITH AVAILABLE CAPABILITIES. WE WILL ALSO COORDINATE WITH THE OTHER ACME INVESTIGATORS TO ESTABLISH SYNERGISTIC TESTS AND DIAGNOSTICS. WE PROPOSE SUPPORTING UPCOMING REVIEWS AT NASA, INCLUDING THE REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION REVIEW (RDR). ASSUMING TESTS ON THE ISS CAN BE PERFORMED DURING THE PROPOSED WORK PERIOD, WE WILL PROVIDE GROUND SUPPORT FOR THESE TESTS AND POST-TEST ANALYSIS AND DISSEMINATION OF THE FINDINGS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUBLISH RESULTS OF THE WORK AND TO PRESENT AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS. WE WILL CONTINUE ADVISING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO ARE SUPPORTED BY THIS PROJECT.

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