SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- KA-BAND DATA SERVICE FLIGHT AND GROUND HARDWARE
- Notice Date
- 3/28/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.M, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- SN-452-KBH
- Archive Date
- 3/28/2004
- Point of Contact
- Klaus D Sexton, Contracting Officer, Phone (301) 286-2271, Fax (301) 286-6299, Email Klaus.D.Sexton.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Klaus D Sexton
(Klaus.D.Sexton.1@gsfc.nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA/GSFC is hereby soliciting information from potential sources regarding the availability, cost, capabilities and specifications of flight and ground components that could support Ka-Band data services within NASA's Space Network. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks broad community comments and inputs concerning high data rate Ka-band flight communications systems, ground receivers, and data system components for use within NASA's Space Network (SN). Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is currently performing infrastructures upgrades within the SN, and demonstrations (up to 600 Mbps) of high rate RF equipment utilizing NASA's new Ka-band capable TDRS H,I,J spacecraft. As a next step to these upgrades, NASA intends to perform a major expansion to the SN through the procurement and implementation of high data rate (1 Gbps or higher) data demodulation, routing, processing, and storage technologies for use in the SN. In addition to the bitstream services that are currently available, this expansion may include end-to-end standard network services from the spacecraft to the user including file transfers and time synchronization. Procurement and implementation activities for the SN Ka-band data service upgrade is expected to be completed by the end of FY 06. As part of this activity, NASA also intends to identify flight components that could be used on NASA science spacecraft for the transfer of data to and from ground stations via TDRS spacecraft. Many proposed Earth and Space science missions desire data services that will be difficult to implement using the current communications infrastructure. These projected needs include data-rates in excess of 1Gb/s, direct delivery of data products simultaneously to many users, the ability of the spacecraft to autonomously interact with other space-based or ground-based sensors, and the ability of investigators to directly log-on to their space-based instruments for command and control functions from their own control centers or laboratories. Due to increasing congestion in the S-, X-, and Ku-band frequency spectrums, and an ever-increasing demand for higher data rate transmissions by low earth orbiting (LEO) customer spacecraft, it has become necessary to explore the use of higher radio frequency spectrum for NASA space-to-ground communications requirements. The available spectrum is a finite resource, and as the data throughput requirements from space to ground increase beyond the available X and Ku-band spectrum, it will become necessary for NASA LEO spacecraft to transition to the allocated Ka-Band spectrum for space to ground communications links via NASA's SN and Ground Network (GN). NASA/GSFC is issuing this Request For Information (RFI) for the purpose of openly soliciting information on available or emerging products to implement the end-to-end SN Ka-Band data service including: Flight communications systems and/or components across a range of data rates from tens of kbps to at least 1 Gbps, Ground receivers, equalizers, decoders and data storage and transmission components capable of supporting Ka-Band data rates up to at least 1 Gbps, Data network technologies and equipment for use in space and on the ground to provide higher level data routing and delivery services over the Ka-band link. Vendors having the capabilities or products necessary to meet or exceed the stated requirements are invited to submit appropriate documentation, literature, brochures, and references. Interested firms are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than 12 pages , and any other appropriate documentation not to exceed 50 pages. Responses may be sent via regular mail, electronic mail or fax to: Yen F. Wong, Yen.F.Wong@nasa.gov, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Code 567, Bldg 12, Rm E226A, Greenbelt, MD 20771 301-286-7446, Fax 301-286-1725 All information received will be combined and used for Government purposes. Sources are urged to describe their approach and products in enough detail so that NASA can plan for subsequent proposal opportunities for which proprietary information may be appropriate. The information received in response to this RFI will be reviewed and summarized by a panel of Government and industry experts. Some or part of the summarized and synthesized recommendations may or may not form the basis of a future NASA solicitation. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps and on the NASA Acquisition Internet Service. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor these cites for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government nor will the Government pay for nformation solicited. Respondents will not be notified of the results of the evaluation. Respondents deemed fully qualified will be considered in any resultant solicitation for the requirement. Technical questions should be directed to: Keiji Tasaki at 301-286-6724 or Yen Wong at 301-286-7446. Procurement related questions should be directed to: Klaus Sexton at 301-286-2271. Please advise if the requirement is considered to be a commercial or commercial-type product. A commercial item is defined in FAR 2.101. The Internet site, or URL, for the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities page is http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/bizops.cgi?gr=C&pin=51 The Government reserves the right to consider a small business or 8(a)set-aside based on responses hereto. All responses shall be submitted to Yen Wong no later than April 30, 2003. In responding reference SN-452-KBH.
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