SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- RECOVERY - LOW BOOM COMMUNITY RESPONSE
- Notice Date
- 5/18/2010
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton,VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNL10AB33T
- Archive Date
- 5/18/2011
- Point of Contact
- Timothy P Cannella, Contracting Officer, Phone 757-864-5028, Fax 757-864-9097, Email Timothy.P.Cannella@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Timothy P Cannella
(Timothy.P.Cannella@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Recovery This notice is provided for information purposes only. NASA LaRCintends to issue a fixed-price contract to Wyle Laboratories, Inc. entitled Low BoomCommunity Response. This competitive action will be funded by the American Reinvestmentand Recovery Act (ARRA). This award results from a competitive selection under theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters released NASA ResearchAnnouncement (NRA) for foundational research in support of the Aeronautics ResearchMission Directorate (ARMD), entitled 'Research Opportunities in Aeronautics (ROA) 2009under NNH09ZEA001N, Amendment 4, A.4 Supersonics Project (SUP1) (Recovery Act Funds) Sonic Boom Modeling. The Supersonics Project is aligned with the Aeronautics ResearchMission Directorate (ARMD) principles of maintaining intellectual stewardship ofaeronautical core competencies for the nation in supersonic flight technologies andresearch appropriate to NASAs unique capabilities. The Project supports the FundamentalAeronautics Program strategy of developing systems level multidisciplinary capabilities(e.g., airframe design, engine design, airspace modeling and simulation) for supersoniccivilian and military applications. The Supersonics Project is a broad-based effortdesigned to develop knowledge, capabilities and technologies that support vehicles thatfly supersonic by eliminating the efficiency, environmental and performance barriers topractical supersonic cruise vehicles. The Project has identified a set of key TechnicalChallenges that are barriers to success for this vehicle type.The efforts described inthis SOW address the Sonic Boom Modeling Technical Challenge.Successful supersonic civil aircraft must be capable of supersonic flight over land.However, the sonic boom that occurs when aircraft travel at speeds greater than sound isperhaps the most significant environmental barrier to supersonic commercial flight. Inthe near term, the Supersonics project is emphasizing understanding and overcoming thisbarrier, both through the development of approaches to reducing sonic boom noise andimproving understanding of the impact of these reduced noise booms.The Supersonics Project is developing technologies that potentially will lower a sonicboom to levels acceptable to the general community. There is very little data on theeffects of such booms, and the project therefore has adopted a three-pronged approach tostudying the atmospheric effects, transmission into structures (living area of a typicalresidence and a large multi-cubical office environment), and human reaction to thesebooms. In this effort, the Contractor shall design and execute an experiment to gather datarelating the impact to community residents resulting from sonic boom exposure consistingof multiple low-boom events generated by existing aircraft. The Contractor shall acquiredata of sufficient quantity and quality to enable a thorough evaluation of the surveymethods used, data acquired, and analysis methods employed. The effectiveness of thetest methodology for community response testing shall be demonstrated.The Contractorshall identify and address issues related to conducting future experiments with a navecommunity not previously subjected to sonic booms, including the identification ofstrategies to minimize transient/adaptation effects associated with the introduction of anew noise source to a community.Components of the experimental design that shall be addressed include: noise exposure(levels and numbers of sonic booms), number of participants and their selection, subjectquestionnaire design, and data acquisition methods (both acoustical and meteorological).Questionnaire design shall enable comparisons to be made with results from previous sonicboom and community noise surveys. The questionnaire shall be pre-tested before the flighttests begin, and survey methodologies shall be developed in sufficient detail to providethe material necessary to secure OMB approval for data collection from the general publicin future experiments.The referenced solicitation is a broad agency announcement as specified in FAR 35.016 andNFS 1835.016. Additional information regarding the 2009 ROA solicitation can be found athttp://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method =init&solId={8AA62753-0F6B-3791-4A43-3DEF562FA257}&path=open (ROA-2009 CompleteSolicitation as of November 24, 2009). This announcement will not result in a Request for Proposal; this announcement is forinformational purposes only. All questions should be submitted to the point of contact contained herein in writing viae-mail to the following address: mercer.t.hurst@nasa.gov
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