MODIFICATION
A -- NASA NEXT GENERATION SPACE RELAY ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT STUDY - Solicitation 1
- Notice Date
- 1/19/2016
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135
- ZIP Code
- 44135
- Solicitation Number
- NNC16ZLC002L-2
- Archive Date
- 12/15/2016
- Point of Contact
- Brian Huth, Phone: 2164336693
- E-Mail Address
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brian.s.huth@nasa.gov
(brian.s.huth@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Solicitation NNC16ZLC002L Attachment D - Space Relay Architecture Concepts Background Attachment C - Future Mission Space Communication and Navigation Needs Attachment B - Past Performance Questionnaire Attachment A -Statement of Work NASA Glenn Research Center hereby issues the following Request for Proposal (RFP) for the following Architecture Concept Study: NASA invites industry to participate in the definition and analysis of the Nations future space communications and navigation architecture with a focus on the Earth and Mars space relay capabilities. This future system capability will provide the next generation space and ground infrastructure to enhance space exploration and return critical science and exploration data to investigators on Earth from all regions of the solar system. The Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Office at NASA leads the architecture study and manages and operates NASAs critical communications and navigation system infrastructure. This study will define a top-level end-to-end next generation (Next Gen) architecture concept that evolves NASAs space communications and navigation networks consisting of NASA, commercial industry, other government agencies, and international space agencies assets and other supporting systems. Next Gen is broadly defined over the next 25 years to the 2040 timeframe and more specifically defined over the next 10 years to the 2025 time frame when initial Next Gen capabilities will start to become operational. NASA offers a range of world class space communications and navigation services and capabilities to enable the next generation of science and exploration missions and global collaborations. These services and capabilities (e.g. forward and return communications, tracking, navigation aids, internetworking, and timing references) allow missions to share the costs of critical, space and ground infrastructure and eliminate individual and costly mission-specific facilities thus providing a cost effective, national resource for space exploration. In the coming decade, NASA will look to sustain and enhance its space and ground infrastructure to adjust and respond to the changing needs of science missions and plans for future human exploration of the solar system. The Next Gen relay architecture study will provide a detailed analysis of capability proposed for the future network. A four-month study is envisioned to: apply the needs of NASAs mission use cases against proposed elements of the future architecture; conduct simulations and trades for the proposed implementation of architecture features; define specific relay, tracking, and internetworking capabilities for near Earth (up to 2 million kilometers) and/or Mars spacecraft; and provide cost estimates of developing, deploying, operating, maintaining and sustaining the proposed new space relay capabilities over a 20 year window. The vision for the future network will connect investigators more closely with their scientific instrumentation, reduce both user mission spacecraft and infrastructure burden (resources and cost), apply appropriate aspects of terrestrial communication technologies, enable greater availability and leverage commercial innovations and capabilities and international partnerships. The study consists of four tasks: Develop the architecture for future relay capabilities in the Near Earth and/or deep space regions Conduct trade studies, modeling and simulation, analysis of future relay capabilities and identify enabling technologies Define and infuse specific near Earth and/or Mars relay elements and their capabilities Develop cost and schedule estimates for future near Earth and/or Mars relay elements During the course of the study, it will be important to provide a basis for proposed new capabilities via properly analyzed trades, analyses and operational scenarios. The study effort will emphasize the trades and analyses conducted and will be used as justification and supporting rationale for the proposed architecture elements for the entire set of SCaN networks focusing on near Earth and Mars relays elements. Models and simulations developed during this study may be used to explore specific relay elements or capabilities in more detail during follow-on design and implementation efforts. Offerors will be asked to consider best commercial practices and standards, emerging technologies, and compare the current and anticipated capabilities and technologies available to implement each architecture feature below within the near Earth and Mars network architecture. Recommendations will be based upon simulation results or through trade studies with proper rationale. The study will focus on trades associated with the following architecture features: Relay Capability integrated functionality relay satellites or disaggregated functionality across a collection of dissimilar satellites providing communications, navigation, and internetworking capabilities Direct to Ground where/when direct to ground services have technical, operational, and/or cost advantage over relays Spacecraft burden shared burden (e.g. mass, power, volume, operational complexity) between relay infrastructure and mission spacecraft to increase performance and reduce overall cost Multiple Access where/when multiple access techniques (e.g. TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDMA, spatial diversity, others) should be used on forward/return links from/to relays in order to simultaneously support the needs of multiple mission spacecraft within the full field of regard Optical Communications where/when optical links have technical, operational, and/or cost advantage RF Communications where/when RF links have technical, operational, and/or cost advantage Government ownership and operations requirements and mission aspects requiring NASA owned or operated assets Commercial Service and operations mission/infrastructure aspects potentially met by commercial services Internetworking benefits and burden of providing link layer (2) and network layer (3) services Security role, approach, benefits, and risks of secure command, telemetry, and science data links Timing and Frequency Standards common time standards, radiometrics and other navigation aids User Service Requests means and capacity to support automated requests for communication and navigation services on-demand as well as near term scheduled service Autonomy where/when in the network autonomy has technical, operational, and/or cost advantage Cognition adaptive or cognitive communications and networking to improve efficiency Commonality across elements of near Earth and Mars relays that reduce development or operations costs Deployment of Relay Elements Launch methods (e.g. primary payload, secondary/ride share, hosted payloads), launch vehicle configuration, number of launches, and cost It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the Federal Business Opportunities website for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). INDUSTRY BRIEFING Interested parties are invited to attend an industry briefing at NASA Headquarters Auditorium January 21, 2016, at 300 East Street SW, Room 1G60, Washington DC, 20546. The briefing will take place from 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EST. Speakers from the NASA Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program Office will review the SCaN Program vision for future near Earth and Mars relay capabilities, current and future user mission needs, current capabilities, RFP objectives and procurement process. The industry briefing will conclude with responses to questions from potential offerors. Proceedings of the industry briefing will be posted to www.fbo.gov. Please register for the event via this website: https://evt.grc.nasa.gov/rfp- industry-briefing-2016/. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/pub/p ub_library/Omb.html. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor that site for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments, if any.
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