Johnson Engineering Corporation, 555 Forge River Road, Suite 150, Webster, TX 77598-4336

69 -- DESIGN/ENGINEERING AND FABRICATION OF MOCKUPS AND TRAINERS Contact Donna Leech, Subcontract Administrator, 713/480-8101 x201. Johnson Engineering Corporation (JE) is a prime contractor (NAS 9-1880) to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Johnson Space Center and is seeking small disadvantaged and women-owned (SDB/WO) businesses for subcontract opportunities. JE supports the Flight Crew Support Division, which includes the Mockup and Integration Laboratory and Neutral Byoyancy Simulation Sections. JE is required to provide Neutral Buoyancy, One-G and Crew Training Articles, sub to full-scale, for the Space Station Freedom and Space Shuttle Programs to support development and integration of technologies, hardware systems, flight procedures, flight equipment subsystems, components, operations, and training of astronauts. JE needs SDB/WO subcontractors to provide engineering, design, and fabrication services for mockups and trainers. Typical mockups/trainers are described as follows: (1) Soft mockups are designed for ease of mobility and assembly/disassembly to support engineering design evaluations and are usually built non-functional, low fidelity and at low cost for one-time use. Typical materials include wood, plastic, foamcore, and gator board. (2) Hard mockups are designed to meet user requirements which include engineering evaluations, man-machine interface and habitability characteristics to provide optimum design of flight hardware, astronaut training, and are built functional (mechanical or electrical) or non-functional, high fidelity, and for repetitive use. Typical materials include steel, aluminum, wood, fiberglass, and plastic. (3) One-g trainers are designed to support astronaut/flight crew training, engineering verification, and are built to flight assembly dimensions, appearance, and functionality. Tradeoffs are often considered when flight parameters become economically or physically unfeasible. Typical materials are generally characteristic of the flight material but not necessarily of the same grade or specification and include aluminum, steel, wood, fiberglass, plastic, and fabric. (4) Neutral byoyancy trainers are designed to be utilized and submerged in a chlorinated water, enclosed pool environment (the Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) and are built as volmetric representations to high fidelity trainers, providing zero-g conditions to train the astronauts for Extravehicular Activities (EVA) (procedures for deploying shuttle cargos by EVA in the event of a deployment mechanism failure), and for ease of maintenance. Typical materials, coatings and components must be compatible with the pool environment and typically consist of perforated/structural aluminum of Kydex, stainless steel, fabric, fiberglass, Plasite 7122/7133, and 300 series stainless steel fasteners. Interested SDB/WO companies are requested to submit a Statement of Capabilities (SOC) applicable to this notice, within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt, demonstrating the capability or the ability to acquire the capability to meet/exceed any of the following minimum requirements: (1) engineering resources for mechanical and electrical design, structural analysis, systems engineering, software development and drafting/autocad, (2) program/project management, (3) configuration and logistics management, (4) quality assurance, (5) office and manufacturing/shop facilities (include in the SOC shop ceiling heights, high bay door sizes, overhead cranes/material handling equipment, and painting area/equipment), and (6) machining and fabrication capability, including size constraints, equipment list and fabrication processes, e.g., rolling, forming, machining, and welding. Include any additional information that you feel is necessary to demonstrate your company capability and indicate with the SOC, SDB/WO business status. All firms submitting a SOC will be considered for any/all requirements and any subsequent solicitation(s) will be issued to sources that JE considers to have the resources and capability to successfully perform the specified work. JE does not intend to pay for information received as a result of this synopsis. (310)

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