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NASA's Glenn Research Center awarded a delivery order contract to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center, for reliability assessment on the utilization of military spacecraft bus architectures for critical NASA missions as part II of independent assessments. The contract, awarded on September 20, 2019, carries a ceiling value of approximately $69.7K and operates under a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structure with performance primarily conducted in...

This is a federal contract awarded by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). The contract, titled "Space Network Reliability and Loading Analysis," supports risk analysis and security evaluation for NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The contractor is tasked with updating and maintaining the TDRS fleet reliability and service availability model, conducting replenishment analyses,...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit organization and federally funded research and development center. The contract, valued at $111,762.14, is for a residual reliability risk assessment on the utilization of military spacecraft bus architectures for critical NASA missions. The Aerospace Corporation has provided a wide range of engineering,...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center. The contract provides systems engineering, operations, and technical management support for the development of the Next Generation Relay payload, which will serve as an operational optical relay satellite for low Earth orbit spacecraft. The Next Generation Relay is a Category 1, Class C program with a...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Center to Ares Technical Services Corporation, a for-profit small business, to provide services in support of the development of safety and mission assurance requirements, as well as independent surveillance, audit, review, and assessment of design, development, test, and mission operations activities. The contract, referred to as SMAS III PHASE-IN, has a ceiling value of $144,118 and a period of performance through May...

This federal contract was awarded by NASA's Langley Research Center to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focused on the space enterprise. The contract, valued at $222,841.00, is for the contractor to verify the fault tolerance of the Falcon and Dragon avionics systems designs against program requirements and identify critical parts for a second assessment activity for parts testing. This effort is in support of NASA's Commercial Crew Program...

This delivery order, awarded to The Aerospace Corporation on September 20, 2019, provides non-destructive evaluation (NDE) subject matter expert review services for zero fault tolerant and fracture critical hardware components associated with NASA's Artemis 2 mission. Valued at $48,617.33 under a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structure, the contract supports critical safety and mission assurance activities for the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft program. The work is performed in...

This is a task order awarded under the Specialized Engineering, Evaluation and Test Services (SEETS II) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center. The task order, valued at $685,349.60, directs The Aerospace Corporation to perform a comprehensive assessment of the radio frequency (RF) environment at selected U.S. Navy sites. This assessment will examine the potential for RF interference (RFI)...

This is a $69,418.00 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to NTS Technical Systems, LLC, doing business as Element U.S. Space & Defense. The contract is for environmental testing of Reefing Line Cutters (RLCs) used in space applications. The testing includes shock and vibration testing of 18 RLC units across different variants. This is a sole source procurement conducted under FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). The...

NASA's Langley Research Center awarded a $85,070 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to The Aerospace Corporation on March 15, 2019, for assessing risks associated with frangible joint designs used in human-rated launch vehicles and applications. The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of various frangible joint designs to determine how design parameters and flight environmental factors affect single Mild Detonating Fuse (MDF) frangible joint...