Definitive Contract NNG12HP00C

OTHER FUNCTIONS VLBI (VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY) IS ONE OF SEVERAL SPACE GEODETIC TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED BY NASA'S SOLID EARTH AND INTERIOR FOCUS AREA. THE GOAL OF THE EARTH SURFACE AND INTERIOR FOCUS AREA IS TO ASSESS, MITIGATE AND FORECAST THE NATURAL HAZARDS THAT AFFECT SOCIETY, INCLUDING EARTHQUAKES, LANDSLIDES, COASTAL AND INTERIOR EROSION, FLOODS AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. THE PRIMARY VLBI ACTIVITIES ARE TO GENERATE DATA TO INTEGRATE ALL EFFECTS RELATED TO THE EARTH'S MOMENT OF INERTIA, ANGULAR MOMENTUM, AND ORIENTATION IN SPACE, TO SUPPORT THE PRECISE REFERENCE FRAMES NEEDED FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, AND TO ADVANCE THE STATE OF THE ART. UNDER THIS CONTRACT, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING: 1. COORDINATION OF VLBI EXPERIMENTS INCLUDING REQUESTING AND SCHEDULING OF OBSERVING AND CORRELATING RESOURCES, GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF OBSERVING SCHEDULES AND PROCEDURES AND RETRIEVAL OF OBSERVING LOGS. 2. DEVELOPING, IMPLEMENTING, DOCUMENTING, AND MAINTAINING FIELD SYSTEM SOFTWARE AND PROCEDURES ASSOCIATED WITH MARK III, MARK IV, VLBA, MARK 5, S2, K4/K5 AND VLBI 2010 DATA ACQUISITION OPERATIONS AT FIELD STATIONS. 3. IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF VLBI STATIONS INCLUDING LOGISTICAL SUPPORT, PREPARATION OF STANDARD AND CUSTOM SOFTWARE, VERIFICATION OF READINESS, TRAINING, TROUBLE-SHOOTING, AND SUPPORT IN DATA ACQUISITION. 4. PREPARATION OF EXPERIMENTS FOR CORRELATION AND PROCESSING OF CORRELATOR OUTPUT INTO DATA BASES SUITABLE FOR GEODETIC/ASTROMETRIC ANALYSIS. 5. MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE OBSERVING SCHEDULES AT THE VARIOUS VLBI STATIONS AND CORRELATING FACILITIES. 6. ANALYZING NASA VLBI EXPERIMENTS AND VLBI DATA FROM OTHER CENTERS. 7. PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR EXPORTING DATA BASES AND CREATION OF DATA PRODUCTS ON THE GODDARD VLBI WEB SITE, THE IVS DATA CENTERS, AND ELSEWHERE AS NEEDED. 8. PREPARATION OF VLBI PRODUCTS FOR IVS USE FOLLOWING THE STANDARDS FOR TIMELINESS AND DOCUMENTATION. 9. ARCHIVING VLBI FIELD LOGS, DATA SOLUTIONS, AND RESULTS. 10. ADVANCEMENT OF THE VLBI TECHNIQUE IN THE AREAS OF INSTRUMENTATION, CALIBRATION, MODELING, ALGORITHMS, ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION, SIMULATION, COMPARISONS, COMBINATIONS, AND ANCILLARY DATA. 11. DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, IMPLEMENTATION, DOCUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SOFTWARE AND DATA FILES FOR SCHEDULING, DATA MONITORING, DATA HANDLING, CALIBRATION, MODELING, SIMULATION, ANALYSIS, REPORT GENERATION, VISUALIZATION, ARCHIVING, DATA DISTRIBUTION, WEB SITE, AND UTILITY FUNCTIONS. 12. DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF GEODETIC/ASTROMETRIC CAPABILITY OF AIPS. 13. SUPPORT OF IVS ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE COORDINATING CENTER, THE COORDINATING CENTER DIRECTOR, THE CORE OPERATION CENTER, THE NETWORK COORDINATOR, ANALYSIS CENTER, PUBLICATIONS, MEETINGS, WEB SITE AND COMMUNICATIONS. 14. LIBRARY SERVICES FOR ALL DOCUMENTATION RELATED TO THE MARK III/IV AND VLBI 2010 SYSTEMS. 15. TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO VARIOUS ELEMENTS THAT SUPPORT VLBI AND IVS ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS. 16. STUDY AND SUPPORT OF THE COMBINATION OF SPACE GEODETIC DATA FROM VLBI AND OTHER TECHNIQUES AS WELL AS SITE TIE AND OTHER GEOPHYSICAL INFORMATION TO GENERATE THE TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME, MEASUREMENTS OF EOP, AND CRUSTAL DYNAMIC MODELS. 17. SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF THE GODDARD VLBI GROUP. 18. SUPPORT FOR THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING, EVALUATION, AND DEPLOYMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION GEODETIC VLBI STATION INCLUDING THE SPACE GEODESY PROTOTYPE INTEGRATED STATION, AND INCLUDING INSTRUMENTATION, SCHEDULING, MONITORING, AND CONTROL. 19. SUPPORT OF THE OPERATION OF THE VLBI STATION AT THE GODDARD GEOPHYSICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY FOR GEODETIC AND TEST SESSIONS.