Nasas independent verification and validation IV v facility was established as part of an agency wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost effectiveness for mission…

This is a delivery order awarded to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center. The contract provides technical and professional support services for NASA's Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program, which is responsible for ensuring the safety and cost-effectiveness of mission-critical software. The contract has a total potential value of $49,688.84 and a period of performance ending on September 30, 2018. This contract is not designated as a set-aside. The Aerospace Corporation is a non-profit organization that provides independent technical and scientific research, development, and advisory services to national security space programs and NASA. Through this contract, The Aerospace Corporation will support the IV&V Program's analytical approaches, cybersecurity assessments, and independent program reviews.

Nasas independent verification and validation IV v facility was established as part of an agency wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost effectiveness for mission critical software. Independent verification and validation is an agency level function delegated from osma to goddard space flight center gsfc and managed by NASA IV v. The programs primary business software IV v is sponsored by osma as a software assurance technology. The NASA IV v programs analytical approaches enable efficient cost effective IV v service through the usage of broad based expertise adaptive software engineering best practices and a common toolset for all IV v analysts. The analytical paradigm utilized by nasas IV v program requires a multi-disciplinary team and a qualitative software risk and criticality assessment capability coupled with an extensive multiphase v v analytical process. Nasas IV v program is accredited to perform inspections as a third party assessment organization 3PAO under the federal risk and authorization management program fedramp WWW.fedramp.GOV. This accreditation enables the program to certify cloud services that are being provided to government entities which will enhance the programs domain knowledge and experience in cybersecurity. This statement of work SOW is for the acquisition of technical and professional support services for the nasas IV v program ivvp. The following list of tasks is not necessarily exhaustive but indicates the types of tasks to be undertaken by the aerospace corporation space cyber research and analysis support cyber testing and assessment support and as needed special studies and alternative analyses independent program assessments, acquisition recommendations and independent program reviews the government reserves the right to refine the direction of tasks and add additional tasks within the general scope of this contract or task order. Tasks outside the general scope or for which the technical direction clause cannot apply will be incorporated following a bilateral agreement.