Landsat 9 gsrt review support purpose, objective, and background of work to be performed: provide scheduling, project/program management, and multi-discipline engineering support for the landsat 9…

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order awarded by the Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) to The Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), for the purpose of providing scheduling, project/program management, and multi-discipline engineering support for the Landsat 9 Flight and Ground Ground Systems Requirements and Traceability (GSRT) reviews. The contract has a ceiling value of $93,653.76 and a performance period through March 31, 2018. The work involves pre-review activities such as document review, technical interchange meetings, and post-review activities like request for action disposition and report development. This delivery order is not associated with a set-aside program.

Landsat 9 gsrt review support purpose, objective, and background of work to be performed: provide scheduling, project/program management, and multi-discipline engineering support for the landsat 9 flight and ground gsrts. Support includes pre-review activities (reviewing documents, technical interchange meetings, executive sessions, and teleconferences) and post-review activities [request for action (RFA) disposition, trip report development, team caucuses, teleconferences, and final report development and review]. The review timeframes contained within the SOW are estimated dates only. The responsible gsfc systems review manager (SRM) will provide actual dates in advance of the reviews for which support is required as part of the progression through the current performance period. Reviews are to be attended by the appointed experts as directed by the responsible SRM in support of the systems review branch, code 300. Deliverables to be developed in association with the tasked support include requests for action (rfas), trip reports, written inputs to final review board summary reports, and final disposition of rfas once acceptable responses are received from the project. Description of work to be performed: the assigned subject matter expert serving on the independent review board shall participate with other NASA, civil servant, military, and contracted board members with the same and/or diverse programmatic and technical expertise. The selected board member shall commit to participation in every branch review to the extent possible throughout the lifecycle of the mission. When possible, a notification of 30-days or greater shall be provided by the board member when participation at a specific review is not possible. Specific review support requirements include: review preparation, coordinate with system review branch on review agenda and activities, coordinate with the branch to support review agenda, timing, duration and content. Coordinate with the branch and other organizations in identifying appropriate review team members support branch review chair or project as scheduling and/or management expert, support peer reviews and branch reviews via telecom or travel as required, review of project-provided materials in advance (as available), participation in the review exercise recognized leadership during development lifecycle milestone reviews as a designated expert, prepare and submit requests for actions (RFA's) during reviews, plan travel and implement travel arrangements relative to the venue for each review, attend follow-up caucus of the review team following each review, prepare and/or comment on sections of review report pertinent to expertise, follow-up, evaluate, and record disposition of project responses to rfas, support branch review chair as expert at relevant technical and management meetings and telecons, support of technical interchange meetings as necessary, for each designated review, the contractor is required to provide the number of persons designated in the table in section 4. IT shall be assumed that the duration of each review will be three days. IT shall further be assumed that the contractor shall spend up to 5 business days prior to each review for preparation and travel to the review site, and up to 5 business days following each review to accomplish the post review activities described in section 3.3.