Gravity recovery and climate experiment (grace) extended mission grace is an essp program PI-led mission, and as such the PIS institution, the contractor (UT), shall be responsible for management of…

This is a federal contract award from NASA's Langley Research Center to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Extended Mission. As the prime contractor, UT Austin will be responsible for managing all aspects of the GRACE mission, including coordinating with key partners such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and German Research Centre for Geosciences. The $5,360,977 cost-no-fee contract requires UT Austin to meet revised science objectives, execute the mission through closeout, reprocess the entire GRACE data set, and document the mission implementation and science data products. This is not a set-aside contract. UT Austin, as a major research university within the University of Texas System, has an extensive track record of performing research, testing, and professional services for various federal agencies under both contracts and grants.

Gravity recovery and climate experiment (grace) extended mission grace is an essp program PI-led mission, and as such the PIS institution, the contractor (UT), shall be responsible for management of all elements of the mission including coordinating the mission contributions of team partners, JPL (project manager and mission operations management), UT, DLR, german research centre for geosciences (GFZ), and the activities of the joint U.S./european grace science team. The contractor shall be responsible to meet the revised science objectives as approved by the 2015 NASA headquarters senior review panels. The contractor shall also be responsible for executing the grace mission through closeout in accordance with the 2015 revision of the grace mission cooperative project plan and 2016 grace end of mission plan. The contractor will RE-process the entire grace data set with standards and processing models consistent with grace FO to provide a science data set consistent with grace FO data products. The contractor will be responsible for final data processing and archival of the mission data set and for the documentation of the mission implementation and science data products.