"" task order title: exploration systems development (ESD) standing review board (SRB) NASA has been tasked by the administration, with congressional authorization, to develop the next generation…

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Langley Research Center to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland. The task order is to support the Exploration Systems Development (ESD) Standing Review Board (SRB), which is responsible for independently assessing the health of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), and Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) programs. Cornell Technical Services will provide technical consulting and scientific and technical specialist services to the ESD SRB to support its oversight of these major exploration programs. The task order has a ceiling value of $375,829.56 and a period of performance through November 30, 2016. This award is part of a larger $111.75 million NASA Langley Research Center Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract called "Evaluations, Assessments, Studies, Services, & Support 3" (EASSS 3), which enables the agency to flexibly leverage Cornell Technical Services' expertise across its science and aeronautics portfolios.

"" task order title: exploration systems development (ESD) standing review board (SRB) NASA has been tasked by the administration, with congressional authorization, to develop the next generation capability to provide human access to space, with lift capability and crew accommodations to support missions beyond low earth orbit (LEO). Responsibility to oversee this development activity is assigned to the human exploration and operations mission directorate (heomd). Within heomd, the exploration systems division (ESD) is charged with coordination and integration of three major programs that comprise this development initiative. The space launch systems (SLS) program, assigned to the marshall space flight center (msfc), is responsible for developing a heavy-lift launch vehicle with sufficient capability to enable exploration beyond LEO. The orion multi-purpose crew vehicle (mpcv) program, assigned to the johnson space center (JSC), is responsible for developing a crew capsule that supports the long-range exploration needs of NASA. The ground systems development and operations (gsdo) program, assigned to the kennedy space center (KSC), is responsible to plan and outfit the ground capabilities in support of the necessary ground processing and launch operations for exploration and other missions. SLS, mpcv, and gsdo have been classified as programs by the agency, with management and resources provided to their respective centers. However, due to unique interdependencies among these programs, an integration function is assigned to the heomd, ESD division, which will perform cross-program integration and execute reviews to assure that agency technical, cost, and schedule commitments are being met. There will be a coordinated cross-program system definition review (SDR) at the ESD level assessing the confirmation of the design activities among the three programs that leads to a second agency key decision point (KDP). Preliminary design reviews and later lifecycle reviews (lcrs) including annual checkpoints to verify program design activities remain in alignment and compliance with HQ requirements will be conducted. Program-level life cycle events will be subject to independent review and KDP events at agency program management councils (apmcs). 3.2 a standing review board (SRB) is responsible for independently assessing the health of the three programs and the cross program at various life cycle gates and kdps. Independent reviews of programs are conducted at defined lifecycle milestones and are used to objectively assess the programs progress against the program plan, its readiness to proceed to the next lifecycle phase, compliance with the latest versions of NPR 7120.5 and NPR 7123.1 requirements, and the integrated baseline. 3.3 the purpose of this task is to obtain support for the ESD SRB, specifically for both a technical consultant and an scientific & technical specialist SRB consultant to provide his/her expert opinion and counsel to the ESD SRB, or these programs on program management for large developmental programs with fixed/flat budgets from the private sector.