": task order title: timed-resolved observations of precipitation structure and storm intensity with constellation of smallsats (tropics) standing review board (SRB) timed-resolved observations of…

This federal contract award is for the Timed-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) project, which is a selected project within the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program (ESSP) managed by the Earth Science Division (ESD) of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) at NASA. The contract, valued at $130,762.00, was awarded to Cornell Technical Services LLC, a small technology and professional services company based in Columbia, Maryland, to provide support for the TROPICS independent reviews and associated activities. The TROPICS project is a Category 3 project per NASA NPR 7120.E, and the TROPICS instrument is a Class D science investigation with the primary objective of providing rapid-refresh microwave measurements over the tropics to observe the thermodynamics of the troposphere structure for storm systems. The contract is a delivery order under the Evaluations, Assessments, Studies, Services, & Support 3 (EASSS 3) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, valued at $111.75 million, which Cornell Technical Services LLC holds with NASA Langley Research Center. This contract does not have a set-aside designation.

": task order title: timed-resolved observations of precipitation structure and storm intensity with constellation of smallsats (tropics) standing review board (SRB) timed-resolved observations of precipitation structure and storm intensity with constellation of smallsats (tropics) project. The selection was made pursuant to the earth venture instrument-3 (EVI-3) announcement of opportunity (AO) NNH12ZDA006O. The tropics project is a selected project within the earth system science pathfinder program (essp), which is managed by the essp program office at langley research center (larc) for the earth science division (ESD) of the science mission directorate (SMD) of NASA. Tropics is a category 3 project, per NASA NPR 7120.e. The tropic instrument is a class d science investigation with the primary objective of providing rapid-refresh microwave measurements over the tropics that can be used to observe the thermodynamics of the troposphere structure for storm systems at the mesoscale and synoptic scale over the entire storm lifecycle. A standing review board (SRB) is responsible for independently assessing the health of the project. Independent reviews of projects are conducted at defined lifecycle milestones and are used to objectively assess the projects progress against the project plan, its readiness to proceed to the next lifecycle phase, compliance with NPR 7120.5 and NPR 7123.1 requirements, and the integrated baseline. The purpose of this task is to obtain support for the tropics independent reviews and associated activities.