Wietr review board the contractor shall perform the work that is designated in task orders issued by the contracting officer. The overall scope of work to be performed will support all of nasas…

This is a $90,291.00 delivery order award to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) by the Marshall Space Flight Center, a civilian agency of NASA. The award is part of a larger Aerospace Research, Development, and Engineering Support (ARDES) contract, which covers a broad range of research, engineering, and development capabilities to support NASA's mission directorates across the full life cycle of robotic space missions.

The work under this delivery order will involve essential research capabilities such as space systems engineering, systems test and evaluation, information technology, and simulation/modeling/operations analysis. It may also cover other aerospace R&D and engineering support tasks as needed by NASA. The contract has no set-aside designation and runs through the end of 2019. As a subsidiary of The Johns Hopkins University, a major research institution, APL brings extensive expertise in areas like defense technology, space science, and biomedical research to support this NASA contract.

Wietr review board the contractor shall perform the work that is designated in task orders issued by the contracting officer. The overall scope of work to be performed will support all of nasas mission directorates. These efforts can be characterized as aerospace research, development, and engineering support ardes. The general nature of the tasks to be developed will be to conduct supporting research and advanced technology development designed to make contributions to space science and space exploration and assist NASA in the formulation and execution of its programs by providing NASA with technical advice, studies, and reports of investigations. Efforts undertaken by the contractor, in the performance of the assigned tasks, which include technology transfer, partnering and commercialization activities, shall seek to enhance the value and contribution of technology to the nations technological competitiveness, prosperity, quality of life, and other national priorities. Individual task orders will fall within one of two broad categories. 1. Essential research capability of space systems engineering, and related work in the supporting essential research capabilities of systems test and evaluation, information technology, and simulation, modeling and operations analysis. Task orders within the category of essential research capabilities are intended to preserve the nations capabilities to perform robotic space missions over the full mission life cycle from concept formulation through mission operations and data analysis. NASA is contracting for support in several key research, engineering and development competencies that are fundamental to the performance of these missions. Other aerospace research, development, and engineering support. Task orders within the category of other aerospace research, development and engineering support are intended to include a broad base of scientific and technical capabilities relevant to NASA program responsibilities and assignments regardless of category, task orders may be issued related to autonomous deep-space and earth-orbiting spacecraft or major subsystems, experiments, instruments or other devices that may be carried as payloads on the space shuttle or on other spacecraft. Task assignments will explicitly describe a broad range of hardware, software, systems engineering, scientific analysis, and management efforts including program and project management and administration.