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Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) Support Services-II (80GSFC25R7003)

INDUSTRY DAY

April 9, 2025

Industry Day Agenda

1 Opening Remarks Dalia Kirschbaum / Tom Neumann

2 HBG Overview & Questions/Answers Matt Rodell & Michelle Padfield

3 1-on-1 / Networking HBG Team

4 Event Concluded

Earth Sciences Division Code 610

Earth Sciences Procurement Office Code 178

Overview of the Earth Sciences Division

The Earth Sciences Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center plans, organizes, evaluates, and implements a broad program of research on our planet's natural systems and processes.

Major focus areas include climate change, severe weather, the atmosphere, the ocean, sea ice and glaciers, and the land surface.

To study the planet from the unique perspective of space, the Earth Sciences Division develops and operates remote-sensing satellites and instruments. We analyze observational data from these spacecraft and make it available to the world's scientists. Our Education and Public Outreach efforts raise public awareness of the Division's research and its benefits to society.

HBG Overview

The HBG-I and HBG-II contracts will support technical work in six laboratories within the Earth Sciences Division• Cryospheric Sciences (615) - Nathan Kurtz

• Ocean Ecology (616) - Carlos del Castillo

• Hydrological Sciences (617) - John Bolten

• Biospheric Sciences (618) - Shawn Serbin

• Terrestrial Information Systems (619) - Sadashiva Devadiga

• Geodesy and Geophysics (61A) - Bryant Loomis

• General Scientific Research

• Modeling, Simulation, and Data Assimilation

• Scientific Mission Development, Planning, and

Execution

• Science Data Processing Operations

• Data Product Archiving and Distribution

• Instrumentation Development

• Satellite Instrument Performance Analysis and

Support

• Calibration Laboratory Support

• Specialized Laboratory Support

• Field Campaign Planning and Execution

• In situ and Airborne Data Collection

• Data Archival and Quality Control

• Outreach and Informal Education

• Technical Writing and Editing

• Media Development

Areas of support

Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory (615)

Mission: To advance our understanding of Earth’s cryosphere and its relationship to other elements of the global climate system

Broad Goals of the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory

• Measuring and understanding the mass balance of land ice, and its implications for sea-level rise

• Monitoring and understanding important cryospheric processes, such as changes in sea ice and snow cover and their relationships with other parts of the climate system

• Improving the representation of cryospheric processes in climate models.

Ocean Ecology Laboratory (616)

Core competencies: Earth System Science research; ocean, atmosphere, and land remote sensing; radiative transfer and biogeochemical modeling; field work; collection, processing, archiving, and distribution of satellite data.

Lab Chief: Carlos E. Del Castillo, carlos.e.delcastillo@nasa.gov Deputy Lab Chief: Bryan A. Franz, bryan.a.franz@nasa.gov

Major activities:

PACE Project Science and SDS.

Research: Ocean biogeochemistry, atmospheric composition, land hyperspectral products, algorithm development, new instrumentation.

OB.DAAC: Can distribute > 20 TB/year from >15 missions (current and inactive).

SeaBASS: Fully searchable satellite match-up data repository (> 3 billion data points).

Earth Science Missions:

Archived: CZCS, SeaWiFS, Aquarius, GOCI, HawkEye, HICO, MERIS, OCTS.

Current: MODIS-A,OLCI, VIIRS, PACE

Future: GLIMR, GeoXO-OCX, AOS

Instrument Development:

Ocean profiling LIDAR, field hyperpolarimetric optical instruments.

Simultaneous Oceans, Atmospheric, and Land remote sensing products

The Hydrological Sciences Laboratory is dedicated to the understanding, quantification, and analysis of the stocks (snowpack, soil moisture, groundwater, etc.) and fluxes (rainfall, streamflow, etc.) of the water cycle, with particular emphasis on land surface hydrological processes and their interaction with the atmosphere.

Our lab consists of 96 scientists and engineers who are leaders in remote sensing data fusion for hydrology research and applications.

Key projects include satellite mission development, leadership in NASA missions, calibration/validation field campaigns with ground and airborne instruments, land surface modeling and data assimilation addressing key questions on land-atmosphere interactions and global water storage and use, as well as value-added product development for agriculture, water resource management and disaster response.

Hydrological Sciences Laboratory (617)

Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (618)

BSL studies the dynamics of terrestrial & coastal ecosystems, their interactions with the atmosphere and role in sustaining life on Earth

Lab Chief: Shawn Serbin, shawn.p.serbin@nasa.gov Associate Lab Chief: Lahouari Bounoua, lahouari.bounoua@nasa.gov

Major projects/activities:

• Biospheric and C cycle science; fire, disturbance and recovery, vegetation dynamics

• Agriculture and food security

• Biodiversity and ecological conservation

• Land-use and land cover change

• Land-surface/biospheric modeling; land-atmosphere interactions

• Air quality & aerosols

• Instrument development; Calibration and validation

• AI/ML, High-Performance Computing;

Advanced analytical techniques

• Radiative Transfer Modeling

• Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office

• Commercial Space (CSDA)

• Field /Airborne Campaigns

• Engagement: e.g. Earth-to-Sky; STELLA

Earth Science Missions:

• GEDI

• EDGE

• Landsat 8/9

• Landsat Next

• DSI (STV, PBL)

• SMAP

• PACE

• JPSS/NPP/VIIRS

• MODIS

• Terra

• SBG

• CLARREO Pathfinder

• GeoXO

• ECOSRTESS

Mission Support Activities:

• AERONET

• CC&E

• 618 Cal Labs

• GLAMR

Airborne

• G-LiHT

• SWESARR

• FireSense/CFI

• EcoSAR

Geodesy & Geophysics Laboratory (61A)

Core competencies: Fundamental geodesy, geophysical modeling, orbital dynamics, remote sensing instrument development and analysis, and geodetic data archiving.

Lab Chief: Bryant Loomis, bryant.d.loomis@nasa.gov Assistant Lab Chief: Evan Hoffman, evan.d.hoffman@nasa.gov

Major projects/activities:

• Space Geodesy Project

(VLBI, GNSS, SLR, DORIS, LLR)

• GEODYN Software Suite

• CDDIS: Crustal Dynamics Data

Information System

• Lidar development & deployments

• Goddard Ocean Tide Models

• Global Reservoirs and Lakes Monitor

• International Mass Loading Service

• CM6 Geomagnetic Model

• IDS, ILRS, IVS Analysis Centers

• IGS Analysis Center Coordinator

Earth Science Missions:

• GEDI

• ICESat/-2

• LVIS

• EDGE

• GRITSS

• Swarm

• GRACE/-FO/-C

• TOPEX/Poseidon

• Jason-1/2/3

• Sentinel-6A

• SWOT

• Sentinel-1

Planetary Missions:

• GRAIL

• MRO

• LRO

• MESSENGER

• OSIRIS-Rex

• Artemis LLR (ALLR)

Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory (619)

TISL produces stable, well calibrated, and scientifically validated products that fill the needs of researchers around the world, working to advance understanding of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere on a global scale. The Laboratory partners with other federal agencies to develop and operate computing systems that provide custom products in near real-time for applied research and applications.

Data Centers: Archive, Distribution and User Services

LAADS DAAC

Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System Distributed Active Archive System

GES DISC

Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center

OB DAAC

NASA Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center

Mission Data Processing Systems

PPS

Precipitation Processing System

MODAPS and Land SIPS MODIS (and VIIRS) Adaptive Processing System

ACPS (OMI and OMPS) Atmosphere Composition Processing System

OBPG

Ocean Biology Processing Group

AOS SDS

Atmosphere Observing System Science Data Segment

Algorithms/Applications

Surface Reflectance Geolocation

FIRMS & LANCE

Fire Information for Resource Management System Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS

Agriculture/Food Security Flood Mapping Black Marble (Day/Night Band)

Earth Science Missions: Terra, Aqua, Aura, SNPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21, JPSS3, JPSS4, Sentinel-3A/3B, AOS, MetOPS

ICESat-2

Project Goal: Photon counting laser altimeter which measures changes in global ice sheet elevation, sea ice freeboard, and vegetation canopy height with high accuracy and spatial resolution Also measures mountain glaciers, terrestrial snow depth, shallow water bathymetry, inland water levels, ocean height and waves, clouds, aerosols, land deformation, building structures, and much more

• 3-year primary mission completed December 2021

• Meets or exceeds all mission science requirements for accuracy, precision, and spatial coverage

• Laser energy and consumables sufficient to extend mission to ~2034 or later

Ice sheet elevation change Vegetation height

Volcanic island deformation

Melt ponds

Clouds and aerosols Sea ice freeboard

Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory

EVS-4 Investigation: Snow4Flow

Investigation start: 1 October 2025 Aircraft: DHC-6 Twin Otter or DC-3T Basler; + helicopter or small UAS (all CAS) Measurements: Snow & ice thickness + surface elevation Models: Regional snowfall & glacier flow, both state & history Ground: Snow survey validation Deployments: March–April 2026–8 Locations: Alaska, Arctic Canada, SE Greenland, Svalbard

Principal Investigator (PI): Jack Holt (Univ. Arizona) Deputy PIs: Lauren Andrews & Joe MacGregor

(GSFC)

Investigation Manager (IM): Peter Griffith (SSAI) Deputy IMs: Albert Wu & Dan Hodkinson (SSAI) EVS Program Manager: Barry Lefer (HQ) Program Scientists: Thorsten Markus & Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer (HQ) Program Application Lead: Eleanor Stokes (HQ) EVS Program Executive: Bruce Tagg (HQ) EVS Mission Manager: Diane Hope (ESSP)

How will precipitation and flow-driven mass change affect the future of Northern Hemisphere (NH) glaciers?

Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory

PACE represents NASA’s latest, greatest investment in the combined study of Earth’s sea, land, and sky

Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission

Dominant phytoplankton communities in the southern Atlantic in August 2024 as determined by the MOANA model (Lange et al. 2020).

This capability is unique to the PACE OCI.

Key characteristics:

• Launched 8 February 2024 from Kennedy Space Center

• (primary; GSFC), HARP2 (UMBC), and SPEXone (SRON / Air3 instrument payload: OCI bus Netherlands)

• Science data processing and distribution conducted within the GSFC Ocean Ecology Laboratory (Code 616) Milestones:

• Initial data release: April 2024 (launch + 63 days)

• PACE Validation Science Team heads to the field: April 2024

• First mission reprocessing (version 2): June 2024

• PACE-PAX field campaign: September 2024

• Second mission reprocessing (version 3): January 2024 Data products:

• Current: spectral surface reflectances (aquatic & land), aquatic optical & biogeochemical properties, land vegetation indices, cloud optical properties, aerosol optical properties

• Coming soon (2025): phytoplankton communities, polarimetry

Ocean Ecology Laboratory

• NASA Earth Venture Instrument (EVI-5) satellite mission

• Planned for launch to geostationary orbit in 2027-2028

• Designed to collect sub-hourly daytime ocean color observations of US and other coastal and ocean waters

• Quantify coastal and oceanic phytoplankton growth and physiology at their intrinsic sub-daily timescales

• Quantify high frequency fluxes of carbon, sediment and other materials within and across aquatic coastal systems

• Detect and track harmful algal blooms, oil spills and other nuisance blooms (Sargassum)

Geostationary Littoral Imaging & Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR)

Calibration sites

Gulf

• PI, management & science operations by Univ. of New Hampshire; NASA ESSP provides mission oversight & access to space

• Instrument by Raytheon; Mission assurance by Southwest Research Institute

• GSFC provides deputy PI, science data system and management, science performance, and science algorithms and data analysis

“Understand and explore our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future”

• FORTE, a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS-4) mission – the first to apply the unique advantages (“forte”) of high resolution, ecosystem-scale, suborbital passive and active remote sensing observations to explicitly link hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological processes in Arctic land-ocean systems

Arctic Coastlines – Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems (FORTE)

“Understand and explore our home planet, improve lives and safeguard our future”

• Fills a critical gap in our mechanistic understanding and modeling of Arctic environmental change impacts, by targeting the transitional continuum of Alaska’s northernmost ecosystems – eroding coastlines, rivers, deltas, and estuaries – that connect land to sea

• PI CCNY/GSFC; ESPO provides investigation management

• GSFC provides two deputy PIs, science support and logistics management

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

Salient Features

Science & Applications Status

• L-band synthetic aperture radar – ceased operation on 7-Jul-2015 (JPL)

• L-band radiometer (GSFC)

• Shared 6-m rotating (14 rpm) antenna (JPL)

• Launch: 31-Jan-2015 on Delta II from VAFB, CA

• Global, high-resolution mapping of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state to:

• Link terrestrial water, energy, and carbon-cycle processes

• Estimate global water and energy fluxes at the land surface

• Enhance weather forecasts and reduce uncertainty in climate model projections

• Develop improved flood and drought prediction capability.

• SMAP was approved for a third extension (senior review) in 2023.

Expected to be invited for the next senior review in 2025/2026.

• All operations (instrument, spacecraft, mission, science analysis, science data production, calibration, validation) are currently nominal

• L-Band radar system non-functioning since July 2015.

• Over 750 science publications using SMAP data have been released, many based on how landscape hydrology affects the water, energy and carbon balance linkages regionally and globally.

• U.S. Federal agencies continue to increase their use of SMAP soil moisture data to meet or improve operational requirements.

• Air Force 557 Weather Wing is operational with use of SMAP near-real-time data in their forecasts

• Other agencies using data operationally or as a decision tool include USDA FAS, USDA NASS, Environment and Climate Change Canada, NASA SPoRT, and the National Drought Mitigation Center; NOAA also downloads the NRT data

Hydrological Sciences Laboratory

NASA Land Information System (LIS)

A system to simulate land and hydrology processes by integrating a large suite of models and remote sensing data through comprehensive data assimilation capabilities.

• The most state-of-the-art land data assimilation system in the world with unprecedented capabilities for remote sensing data assimilation

• Used to support mission development observation system simulation experiments, science research, and applied environments

• Foundation of the Earth action sponsored projects to map water availability, water use, and disaster management around the world.

NASA SnowEx Field & Airborne Campaigns

SnowEx is a multi-year coordinated airborne and ground experiment sponsored by the NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program to evaluate different snow remote sensing technologies throughout the season in various landscapes.

SnowEx Summary:

NRL P-3

Twin OtterCessna 206

SnowEx campaigns were conducted at 20 different locations in the Western US and Alaska (red dots).

Base map shows snow classes defined in Sturm & Liston (2021). Map credit: Svetlana Stuefer, UAF

• Four major snow campaigns:

2017, 2020, 2021 and 2023

• Over 250 Participants from 49 Institutions

• 14 Instruments on 8 different aircraft

• 184 Individual Datasets snow.nasa.gov

NASA SnowEx, 2017 – 2023

Landsat Next Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

Mission: Provide community leadership and state-of-the-art calibration capabilities, facilities, and methods to support ground-based, airborne and satellite remote sensing instruments, ensuring high-level science across all applications.

Housed in NASA/GSFC Earth Science Division / Biospheric Sciences Laboratory but available to the wider community

• 3500 sq feet of lab space, 10 scientists and engineers

• NIST-traceable measurement services for irradiance, radiance and reflectance from ~300nm to

~2500nm

• Flexible operations: On-premise at Goddard or deployed to instrument location

• End-to-end service: Test planning, instrument testing, reduction of calibration data

• Services open to US Government agencies, industry, academic institutions, international cooperators

Under the Calibration Lab umbrella:

1) Radiometric Calibration Laboratory (RCL)

• Calibrated and characterized incoherent sources – lamps, LEDs, integrating spheres

• Calibrated and characterized filter and scanning spectrometers

2) Diffuser Calibration Laboratory (DCL)

• Spectral bidirectional reflectance and transmittance distribution function instrumentation

• Spectral total directional hemispherical reflectance and transmittance instrumentation

3) Goddard Laser for Absolute Measurement of Radiance (GLAMR)

• Calibrated and characterized tunable laser and integrating sphere system

Recent Customers include space-flight (ESD, SMD, partners), airborne and ground-based sensors PACE OCI, PACE HARP-2, PACE SpexONE, CLARREO Pathfinder, Roman Space Telescope, Aeronet, Pandora, Airborne Sensor Facility, PICARD, AirHARP-2, JPSS VIIRS, JPSS FPI, RSP, Mars Sample Return Mission, OMPS, RAMS

Visit our websites for more information: cl.gsfc.nasa.gov, glamr.gsfc.nasa.gov

Calibration Laboratories

RCL

DCL

GLAMR

Biospheric Sciences Laboratory https://cl.gsfc.nasa.gov/ https://glamr.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• AERONET uses ground stations to measure atmospheric aerosols.

• AERONET is Federated network (network of networks) and operational for last 30 years.

• Currently about 600 active sites operational in 100+ countries

• Deploy AERONET at several NASA / NOAA field campaigns

• Continue to support cal/val for NASA missions (Terra, Aqua, Aura, JPSS)

• New sites setup to validate TEMPO, PACE, MAIA missions

• Synergetic deployments (PANDORA, MPLNET, SPARTAN)

• AERONET-OC, and MAN measures over OCEAN

AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation

The GEDI geodetic lidar has produced the most accurate and comprehensive observations of bare Earth topography.

GEDI has produced the most accurate and complete canopy height dataset to date.

GEDI’s map of biomass density is the benchmark, and the first produced using observations from a single instrument within a consistent statistical framework.

GEDI produces the first high resolution geodetic laser ranging observations of the 3D structure of the Earth.

GEDI makes precise measurements of forest canopy height, canopy vertical structure, and surface elevation.

GEDI radically improves our ability to understand important atmospheric and water cycling processes, biodiversity, and habitat.

GEDI has been deployed on the International Space Station (ISS) since 2018.

Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory

Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is a proposed NASA Earth System Explorer Mission featuring a geodetic swath-mapping laser altimeter designed for unprecedented coverage and precision, targeting critical regions of rapid change.

EDGE is a significant advance from multi-beam profiling to swath-mapping full-waveform geodetic lidar.

• Operation and maintenance of NASA’s legacy Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) networks.

• Development, deployment, operation, and maintenance of the next-generation NASA Space Geodesy Network (NSGN) of collocated SLR, VLBI, GNSS, and DORIS stations.

• Development, operation and maintenance of NASA’s Space Geodesy analysis systems and the delivery of Space Geodetic products.

• Implementation of laser retroreflector arrays on GPS III and IIIF satellites.

NASA’s Space Geodesy Project

Global Navigation Satellite System

(GNSS)

Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by

Satellite (DORIS)

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)

HBG Acquisition Overview

100% Small Business Set-Aside

Single Award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity

(IDIQ) – Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF)

Contract Type

541715

The small business size standard is 1,000

NAICS CODE

5-year Effective Ordering Period

Perf Period

Min: $5,000,000.00 **

Max: $471,000,000.00 **

**may be adjusted at Contract Award

MIN / MAX

Government Furnished Property:

NASA may provide property to be used under this contract

GFP

Installation Accountable Government Property:

Made available for use in the performance of the contract at the Government facility

IAGP

In the event of any inconsistencies between the information provided in these slides and/or communicated within this forum and the Final RFP, the language/instructions in the Final RFP (including any amendments) will govern.

Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics

(HBG)

Solicitation #: 80GSFC25R7003

Max Ordering Value: $ 471,000,000.00 ** **may be adjusted at Contract Award

HBG Acquisition Schedule

2 3

Proposals Due Selection

Anticipated May 2025

30 days after RFP release

RFP Release*

Anticipated October 2025

In the event of any inconsistencies between the information provided in these slides and/or communicated within this forum and the Final RFP, the language/instructions in the Final RFP (including any amendments) will govern.

HBG Evaluation Information

400 pointsSubfactor A - Technical Approach

In accordance with NFS 1815.304-70(b)(1), subfactors will be numerically weighted and scored in accordance with the 1,000-point scale provided above.

GSFC 52.215-311

600 pointsSubfactor B - Management Approach

Evaluation will be conducted in accordance with FAR 15.3/NFS 1815.3 Source Selection Procedures

Evaluation Factors

• Mission Suitability (Point Scored)

• Cost

• Past Performance (Adjectival rating)

Award on initial offers is anticipated, but the Government reserves the right to establish a competitive range and hold discussions with Offerors

In the event of any inconsistencies between the information provided in these slides and/or communicated within this forum and the Final RFP, the language/instructions in the Final RFP (including any amendments) will govern.

HBG Questions

Questions Answers

Can you please outline any significant scope changes from the last RFP?

There are no significant changes between the current HBG contract SOW and the follow-

on. In accordance with the Office of Procurement MAP initiative some administrative work was removed and identified on the PAAC contract.

What is the expected transition period for this contract? It is anticipated at the DRFP and FRFP will identify a phase-in period of 30 days.

Could you please specify the work share requirement for a subcontractor in order for their past performance to be considered in the evaluation process?

It is anticipated that the DRFP will reflect that a proposed significant subcontractor for the past performance volume as defined as any proposed subcontractor that is estimated to meet/exceed an average annual cost/fee of $2M.

Will there be a requirement for a Total Compensation Plan (TCP)? A TCP will not be required.

Since the DRFP hasn't been released yet, would you consider rescheduling Industry Day to allow industry time to review the DRFP and ask questions?

Due to the procurement schedule another Industry Day will not be scheduled; however, potential offerors will have the opportunity to submit questions for answering along with the invitation to meet with Government representatives.

How many scenarios will the DRFP contain and how many SOW areas will need to be specifically addressed?

It is anticipated that the DRFP will have no more than two (2) scenarios and an estimated five (5) SOW elements for response.

If there will be Offsite personnel, will the government provide their computing equipment? Depending on the work identified in the task order(s), the Government may or may not provide computing equipment, which will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

How many WYEs will the HBG-II GPM represent and how many of those WYEs will be Offsite?

The GPM has been posted within the DRFP with this information and includes hours for Offsite performance.