Summary: Draft Statement of Work - Ring Moon Systems Discipline Node of the Planetary Data System

This is a Draft Statement of Work for the Ring Moon Systems (RMS) Discipline Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS), effective December 1, 2026 through November 30, 2029. The RMS Discipline Node, operated by SETI Institute, must continue providing planetary science mission support and essential data archival, preservation, discovery, distribution, and data usage services compliant with Title II of H.R.4174 and the Open Government Data Act. Core deliverables include ingesting ring moon systems data from currently observing planetary missions and research scientists; validating data submissions and organizing peer-reviews; providing expertise to guide missions and individuals in organizing digital data; supporting archival activities at spacecraft mission close-out; implementing NASA PDS Level 3 and 4 requirements; ensuring long-term preservation through coordination with the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA); enabling public data accessibility in compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act; maintaining data security against natural disasters and unauthorized access; and minimizing public access interruptions to no more than 14 calendar days per instance.

The RMS Discipline Node must support PDS enterprise modernization through registering data holdings in the PDS Registry, converting all planetary data holdings to the PDS4 standard (with exceptions requiring written justification), and completing cloud migration of all data holdings, software, tools, and services to the NASA-managed cloud environment. Additional requirements include developing and submitting sub-node transition plans, participating in PDS working groups and management council meetings (minimum 70% attendance with up to 5 personnel attending 2 multi-day in-person meetings annually), identifying software and processes for combination or decommissioning, supporting user community transition to new PDS offerings, delivering cybersecurity compliance plans and achieving federal/NASA cybersecurity controls, transitioning web presence and dataset access to NASA-managed infrastructure, and providing quarterly reporting on migration progress, dataset conversion, web presence transition, and comprehensive metrics tracking. The contractor must also furnish NASA computers for full-time PDS Node staff only; all equipment purchased with NASA funding becomes government property and must be maintained in compliance with NASA cybersecurity standards.