Draft USDV Statement of Work.pdf

DRAFT STATEMENT OF WORK

FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

UNITED STATES DEORBIT VEHICLE

Contents

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES

1.2 SCOPE

1.3 SOW ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE

2.0 OVERALL GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

2.1 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

2.1.1 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT REVIEWS

2.2 NASA INSIGHT AND APPROVAL

2.2.1 MILESTONE REVIEWS

2.2.2 TECHNICAL AND PROGRAM INTEGRATION MEETINGS

2.3 DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION (DDT&E)

2.3.1 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS

2.3.2 DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND TRADES

2.3.3 INTERFACE MANAGEMENT

2.3.4 TEST AND VERIFICATION

2.4 SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

2.5 SAFETY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY AND MISSION ASSURANCE

2.5.1 SAFETY

2.5.2 RELIABILITY

2.5.3 PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT

2.5.4 QUALITY ASSURANCE

2.5.5 NASA ADVISORIES AND GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY DATA EXCHANGE

PROGRAM (GIDEP) FAILURE EXPERIENCE DATA (FED) PROCESSING ... 16

2.5.6 SOFTWARE SAFETY AND ASSURANCE

2.5.7 SAFETY AND HEALTH

2.5.8 SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

2.5.9 ANOMALY TRACKING AND REPORTING

2.6 RISK MANAGEMENT

2.7 MISSION INTEGRATION AND OPERATIONS

2.7.1 MISSION INTEGRATION

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2.7.2 MISSION OPERATIONS

2.8 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

2.9 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

2.10 EXPORT CONTROL MANAGEMENT

2.11 TECHNICAL DIRECTION

3.0 USDV DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION (DDT&E) THROUGH

PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW (PDR) (CLIN 1)

3.1 MILESTONE C1-1 – MISSION CONCEPT REVIEW (MCR)

3.2 MILESTONE C1-2 – SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS REVIEW (SRR)

3.3 MILESTONE C1-3 – SYSTEM DEFINITION REVIEW (SDR)

3.4 MILESTONE C1-4 – PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW (PDR)

4.0 USDV DDT&E POST PDR THROUGH DESIGN CERTIFICATION REVIEW (DCR)

(CLIN 2)

4.1 MILESTONE C2-1 – DESIGN PROGESS REVIEW (DPR)

4.2 MILESTONE C2-2 – CRITICAL DESIGN REVIEW (CDR)

4.3 MILESTONE C2-3 – SYSTEM INTEGRATION REVIEW (SIR)

4.5 MILESTONE C2-4 – DESIGN CERTIFICATION REVIEW (DCR)

5.0 USDV DWELL AND CALL-UP (CLIN 3)

6.1 MILESTONE 3-1 – USDV DWELL STATUS REVIEW (DSR)

6.2 MILESTONE 3-2 – USDV DWELL RELEASE REVIEW (DRR)

6.0 USDV MISSION EXECUTION (CLIN 4)

6.1 MILESTONE 4-1 – USDV MISSION INTEGRATION REVIEW (MIR)

6.2 MILESTONE 4-2 – USDV OPERATIONAL READINESS REVIEW (ORR)

6.3 MILESTONE 4-3 – USDV-TO-LAUNCH VEHICLE PRE-MATE READINESS

REVIEW

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6.5 MILESTONE 4-5 – USDV MISSION COMPLETION

7.0 LAUNCH VEHICLE / LAUNCH VEHICLE INTEGRATION (CLIN 5)

8.0 SPECIAL TASKS AND STUDIES (CLIN 6)

8.1 SPECIAL STUDIES (SUB-CLIN 6A)

8.2 PRE-PRICED EVALUATION OF NASA MISSION REQUIREMENTS (SUB-CLIN

6B)

DRAFT SOW ISS USDV

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 OVERVIEW AND OBJECTIVES

a. The primary objective of this contract is to procure safe, reliable and cost-effective deorbit services to meet NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) end-of-life mission requirements. This will require the Contractor to design, develop, manufacture, test, integrate, achieve NASA certification and operate its United States Deorbit Vehicle (USDV) such that it can perform the final deorbit of the International Space Station.

b. This Statement of Work (SOW), including all references herein, describes the requirements for the Contractor to accomplish the contractual milestones, meet NASA and Government safety, functional, performance and interface requirements, achieve NASA certification, deliver the USDV to ISS, activate and checkout, and operate the USDV which includes performing ISS attitude control, ISS translational maneuvers and the final ISS shaping and deorbit burns.

1.2 SCOPE

a. This SOW and all documents attached or referenced herein define the NASA requirements for the USDV Contractor to perform ISS deorbit services using its USDV. This includes but is not limited to the scope for completion of the design, development, test, evaluation, certification and operation (TBR) of a USDV to launch, rendezvous and dock with ISS, and perform ISS attitude control, ISS translation maneuvers and the final ISS shaping and deorbit burns, while meeting all mission objectives as specified in this contract. The USDV contractor provides all evidence required for NASA certification of the USDV. The USDV contractor provides launch vehicle / launch vehicle integration (TBR). In addition, the Contractor shall provide special studies and tasks to the extent ordered under CLIN 6 Special Studies and Tasks of this contract.

b. The Contractor is responsible for providing all the necessary management, personnel, facilities, equipment, materials and supplies to deliver the products and services defined in this SOW. Government Task Agreements (GTAs) are available for select to functions to meet this intent in accordance with H. X Use of Government Resources. The requirements which may be ordered under this contract are set forth below.

c. NASA will provide access to detailed design information as required for components associated with the ISS and visiting vehicle interfaces necessary to fulfill this SOW as defined in Clause H.X Government Furnished Services and Data. This includes hardware drawings, acceptance test procedures, test equipment designs and data for the Contractor use in procuring these items. The Contractor shall perform all tasks necessary to ensure safe and reliable integration and transportation to the ISS, as well as perform ISS attitude control, ISS translation maneuvers and the final deorbit of ISS.

1.3 SOW ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE

a. This SOW is organized to align with six Contract Line-Item Numbers (CLINs):

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SOW

Section Number

Title CLIN

1.0 Introduction Applicable to

all CLINs

2.0 Overall General Requirements Applicable to

all CLINs

3.0 USDV Design, Development, Test and Evaluation

(DDT&E) through Preliminary Design Review (PDR)

CLIN 1

4.0 USDV DDT&E post-PDR through Design

Certification Review (DCR)

CLIN 2

5.0 USDV Dwell and Callup CLIN 3

6.0 USDV Mission Execution CLIN 4

7.0 Launch Vehicle / Launch Vehicle Integration (TBR) CLIN 5

8.0 Special Tasks and Studies CLIN 6

2.0 OVERALL GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

a. Section 2 provides the scope of the work applicable to all CLINs and associated tasks required to manage and lead the USDV contract.

2.1 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

a. The Contractor shall perform all program management functions required to provide the full scope of the USDV services ordered. The Contractor shall ensure all terms, conditions, contract, and requirements are met. The Contractor shall flow down all applicable requirements to all subcontractors, vendors and teaming partners.

b. The Contractor shall be responsible for performance and execution of all tasks ordered by NASA on this contract; and provide all resources, tools, facilities, processes, and functions required.

c. The Contractor shall provide NASA insight into all technical and programmatic activities performed under this contract.

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d. The Contractor shall define, manage, and implement technical management plans and processes to achieve and maintain NASA certification; and deliver on-time to meet NASA capability and reliability requirements.

e. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver and operate in accordance with a Program Management Plan in accordance with DRD USDV-3, Program Management Plan.

f. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver and operate in accordance with a Mission Integration and Operations Management Plan (MIOMP) in accordance with DRD USDV- 6 Mission Integration and Operations Management Plan (MIOMP).

g. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver, report, and operate in compliance with the Integrated Master Schedule in accordance with DRD USDV-1, Integrated Master Schedule.

h. The Contractor shall develop, maintain, and implement a process to verify flight certification and readiness. This auditable approach shall verify that all flight preparation responsibilities and requirements have been met and that all problems have been dispositioned prior to launch.

Prior to launch, the Contractor shall provide all objective evidence required to certify launch and vehicle readiness for NASA certification approval.

i. The Contractor shall provide the USDV Contractor Certification of Flight Readiness (CoFR) endorsements in accordance with SSP 50108, ISS Program Certification of Flight Readiness Process Document, and SSP 50902, Transportation Integration Office Certification of Flight Readiness Implementation Plan. The Contractor shall provide technical and programmatic inputs and subject matter expertise at the Stage Operations Readiness Review (SORR), Flight Readiness Review (FRR) and Launch Readiness Review (LRR), including any pre-board meetings and activities.

j. The Applicable Document List (ADL) for work performed under this contract is per Contract Attachment J-0X, which contains the applicable version and dates of documents called out in the SOW, DRDs, and contract clauses. Applicable documents for work authorized via Task Order shall be the version of the document from ADL (Attachment J-0X). Any changes to the ADL (Attachment J-0X) will be subject to a bilateral change to the contract.

k. The Contractor shall meet all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations during contract performance. The Contractor shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all applicable licenses, permits and agreements required to deliver the USDV contract.

l. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver and operate in accordance with a Mishap Preparedness and Contingency Plan in accordance with DRD USDV- 20 Mishap Preparedness and Contingency Plan. The Contractor shall adhere to the contract clause NFS 1852.223-70, Safety and Health Measures and Mishap Reporting. In the event of a NASA Mishap, NASA will decide who is the Investigating Authority (i.e., Mishap Investigator (MI), Mishap Investigation Team (MIT), or Mishap Investigation Board (MIB)) and who and how the Mishap Review will be conducted in accordance with NPR 8621.1D, NASA Procedural Requirements for Mishap and Close Call Reporting, Investigating, and Recordkeeping. The Contractor shall flow down applicable mishap related requirements to all subcontractor and teaming partners.

m. The Contractor shall adhere to the NID 8600.121, Use of International Space Station for

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Commercial and Marketing Activities and shall be responsible for coordinating with NASA for approval of all commercial activities to be conducted within NASA programs.

n. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver, report, and operate in compliance with the Organizational Conflicts of Interest Avoidance and Mitigation Plan submitted in accordance with DRD USDV- 7, Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) Plan.

o. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver, and operate in compliance with the Government Property Management Plan submitted in accordance with DRD USDV- 13, Government Property Management Plan.

p. The Contractor shall deliver the required financial and logistics reports in accordance with DRD USDV- 14, Financial Reporting Contractor-Held Property.

q. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver and operate in compliance with the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Plan submitted in accordance with DRD USDV- 9, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Plan.

r. The Contractor shall deliver the required environmental compliance reports in accordance with DRD USDV- 15, Environmental Compliance Reports.

s. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver, and operate in compliance with the Small Business Subcontracting Plan and deliver required reports in accordance with DRD USDV- 8, Small Business Subcontracting Plan and Reports.

2.1.1 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT REVIEWS

a. The Contractor shall conduct quarterly Program Management Reviews (PMR) for NASA and provide review products. The reviews shall provide NASA insight into the Contractor’s, subcontractors’, and vendors’ performance. The Contractor shall present at the PMR metrics that indicate the level of success in the execution of contract requirements and the status of the contractor’s achievement against the performance standards contained within this statement of work or elsewhere in this contract. The PMR shall have three components based on topics:

Program Management, Technical and Executive (contractual and financial topics).

b. The Contactor shall report the following:

1. Status of Test and Verification plans

2. Status of Certification

3. Status, closure plan, and schedule for remaining SSP 51101 USDV SRD requirements and tasks to be repeated in the event of changes to the launch vehicle and USDV baseline.

4. Summary of Integrated Master Schedule (DRD USDV-1) including current critical path drivers, ECDs, schedule reserves and recovery plans as needed. Summary shall include Program Plan with contractual planned dates, current forecast dates and actual achieved dates for all major tasks, events and milestones. Identification of interdependencies among tasks associated across all CLINs,

5. Key schedule items from other Contractor activities that may affect the technical, cost, and schedule risk to the NASA mission, such as, but not limited to, other program milestones, mission dates of other flights utilizing the same launch vehicles, NASA mission resource

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6. Schedule Risks and Technical Risks, including risk assessments, mitigation plans and mitigation schedules.

7. Problems (including subcontractor/suppliers) affecting schedule, quality, and performance and mitigation plans.

8. Technical performance measurements, which shall include design and performance margins, software metrics, and explanations and variances from the prior review.

9. Burn down and leading indicators charts with prior and current period status along with an executable and achievable closure plans (refer to OCE-52, NASA Common Leading Indicators Detailed Reference Guide).

10. Workforce planning and alignment to key milestone and production activity, including key skillsets.

11. Summary status of the special task and study assignments (under CLIN 6) that were started, in work, or completed since the previous PMR. Forecast of tasks and milestone completion for special task and study assignments (under CLIN 6) to be performed for upcoming quarter.

12. Closure status of actions items from previous PMRs, program and technical reviews, and corrective actions, including their status, due date, estimated closure date, closure plan, and closure rationale.

13. Listing of DRD submissions and summary level of the changes made since last PMR and forecast of updates and summary level of the changes for DRD submissions planned for upcoming quarter.

14. Insight and Collaboration Status highlighting current status of relationships, interfaces, tools, and processes used for establishing effective, efficient and transparent insight and collaboration between Government and Contractor teams at all levels.

15. Special topics/other areas as identified by NASA and Contractor during PMR agenda coordination

c. The Contractor shall publish PMR charts at least two (2) calendar days prior to the meeting.

d. The Contractor shall publish PMR final charts, minutes, actions and estimated closure dates within seven (7) calendar days after the meeting.

2.2 NASA INSIGHT AND APPROVAL

a. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver, and operate in compliance with an Insight and Collaboration Implementation Plan in accordance with DRD USDV-4, Insight Management Plan.

b. The Contractor shall provide all NASA-designated personnel with Insight to all contractor’s, subcontractors’ and vendors’ data, documentation, drawings, patterns, models, analyses, products, documents, facilities, personnel, and support services in accordance with clause H.X, NASA Insight and Approval. The Contractor shall provide this information for all

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c. The Contractor shall provide an efficient and effective method of sharing, reporting, collecting, recording, and accessing of program data between NASA and NASA support personnel, Contractor and the Contractor’s safety critical subcontractors and vendors to enable real-time collaborative access to and retrieval from a single source of management information, product information, technical data, operations data from the Contractor’s information technology (IT) systems.

d. NASA retains approval authority over the USDV System that interfaces with and is used in integrated operations with the Crew, ground and in-space segments. The Contractor shall grant insight into evidence that the USDV system and components including their subsystems, subcomponents, and integrated functions with software, are verified in a manner consistent with how they will be used in operations and training; have sufficient margin to their maximum expected environments; meet their minimum required performance and are acceptable for in-space use.

e. Specific areas requiring Government approval are:

1. USDV System and subsystem baseline design and configuration for compliance with

NASA requirements.

2. Changes to USDV System and subsystem baseline design and configuration for compliance with NASA requirements.

3. Hardware, software, interfaces, and operations that could impact NASA assets, NASA crew or NASA mission objectives.

4. Interface requirements between the USDV System, crew, ground, and in- space systems; deemed safety critical

5. All real-time Joint Operations with NASA operations in accordance with NASA flight rules and operations products.

6. Permission to enter any NASA in-space keep out zones.

7. Material Review Board (MRB), Waiver or equivalent that relieves the Contractor of meeting NASA level requirements.

8. Use and implementation of all Alternate Standards and Tailoring

9. Entrance and exit criteria for all milestones; and confirmation that the Contractor has satisfactorily achieved each criterion for milestone completion.

10. USDV Certification

11. All Mission Control Center – Houston (MCC-H) and NASA network interfaces.

12. NASA-led Mishap and Failure Review Boards.

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13. NASA crew and flight control training, training products, mockup/simulator development, mission operations and operations products.

14. All Type 1 and Type 2 DRDs, including changes.

f. Specific areas open to Government insight include but not limited to:

1. TBR

2.2.1 MILESTONE REVIEWS

a. The intent of the milestone reviews is to provide data, materials and a forum for open dialog between NASA and the Contractor with respect to USDV design, development, testing, verification, integration, certification and operations.

b. The Contractor shall deliver a Milestone Review Plan which includes the reviews identified in the contract requirements J-0X Work Plans, SOW CLIN #. The milestone review plan shall describe: the process for developing the Joint Integration Plan (JIP) for each milestone, the review process (including any specific tools and tool training required to conduct the review), schedule, location, deliverables, delivery method, delivery dates, means and timing by which data will be made available to NASA, document review dates, presentation meetings, Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), pre-boards, boards, and other logistics related information. The Contractor shall describe in the Milestone Review Plan the approach for review input and disposition, including how to submit comments, when the comments are due, joint disposition process, actions, action recording and tracking, configuration management of review products and review minutes. The plan shall ensure NASA has adequate time and access to the data to perform meaningful technical reviews. The plan may be segregated into volumes for individual reviews or split up accordingly to optimize incremental updates.

c. The Contractor shall prepare and deliver for NASA review, feedback and concurrence a Joint Integration Plan (JIP) specific to each milestone at least 120 calendar days prior to the milestone review that describes all components required to hold successful milestone review.

This shall include agenda, jointly agreed to milestone entrance and exit criteria, instructions to the review board, mapping of data requirements to specific Contractor provided products and locations within data pack, etc. The Contractor shall include in the JIP a detailed mapping of the NASA data requirements for each milestone to the Contractor specific plans, documents, reports, etc. by document number, title, revision, date and specific location in data package where to find that information. The Contractor may include additional data elements above the NASA data elements which may be beneficial to the Government to aid in its understanding of the Contractor’s approach, plans, processes, status and performance to facilitate a successful milestone review. NASA may request additional data elements during the review process to aid its understanding of the Contractor’s approach, plans, processes, status and performance.

d. The Contractor shall submit a final electronic copy of the milestone presentation(s) and all data pack material to NASA at least thirty (30) calendar days before the milestone review is held.

e. The Contractor shall provide responses to any NASA questions within ten (10) calendar days.

f. The Contractor shall prepare and deliver the following documents within seven (7) calendar days following the milestone review:

1. Final presentations and documents

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2. Meeting Minutes

3. List of attendees

4. Agreements from each milestone reviews

5. Actions, actionees, status and due dates, estimated closure date from each milestone reviews

g. The Contractor shall prepare, maintain and deliver an action item list that includes:

1. Assigned tracking number for each action item

2. Action

3. Subject

4. Due Date

5. Person or organization responsible for completing the action

6. Status of action (i.e., open, closed, or withdrawn)

7. Closure rationale

h. The Contractor shall include a formal Review Item Discrepancy (RID)/Request for Action (RFA) process for all design reviews including System Requirements Review, System Definition Review, Preliminary Design Review, and Critical Design Review.

2.2.2 TECHNICAL AND PROGRAM INTEGRATION MEETINGS

a. The Contractor shall provide technical and programmatic subject matter expertise to NASA

Program meetings. boards and reviews and provide program and technical data to inform NASA decision- making, perform evaluations and support other programmatic activities as requested by NASA, to include participating in NASA-led boards, meetings, briefings, forums, working group and other activities.

b. The Contractor shall allow and enable NASA participation in the Contractor’s, subcontractors’ and vendors’ technical meetings, boards, reviews, tests related to the design, development, testing, verification, certification, integration, and operations of the USDV.

c. The Contractor shall lead a bi-weekly executive meeting with NASA Program Management to review current USDV status, plans, anomalies, risks, mitigations, and issues.

2.3 DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION (DDT&E)

a. The Contractor shall deliver, implement, and operate in accordance with the DRD USDV-

24 Design, Development, Test, and Evaluation (DDT&E) Plan which details the methods, processes and process controls used to evolve the USDV into flight ready capability.

2.3.1 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS

a. NASA standards provide a roadmap of how NASA expects the Contractor to design, build and test the USDV. Design and Construction and Safety standards are proven methods to improve safety for human spaceflight and there are critical requirements embedded in them. Proposed alternate and tailored standards are delivered to the Government with initial proposals.

b. Following Authority to Proceed (ATP) of an initial task order, the Government will

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c. The Contractor shall engage the NASA POC for any alternate and/or tailored standards following initial task order ATP, or at any time during contract performance if any deviation, waiver, or update is proposed to an already approved DRD. Early engagement by the Contractor is encouraged to assure Government acceptance prior to a DRD submission for approval.

d. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver and operate in compliance with NASA Standards and Specifications Compliance and Tailoring in accordance with DRD USDV- 35, NASA Standards and Specifications Compliance and Tailoring. This DRD provides the Contractor an ability to propose alternate and tailored standards, subject to NASA’s approval of DRD submissions. In the event any proposed alternate and/or tailored standards are not approved during the baseline DRD submission (Milestone C1-1 – Mission Concept Review) and/or final DRD submission (Milestone C1-4 – Preliminary Design), the Government will delay the milestone payment approval until each standard in disagreement is adjudicated. Adjudication will require 30 – 90 calendar days, subject to completion of the items listed below, and scheduling of a decisional Government control board.

e. Adjudication is led by the NASA POC. The Contractor shall identify an USDV POC for each proposed alternate and/or tailored standard. The USDV POC shall participate, provide timely submission of the requested information detailed below, and represent the USDV Contractor during the adjudication process.

f. Adjudication will include information from both the Government and Contractor related to the following items:

1. An assessment of the estimated schedule and risk impacts associated with an alternate and/or tailored standard.

2. An assessment of past and current efforts to meet the intent of the standard with proposed alternate and/or tailored standards.

3. One or more completed face-to-face meetings (preferably at the Contractor facility) to understand and resolve differences between proposed alternate standards and NASA standards.

4. Jointly (Government and Contractor) documented key areas of disagreement.

5. Contractor risk assessment (cost, schedule, technical) of adopting the NASA standard.

6. Government risk assessment (schedule and technical) of adopting the Contractor proposed alternate and/or tailored standard.

7. Jointly (Government and Contractor) developed decisional package for presentation at a NASA Control Board.

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g. The NASA POC will have primary responsibility for assessing “meets the intent” for each proposed alternate and/or tailored standard, prior to any approval milestone associated with DRD USDV- 35, NASA Standards and Specifications Compliance and Tailoring as well as following final adjudication after any NASA Control Board decisions.

h. NASA will have final approval authority for use of alternate standards and tailoring.

2.3.2 DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND TRADES

a. The Contractor shall perform all design, analysis and trades studies that are necessary to successfully complete the USDV mission, including but not limited to:

1. Design and trade studies shall be conducted as necessary to develop the lower-level requirements and develop the design of the USDV Flight System, including:

a) Assessments of risks.

b) Assessment/comparison of functionality and performance of proposed solutions.

c) Identification of potential requirements tradeoffs that could be made for the purpose of decreasing costs or improving schedule performance.

2. Engineering analyses shall be conducted as necessary to develop a design solution that meets all the USDV system requirements and lower-level requirements. The Contractor shall conduct analyses including, but not limited to, the following specific analyses to verify required capabilities in the USDV SRD:

a) Thermal analysis

b) Structural analysis

c) Approach, rendezvous and docking analysis

d) Guidance, Navigation and Control analysis including ISS attitude control, ISS translation maneuvers and final ISS shaping and deorbit burns

e) Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD)

f) Communication Analysis

g) Power Analysis

h) Propulsion Analysis

i) Hazard Analysis

j) Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.

3. The Contractor shall support ISS integrated analysis performed by NASA and NASA support contractors, including but not limited to:

a) The Contractor shall provide USDV and individual CAD models, drawings and engineering data that define vehicle configuration, outer mold line, interface features and features for ISS integrated analysis.

b) The Contractor shall also submit CAD models in accordance with DRD

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USDV- 29, Engineering Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Models.

c) The Contractor shall provide information on the location of RF transmission devices for NASA to assess the impact to ISS operations and Visiting Vehicle traffic. This information will be documented in the BDEALS.

2.3.3 INTERFACE MANAGEMENT

a. The Contractor shall establish procedures, practices, and agreements to ensure proper interface identification, definition, documentation, and compliance throughout the USDV system lifecycle for internal and external interfaces including operational environments.

b. The following documents comprise the USDV to ISS interface definition. The Contractor shall develop, deliver, implement, maintain, and operate in compliance with the documents listed below in which the Contractor is responsible for developing:

1. The USDV shall comply with the SSP 51101 United States Deorbit Vehicle Systems Requirements Document which is developed by NASA.

2. USDV to ISS Interface Control Document (ICD) documents the approved design of the USDV interface to the ISS. Any tailoring or exceptions to the SRD requirements will be captured in this ICD. The Contractor shall prepare and maintain the USDV to ISS ICD for NASA approval. All changes to the USDV to ISS ICD require NASA approval.

3. USDV to ISS Software ICD defines all data interchange at the ISS interface, including data structure, format, and content. The Contractor shall prepare and maintain the USOS to ISS Software ICD for NASA approval. All changes to the USDV to ISS Software ICD require NASA approval.

4. External interfaces to the USDV (e.g., Ground Systems, Mission Systems, Launch vehicle) shall be documented by the Contractor via ICD’s. The Contractor shall provide systems engineering and analyses to develop specifications and drawings defining and characterizing the external interfaces for the USDV. Mission Systems ICDs shall be jointly developed/owned by NASA and the contractor mission systems teams.

5. The Electrical Power Interfaces and Data Bus Standards are per SSP 51101 USDV

SRD.

2.3.4 TEST AND VERIFICATION

a. The Contractor shall perform Test and Verification (T&V) in accordance with SSP 51101 USDV SRD and SSP 41172 Qualification and Acceptance Environmental Test Requirements.

2.4 SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

a. The Contractor shall develop, implement, deliver, and operate in accordance with a

Software Management Plan (SMP) in accordance with DRD USDV- 5 Software Management Plan. The SMP provides insight into, and is a tool for monitoring, the processes to be followed for software development, testing, and sustaining; the methods

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b. To ensure the USDV software that interfaces, directly and indirectly, with the ISS systems is effectively managed through-out the software lifecycle (development, testing, sustaining, and retirement), software development, management, and sustaining processes, the Contractor shall establish the USDV software in accordance with SSP 50482, ISS Software Management Plan, and appropriate government standards (e.g., NPR 7150.2D, NASA Software Engineering Requirements).

c. The Contractor shall ensure safe and successful system performance by utilizing independent verification and validation (IV&V) of safety critical processes and software performed by an established Government or commercial entity and documented in an DRD USDV- 26 Data Input for NASA Integration and Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V).

d. The Contractor shall provide and maintain current a configuration controlled USDV Avionics Simulator/Emulator with interface control document and operations manual that can be used by NASA and NASA support contractors for interface software development, certification and sustaining.

2.5 SAFETY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY AND MISSION ASSURANCE

a. The Contractor shall perform all Safety, Reliability, Quality and Mission Assurance functions required for the USDV which will be reviewed and approved by the ISS Safety & Mission Assurance/Program Risk Office.

2.5.1 SAFETY

a. The Contractor shall develop, implement, deliver, maintain, and operate in compliance with the Safety and Mission Assurance Plan submitted in accordance with DRD USDV- 18, Safety and Mission Assurance Plan.

b. The Contractor shall develop, implement, deliver, maintain, and operate in compliance with the Safety Data Package (SDP) in accordance with DRD USDV- 19, Safety Data Package

(SDP).

c. The Contractor shall provide analysis for safety critical functions required to meet failure tolerance requirements in accordance with DRD USDV- 21, Fault Tolerance Approach.

d. The Contractor shall perform and deliver Hazard Analysis (HA) on all systems developed for the USDV mission in accordance with SSP 30599, Safety Review Process. HAs will be approved by the ISS Safety Review Panel (ISRP).

e. The Contractor shall submit for NASA approval any Non-Compliance Reports (NCRs) identified via the HAs. NCRs will be processed in accordance with SSP 30599 and approved by the appropriate NASA control board(s). For instances where only a single fault tolerant approach to a catastrophic hazard can be met, the Contractor shall provide acceptance rationale focused on the reliability of the system and other mitigations. Acceptance rationale shall be substantiated on testing in environments relevant to the USDV mission, margins of safety, flight heritage of components used, number and duration of qualification units tested, C-15 testing to failure, life tests, etc.

f. The Contractor shall adhere to jointly agreed to operations and constraints that affect the safety of the ISS and the crew per Phase III approved set of mission specific hazard reports and mission applicable operational controls.

g. The Contractor shall adhere to operational controls, process, procedures and requirements in SSP XXX USDV Operations Document.

h. The Contractor shall provide evidence and obtain approval from NASA that the USDV training plan for operational controls, includes the necessary training objectives and activities to satisfy the operational controls items referenced in the hazard reports that require crew action, crew procedure execution and/or crew training. The Contractor shall provide evidence of completion and competency of all Contractor training objectives necessary to satisfy the intent of identified operational controls. NASA reserves the right to audit crew training events related to ISS safety.

2.5.2 RELIABILITY

a. The Contractor shall utilize reliability analysis techniques, jointly approved by NASA in accordance with DRD USDV-18 Safety and Mission Assurance Plan, to inform the design of their systems. The Contractor shall deliver the results of these analyses to NASA. The Contractor shall incrementally revise these analyses to reflect the current design and deliver these revisions to NASA.

b. The Contractor shall develop, implement, deliver, maintain, and operate in compliance with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Critical Items List (CIL) and deliver the results in accordance with DRD USDV- 19, Safety Data Package (SDP).

c. The Contractor shall ensure that the critical items defined by the CILs are addressed in the hazard analyses.

d. The Contractor shall provide NASA data for identified critical items including, but not limited to, detailed identification of their origin (e.g., manufacturer, materials, manufacturing date, purchased lot, inspection, and test data), specific tests performed, test results, processes utilized, or other pertinent information.

2.5.3 PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT

a. The Contractor shall provide technical information in support of the Probabilistic Risk

Assessment (PRA) to be performed by the NASA ISS Program in accordance with DRD USDV- 19, Safety Data Package (SDP).

b. To ensure the PRA model accurately reflects the Contractor’s design and operations, the Contractor shall provide a detailed description of the USDV architecture, concept of operations, USDV critical functions, component functions, and functional flow diagrams.

c. The Contractor shall participate in the ISS Program PRA analyses by supporting Working Groups (WGs) and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) with NASA PRA analysts to

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2.5.4 QUALITY ASSURANCE

a. The Contractor shall implement a Quality Assurance (QA) system compliant with AS9100

Quality Management Systems- Requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Organizations.

b. The Contractor shall report to NASA all failures during qualification, acceptance, and flight certification tests as well as failures during any additional test performed with qualification or flight hardware (or equivalent) along with corrective actions taken.

c. The Contractor shall allow NASA participation in Contractor and subcontractor compliance and internal audits upon request. NASA insight will consist of monitoring NASA selected audits with the Contractor’s auditors and inspectors to provide understanding of the Contractor’s quality system and insight of their processes.

d. The Contractor shall support Government audits, surveillance and assessments of contractor plans, procedures, and processes. These audits and surveillance activities shall provide understanding and insight of processes and procedures that are identified as critical, problematic or have the potential for impact to schedule. Government audits and surveillance actives can encompass all disciplines and tasks that are involved with or support USDV operations, hardware and software production and maintenance, safety and quality assurance, engineering, logistics, procurement, and financial operations. If the Government inspects or evaluates any premises of the Contactor or of a Subcontractor, the Contractor shall provide, and shall require its subcontractors to provide, all reasonable facilities and assistance for the safety and convenience of the Government representatives in the performance of their duties.

e. The Contractor shall collect, compile, and deliver information derived from empirical data (test results, analysis reports, inspection records, delivery logs, customer feedback, Government provided service usage, etc.) to demonstrate that the products and services delivered to the Government are in compliance with the requirements and specifications identified in this contract. The Contractor shall deliver compliance information at the request of the Government.

f. The Contractor shall maintain, verify and report the integrity of the flight hardware preserved within USDV certification while interfacing with all Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and facility systems, and account for natural and induced environments encountered throughout the handling/transportation operations, assembly/integration/testing, pre-launch processing, and launch operations phases.

2.5.5 NASA ADVISORIES AND GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY DATA EXCHANGE

PROGRAM (GIDEP) FAILURE EXPERIENCE DATA (FED) PROCESSING

a. The Contractor and its sub-tier contractors shall participate in the Government-Industry Data

Exchange Program (GIDEP). The Contractor shall deliver a GIDEP implementation plan in accordance with DRD USDV- 18, Safety and Mission Assurance Plan. The Contractor and it sub-tier contractors shall ensure that all NASA Advisories, Missile Defense Advisories (MDAs), Mishap Warning-Actions Response (MWAR), and applicable GIDEP Notices (i.e., ALERTs, SAFE-ALERTS, Problem Advisories, and Agency Action Notices (unlimited/limited, as necessary), are:

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1. Status reported (e.g. assessment and disposition) in the closed-loop NASA Advisories, Notices, and Alerts Distribution and Response Tracking System (NANADARTS) @ nanadarts.nasa.gov;

2. Initiate NASA Advisories, for situations unique to NASA;

3. Provide status supporting Program Fight Readiness Reviews; and

4. Initiate problem reports, in accordance with Program Requirements, when NASA Advisory and/or GIDEP investigation uncovers usage in their hardware or software.

2.5.6 SOFTWARE SAFETY AND ASSURANCE

a. The Contractor shall assess and mitigate all hazards associated with software as part of the hazard assessment. Software based controls to hazards shall meet SSP 50038 Computer Based Control System Safety Requirements. The Contractor’s software assurance planning shall be addressed in accordance with DRD USDV-18, Safety and Mission Assurance Plan and DRD USDV- 19, Safety Data Package (SDP).

2.5.7 SAFETY AND HEALTH

a. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver, and operate in compliance with the Safety and Health Plan submitted and deliver reporting data in accordance with DRD USDV- 16, Safety and Health Plan. The Contractor shall take measures to protect the health and safety of personnel working on the contract and the operators using the hardware produced or used on the contract. When on NASA property, contractor personnel shall follow the safety and health requirements of the local Center.

2.5.8 SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

a. The Contractor shall monitor and control subcontractors and shall ensure proper flowdown of all technical and contract requirements.

b. The Contractor shall report subcontractors’/suppliers’ problems affecting schedule, quality, and performance to the Government as soon as practical.

c. The Contractor shall ensure the government can participate in subcontractor reviews and meetings. The Contractor shall notify the Government designee of supplier technical meetings, control boards, reviews, tests, and areas identified for Government Quality Assurance in the mutually agreed timeframe in accordance with DRD USDV-4, Insight Management Plan and the risk-based analysis (RBA) for safety critical items (per Contract Clause H.XX Government Insight) to permit meaningful Government participation through the entire event.

2.5.9 ANOMALY TRACKING AND REPORTING

a. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain and operate in compliance with a closed-loop anomaly tracking and resolution process for ground processing and flight operations that identifies and resolves any hardware or software performance characteristic that is or may be inconsistent with operational or design expectations. These anomalies can include, but are not limited to, ground hardware or flight vehicle problems, operations issues, non-conformances, deficiencies, in flight anomalies, and ‘process escapes.’

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b. For the purposes of this clause, an anomaly is an unexpected event, hardware or software damage, departure from established procedures or performance, operator error, or a deviation of system, subsystem, or hardware or software performance outside intended design or expected performance specification limits. In addition, Clauses 2.5.9 (Anomaly Tracking and Reporting) and 2.2 (NASA Insight and Approval) are to ensure NASA is aware of USDV and launch vehicle issues that could affect the ISS interfaces, vehicle, safety, or risk to mission success.

The extent and level of the anomaly reporting and insight reporting is analogous with the needs of a NASA crew mission to ensure timely resolution.

c. The Contractor shall notify NASA reportable anomalies occurring on the USDV or ISS. For reportable anomalies that occur during the period prior to Flight Readiness Review (FRR), notification shall be within 24 hours, but no later than at FRR. Anomalies that occur after FRR shall be reported to NASA as soon as possible.

d. Reportable anomalies are those that fall into any of the categories below:

1. Occur during standard repairs or nominal processing, operations or maintenance tasks and indicate an unexpected trend in the USDV, USDV hardware, facilities used for certification or testing, or impact the success of the mission;

2. Any vehicle or Launch/landing processing anomaly that could result in significant Launch or landing delays that would impact the ISS deorbit flight plan; or

3. Occur on or affect the ISS mission, ISS vehicle, integrated operations or Safety of the ISS crew.

4. After resolution, negatively affect USDV operations, certification, hazards, hazard controls or verifications.

5. Any anomalies that cannot be explained or duplicated

e. For anomalies that affect ISS vehicle, crew, safety, or integrated operations, in addition to the accountability in (b), NASA will lead investigation efforts including real-time anomaly resolution including Failure Investigation Team and Anomaly Response Team with support from the Contractor.

f. For anomalies that are delegated as Contractor-led investigations, the Contractor shall determine the scope of the investigation and shall conduct and control the investigation. NASA may designate representatives to observe and participate in the Contractor's investigation of reportable anomalies. The Contractor shall accommodate Government representation to the Contractor's investigation.

g. The Contractor shall be responsible for identifying the cause of the anomaly and implementing corrective action(s). The Contractor shall provide NASA access to any findings, any proposed corrective actions for reportable anomalies, and final closure rationale.

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h. The Contractor shall conduct any ISS on-orbit anomalies in accordance with MGT- OA-019 Revision B "On-Orbit Anomaly Resolution Process."

2.6 RISK MANAGEMENT

a. The Contractor shall implement a risk management program with techniques that address the identification, analysis, mitigation and tracking of potential impacts to mission success. The Contractor shall develop the criteria, methods, and procedures used for identifying risk items.

b. The Contractor shall develop, implement, deliver, maintain and operate in compliance with a Risk Management Plan in accordance with DRD USDV- 17, Risk Management Plan.

c. The Contractor shall provide a configuration-controlled risk report throughout the contract lifecycle that captures and manages the safety, technical, cost, and schedule risks that present threats to safe operations and NASA objectives while identifying the appropriate risk approach for handling the risks. Risk Reports shall be delivered by the Contractor to NASA quarterly and a summary shall be presented at the Program Management Review (per PWS Section 2.1.1). A summary of the risk reports shall also be presented, as required, at Milestone Reviews.

d. The Contractor shall make its secure risk tracking database(s) remotely accessible to select NASA personnel at NASA Centers where electronic files are posted, and revisions maintained.

This is to provide insight to current mission risks including a brief description, subsystems affected, status of ongoing root cause evaluation, mitigation efforts, and how the risk is being evaluated for the impacts to the mission and is evaluated against its impact to the overall integrated risk assessment.

2.7 MISSION INTEGRATION AND OPERATIONS

a. The Contractor shall perform all Mission Integration and Operations (MI&O) functions required to deliver USDV contract services.

b. The Contractor shall develop, implement, maintain, deliver and operate in compliance with the Mission Integration and Operations Management Plan (MIOMP) in accordance with DRD USDV- 6, Mission Integration and Operations Management Plan (MIOMP).

c. NASA is responsible for the overall integrated flight scheduling, cargo manifesting, mission objectives, mission priorities, resource planning, mission planning and execution, and definition of overall concept of operations of the ISS/USDV Mission.

d. The Contractor shall submit data to NASA which identifies the Contractor’s mission requirements which will be used by NASA to integrate all NASA and Contractor objectives into a single integrated mission plan. The Contractor shall deliver data requested by NASA to support mission analysis and integration activities.

e. The Contractor shall be responsible for the USDV System performance and inputs to USDV System-specific planning, integration, training and operations, including providing all necessary resources, other than those resources NASA has agreed to provide as documented in the USDV contract.

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f. To ensure flight readiness, the Contractor shall adhere to the processes defined in SSP 50108, ISS Program Certification of Flight Readiness Process Document, and SSP 50902, Transportation Integration Office Certification of Flight Readiness Implementation Plan

2.7.1 MISSION INTEGRATION

a. The Contractor shall ensure the safe integration, transport and utilization of the USDV vehicle to complete the NASA mission objectives. The Contractor shall implement and operate in compliance with an Integration and Operations (I&O) process for the mission.

The Contractor shall integrate at the vehicle level, perform analysis and integration to safely rendezvous, dock to the ISS, perform ISS attitude control, ISS translation maneuvers and the final ISS deorbit burn.

b. The Contractor shall develop and submit DRD USDV- 34, Work Plan for the mission and provide updates at the program…