Enterprise_Park_NOA_Attachment_A-FINAL-04DEC2017_checklist_review.pdf

Enterprise Park at Stennis Space Center Notice of Availability # 80SSC018L0004

ATTACHMENT A

STENNIS SPACE CENTER OVERVIEW

NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. NASA SSC is one of ten NASA field centers nationwide, and serves as the nation’s premier rocket propulsion test facility and provides propulsion test services for NASA, the Department of Defense, and commercial customers. SSC is located on 13,800 acres of U.S. Government-owned land (Fee Area) and is surrounded by 125,000 acres that serves as an acoustical buffer zone controlled with a perpetual easement. The easement gives NASA the right to establish, maintain, operate, and use a restricted area in, on, across, and over the land included in the Buffer Zone, consisting of the right to prohibit human habitation or human occupancy of dwellings and other buildings. The easement reserves to landowners all right, title, interest, and privilege that may be used without interfering with the Government’s easement rights. SSC is home to more than 40 Federal, State, Academic and Commercial tenants with a growing workforce of approximately 5,000 people. The center is managed by NASA under a Federal City model.

Stennis Space Center Location

ENTERPRISE PARK GENESIS

In the summer of 2015, a study was conducted to determine potential future commercial growth to support the SSC Federal City. Based on prior experience with commercial companies wishing to locate at SSC, a need for a different operational model to accommodate commercial companies was identified for future growth. Existing Federal City tenants were interviewed to understand their future plans and determine any demand for potential industry support that would have a need to be located at SSC. The results of these interviews showed four major demand signals that demonstrate opportunities for commercial development at Enterprise Park to support the Federal City.

Demand Signals

After this data was compiled, the study proceeded to identify where the most readily developable land was within the Fee Area. The need for sites both inside and outside the security perimeter to accommodate commercial companies was a factor in determining the most suitable location.

Also, unlike other NASA Centers and many other military bases where commercial companies can locate in close proximity to secure perimeters, the remoteness of SSC coupled with the surrounding Buffer Zone dictated a solution utilizing land within the Fee Area that could offer inside and outside the security perimeter options. This lead to the current 1100 acres in what is now named Enterprise Park as the best solution for a technology park in close proximity to SSC.

ENTERPRISE PARK SITE DESCRIPTION

Enterprise Park, consisting of approximately 1100 acres, is located in the northwest corner of the Fee Area of Stennis Space Center’s U.S. Government-owned land.

Enterprise Park is bounded by SR 607 on the west, Moses Cook Road on the south, Flat Top Road on the east and the Fee Area boundary on the north. There are two sites within the 1100 acres, which were determined to be the most readily developable and have been certified as Project Ready through the Mississippi Power Company Project Ready Certification Program.

The northernmost side is a certified 250-acre Industrial Park site and is accessible to/from SR 607 without entering the north security gate of SSC. With the appropriate security fencing, it could be viewed as an “outside the gate” option for development. NASA would provide no security and site access would be controlled by the development partner. There are 5 conceptual sites ranging from 25 to 60 acres however, the Master Developer partner could divide the lots as appropriate to the desired development plans.

The southernmost side is a certified 150-acre Large Industrial Park site that is accessible to/from SR607 and Moses Cook Road. It is considered an “inside the gate” option for development and includes the benefit of being within the security perimeter of SSC. It is certified as one large site with at least 75 acres that are contiguous. This site could also be considered as an “outside the gate” option with additional security fencing if desired by the Master Developer partner.

For the entire 1100 acres, a preliminary jurisdictional determination of wetlands from the US Army COE and a threatened and endangered species survey has been performed. The Project Ready certification for the two sites also included Phase I environmental, cultural, and geotechnical assessments. Project Ready certification for these two sites was received in June 2017.

For additional information on the above mentioned Mississippi Power Certified Sites, see their website at http://economicdevelopment.mississippipower.com/buildings-sites/certified-sites.

STENNIS SPACE CENTER – COMMUNITY PROFILE

The center is located near three major interstates – I-10 and I-12 (east-west) and I-59 (north-south). SSC is 45 miles east of New Orleans, LA and 40 miles west of Gulfport, MS. There is a 4-lane highway (SR 607) running through the site connecting I-10 and I-59. In addition to nearby interstates, there are also several airports, ports, and railroads within close proximity to SSC as well as water access to the Gulf of Mexico.

Under the Federal City model, in addition to NASA, SSC is home to many federal government agencies, several universities, and over a dozen contractors. The major employers are highlighted below:

NASA and NASA Contractors The NASA and NASA contractor workforce at SSC totals approximately 2,115 employees.

NASA SSC

For more than five decades, John C. Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi has served as NASA’s primary rocket propulsion testing ground. Today, the center provides propulsion test services for NASA and the Department of Defense, as well as the private sector. It is home to NASA’s Rocket Propulsion Test Program, which manages all of the agency’s propulsion test facilities.

Stennis was established in the 1960s to flight-certify all first and second stages of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo manned lunar landing program. From 1975 to 2009, the primary mission was to test the main engines that propelled space shuttle vehicles on their eight-and-one-half minute ascent into orbit.

Stennis now is testing RS-25 engines (modified space shuttle main engines) that will power the core stage of NASA’s new Space Launch System. The center also is working with commercial companies to meet their rocket propulsion testing needs.

NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) The NSSC was established as a result of an OMB A-76 competition and opened for business on March 1, 2006, on the grounds of Stennis Space Center. The NSSC performs selected business activities for all NASA Centers in financial management, human resources, information technology, procurement and business support services. The NSSC performs a variety of transactional and administrative activities. Consolidation allows the NSSC to increase operational efficiency and improve overall customer service.

National Center for Critical Information Processing & Storage (NCCIPS) NCCIPS is a federal shared services data center, managed by the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC), catering to federal customers via reimbursable interagency agreements.

NCCIPS is a 200,000 sq. ft. secure facility situated on a 64 acre campus within Stennis Space Center. NCCIPS was a result of a 2005 Congressional initiative to provide secure processing and storage of nationally sensitive, critical, or classified data.

NCCIPS offers federal customers collocation services from a state-of-the-art data center.

These on premise hosting services provide floor space and the supporting infrastructure (power, cooling, and fiber cable plant) with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that historically have been met 99.999% of the time. NCCIPS offers 24x7x365 availability at a Tier III level, with complete redundancy in the electrical distribution system from the national grid to the rack level. Commercial power capacity is 32MVA, backed up by 21MW of diesel generator capacity and fifteen 1000KVA UPS.

Department of the Navy and Contractors

The Navy presence at SSC includes a uniformed, civil servant, and contractor workforce of approximately 1,958 people.

Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) CNMOC directs and oversees the collection, processing and exploitation of accurate, relevant and timely oceanographic, meteorological, hydrographic, precise time and astrometric information. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) is assigned as CTG 80.7 under U.S. Fleet Forces Command. As such, NMOC is the Navy’s physical battlespace authority.

Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) NAVO maximizes seapower by applying relevant oceanographic knowledge in support of U.S. National Security.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) The U.S. NRL provides the advanced scientific capabilities required to bolster the country’s position of global naval leadership focused on research that yields immediate and long-range applications in the defense of the United States.

Navy Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS) NAVSCIATTS is a Department of Navy schoolhouse operating under the United States Special Operations Command. NAVSCIATTS trains and educates Foreign Security Forces and other international students on small craft strategy, operations, communications, weapons, maintenance and instructor development. More than 10,000 students from 100+ partner nations have graduated since 1963, with an average of 400 - 500 students graduating each year.

Navy Special Boat Team 22 (SBT-22) The only command in the Department of Defense specifically designated to conduct special operations in riverine environments.

Navy Office of Civilian Human Resources (OCHR) The OCHR is responsible for developing civilian policies and programs for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The office also delivers human resource services and support to all of the Department of the Navy organizations and its more than 195,000 civilian employees in the more than 500 different occupations.

Other Residents The center hosts a number of state, academic and private organizations and several technology-based companies that share the cost of owning and operating the facility employing approximately 602 people.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility at SSC is the company’s Center of Excellence for Large Liquid Rocket Engine Assembly and Test. The facility is home to assembly and testing of the RS-68 engine that powers the Delta IV family of launch vehicles, and the RS-25 engine that will power NASA's Space Launch System - America's newest heavy lift launch vehicle in development, set to be the most powerful rocket in the world.

Rolls-Royce North America Headquartered in Reston, Va., Rolls-Royce North America opened its Outdoor Jet Engine Testing Facility at Stennis Space Center in 2007. The site is one of three such sites in the world, and it conducts specialist development engine testing including noise, crosswind, thrust reverse, cyclic and endurance testing on all current Rolls-Royce engine types.

Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions Defense Systems The Lockheed Martin Mississippi Space & Technology Center represents a partnership between the Corporation's Space Systems and Technology Services companies, the State of Mississippi, Hancock County and NASA. The facility includes the Propulsion Manufacturing Center (PMC) and the Integrated Metrology Center (IMC). The PMC is a fully integrated manufacturing facility where design liaison, assembly, integration, and testing of ultra-lightweight spacecraft propulsion and thermal systems occurs for Lockheed Martin commercial, civil, military, and Special Program customers. The IMC serves as the corporate showcase for the highest levels of metrology primary standards.

Included in the facility are modern training facilities and designated areas for design, integration, assembly, test, manufacturing, quality assurance, and configuration control.

Power Dynamics Inc. (PDI) PDI provides worldwide engineering and manufacturing solutions to the fluid power industry. PDI builds customized horizontal directional drilling units, hydraulic power units, winch and pipeline tensioning equipment, including its own line, in addition to pipe handling systems, conveyor systems, cable pulling units, constant tension winches and electronic/PLC control systems.

Mississippi Enterprise for Technology (MSET) Using the scientific and technical resources of NASA and other resident agencies at Stennis, MSET promotes growth in existing industry, stimulates new business, and attracts high-tech companies to the region. MSET provides companies crucial business and technology-related services, opportunities for partnerships and collaboration, entrepreneur resources and access to state and federal technology portfolios.

MSET operates the Mississippi Technology Transfer Office, authorized by State statute and agreements with the Mississippi Development Authority and NASA. The Mississippi Technology Transfer Center at Stennis houses many advanced technology companies specializing in fields such as engineering, aerospace, geospatial technology, defense solutions, environmental sciences, marine technology, energy innovation, and information technology.

Mississippi State University (MSU) – Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) NGI, a National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Cooperative Institute, develops, operates, and maintains an increasingly integrated research and transition program focused on filling priority gaps and reducing limitations in current Northern Gulf of Mexico awareness, understanding and decision support.

Partnering with six academic institutions and NOAA, the institute is a collaboration led by Mississippi State University (MSU) that includes the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Louisiana State University (LSU), Florida State University (FSU), Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The NGI was established in October of 2006.

University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Division of Marine Science The mission of the Division of Marine Science is to cultivate intellectual development and creativity through graduate and undergraduate education; to advance the fields of marine and hydrographic science through excellence in research; promote our position within the University, local, national and international communities through service and economic development activities; and, to communicate our programs to the public through outreach.

Division faculty cover a broad sweep of marine and environmental research interests. The division currently has 14 tenure-track faculty in addition to numerous research scientists and post-doctoral scholars, whose research interests cover a broad spectrum of marine sub-disciplines ranging from physical oceanography and data assimilation to ocean optics, marine coastal sedimentary processes, and micropaleontology, ocean productivity, geochemistry and trace chemical analysis, hydrographic science, coupled physical-biogeochemical modeling, development/application of ecosystem models, and remote sensing. Adjunct faculty provide additional expertise in fields such as ocean acoustics and numerical modeling.

Center of Higher Learning (CHL) The Center of Higher Learning, created in 1989 to coordinate all academic activity at the John C. Stennis Space Center, is a consortium of three universities and one community college which provides a coordinated, multi-university approach for interdisciplinary education. They offer a number of graduate degree programs and individual academic classes through their academic partners – the University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi State University, the University of New Orleans, and Pearl River Community College. CHL also provides short-term, non-academic training classes to the Stennis community.

Other Federal Agencies and Contractors In addition to the Navy, SSC is home to approximately 308 Federal and Contractor employees in other Federal Agencies.

National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NDBC is a part of the National Weather Service (NWS). NDBC designs, develops, operates, and maintains a network of data collecting buoys and coastal stations. NWS forecasters need frequent, high-quality marine observations to examine conditions for forecast preparation and to verify their forecasts after they are produced. Other users rely on the observations and forecasts for commercial and recreational activities. NDBC provides hourly observations from a network of about 90 buoys and 60 Coastal Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations to help meet these needs. All stations measure wind speed, direction, and gust; barometric pressure; and air temperature. In addition, all buoy stations, and some C-MAN stations, measure sea surface temperature and wave height and period. Conductivity and water current are measured at selected stations.

To support this network and other engineering/data collection projects, NDBC employs engineers, meteorologists, oceanographers, computer scientists, and other professionals.

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) members serve on the government staff to provide unique skills and interface with USCG for transportation support.

Government Publishing Office (GPO) The U.S. GPO is the Federal Government’s official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. GPO at SSC produces passports for the Department of State and produces smart cards including Trusted Traveler Program (TTP) cards for the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection.

United States Geological Survey (USGS), Hydraulic Instrumentation Facility (HIF) USGS HIF provides quality hydrologic equipment and instrumentation support to the USGS and other Federal Agencies.

Stennis Space Center is a major contributor to the vitality of the Gulf Coast economies of Mississippi and Louisiana. The Center brings a supply of highly skilled labor that further serves as an aid in the attraction of new firms. It spends more than 3/4 ($0.76) of every dollar within a four-county/parish, 50-mile-radius area. SSC also is responsible for contributing more than $860 million to the economies of that region, which include Hancock, Harrison and Pearl River counties in Mississippi and St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana. 87% of all Stennis employees reside in the four counties and parish.

Agency Summary Federal Non‐Federal Total

NASA and NASA Contractors 470 1645 2115

Dept of the Navy and Contractors 1694 264 1958

Other Residents 15 587 602

Other Federal Agencies and Contractors 184 124 308

SSC Workforce 2363 2620 4983

2016 Economic Impact of Stennis Space Center

The total workforce of approximately 5,000 receives an average salary with benefits of approximately $89,000. The employee skills summary can be broken down as:

Scientific/Engineering – 32%

Business/Professional – 27%

Technical/Crafts/Production – 23%

Clerical – 6%

Other – 12%