Attachment 5 - FO Task Order.pdf

Statement of Work for the Flight Opportunities Program Task Order

The Flight Opportunities program (FO) requires support under the Technology Strategy, Innovation, Outreach and Marketing Support contract.

Specifically, FO requires support to meet the following requirements.

4.1 Report Development

The contractor shall:

- Develop the FO Annual Report to Congress. The report content (general) and format will be specified each year by FO program management.

- Develop the FO Annual Accomplishments report, which is a summary for a given fiscal year of FO execution (solicitations or investments made for technologies or industry services; technologies selected or graduated; flight campaigns performed; etc.)

- Develop other reports, as needed by FO

4.2 Strategy Development

- Participate on FO regularly occurring meetings, including but not limited to:

o twice per month FO Virtual Team Tag (VTT) o weekly Campaign Managers Meeting o weekly Communications Team Meeting (see 4.x below)

- Provide support for the TechRise Student Challenge with relationship management and outreach, as required by Civil Service project manager, and in coordination with the TechRise support services contractor who is contracted to execute the TechRise Student Challenge

- Participate in technology flight campaign debriefs with principal investigator team; after each technology flight campaign, principal technologist team from NASA or outside of NASA brief FO on the campaign outcomes; the contractor shall capture notes from the debrief and utilize that information for development of other Strategy and Outreach products

- Provide support to SST for technology strategy, innovation, outreach and marketing products

4.x Communications

- Lead the FO Communications Team; coordinate communications and outreach activities and products for the program

- Participate in weekly meetings with STMD Public Affairs.

- Support communications and liaison to various parties that interact with FO on any part of its program execution; the contractor will typically, but not exclusively interact with:

o principal investigators and PI teams, both inside and outside of NASA flight providers FO technology team FO campaign managers SST program personnel STMD personnel other Centers personnel o in particular, support communications and liaison to various parties involved with all aspects of these annual activities:

TechFlights technology flight tests TechRise Student Challenge TechLeap Challenge

- Participate in weekly meetings with STMD, including a public affairs meeting and an outreach/communications meeting

- Coordinate FO communications with AFRC Public Affairs, as needed

4.4 Outreach Support

4.4.1 Website Support

- Work with NASA web administrators to incorporate new content, updates, and changes to the FO web site (https://nasa.gov/flightopportunities).

4.4.2 Success Story Development

- Develop web features, photo features, articles, and other stories related to FO program activities, especially technologies and campaigns. The success stories topics will be selected and tracked by the FO Communications Team, in coordination with FO management.

- Develop and update a database of technologies that have been supported by FO and have been infused into a NASA mission, incorporated into a larger system or test, or transitioned into a commercial product. FO currently has such a database; each record is a single PowerPoint chart.

4.4.3 Publication Development

- Develop and distribute the FO newsletter. It is anticipated that there will one newsletter per month, nominal, but more than one when a need for a special or time-critical announcement warrants it.

- Develop and maintain flyers, facts sheets, program brochures, researcher-oriented brochures, flight provider brochures, and other such material, as needed. FO management will approve which materials are required to be developed and maintained by the contractor.

- Maintain a database of photographs, videos, quotations, and other works produced by or derived from principal investigator teams or flight providers, and will coordinate and manage permissions by the originators for NASA to use such products

4.4.4 Awards Support

The contractor shall support awards, as needed by FO.

4.4.5 Conferences, Symposia, and Webinar Support

- Lead development of the monthly Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series; it is anticipated that there will be one CoP webinar each month, unless FO management decides otherwise. The contractor will work with FO team to develop topics for the CoP webinar; these topics will be approved by FO management. The contractor will ensure that the webinars are recorded and posted to the FO website.

- Coordinate conference and special meeting participation for various FO team members or groups. FO will participate in approximately 6-8 conferences each year, with one or more FO personnel attending. The contractor will support conference registration in close coordination with the FO administrative assistant and with the attendee(s).

- Support AFRC PAO the development of various FO-related symposia, as needed and as requested by FO management. A symposium is a local event, usually involving a guest speaker or a special panel of speakers.

4.4.6 Other Outreach Support

The contractor shall provide other outreach support, as needed by FO.

4.5 Special Projects

- Perform special projects, as needed, by FO. If the effort required to perform a special project, as determined by FO management, with input from the contractor, exceeds the capacity of the overall firm-fixed price task effort,, then FO may provide an additional new SOW for contractor proposal. The additional effort may be added to the T&M CLIN or as a new task order.

4.6 Deliverables

Deliverables shall be timely submitted based on the direction of the FO Task Monitor (TM) and shall be in accordance with instructions from the TM and the requirements of the SOW.