NOAA NESDIS 3D Winds_BAA Community Day Presentation (1).pdf

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Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Measuring the Atmospheric Wind profile: Call for Studies and Field Measurement Campaigns

May 11, 2022

Community Day Briefing

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NOAA NESDIS 3D Winds Measurement BAA Community Day

Wednesday, May 11 (eastern times)

● 10:00-11:00 AM: Plenary Session

○ Presentations by NOAA:

■ Introduction/Administrative and Opening Acquisition Remarks from NOAA Leadership

● NESDIS Joint Venture Program overview

■ Overview of Community Day and Ground Rules by Contracting Officer

■ 3D Winds BAA details

● 11:00 AM: General Questions and Answers Session

● 11:40 AM: Questions and Answers Session for Small Business

● 11:55 AM: Closing Remarks

● 1:00-5:00 PM: 1-on-1 Sessions (20 minutes each)

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Community Day Coordination

Plenary Session (Recorded)

• Please sign in using link in chat

• Please insert your questions in the chat box

• NOAA team will review questions and provide verbal responses

• Questions that cannot be answered in Plenary will be taken as actions to respond by agreed date

One-on-One meetings (Previously scheduled) (Recorded)

• 20 minute private discussions, every half hour

• Core Government Evaluation team and AGO will represent NOAA

• Questions will be recorded

• Non-proprietary questions that pertain to all potential responders will be posted publicly

• Questions that cannot be answered in one-on-ones will be taken as actions to respond by agreed date

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Agenda

• Welcome & Introduction

• NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP Joint Venture Program

• Goals of 3D Winds Measurement BAA

• BAA Process

• Contacts for Questions

• Q&A Session

– General Questions and Answers

– Questions and Answers Session for Small Business

• Closing Remarks

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Welcome & Introduction

• Joint Venture Program was established to leverage capabilities being developed by other federal partners, academia, & industry to provide high return on funds

• This program will demonstrate that new technologies will reliably meet NOAA’s operational needs

▪ Provide confidence that an emerging technology can be used in an operational environment

▪ Reduce risk for new technologies

▪ Demonstrate the appropriate reliability

• It will support our future architecture and mission performance and allow us to define requirements for future operational procurement

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Why we do a BAA?

• Since NOAA is looking for the best means to meet it mission needs, the BAA allows for all types of implementations and technologies to be submitted for potential study

• BAA allows the flexibility when the end result is not yet fully developed and need agility in the implementation

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Why 3D Winds measurement is important to NOAA?

• Multiple studies have been performed and concluded that 3D Winds measurement is a major gap in our space-based observing system and is deemed to have a great potential to improve the performances of several NOAA environmental prediction systems including global Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)

• 3D Winds field campaign data will allow NOAA to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different technologies available and the characteristics of their measurements to meet NOAA performance needs

• Better understanding of 3D wind requirements and implementation result will benefit NOAA’s the next generation space architecture planning

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BAA Technical Content

• The BAA* is seeking to leverage technologies and jointly with other partners to achieve the two objectives:

▪ Objective A: Technology Demonstration

○ Assess the capabilities of different technologies that currently exist to observe 3D winds from sub-orbital platforms (e.g., airborne, stratospheric balloon-based, etc.)

to assess these technologies and the characteristics of their measurements to meet NOAA performance needs

▪ Objective B: Concept Studies

○ Studies in this category would look at different sensors, different constellations, on different platforms

○ Perform studies to provide concepts of different approaches to measure 3D winds from space to meet NOAA performance needs

*The BAA will be exploratory only and currently there is no planned mission to collect 3D winds at this time.

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Successful Completion of BAA Goals

• Objective A: Technology Demonstration

▪ Sub-orbital flight demonstration (e.g., airborne, stratospheric balloon-based, etc.) of one or more 3D wind technologies and data collection

▪ Comparison of demonstration data against data from standard wind measurement equipment (e.g., in situ radiosondes, ocean buoys, etc.). Based on the comparison, evaluate the technology against NOAA’s performance needs for accuracy and resolution as indicated in BAA Table 2.

• Objective B: Concept Studies

▪ Assess performance using the concept on its own or in combination with other observing systems and/or other data

▪ Provide quantitative estimates (or at least inform) all of the different attributes listed in Section C of the BAA

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Two-Step Process to the BAA

• Solicit white papers from industry on concepts responsive to technical content of the BAA

• White Papers (not to exceed 5 pages) reviewed by a technical evaluation board

• Sub-set of White Papers selected to receive Invitations for Proposals

• Selection based on strength of concept and available funding

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Pricing for the Study

• White Paper:

▪ The white paper should include an estimated total price for the Vendor to conduct the BAA study. A detailed price proposal will be required if the vendor moves to Stage 2 of the selection process and is issued a Request for Proposal.

▪ It is preferred to have the rough order of magnitude cost for the implementation of the concept for the Objective B to be included in the white paper

• Proposal:

▪ If invited to submit a proposal, detailed pricing by year for the expected concept as indicated on Page 9 of the BAA will be developed as part of the Objective.

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Partnering & Collaboration

• Forming a team with other interested entities to submit a response to this BAA is certainly an option

• The Prime organization will be responsible for putting in place all the sub-contracts and other teaming arrangements

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3D Winds BAA Timeline

Target Schedule

• Receipt of White Papers – May 27 June 7

• Release of Invitation for Proposal – June 10 June 27

• Proposal Submission – July 1 July 18

• Contract Award - Sept 2

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Contracting Officer Introduction

• Gabriela Bravo, NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office (AGO)

• Contracting Support: Bryton Curtis, NOAA AGO

• Engagement for these BAAs:

▪ Gaby, with a cc: to Bryton, are the sole points of contact for questions and exchanges of information

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QUESTIONS

• Contact for follow up questions and instructions:

Gabriela Bravo gabriela.bravo@noaa.gov

Bryton Curtis bryton.curtis@noaa.gov