Attachment_4_-_Draft_RISE_TO_0002_SOW_Positioning,_Navigation,_and_Timing_(PNT)_-_26_Mar_18.pdf

R&D INTEGRATED SPACE EXPERIMENTS (RISE)

FA9453-18-R-0003, ATTACHMENT 4

TASK ORDER 0002

POSITIONING, NAVIGATION AND TIMING (PNT) STATEMENT OF

WORK

26 MARCH 2018

1.0 Mission and Background

The Advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) Technology (AGT) program mission is to provide timely and cost-effective maturation of new Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technologies for GPS and other future United States (US) Satellite Navigation (SatNav) systems in order to deliver reliable, accurate, and resilient PNT capability to US and allied warfighting forces. SatNav systems provide the most effective, low cost solution for PNT services that are global, 24/7, and all weather. GPS is a very successful service that has set and remains the gold standard. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) and Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) recognized the need to improve GPS resilience and provide a capability with alternative PNT technologies if GPS is degraded. In FY11, AFSPC and SMC asked AFRL to invest in technology to enable more affordable and capable next generation GPS satellite payloads.

2.0 Scope

The objective of this Task Order is to provide AFRL/RVE with the required research, engineering, technical, and program management to perform aerospace technology research, analysis, integration, and test and evaluation for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) experiments and demonstrations. This support includes (1) Engineering, (2) Design, Fabrication and Assembly, (3) Integration and Test to establish performance, raise TRL and/or ensure space worthiness, (4) Mission Development, (5) Program Management, and (6) Integration and Test Facility Support. This Task Order will support the evaluation and review of PNT-related ground and space experiments and ground based analyses or studies to their completion, or to the end of the RISE contract’s period of performance, whichever is earlier. Activities conducted will support development, evaluation, and test of PNT payloads that may be bench-level experiments or prototypes that could be ground only or that could be integrated into a spaceflight experiment.

To accomplish this, specific tasks will include:

• Systems Engineering and Requirements Definition/Allocation of PNT Payload Component Development, Ground Experiments or Spaceflight Experiments

• Amplifier Research Test and Evaluation

• Digital Waveform Generator Research Test and Evaluation

• Other PNT Component (e.g., Multiplexers and Antennae) Research, Test and Evaluation

• Signals Research, Test and Evaluation

• Advanced PNT Payload Research, Test and Evaluation, including assembly, integration, and test

• Development of PNT Payload Government Reference Designs

• Test Planning and Evaluation of PNT Payload Performance

• Modeling and Simulation of PNT Systems

Below is a notional schedule for the AGT program based on current Government estimate.

Activity Schedule ORDWG (Component) Verification and Characterization Q3 - Q4 FY19

Navigation Technology Satellite Integration Laboratory

(NTSIL)

IOC Q2 FY19

FOC Q1 FY20

Modular Hostable PNT Payload Technology (Integrated Payload)

Interface Definition (collaboration with industry) Q3 FY19

Program Interface and Goal Determination Q3 FY19 Gov Reference Design Development Q4 FY19 Systems Requirements Review Q1 FY20 Preliminary Design Review Q2 FY20 Critical Design Review Q4 FY20 Test Readiness Review Q4 FY21 In house Verification and Validation Q3 FY22 In house Payload Experimentation Q3 FY22 - Q4 FY23

SBIR Modular Payload Component Development (Up to 6 components) Develop Program Goals Q2 FY20 Systems Requirements Review Q3 FY20 Preliminary Design Review Q4 FY20 Critical Design Review Q2 FY21 Test Readiness Review Q1 FY22 Deliver Q2 FY22 In house Verification and Validation Q3 FY22 Demo Q1 FY23 - Q2 FY24 Advanced Signal Research In house Research continuous Adv Signals Workshops 2-3 X/year Adv Signal Specification 1/year

Phased Array GPS (Component) Develop Program Goals Q2 FY21 Gov Reference Design Development Q3 FY21 Systems Requirements Review Q4 FY21 Preliminary Design Review Q1 FY22 Critical Design Review Q3 FY22 Test Readiness Review Q3 FY23 In house Verification and Validation Q2 FY24 Broadband GPS Payload Technology (Component) Develop Program Goals Q3 FY24 Gov Reference Design Development Q4 FY24

The table below provides the Government projection of the level of activity anticipated per year throughout the period of performance for this Task Order. Verification refers to activities undertaken to confirm contractor data on performance of delivered R&D components or payloads. Characterization refers to activities undertaken to establish performance boundaries of delivered R&D components or payloads. Other categories are self-explanatory.

3.0 Compliance and Reference Documents

Compliance and Reference Documents are listed in Attachments 1 and 2 of the Basic Contract Statement of Work.

Estimate of Efforts per Year

Verification Characterization Assembly/Integration Lab

Test/Experiments* Field

Test/Experiments* min avg max min avg max min avg max min avg max min avg max

Components 1 3 7 1 2 4 Payloads** 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 Integrated Payloads*** 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Quantity min avg max *includes testing researched signals

Signals Research 2 3 4 **payloads to be assembled from components purchased or delivered by contractors

Signals Lab Testing 2 3 4

***payloads delivered by contractors

# of contract efforts with SME support Minor/SBIR/Basic

University Research 2 3 7

Major/>$2 mil 2 3 5

4.0 Requirements

4.1 Systems, Software, and Test Engineering

4.1.1 The contractor shall perform systems engineering for mission definition, to include refining objectives for flight experiments, ground experiments, or component development.

4.1.2 The contractor shall research, survey and articulate stakeholder objectives and requirements; identify mission constraints; refine mission and system requirements; develop Concepts of Operations; and establish mission alternatives.

4.1.3 The contractor shall perform requirements analysis, verification and validation, to include capturing, articulating, and refining primary system requirements, and establishing traceability to mission objectives.

4.1.3.1 The contractor shall derive (alternately referred to as decompose or flow-down) system requirements and mission constraints to segment, subsystems, and lower-level components to support design and evaluation of Government reference designs.

4.1.3.2 The contractor shall review, critique, and analyze requirements derived by other organizations from requirements allocated to those organizations; and validate primary and derived requirements.

4.1.3.3 The contractor shall perform requirements traceability and impact analyses, develop functional and physical architectures, and allocate requirements to support detailed requirements development.

4.1.4 The contractor shall support the system architecture design by developing alternate design solutions; establishing, refining and maintaining functional and physical design baselines for the preferred solution; and performing detailed design of hardware, firmware, software, operating procedures, and support equipment.

4.1.5 The contractor shall perform evaluations and analyses through computer simulation and/or analysis tools, with capabilities that include structural and dynamics modeling;

mechanical and structural solid-modeling; thermal modeling (including radiative and conductive transfer); PNT payload component or overall payload performance modeling.

4.1.6 The contractor shall develop, refine and maintain system, subsystem, and lower-level design documents for hardware, firmware, software, operating procedures and support equipment; and develop, refine and maintain interface control documents.

4.1.7 The contractor shall perform technical management processes, to include decision analysis. This includes conducting trade-off studies, feasibility studies, or cost-benefit-risk analyses to evaluate technical options available for mission or system development, and providing the results to AFRL. This also includes analyzing the requirements for system or support equipment (including all hardware firmware, or software), and recommending to AFRL whether purchasing or building the equipment will be more cost effective for the Government.

4.1.8 The contractor shall support technical planning activities, to include estimating the cost and schedule associated with mission, system development, or experiment activities; developing technical planning tools and documents, including integrated schedules, master plans, and work breakdown structures; and estimating, recommending, and acquiring resources needed to execute a mission, system development, or an experiment, including tools, facilities, and personnel.

4.1.9 The contractor shall provide technical assessments to AFRL. This includes:

4.1.9.1 Analyzing the complete system design results to ensure mission success criteria and/or system performance requirements can be met.

4.1.9.2 Assessing the structural, mechanical, electronic, and software components for reliability and suitability to the application environment.

4.1.9.3 Assessing AFRL’s system designs, components, payloads, test equipment, and/or experiment plans for compatibility with currently defined program baseline schedule and cost constraints.

4.1.9.4 Conducting research, prepare and present formal briefings at program and technical reviews.

4.1.9.5 Reviewing briefings, technical documents, and programmatic milestone reviews presented to AFRL and evaluate the implications of the content for mission success or system performance.

4.1.9.6 Collect and analyze applicable data for the space and ground systems to ensure that the overall mission objectives or system performance requirements are satisfied.

4.1.10 The contractor shall support requirements management, to include implementing and maintaining a version-controlled database of mission objectives and system requirements;

developing and implementing a process for requesting, reviewing, granting and tracking waivers to system requirements; and performing traceability and impact analysis between mission objectives, system requirements, design, requirement waivers, material nonconformance, test failures, and system anomalies.

4.1.11 The contractor shall support risk management activities, to include developing and implementing a risk management program; identifying, analyzing, and reporting risks;

developing, selecting, and implementing risk handling options; and monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of risk handling options.

4.1.12 The contractor shall support configuration management activities, to include:

4.1.12.1 Developing and implementing a configuration control program for the system, payloads, flight software, ground test and operations software, and ground-based experiments.

4.1.12.2 Identifying changes to the mission or system baseline, performing traceability and impact analyses to system requirements, design and verification, and ensuring the changes properly implemented in all regimes of system development.

4.1.12.3 Developing and implementing a configuration control process for all technical documents and data.

4.1.13 The contractor shall conduct data management, which will include developing and implementing a data control plan; and specifying, procuring, installing, certifying, administering, and operating systems to perform data collection, storage, processing, protection, and distribution.

4.1.14 The contractor shall provide interface management, to include:

4.1.14.1 Defining, developing, maintaining, and distributing interface definitions between the Government and each mission stakeholder, provider, or receiver (1) at all levels of system organization, and (2) for mechanical, electrical, software, or virtual (logical) interfaces.

4.1.14.2 Designing, developing, maintaining, and creating programs and test facilities for the purpose of facilitating interface development or verifying interface compliance.

4.1.15 The contractor shall conduct mission and/or quality assurance, to include:

4.1.15.1 Support developing and implementing a mission assurance program throughout procurement, fabrication, coding, assembly, integration, and test commensurate with the program schedule and cost constraints and risk profile.

4.1.15.2 Applying selection, screening and/or certification criteria to segments, subsystems, components, parts, or other materials as appropriate.

4.1.15.3 Assessing and reporting the reliability of the system and/or its constituent partitions.

4.1.16 The contractor shall provide the following specialty engineering support, to include:

4.1.16.1 Security: The contractor shall ensure compliance with all applicable communications security (COMSEC) and cryptographic requirements and contribute to Information Assurance (IA) accreditation for the system’s space, ground, and support equipment. The contractor shall incorporate cyber security throughout all architectural segments.

4.1.16.2 Radio Frequency Management: The contractor shall contribute to the frequency coordination for the system’s space, ground, and support equipment, especially in obtaining approval for RF emissions from the appropriate level of authority; and implement designs and/or corrective measures to ensure the system’s space, ground, and support equipment are compliant with the NTIA Redbook.

4.1.16.3 Environmental Compliance: The contractor shall contribute to environmental assessments or environmental impact determinations for system or support equipment or mission operations; and implement designs and/or corrective measures to achieve compliance with environmental regulations.

4.1.17 The contractor shall procure, develop and/or present technical education and training resources on PNT-related systems and techniques.

4.1.18 The contractor shall research, identify, and establish technical partnerships with other organizations (including US Government, foreign Government, and US and foreign commercial and non-Governmental organizations) to obtain technical advice, resources, and assistance beneficial to the PNT research effort.

4.2 Mission Development and Execution of Experiments

4.2.1 The contractor shall operate and maintain ground control, user, and experiment systems, including:

4.2.1.1 Developing and implementing corrective and preventative maintenance plans for the ground systems.

4.2.1.2 Maintaining configuration control of the ground system, including devising and implementing controlled upgrades.

4.2.2 The contractor shall perform ground experiments.

4.2.2.1 The contractor shall develop ground experiment systems in support of ground experiments:

4.2.2.1.1 The contractor shall support security requirements of M and P(Y)-code transmitters and receivers and of advanced signals.

4.2.2.1.2 The contractor shall plan and materially provide approaches for end-to-end testing and validation of the payload.

4.2.2.1.3 The contractor shall provide or arrange for appropriate equipment and software support for any overall experiment, to include information assurance management of such equipment and software.

4.2.2.1.4 The contractor shall manage and lead component and system level evaluations of radio frequency systems or space systems in anechoic, thermal, or vacuum ground test facilities.

4.2.2.2 The contractor shall conduct component, subsystem, and system level experiments for ground research and development efforts:

4.2.2.2.1 The contractor shall perform evaluations and analyses through computer simulation and/or analysis tools. Capabilities shall include: structural and dynamics modeling, mechanical and structural solid-modeling, thermal modeling (radiative and conductive transfer), performance modeling, and general state-of-health and system data reduction and analysis.

4.2.2.2.2 The contractor shall manage a science-based team to perform detailed analyses of the system architecture and required capabilities for a ground system for the PNT experiments.

4.2.2.2.3 The contractor shall provide analyses of the capabilities of existing and planned MUE/M-code receivers, with assessments of their suitability for PNT experiment ground systems.

4.2.2.2.4 The contractor shall provide test planning, modeling, and simulation for optimized or actual constellations or systems; to ensure their ability to meet the goals of the experiments;

and to indicate how such alternatives provide enhanced understanding of advanced PNT systems.

4.2.3 In support of Technology Maturation and Transition, the contractor shall:

4.2.3.1 Coordinate system operations with designated external activities to facilitate experiments, demonstrations, or evaluations

4.2.3.2 Plan and execute the collection, processing, and distribution of experiment, demonstration, or evaluation data to designated stakeholders.

4.2.3.3 The contractor shall receive, analyze and apply Global Positioning System performance requirements and recommend reconciliation measures with PNT program constraints, acquisition strategy, technology limitations, and operational considerations.

4.3 Reserved

4.4 Reserved

4.5 Ground and Flight Experiment Hardware Design, Fabrication, Assembly and Test

4.5.1 The contractor shall design, develop, and assemble spaceflight equipment (PNT payloads); including interfaces related to thermal, electrical power, avionics, guidance, navigation, propulsion, attitude control and communication subsystems; and associated harnesses, cables, and other flight hardware.

4.5.2 The contractor shall design, fabricate, and assemble ground systems for payload command and control, operations, experiments, and for mission data analysis, including:

4.5.2.1 Specifying, procuring, installing, and integrating ground system equipment, especially antennas, radiofrequency equipment, data processing equipment, data storage, and software.

4.5.2.2 Implementing as developed in 3.1.16.2 applicable COMSEC and cryptographic requirements and measures for IA certification during fabrication and assembly.

4.5.2.3 Developing, installing, and refining command and telemetry databases.

4.5.2.4 Developing, installing, and refining software to generate, verify, validate, authenticate, and archive history of commands.

4.5.2.5 Developing, installing, and refining software to limit-check, display, archive, and perform trend analysis on state-of-health data.

4.5.2.6 Developing, installing, and refining capabilities to process, parse, reduce, analyze, display, archive, and distribute mission data. Analysis capability shall include evaluating actual mission performance to verify performance requirements or to assess the validity of predictive models.

4.5.2.7 Developing, installing, and refining software to generate, packetize, verify, validate, and archive history of mission data uploads.

4.5.3 The contractor shall support the Government in leading the Integrated Product Team (IPT) for PNT Assembly, Integration, and Test (AI&T) activities, which may include contractors (US and foreign) and Government (US and foreign), consistent with the direction of the PNT Program Manager.

4.5.4 The contractor shall perform AI&T activities at Kirtland AFB or at one or more facilities provided by a US Government agency, a foreign Government agency, or a commercial vendor.

4.5.4.1 The contractor shall design, develop, maintain, operate, and use ground test beds, software-in-the-loop simulators, hardware-in-the-loop simulators, development units/models, engineering units/models, and qualification units/models or other specialized equipment to facilitate AI&T.

4.5.4.2 The contractor shall conduct receiving inspections and tests to verify the integrity of segments, subsystems, components, software, parts, or other materials received from other participating agencies.

4.5.4.3 The contractor shall transport, arrange for shipping, or otherwise transfer segments, subsystems, components, software, parts, and/or other materials to designated locations for

AI&T.

4.5.4.4 The contractor shall perform the assembly and integration of PNT payloads including lower-level assembly and integration, to include developing and performing the assembly and integration plans and procedures; and performing interface audits and verifications.

4.5.4.5 The contractor shall perform testing of PNT payloads and/or components , including functional tests, performance tests, environmental tests, compatibility tests, and end-to-end system tests; these tests may be conducted in both laboratory and test range environments. The contractor shall develop test plans and procedures, establish pass/fail criteria for tests, direct and/or conduct tests, and collect test data, perform data reduction and analysis, and track requirement verification.

4.5.4.6 The contractor shall perform the resolution of anomalies encountered during AI&T activities.

4.5.5 The contractor shall integrate and assemble the experimental systems, to include:

4.5.5.1 Acquiring the segments, subsystems, components, software, parts, supplies, stock, or other materials needed to implement PNT payloads. The contractor shall also develop and fabricate (or code) these items using either in-house methods, procured items as commercial-off-the-shelf or by acquisition if readily available, or, where options exist, perform cost-benefit-risk analyses to support the preferred integration path.

4.5.5.2 Assembling and/or integrating segments, subsystems, components, software, parts, and other materials to implement PNT payloads.

4.5.5.3 Designing, fabricating and assembling all mechanical and electrical ground support equipment (including test fixtures) to support AI&T activities.

4.5.5.4 Developing, refining, maintaining, distributing, and enforcing hardware handling procedures for system and support equipment, especially to address contamination control, electrostatic discharge control, and security concerns. In addition to PNT payloads and payload components, systems of interest may include:

4.5.5.4.1 Structural and mechanical, thermal, electrical power, avionics, and communication subsystems.

4.5.5.4.2 Harnesses, cables, and other flight hardware.

4.5.5.4.3 Specialized fixtures, shipping containers, integration and test ground-support equipment, or specialized ground operations equipment necessary to successfully assemble, integrate, test, and operate the PNT payloads and/or systems, and related hardware and software.

4.5.5.4.4 Ground systems (including control, user, and/or experimental equipment) necessary to perform the PNT experiments.

4.5.6 The contractor shall design and conduct/support environmental tests on space-bound equipment to verify the workmanship and environmental suitability of space-rated systems, and to qualify space-bound electronics and mechanisms. Environmental tests include, but are not limited to, thermal cycle tests, thermal vacuum tests, random vibration tests, acoustic tests, shock tests, static loads tests, and electromagnetic compatibility tests.

4.5.7 The contractor shall integrate and test ground systems for both laboratory and test range environments, including:

4.5.75.1 Integrating, testing, certifying, administering, and operating ground system equipment, especially antennas, radiofrequency equipment, data processing equipment, data storage, and software.

4.5.7.2 Installing, refining, testing, verifying and validating command and telemetry databases

4.5.7.3 Testing and verifying software to generate, verify, validate, authenticate, and archive history of commands

4.5.7.4 Testing and verifying software to limit-check, display, archive, and perform trend analysis on state-of-health data

4.5.7.5 Testing and verifying capabilities to process, parse, reduce, analyze, display, archive, and distribute mission data. Analysis capability shall include evaluating actual mission performance to verify performance requirements or to assess the validity of predictive models

4.5.7.6 Testing and verifying software to generate, packetize, verify, validate, and archive history of mission data uploads.

4.5.8 The contractor shall perform the following: planning and scheduling of facilities, facility operation, facility safety, facility maintenance planning, and maintenance of the integration and test equipment as identified in the contract base support lists, in support of the specific tasks in Sections 3.1 through 3.5 of this Statement of Work. Specific facilities covered in the TO currently are the Navigation Technology Satellite Integration Laboratory (NTSIL) and the GPS Antenna Technology Engineering Range (GATER).

4.6 Reserved

4.7 Meetings, Conferences, Presentations, and Reviews

4.7.1 The contractor shall attend technical interchange meetings and design reviews as scheduled by AFRL. The contractor shall review technical presentations, assess the technical efforts made/proposed, and report the findings to AFRL. The contractor shall attend the conferences to CONUS or OCONUS locations 5-6 times annually to support PNT systems engineering activities.

4.8 Safety and Systems Operability

4.8.1 System Safety: The contractor shall address system safety engineering in the design of all system and support equipment; develop and implement safety measures into all procedures; and conduct and/or support safety reviews.

5.0 Contract Management

5.1 The contractor shall perform contract requirements in accordance with Section 5 of the Basic Statement of Work.

6.0 Security Requirements

6.1 Clearance Requirements: The contractor shall establish and implement information and physical security programs governing their efforts in accordance with the Task Order DD254 Contract Security Classification Specification. At a minimum, contractor personnel shall be eligible to obtain a Secret clearance. [PLEASE CONTACT CONTRACTING FOR SPECIFIC

BILLETING INFORMATION].

7.0 Associate Contractor Agreements

7.1 The Contractor shall enter into Associate Contractor Agreements (ACA) for any portion of task order performance requiring joint participation in the accomplishment of the Government's requirement. ACAs shall be executed in accordance with requirements in paragraph 7 of the Basic contract SOW.

7.2 Currently, the PNT Government team manages five (5) contracts for an On-Orbit Reprogrammable Digital Waveform Generator (ORDWG) with Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Iris, and Innoflight. Currently, the PNT Government team manages 14 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts on various topics including PNT payloads, PNT components, ground/control segment, user segment, signals, and cryptography.

8.0 Deliverables

The following list captures the applicable contract data requirements for TO 0002 deliverables:

Item Title Frequency A002 Status Report Monthly A003 Scientific and Technical Report End of contract A007 Software Design Description As needed A008 Software Requirements Specification As needed A009 Software Test Report As needed A010 Funds and Man-Hours Expenditure Report Monthly A013 Computer Software Products As needed A014 Software User’s Manual As needed A017 Contractor’s Risk Management Plan As needed

A018 Data Accession List Quarterly

A019 Management Plan Initial, then as needed A021 Presentation Material As needed A022 Scientific and Technical Reports Summary As needed A023 Interface Control Document As needed A024 Government Property Inventory Report Annually