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Work Assignment #4 Office of Satellite Ground Services (OSGS)

Systems Engineering and Programmatic Support

March 2, 2016

1. INTRODUCTION

Under the “Strengthening NESDIS” initiative begun in 2012, a new NESDIS organization, the Office of Satellite Ground Services (OSGS) will consolidate the development and sustainment of all NESDIS ground systems. This office will be formally stood up in early FY2015. OSGS will leverage common ground services and guide development of an enterprise ground architecture.

The OSGS vision is to institute one integrated, cross-program, cross-organization team creating and sustaining the end-to-end Enterprise Ground System, with a mission to (1) Sustain Current Operations (e.g., GOES, POES, S-NPP, Jason), (2) Enable Future Operations (e.g., GOES-R, JPSS), and (3) Create Enterprise Ground (Command & Control, Mission Management, Product Generation & Distribution, Science Algorithm Implementation, Archive, Network Infrastructure, and User Access). As such, a broad range of architecting and system engineering and program/project management support will be required from the Contractor to enable OSGS to effectively and efficiently fulfill both its short- and long-term mission objectives.

The tasks and/or work assignments will involve prioritizing, planning, and execution of financial investments for the various architecture, engineering, technical and programmatic activities and projects to be executed under OSGS. Any work performed herein will make this contractor ineligible to bid on the projects for which plans and financial investments are prepared owing to the unfair competitive advantage rendered by assisting in the development of those plans and investments.

2. WORK ASSIGNMENT TASKS

2.1 OSGS Programmatic and Project Management Support

The Contractor shall provide assistance to OSGS in responding to government stakeholder requests for information and status, development and review of project- and program-level documents, and supporting system-level system engineering activities.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in generating and/or reviewing program planning documents, program and cost analyses including Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB), and EV reports, special studies, and briefing materials for presentations to NOAA, DOC and external agencies such as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and review boards including the various Information Technology (IT) Review Boards at NESDIS, NOAA and DoC levels and others as directed by OSGS Management.

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The Contractor shall provide support to OSGS on short- and long-term organizational strategic planning efforts and technical documentation efforts. The Contractor shall participate and lead Working Groups engaged in the above activities.

The Contractor shall facilitate the establishment and provide support for the conduct of independent reviews of the OSGS Ground Enterprise. Scope of reviews may include the review and assessment of planning, implementation and execution activities and status including:

1) Organizational and management approach including oversight by NOAA and NOAA’s agency partners;

2) Acquisition strategy;

3) Availability of resources;

4) Budget;

5) Schedule;

6) Technical approach;

7) Technology readiness;

8) Risk identification and management.

Specific scope and criteria for reviews will be provided by the Government.

The Contractor shall provide support for the organizational aspects of the evolving Enterprise Ground. These activities include but are not limited to development of an OSGS business model that captures the organization’s purpose, target customers, products and services, strategies, infrastructure, organizational roles and responsibilities, interactions with internal and external entities, and operational processes and policies; short- and long-term staffing and hiring needs to meet the objectives of the Enterprise; and development of a broad spectrum of use cases to illustrate the process flows associated with the execution of OSGS’s primary responsibilities.

The Contractor shall support OSGS in establishing and executing the Risk Management process.

2.2 Acquisition Support

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in all procurement activities under the OSGS purview, to include assisting OSGS on related procurements requiring ground system (GS) knowledge and subject matter expertise.

The Contractor shall provide acquisition assistance to OSGS in the development and review of procurement packages, Request for Proposals (RFPs), requirements documents, functional and performance specification (F&PS) documents, and Statements of Work (SOWs).

The Contractor shall perform special studies to support the procurement process and develop other procurement documents, as needed.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in reviewing and evaluating proposals, performing special studies to support evaluation responses, and provide evaluation advice and recommendations.

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The Contractor shall participate as an advisor in Source Evaluation Board (SEB) and Source Advisory Council activities and provide evaluation advice and recommendations.

The Contractor shall provide project planning assistance for developing ground system project plans, schedules, and financial planning documents.

The Contractor shall provide support for alternative analyses and Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) evaluation, including Contractor fiscal, design, engineering, and other analyses.

The Contractor shall provide independent studies to assist in management decisions in support of participation in the GS proposal evaluations.

2.3 Resource Management Support

The Contractor shall assist in identifying and justifying yearly OSGS budgets, along with other project management activities.

The Contractor shall provide assistance to OSGS Project Managers and Resource Management team in cost management, financial analyses, and lifecycle resource management, and shall assist in the execution, monitoring, and control of the OSGS funds.

The Contractor shall assist in OSGS resource management, including maintaining staffing plans, identifying and monitoring financial requirements, providing analysis and advice on project baselines, developing and maintaining fiscal year spend plans, and assisting with cost reporting.

The Contractor shall participate in the assessment of contract cost/schedule performance for determination of award fees.

The Contractor shall participate in development Contractor reviews at development Contractor facilities, including integrated baseline reviews, design and engineering discussions, Government and development Contractor technical interchange meetings, and in-progress reviews of development Contractor-developed documents.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS with Financial and Cost Estimation Analysis including independent cost estimates, independent financial analysis support to IT acquisitions and proposed contract modifications, and alternatives analysis, life cycle cost estimates (LCCE), multi-year PAC planning, and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis. This effort also includes quarterly Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) reconciliation support to the NESDIS OSGS Administrative officer.

2.4 Architecture, Engineering and Technical Analysis Support

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in the development, modernization, enhancement, and sustainment of new and existing ground systems that support current and future space architecture systems,, cooperative satellite missions, missions of opportunity, and research to operations missions.

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The contractor shall assist OSGS in executing the transition to the ground enterprise architectures systems.

The contractor shall assist OSGS in implementing policy and guidance from the Office of Systems Architecture and Advanced Planning (OSAAP).

The contractor shall assist in creating and maintaining interface documents and other inter-organizational technical agreements.

Work under any of the task subheadings may include performing requirements and architecture tradeoff analysis studies, generation of technical requirements or specifications and statements of work; development and review of procurement documents; participation in procurement activities as an advisor including Contractor proposal evaluations, evaluation of Contractor's design, development, system integration, test, transition to operations and sustainment;

participation in Government and Contractor technical meetings, system test and evaluation activities, and review of Contractor documentation to determine corrections that may be necessary to assure timely delivery of systems that meet specified technical and budgetary requirements.

The contractor shall support all areas of OSGS in the identification and mitigation/resolution of project risks and issues, and generation of regular project status reports, in the course of executing tasks.

The contractor will assist in establishing and executing systems engineering processes including but not limited to configuration management and requirements management.

2.4.1 Radio Frequency Engineering and Analysis Support - The Contractor shall support OSGS in the Development, Modernization and Enhancement (DME) of new and existing satellite program Radio Frequency (RF) systems.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in evaluating current and emerging RF systems and technologies for use with current and future satellite missions, including NOAA partner and cooperative missions.

The Contractor shall support OSGS antenna system characterization, link analyses, interference analyses and anomaly resolution studies; the Contractor shall create, collect and generate data and reports of findings as required.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS through participation in technical meetings and discussions with partners, cooperative organizations and national and international agencies.

The contractor shall also provide performance specifications, work statements, test procedures, test plans and reviews to sustain, upgrade, and enhance the existing NOAA/NESDIS antenna systems infrastructure.

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The contractor shall assist OSGS in analyzing and evaluating candidate solutions to accommodating sharing of RF spectrum with commercial users of newly auctioned spectrum.

The contractor shall prepare plans, specification, task schedules, and identify deployment plans for spectrum sharing solutions.

2.4.2 Telecommunications Engineering and Analysis Support - The Contractor shall support OSGS Development, Modernization and Enhancement (DME) of new and legacy satellite program Telecommunications (TELCO) systems from multiple systems providers.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in analyzing and evaluating Commercial and Government owned communications capabilities; carriers, services, systems, networks, circuits and links; evaluating current communications architectures and systems for use with current and future satellite missions, including NOAA partner and cooperative missions.

The Contractor shall prepare specifications and work statements to take advantage current and emerging TELCO systems and technologies for use with current and future satellite missions, including NOAA partner and cooperative missions.

2.4.3 Ground Architecture and System Engineering Support - The Contractor shall assist OSGS in gathering and analyzing information that will be used to populate enterprise architecture models in support of the OSGS architecture team. This includes analyzing existing client documentation for useful data, interviewing client subject matter experts and participating in enterprise architecture development meeting/workshops.

The Contractor shall capture this information using the tools being used for this task. The Contractor shall assist in developing detailed target (To-Be) architecture concepts and artifacts, and a roadmap to evolve from the existing to the target architecture incrementally based on the NESDIS mission timeline over the next decade.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS in gathering and analyzing of alternatives for the legacy polar and geostationary ground systems to determine viable options for evolving these systems as OSGS maps out a path to an enterprise ground system. This includes strategies for conducting IT refresh and/or technical upgrades of the legacy systems that align with the ground enterprise and establish convergence toward the target enterprise by 2022. The Contractor shall work closely with the operations and sustainment managers in executing this task.

The Contractor shall leverage the technologies utilized by the next generation mission ground systems (GOES-R and JPSS) in the analyses, recommendations, and development of an execution plan to achieve the target architecture.

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2.4.4 Legacy GOES and POES Sustainment - The Contractor shall support OSGS in architecture and system engineering efforts pertaining to the sustainment of the legacy GOES NOP command and control subsystems and supporting infrastructure, located at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, MD, the Fairbanks Command & Data Acquisition Station (FCDAS), the Wallops Command & Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS), and the Wallops Backup Unit (WBU) at NASA/GSFC.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS with planning, budgeting and evaluating life-cycle upgrades to legacy GOES NOP subsystems. For the purpose of continuity of operations, the Contractor should assume these sustainment activities to continue through CY2022.

The Contractor shall support OSGS in architecture and system engineering efforts pertaining to the sustainment of the Legacy POES command and control subsystems and supporting infrastructure, located at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, MD, the Fairbanks Command & Data Acquisition Station (FCDAS), the Wallops Command & Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS), and the Barrow, Alaska CDA facility.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS with planning, budgeting and evaluating life-cycle upgrades to legacy POES Ground subsystems. For the purpose of continuity of operations, the Contractor should assume these sustainment activities to continue through

CY2020.

2.4.5 Domestic and International Mission Systems - In addition to the NOAA satellites, OSGS is responsible for providing sustaining engineering for other domestic and international mission systems that provide critical satellite data to NESDIS for increased spatial and temporal coverage, improved spectral coverage and resolution, and improved forecast skill, and/or provide mitigation for realized or projected gaps in meeting NOAA’s observational requirements. Geostationary missions currently include missions such as MTSAT and MSG. Future missions include GOES-R, Himawari, and MTG, among others. Polar missions currently include missions such as MetOp, Jason, COSMIC, GCOM and SNPP. Future missions include JPSS, Jason-CS, DSCOVR, GPM, and other Research-to-Operations missions.

The Contractor shall be responsible for providing end-to-end architecting and systems engineering support for these missions throughout the entire System Development Life Cycle, including Transition-to-Operations.

The Contractor effort shall include all facets of systems architecting and engineering including assisting OSGS with key project management functions, and sustainment planning to address hardware and software obsolescence, new or enhanced operator monitoring tool requirements, network bandwidth limitations, and emerging IT Security requirements.

The Contractor shall be responsible for supporting the development of interagency and international agreements pertaining to OSGS support for non-NOAA satellite missions.

These include MOU’s, MOA’s, ISA’s, and other mission-specific agreements.

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2.4.6 Environmental Satellite Processing Center Program Support - The Contractor shall assist the NOAA/NESDIS Environmental Satellite Processing Center (ESPC) Manager in developing Program Operating Plans, Project Plans, Work Breakdown Structures, and other planning documents to facilitate organizational changes and restructuring.

The Contractor shall assist the Environmental Satellite Processing and Distribution System (ESPDS) Project Manager in the development of project documents, presentations, and other informational material for presentation to OSGS and NESDIS management.

The Contractor shall assist in collaborative activities with ESDPS stakeholders and users to ensure commonality of objectives focusing on enterprise product distribution and access and in analysis and verification of Level 1 system requirements.

The Contractor shall provide system engineering and project management support to ESPDS PM for all work assignments assigned to the ESPDS Development contractor in support of legacy, GOES-R, JPSS, international/interagency, and Research-to Operations missions to be integrated into data processing segments of the OSGS Ground Enterprise.

These segments include satellite data ingest and pre-processing, product generation, product distribution and access, remote backup facilities, special services (e.g., Data Collection System, HRIT/EMWIN, etc), and supporting communications infrastructure.

For the case of the remote backup facilities, the Contractor shall conduct an analysis of alternatives and/or a cost/benefit tradeoff for migrating legacy capabilities at the Wallops Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) backup facility to the Consolidated Backup Unit (CBU) located at Fairmont, W. VA.

2.4.7 IT Security Support - The contractor shall provide technical support for architecture, design, implementation, sustainment and evaluation of all phases of mission security and information assurance solutions for the OSGS ground enterprise.

The Contractor shall conduct security assessments, develop system requirements, and prepare security plans, risk assessments, and security evaluation reports based on NIST, Department of Commerce, NASA, and Department of Homeland Security guidance for critical information technology (IT) systems.

The Contractor shall provide support for development of standards, guidance, and policies implemented in the mission system, and provide support for oversight of communications security requirements and implementation.

The Contractor shall support continuous monitoring of all information security, including activities associated with the acquisition and development efforts.

The Contractor shall support planning and execution of Assessment and Authorization work, including activities to achieve and maintain Authority to Operate.

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2.4.8 Satellite Services Support - The Contractor shall provide systems engineering support for special satellite services including legacy GOES Low Rate Information Transmission (LRIT), High Rate Information Transmission (HRIT), Data Collection System (DCS) Administration & Data Distribution System (DADDS), and Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT). This support includes planning for system upgrades and insertion of new technologies to improve such services to the public, as well as conducting studies and providing recommendations regarding viable approaches to incorporating these capabilities into the enterprise ground as a suite of common service that fully integrate both the legacy and next generation polar and geostationary missions.

2.4.9 Preparations for Sustaining Engineering of the GOES-R and JPSS Ground Systems

- The Contractor shall support OSGS, in coordination with OSPO, the planning for Transition to Operations of the primary (NSOF) and remote backup (CBU) components of the GOES-R and JPSS ground systems into the operational environment, including staffing requirements, development of operational processes and procedures, operational roles and responsibilities, synergies between legacy and new mission support duties, and out-year O&M budget profile estimates.

The Contractor shall support OSGS in planning efforts associated with sustaining engineering of the GOES-R and JPSS ground system, scheduled to become an OSGS responsibility one year after GOES-R launch and one year after JPSS launch, respectively. This includes participating in ongoing OSGS studies and analyses focusing on the incorporation of GOES-R and JPSS capabilities into service-oriented Enterprise Ground target architecture scheduled for full implementation in 2022.

2.4.10 Satellite Products Development Support - The Contractor shall assist OSGS in the Development and sustainment efforts for new and combined satellite products. The Contractor shall assist OSGS Product Generation staff with budget planning activities.

The Contractor shall assist in reviewing satellite product development project plans for the Annual Review for Satellite Product Development.

The Contractor shall assist OSGS to keep satellite product information in a web database current for satellite missions, instruments, data, and products. The Contractor shall assist OSGS Product Generation staff in planning and analyses for the implementation of new and updated products from existing and future satellite systems. The Contractor shall assist OSGS in executing processes, including technical assessments, related to requirements analysis and project planning for product evolution in response to requests by OSAAP.

The Contractor shall provide support to OSGS Product Generation staff in planning for the implementation of product requirements as levied by OSAAP. The Contractor shall support OSGS in collaborating with OSPO to characterize and upgrade the end-to-end process for moving product process software items from research and development from OSGS into operations in OSPO. The Contractor shall assist and support the NOAA Observing System Architecture by providing current operation and demonstration product information.

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2.4.11 JPSS and GOES-R System Engineering Support for Satellite Products - The Contractor shall support the OSGS Product Generation staff in JPSS and GOES-R related architecting and system engineering tasks related to satellite product development for GOES-R, JPSS and GCOM-W satellites in response to requirements levied by OSAAP or agreements otherwise negotiated with the mission program offices. These tasks include developing project documents, including programmatic reviews and technical briefings, collaborating with Government and other Contractor staff to manage the risks and issues related to NESDIS Unique Products (NUPs) for JPSS, GCOM-W, and GOES-R satellite products.

The Contractor shall assist the government in developing and reviewing satellite product development project plans that capture the satellite product development life cycle from research to product retirement. The Contractor shall support the government in working groups pertaining to GOES-R, and JPSS requirements. The Contractor shall assist the government in transitioning upgraded and new satellite product capability into operations in OSPO. The Contractor shall assist the government in special studies and trade analysis.

3. DELIVERABLES

The Contractor shall provide deliverables in accordance with Section G12 of the Contract (Deliverables).

Work Assignment Points of Contact (POCs) that are responsible for this Work Assignment..

Deliverables may include, but are not limited to, reports, analyses, studies, and meeting minutes.

3.1 Technical Reports and Special Reports: The Contractor shall furnish the Government technical reports as needed in all task areas. In addition to these specific deliverables, the Contractor shall provide deliverables specified by the OSGS technical staff leads that are responsible for this task. Deliverables may include, but are not limited to, reports, analyses, presentations, studies, and meeting minutes.

3.2 Progress Reports: See Section G.

The Contractor shall provide weekly progress reports that identify technical issues, problems, successes, changes in direction, or new activities that have been assigned to the Contractor.

The Contractor shall meet with the individual task leaders, either formally or informally, to discuss the status of the Contractor’s work effort, task issues, concerns, and other information associated with the task.

The Contractor shall provide individual trip reports to OSGS, as required.

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4. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The Period of Performance for this Work Assignment shall be one base year with four option periods as follows.

Base Period September 8, 2016 – September 7, 2017 Option Period One September 8, 2017 – September 7, 2018 Option Period Two September 8, 2018 – September 7, 2019 Option Period Three September 8, 2019 – September 7, 2020 Option Period Four September 8, 2020 – June 30, 2021

5. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Work shall be performed at the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland MD, at the OSGS office in Silver Spring, MD, in the Contractor’s office when appropriate, and at other Government (particularly NOAA) facilities when called upon. There will be _____ desk spaces made available on-site for the Contractor’s use.

Requests for entering into a telework arrangement must be coordinated with the contracted individual’s supervisor and submitted on the approved Telecommuting Agreement Form, a copy of which is available from the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The COR is responsible for reviewing, approving, and tracking all requests for telework, and making them available to the Contracting Officer if so requested.

6. LEVEL OF EFFORT - COST-PLUS-FIXED-FEE TERM TYPE ORDER

The Contractor shall make its own independent staffing requirements assessment.

7. SKILL REQUIREMENT

The FTEs must be knowable and understand all Federal laws, requirements, guidelines, mandates, etc. that are related to the tasks and requirements in this Work Assignment.

8. TRAVEL

Frequent local travel is expected between the Contractor and Government facilities in the Washington metropolitan area during the period of performance. At the Government’s direction, the Contractor shall travel to other locations to participate in meetings and to perform other tasks associated with this task, including meetings at government locations and Contractor and subcontractor facilities. The Contractor may attend Government and Development Contractor meetings, visit various NOAA facilities, attend conferences/workshops relevant to the OSGS mission, and travel to vendor sites, on an as-needed basis. See Section F4.

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9. WORK ASSIGNMENT POINT OF CONTACT (POC)

Work Assignment POC: To Be Determined Email:

Phone:

10. ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

To fulfill this statement of objectives, the Contractor may be required to develop technical and/or acquisition documents that may contain Sensitive Procurement Information. Access or knowledge of this information may limit the Contractor's eligibility to propose on future solicitations issued by the Government that are directly related to this statement of objectives.

As a result, the Contractor may be unable to propose on future solicitations unless the Contractor can clearly demonstrate and justify that it has sufficient administrative, operational and/or technical controls in place to effectively contain and firewall its other employees and information from those that are performing on this Work Assignment. This restraint is imposed to avoid any circumstance of unfair advantage or potential bias that may arise and jeopardize the procurement process for future solicitations.

Contractor employees performing on this Work Assignment will be required to sign a Non- Disclosure Agreement.

11. IT SECURITY

The Contractor must comply with the DOC, NOAA and NESDIS IT Security policies and procedures. The Government will supply hardware and software necessary to perform the work required by this statement of objectives.

The Contractor shall comply with the IT Security requirements of the Department of Commerce as outlined in Commerce Acquisition Regulation (CAR) 1352.239-72, Security Requirements For Information Technology Resources (April 2010), except that development of a Security Authorization Package in accordance with CAR 1352.239-72, section (i) is not required.

12. PERSONNEL SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

In conducting certain of these subtasks, the Contractor shall be provided access to sensitive but unclassified information dealing with known threats to NESDIS facilities, equipment, software, missions, and other security-related matters. The Contractor staff members required to handle this information shall obtain the necessary clearances and familiarity with Government-approved procedures for handling, storing, and generating sensitive information and shall treat all such information provided for the conduct of these subtasks accordingly.