J 1(a) Attachment 1 Performance Work Statement (RVLTD).pdf

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

ADMINISTRATION (NASA)

AMES RESEARCH CENTER

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

FOR

ROTORCRAFT VERTICAL LIFT TECHNOLOGY

DEVELOPMENT (RVLTD)

March 02, 2020

Table of Contents I. Introduction

II. Scope of Work

1. Technology Area: Advanced Rotorcraft Technologies

2. Technology Area: Flight Controls and Health Management

3. Technology Area: Rotorcraft Research Testing

III. Applicable Documents

IV. Glossary

I. Introduction

This Performance Work Statement (PWS) describes the general scope of rotorcraft vertical lift research and development to be performed under this contract. The U.S. Government and Industry have established long-range technology development plans that identify tasks critical to support future rotorcraft utilization by both civilian and military operators. For the purposes of this performance work statement, rotorcraft vertical lift technology and development is defined as technology and development for aircraft capable of hovering and forward flight operation for manned and/or unmanned operations. This specifically includes eVTOL aircraft technologies for urban air mobility emerging new markets.

Technologies that enhance vehicle productivity, range, speed, capacity, performance, design tool development, design cycle reduction, dual-use (civil and military utility), safety, survivability, and environmental and community compatibility are included under this Performance Work Statement.

II. Scope of Work

Task Orders will be issued in the Technology Areas listed below against the Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. Each awarded task order will have a Performance Work Statement that addresses definite requirements and outcomes. Task Orders (TOs) will be issued in accordance with NASA FAR Supplement (NFS) 1852.216- 80, Task Ordering Procedures. Performance will be at the contractor’s facility.

The Government will issue task requests that define the requirements through task order statements of requirements. Before performance begins, the TO shall be approved by the CO, and this shall constitute the normal basis for work accomplishment and performance assessment. Each Task Order (TO) will define the period of performance, milestones, deliverables, applicable documents, reporting requirements, Government Furnished Equipment (if any), and travel requirements based on the individual requirement. TOs will be performance based; that is, they will be written in terms of expected outcomes that can be objectively measured by the Government.

Task Order selection procedures will be made in accordance with FAR 16,505(b). These procedures may vary depending on the task order requirements

The COR provides written technical direction and technically monitors performance under each Cost Plus Fixed-Fee TO, including formal acceptance and approval of contract deliverables. During performance of a TO, the COR with CO oversight may provide written technical direction to the contractor that approves technical approaches, solutions, designs, or refinements; redirects contract effort, shift work emphasis between work areas or tasks, require pursuit of certain lines of inquiry, fill in details, or otherwise serve to accomplish the contractual PWS. Any technical direction must be within the scope of work stated in the contract and TO. The COR does not have the authority to, and may not, issue any technical direction that constitutes (1) an assignment of additional work outside the PWS; or (2) constitutes a change as defined in the contract clause entitled “Changes.”

1. Technology Area: Advanced Rotorcraft Technologies

The contractor shall conduct studies to identify, analyze, and review concepts of technology insertion to existing fleets, new rotorcraft variants, or entirely new vertical lift aircraft with the focus on the national airspace system passenger, rotorcraft operator, and rotorcraft manufacturer. Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), aeroacoustics, comprehensive analysis, and other advanced computational methods for the computation and prediction of rotor aerodynamic loads and acoustics, airfoil design, vibration prediction and alleviation, and computation of interactional aerodynamic effects between various vehicle components may be required. Electric propulsion, distributed electric propulsion, and multiple or variable speed transmission technologies will be investigated as to their benefits and design trade-offs including speed regulation, weight, maintenance and inspection requirements. The various studies outcomes will increase passenger-capable Vertical Takeoff or Landing (VTOL) aircraft, benefits to purchase cost, reliability, operating costs, and passenger ticket costs. In addition, the contractor shall analyze designs, develop technology plans, identify critical technologies and areas of technical risk, and develop alternative risk mitigation plans.

The contractor shall perform sensitivity studies to determine the effect of advanced rotorcraft technology on rotorcraft Direct Operating Cost (DOC) and performance. The contractor shall furnish or be provided full mission definition and baseline vehicle descriptions, and shall identify all assumptions required to conduct such studies. The contractor shall select rotorcraft synthesis codes to evaluate the effect on DOC and performance on parameters such as failure modes and effects analysis, mean time between removal, acquisition costs, maintenance costs, and weight. The contractor will also provide information on the effect of these parameters on reducing aviation accident rates.

Subject matter experts in rotorcraft technology disciplines may be utilized to perform analysis of mission, program goals and objectives, program evaluations, analysis of program effectiveness, requirements analysis, organizational performance assessment, special studies and analysis, and consulting within this technology area in order to accurately review accomplishments and progress in single, specific programmatic situations or on a regularly schedule program basis. The use of subject matter expert review will be dependent on the task order requirement.

2. Technology Area: Flight Controls and Health Management

The contractor shall develop and operate real-time mathematical models of rotorcraft for use in fixed and moving base simulations; design and develop control systems and crew station displays and related control laws; evaluate fixed and moving base simulations that may include air traffic operations; and investigate human interface requirements for advanced cockpit designs, including displays and flight control devices, for optimum pilot workload. The contractor shall provide updated control laws and avionics equipment for research aircraft including ruggedized avionics processor equipment, software, licenses, graphics displays and process flight director code to be used in Government-conducted flight research test programs.

The contractor shall conduct studies and analyses on prognostics and Intelligent Vehicle

Health Management (IVHM) technologies. The contractor shall provide personnel, facilities, equipment, and material as necessary to perform investigations of onboard sensors/equipment on contractor provided rotorcraft to improve Health Utilization Monitoring Systems (HUMS) capabilities, accuracy, and utilization. The contractor shall demonstrate application of usage monitoring techniques to rotorcraft missions using a HUMS equipped aircraft. The contractor shall identify promising new technologies that have the potential to significantly reduce rotorcraft operations and support costs. The economic impact and cost benefits of HUMS technologies will be conducted including but not limited to retirement index number, airspeed/load factor/gross weight histograms, exceedance monitoring, and torque-cycle counting.

The contractor shall conduct studies on current helicopter and future operations addressing the deficiencies or problem areas of current instrumental flight rules (IFR) and proposed simultaneous non-interfering operations with respect to rotorcraft and unmanned aerial vehicles; identify requirements necessary to integrate rotorcraft into future generation Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems; and formulating research and technology plans to address these needs. The focus of the studies can include describing major rotorcraft and urban air mobility missions, applications, and operating environments; providing market size, passengers carried statistics; conduct economic impacts of the rotorcraft industry on the national and international economies.

Subject matter experts in rotorcraft technology disciplines may be utilized to perform analysis of mission, program goals and objectives, program evaluations, analysis of program effectiveness, requirements analysis, organizational performance assessment, special studies and analysis, and consulting within this technology area in order to accurately review accomplishments and progress in single, specific programmatic situations or on a regularly schedule program basis. The use of subject matter expert review will be dependent on the task order requirement.

3. Technology Area: Rotorcraft Research Testing

Design and testing of model- and full-scale rotor systems and vehicle concepts involving aerodynamics, acoustics, structures, and dynamics; and also involving analysis, design, fabrication, instrumentation, data acquisition, data reduction, correlation, and reporting may be required. Rotor hardware will be model/large/full-scale and flight qualified hardware. The contractor shall provide capable small/large/full-scale wind tunnel test stands (including all cabling and control consoles) for model testing in Government and commercial test facilities. The contractor shall prepare layout and design of a new testing system to enable evaluation of loss-of-lubrication performance of high-speed helical gears.

The hardware design and analyses shall demonstrate conformance to all pertinent Government requirements. Design reviews (Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed Design Reviews) and reports will be prepared, reviewed by Government personnel, modified and approved. The contractor will prepare hardware and documentation necessary for full operation of such stands with the Government, the contractor, or third party rotor systems installed. Full design, stress, quality assurance, Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA), instrumentation, health monitoring, operation, and maintenance documentation will be provided. The contractor can be required to provide training and/or support personnel on-site in the use and operation of the test stand at Government, contractor, or third party test sites.

The contractor shall provide an airworthy helicopter, tiltrotor, and/or advanced vertical lift vehicle (manned or unmanned) including the ground and flight crew members required to conduct safe flight operations in accordance with a Government provided or approved test plan. The aircraft may be required to fly in formation flight with another Government-provided aircraft. The contractor may be required to incorporate Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) instrumentation into the contractor's aircraft. Test data will be acquired using the contractor's data acquisition, reduction and storage system and provided in reduced format to the Government together with all pertinent documentation of sensor calibration and signal processing.

Subject matter experts in rotorcraft technology disciplines may be utilized to perform analysis of mission, program goals and objectives, program evaluations, analysis of program effectiveness, requirements analysis, organizational performance assessment, special studies and analysis, and consulting within this technology area in order to accurately review accomplishments and progress in single, specific programmatic situations or on a regularly schedule program basis. The use of subject matter expert review will be dependent on the task order requirement.

III. Applicable Documents

The Contractor shall provide procedures and management supervision to ensure compliance with applicable Government policies, regulations and contractual requirements, including all applicable NASA Policy Directives (NPDs), NASA Procedural Requirements (NPRs), Ames Policy Directives (APDs), and Ames Procedural Requirements (APRs), in their entirety. Specific procedures will be indicated on each TO. These procedures include, but are not limited to the following documents:

• NASA Procedural Requirements and NASA Policy Directives:

• NPR 7120.10 Technical Standards for NASA Programs and Projects

• NPR 8735.2B, Management of Government Quality Assurance Functions for

NASA Contracts

• NPD 8700.1E, NASA Policy for Safety and Mission Assurance

• NPD 8730.5B NASA Quality Assurance Program Policy

• ARC Procedural Requirements and NASA Policy Directives:

APR 1220.1 Management Objectives, Metrics and Accountability; MO (1-5) APR 1280.1 Ames Management System (AMS) Quality Manual APR 2815.2 Information Technology (IT) Security Procedural Requirements APR 8715.1 Ames Health & Safety Procedural Requirements - Ames Safety & Health Policy

IV. Glossary

ATM Air traffic management CFD Computational fluid dynamics DOC Direct operating cost DOs Delivery orders FMECA Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis GFE Government furnished equipment HUMS Health utilization monitoring systems IDIQ Indefinite delivery/Indefinite Quantity IVHM Intelligent vehicle health management NFS NASA FAR supplement PWS Performance Work Statement VTOL Vertical takeoff or landing