SOW 131 eLib.pdf

Statement of Work Task: Flight Dynamics Facility Human Spaceflight Operations Support

Task Order: 131

Task Modification: 6

I. Summary of Changes in this Task Modification:

• Extends Period of Performance to October 31, 2024

II. Summary of Work This statement-of-work describes the Human Spaceflight Operations Support requirements, which includes mission preparation and real-time operations support, within the Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF), in support of the Navigation and Mission Design Branch (NMDB).

As detailed below, the contractor shall provide support for the International Space Station (ISS), ISS Visiting Vehicles, Commercial Crew Program, Private Astronaut Mission (PAM) and other commercial ventures, and other HSF exploration activities, in the technical areas of mission analysis & planning, integrated networks testing, documentation, mission readiness reviews, and operations support.

As an operations task within the FDF, this task is required to work closely with other Flight Dynamics Support Services (FDSS) III tasks and the NMDB. Task personnel shall interface directly with project personnel, flight operations team members, other contractors, tracking networks, and others, as needed. The contractor shall accept direction from the FDF Operations Director, the FDF Deputy Operations Director, and/or the Task Monitor (TM) in bi-weekly meetings, ad-hoc discussions, or other methods as necessary. Task personnel are expected to be proactive in reporting anomalies and other errors to the appropriate parties and to prepare and support project reviews as needed or requested. Costs associated with each mission and/or effort shall be tracked as a separate line item. The contractor shall prepare conference papers or other documentation as appropriate to promote and demonstrate the capabilities of the FDF. Task personnel shall prepare and maintain databases, reports, and/or other mechanisms as needed to support FDF customers.

III. Period of Performance The period during which the work for this task shall be performed is between November 1, 2023 and October 31, 2024.

IV. Task Description The work on this task is divided into the following areas:

a: International Space Station Operations Support

The contractor shall support ISS flight operations, in addition to special requests, mission analysis, test, simulation, maneuver, and contingency support. The contractor shall produce, review, or maintain documentation, scripts, and/or tools as needed to ensure that ISS requirements are met.

1. ISS Orbit Determination and Acquisition Data Support

The contractor shall perform orbit determination (OD) and prediction, acquisition data generation, and generation of navigation products (trajectory or tracking-related), per mission requirements.

The contractor shall provide analytical expertise and data evaluation competencies to ensure the quality and accuracy of FDF support, to assess current capabilities, and to provide new capabilities, as needed.

The contractor shall produce, review, or maintain documentation, scripts, and/or tools as needed to ensure that ISS OD requirements are met.

2. ISS Maneuver Support

The contractor shall provide on-call support, or on-console support at the request of the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Trajectory Operations Officer (TOPO), for routine ISS reboost maneuvers, and real-time support for ISS debris avoidance and non-nominal reboost maneuvers, as required.

3. ISS Emergency Spacecraft Support

The contractor shall provide real-time ISS emergency spacecraft support, as required and directed by the TM, FDF Operations Director or their Deputy, and/or HSF Network Director (ND) or their Deputy.

b: International Space Station Visiting Vehicle, Commercial Crew Program, PAM and other commercial ventures, and Exploration Mission Support

The contractor shall provide support for the mission analysis, planning and integration, and flight operations for all ISS Visiting Vehicles including, but not limited to, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) HII Transfer Vehicle (HTV-X), Northrop-Grumman (NG) Cygnus, SpaceX Cargo Dragon, and Soyuz Expedition. In addition, the task shall support mission preparation and operations activities associated with the Artemis Program as well as Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner and SpaceX Dragon 2 crewed capsules, PAM and other commercial ventures such as SpaceX Starship, Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser, Space Launch System (SLS), Human Landing System (HLS), Gateway, and reimbursable commercial NASA partnership missions such as the Polaris Program. This task will perform quality assurance for all products generated by the FDF in this effort, and work with all internal and external mission support elements to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the coordination of mission planning and operations support.

1. Mission Analysis, Planning, and Integration

The contractor shall perform mission requirements analysis & planning, and integration of all FDF technical elements for support of ISS Visiting Vehicles, crewed capsules, and exploration missions. This includes hardware and software, system configuration, testing, and facilities management required to prepare for visiting vehicle rendezvous missions. When required, the contractor shall perform analysis of vehicle manufacturers’ telemetry formats to ensure FDF readiness for receiving and processing of on-board navigation data for acquisition data support, and provide products specified by the HSF Team/Manufacturer for flight planning purposes.

The contractor shall develop communications requirements and procedures pertaining to voice and video circuit configurations, facsimile, telephone, tracking and telemetry data processing and storage, and acquisition data transmission. The contractor shall coordinate changes to hardware and software configuration within the FDF with the Facility Review Board (FRB) and fully comply with the established policies and procedures. In addition, the contractor shall comply with established network schedules and policies with regard to hardware and software configuration changes prior to and during critical testing and operations periods.

The contractor shall establish and maintain an action item database for the purpose of identifying problems, response dates, and the disposition of action items. The contractor shall generate, quality assure, and coordinate the transmission of pre-launch nominal and contingency acquisition data to the supporting Advanced Communications Capabilities for Exploration and Science Systems (ACCESS) and Near Space Network (NSN) elements, and provide mission planning and scheduling products for the integrated networks consistent with developed and approved procedures.

The contractor shall develop and certify analytical tools, perform analysis, and develop operational procedures for support of Launch Contingency Abort (LCA) capabilities for both the Commercial Crew and Exploration Program. This includes interfacing with vehicle manufacturers and/or JSC navigation engineers to gain an understanding of the abort scenarios and exchange of trajectory data to support the analysis and procedures development effort.

2. Real-Time Mission Support

The contractor shall provide support for HSF mission operations in accordance with the Mission Support Plan, which consists of pertinent Local Operating Procedures (LOPs), checklists, and mission requirements. This support includes staffing of communications consoles, flight dynamics mission management and coordination, acquisition data generation and transmission (e.g.

Improved Interrange Vectors (IIRVs),Internet Predicts (INPs), and Two-Line Element Sets (TLEs), planning and scheduling product generation (e.g. Very High Frequency (VHF) and C-band radar siteviews), telemetry data monitoring and processing, and mission status reporting and briefings as required. A Post-Mission Report (PMR) for each mission shall be provided to the TM at launch plus 3 weeks. A courtesy copy of the PMR shall also be delivered to the Code 450 HSF ND and their Deputy.

The contractor shall support all mission phases, depending upon the mission profile, including launch and early orbit, docking, operations for the duration of ISS docking, re-entry, mission contingencies, and special requests (extended missions, etc.), as required for each unique vehicle.

The contractor shall perform real-time analysis and navigation functions such as OD and prediction, generation of navigation products (trajectory or tracking-related), acquisition data generation, radiometric tracking data evaluation, and local oscillator frequency support, as necessary for each unique Visiting Vehicle.

The contractor shall provide a postflight operations report to the TM, FDF Operations Director, and their Deputy, and HSF Network Director, and their Deputy, and any postflight mission analysis requested.

3. Emergency Spacecraft Support:

The contractor shall provide real-time Visiting Vehicle emergency spacecraft support, as required and directed by the TM, FDF Operations Director or their Deputy, and/or HSF ND or their Deputy.

c: HSF Network Support

As needed, the contractor shall support other HSF Network activities related to FDF functionality.

This support may include, but isn’t limited to, evaluation and/or development of FDF support requirements, resolution of Network related problems or issues, participation in discussions or forums about FDF support, creation and/or review of documentation and procedures, and general technical expertise.

The contractor shall assume a leadership role in conducting and support of required integrated networks testing of HSF ground support hardware and software related to ACCESS Vector Verification testing and LCA. The contractor shall develop test plans and procedures and generate the required data for ACCESS vector verification and validation testing, and NSN testing as required. The contractor shall also execute the procedures, evaluate the results, and provide written reports to the TM, FDF Operations Director, and HSF ND and their Deputy as required.

The contractor shall prepare for and participate in network and mission simulations, data transmission tests, dataflows, and launch dress rehearsals, as well as contingency simulations.

Internal simulations and exercises shall be performed as required to maintain proficiency and ensure readiness to support. The test reports shall be provided to the TM, FDF Operations Director, and the HSF ND and their Deputy within 1 week of completion of the simulation/test if needed or be incorporated into the Network Report.

The contractor shall support the Network Support Group (NSG), a forum for a comprehensive review of previous missions, engineering and operation issues, long-term planning, policy, and requirements, with participation from a variety of HSF entities such as the ISS Program, Visiting Vehicles, the Space and Ground Networks, VHF Working Group, and more.

d: Documentation and Readiness Reviews

The contractor shall review pertinent support documentation including but not limited to:

Program Requirements Document (PRD); Network Operations Integration Plan (NOIP); Network Systems Requirements Document (NSRD); Network Mission Operations Plan (NMOP); Interface

Control Document (ICD) and associated Operations Concepts; Network Operations Support Plan (NOSP) and Network Support Requirements Document (NSRD); Radio Frequency Interface Control Document (RFICD); Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) Network Operations Support Plan (TNOSP) for VHF; Project Service Level Agreement (PSLA), Service Level Agreement (SLA), etc.

The contractor will also participate in the Code 450 Configuration Control Board (CCB) and review documents to the standards of the CCB. The contractor shall perform analysis to determine hardware, software, system configuration, and testing requirements, and implement procedures and methods to satisfy those requirements prior to each HSF mission in conformance with network schedules and policies. The contractor shall also prepare and present information concerning Flight Dynamics Facility mission requirements and readiness to support at the FDF Operations Readiness Review (ORR) and the Code 450/Code 300 Network Operations Readiness Review (NORR) prior to each mission.

V. Deliverable Items and Schedules The Human Spaceflight Operations Support Task deliverable items and schedule are provided in Table 1.

Deliverable ISS Ops VV/Exploration Analysis & Ops HSF Network Schedule

Task Status Report X X X Monthly

Artemis Program Status Review inputs

X Quarterly

Action Item Resolution Reports X X X Action Item due date

Anomaly reports X X X Event + 1 day

Mission Ops Readiness Review Presentation Materials

X X When delivered to Code 450

Analysis reports X X X As required

Ops Concept Studies X X X As required

Test Reports X Test completion + 1 week

Postmission Reports X End of ops + 3 weeks

NSG Mission Review Presentations X Twice yearly, as required

Trip Reports X End of trip + 3 weeks

HSF Training & Cert Plan update X X Yearly

Table 1. Deliverable Items and Schedule

VI. Management Approach

a. Staff Allocation, Expertise, and Skill Mix

The contractor shall staff this work item with the appropriate skill mix and staffing level for the work.

b. Configuration Management

Systems and documents will be covered under the FDF Configuration Management Plan.

c. Facilities

Appropriate IT devices to support the analyses, specification development, and report development are required. It shall be the contractor’s responsibility to work in conjunction with FDF sustaining engineering and software development and maintenance personnel as they provide and set up local equipment and network connections at the contractor’s off-site facilities as required, and to install any required tools and utilities on the contractor’s equipment.

d. Risk Management and Best Practices

The contractor shall manage schedule, cost, and technical risk through monitoring and reporting of progress and performance metrics, identifying issues well in advance of negative consequences, recommending corrective action to the TM, and implementing corrective actions with the compliance of the TM. The contractor shall work with the FDF Operations Planning team and TM to establish and maintain accurate Level of Effort (LOE) estimates for all current and developmental missions and activities, while managing the scope of work on these items.

The contractor shall maintain the Training and Certification process for HSF support, which includes identification of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), development of a skills catalogue, training matrix, in-class instruction, tests, simulations, on-the-job-training (OJT), and the process of certification.

e. The contractor shall establish and maintain all necessary Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs) with spacecraft vehicle vendors.

VII. Performance Metrics

Performance of the task will be based on timeliness and completeness of deliverables. The work performed for this task will be evaluated by the TM based on the technical merit. Technical evaluation of the task performed is a subjective combination of performance metrics, technical quality of deliverables, cost control, significant events, innovations and meeting requirements set forth in the SOW.

VIII. Government Furnished Facilities, Equipment, Software and Other Resources The Government will provide account and passwords to government-furnished equipment where existing versions of various relevant software packages shall be maintained. It shall be the contractor’s responsibility to complete any GSFC required security-related training courses.

IX. Travel

The task shall plan for participation of up to four engineers at each Network Support Group (NSG) meeting at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Non-local travel may be required to attend conferences, training, or other related technical meetings.

X. Work Location This work shall be performed in a combination of on-site at the Goddard Space Flight Center’s Flight Dynamics Facility or the Near Space Operations Control Center (NSOCC) at GSFC in Building 13, telework, or at the contractor’s facility, as based upon requirements and in accordance with NASA’s work policy.

XI. Reporting Requirements

The contractor shall report task status in person or via teleconference to the TM or designated alternate (e.g. FDF Deputy Operations Director) on a bi-weekly basis. Brief written mission analysis summaries, action item status, and/or mission status reports may be requested. The contractor shall report action item and mission support status at the direction of the TM, FDF Operations Director, or HSF ND and their Deputy to include, but not limited to, the following times: pre-launch readiness briefing and post-launch debriefing. Additional status meetings and reports may be requested as deemed necessary.

XII. Security Requirements This task shall comply with IT security requirements as documented in the FDF IT security plan for all systems located in the FDF. On-site FDF systems shall be maintained under the FDF Sustaining Engineering Task. Systems located outside of the FDF shall be covered under the Code 590 security plan and the Code 590 sustaining engineering support or the contractor sustaining engineering support depending on system location.

XIII. Rights The Contractor shall adhere to the FAR 52.227-14 RIGHTS IN DATA – General, Alternate II (2007) and Alternate III (2007), as modified by NFS 1852.227-14 (Apr 2015).

XIV. References Not applicable.