SOW - Launch Capacity and DMSMS Toolkit.pdf

U.S. Space Force

DRAFT Statement of Work

Spaceport Capacity Assessment Tool and Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material

Shortage Toolkit

Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA

20 March 2026

DRAFT Statement of Work Requiring Activity: Portfolio Acquisition Executive, Assured Access to Space (PAE AATS) and System Delta 88 – Space Communications (SYD 88)

Issuing Agency: Space Launch Delta 30, 30th Contracting Squadron

Title: Spaceport Capacity Assessment Tool and Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortage Toolkit

1. Purpose

PAE AATS, SLD 30, SLD 45, and PM LTRS requires capabilities that enable government planners and acquirers with digital solutions to determine our operational limits and investments to handle future space launch and test capacity that is informed by supply chain survivability in time for FY27 requirement collections for Spaceport of the Future and LTRS Program Objective Memorandum (POM) planning windows [June-Sep of each calendar year].

As PAE AATS decides on investments to defend congressionally they require data informed estimates that support budgetary requests that increase our force structure, improve our facilities and infrastructure, and highlight real world limitations facing our the space launch and test ranges.

SLD 30 and SLD 45 are charted to facilitate and enable unconstrained launch and test support to our mission partners by validating limiting factors and recommending solutions to alleviate them.

PM LTRS is chartered with managing a large range contractor to keep the range green and will continue to do so for the next several decades. As such they require a robust set of capabilities to highlight supply chain risks in order to inform government leadership on mitigation plans and influence industry to be more competitive in those technology spaces.

System Delta 88 - Satellite Communications (SYD 88) is responsible for acquiring, testing, and advancing capabilities that support narrowband, tactical, and strategic SATCOM systems. SYD 88 leads the development and fielding of satellites, ground segments, and mission software in support of DoW missions. The organization oversees the integration, engineering, and acquisition activities required to deliver resilient SATCOM capabilities across operational environments.

The SLD 30 Digital Transformation Office has been tasked to determine the maximum capacity of the spaceport and oversaw the successful delivery on a previous task order.

The DTO also gathered consensus on its utility across the stakeholders already mentioned and is best suited to oversee, guide, implement, and train members on the technical solution being built by a vendor.

2. Objective and Mission

2.1. Objective. To enable PAE AATS, SLD 30, SLD 45, with capabilities to determine how we can improve our launch and test range services (infrastructure, personnel, and range systems) to meet never experienced launch and test operational tempos.

PAE AATS and PM LTRS must also require capabilities to perform supply chain risk analysis for range capabilities they must acquire over the next several decades and be able to strategically influence the defense and industry industrial bases to be cognizant of where improvements are needed and profitable business spaces are when providing capabilities to support space launch and test.

Consecutively, SYD 88 requires access to a digital platform supported by a well-curated, well-trained, and adaptive knowledge graph. This environment must enable SYD 88 to perform data-driven analysis across the SATCOM enterprise, including assessments of supply-chain dependencies, industrial-base health, technology readiness, lifecycle sustainment impacts, interoperability considerations, and acquisition risk factors. The platform must support SYD 88’s need to evaluate system-of-systems relationships, inform programmatic decisions, and ensure SATCOM capabilities remain resilient, survivable, and aligned with operational concepts across all phases of conflict.

To this end the contractor shall furnish up to 50 PAE AATS, SLD 30, SLD 45, PM LTRS, and SYD 88 users with access to a vendor configured Launch and Test Capacity Assessment tool and DMSMS Analysis tool.

Aspects of each tool include:

2.2. Launch and Test Capacity Analysis Tool:

Cloud hosted graphic user interface of a contractor configured analytic capabilities that allow for government personnel with the ability to analyze physical (personnel, infrastructure, air space, sea space, frequency space) and temporally based resources that identify the interplay and resource competition for a mix of launch providers, and test programs, at either SLD 45 (equatorial orbit launches or tests across the Atlantic ocean) or SLD 30 (polar orbit launches and tests across the Pacific ocean).

2.2.1. Platform Requirements:

The cloud platform must be rated at a FedRamp high level and have an authority to operate at the impact level five (CUI) level The system must enable access using DoW CAC or alternate multifactor authentication method.

The capability shall ingest, model, and post process simulation results within 20 minutes after the start of a scenarios The system shall enable realistic modelling airspace, sea space, roads traversal time, radio frequency usage for launch and test, equipment availability, payload processing, personnel time consumption as it relates to launch and test procedures.

The capability will protect individual user excursions from other individuals access and enable scenario sharing between analysts and planners.

All data within the capability must be exportable and manipulatable on government furnished equipment or by enterprise provided capabilities (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, Envision, or Python).

The platform shall have 24x7x365 access with a 99.999% availability level.

2.2.2. Project Logistics:

The vendor will conduct subject matter expert interviews to collect realistic data that are not collocated in an actual authoritative data system.

The vendor will train personnel on the nuances of the modeling capability and may be required to educate personnel on operations research concepts at the government program manager’s direction.

The vendor will inform the government of any externally interested parties on the capacity modeling capabilities to vet the external organization’s goals.

The vendor will support government led briefings at technical exchanges and symposiums.

2.2.3. Data Rights for the Launch and Test Capacity Model:

Government Purpose Rights for technical data encompass full data rights over space launch and test planning data, modeling scenario inputs, and modeling scenario outputs, and any custom configurations made to the SaaS platform during the period of performance. All data collected from interviews, discussions and communications with government personnel as part of this contract shall be the exclusive property of the U.S. Government. The contractor shall deliver all raw and processed data in a non-proprietary, machine-readable format upon contract completion.

2.3. DMSMS Toolkit

The DMSMS Toolkit shall be enabled for personnel within the PAE AATS, and PM LTRS logisticians to analyze supply chain risks for any procurable end item within the Launch and Test Range System architecture and enable hardware washout as it relates to launch and test range resource consumption.

The DMSMS Toolkit shall also be enabled for SYD 88 personnel to conduct SATCOM-specific supply-chain and DMSMS analysis, including evaluation of suppliers, components, lifecycle and obsolescence risks, vendor dependencies, and industrial-base resilience relevant to space, ground, and terminal SATCOM systems.

2.3.1. Platform Requirements

The cloud platform must be rated at a FedRamp high level and have an authority to operate at the impact level five (CUI) level.

The system must enable access using DoW CAC or alternate multifactor authentication method.

The capability will protect individual user searches from other individuals access and enable scenario sharing between analysts and planners.

All data must be exportable and manipulatable on government furnished equipment or by enterprise provided capabilities (e.g., Microsoft Power BI, Envision, or Python).

Supply chain searches shall leverage traditional acquisition data fields (e.g., NAICS, PSC, DoDAAC, Program Element Code, Appropriation Symbol, etc.)

The platform shall have 24x7x365 access with a 99.999% availability level.

The platform will be configures with capabilities that assess supplier health, corporate mergers, and recent acquisition activities.

2.3.2. Project Logistics

The vendor will execute SME interviews to determine the prioritization of features they would like developed toward for surfacing DMSMS issues or supply chain risks.

The vendor shall conduct SME interviews with both government and range contractor supply chain analysts to determine assessment criteria that would highlight risks.

The vendor will provide training on the configured capabilities to government stakeholders to inform them on best practices for the toolkit and search criteria.

2.3.3. Data Rights for the DMSMS Toolkit

The government retains limited data rights over manually imported enriching data from authoritative government sources and any custom search parameters set to surface supply chain risk. The government does not have authority or rights over automatically ingested award data with the SaaS platform.

3. Scope

The contractor shall support the following activities:

3.1. Customization of their platform to model discrete time phased process steps, government resource utilization, and launch support provider resource utilization for all events from LSP onboarding to post mission activities at Space Launch Delta 30 and SLD 45 over the course of a government determined yearly demand manifest.

3.2. Customization of their platform to model discrete time phased process steps, government resource utilization, and government test program resource utilization for all events from government test program onboarding to post mission activities at Space Launch Delta 30 and SLD 45 over the course of a government determined yearly demand manifest.

3.3. The vendor shall make their platform API accessible to the government users and third-party contractors to provide additional fidelity for the Risk Management Applications and Capital Investment Applications.

3.4. Customization of their platform to enable government personnel, or appointed contractors. to perform analysis of supply chains, risks, and DMSMS cases.

3.5. Conduct validation activities for all modeling decisions made to reflect reality of space launch and test range operations

3.6. Conduct user training quarterly on the launch capacity model in order to ensure users are able properly explore future launch scenarios and are adept at modifying the process maps, range resources, adding in interventions, a general purpose use.

3.7. At the direction of the government, conduct foundational operations research training to bring government personnel up to speed on the theory within the model.

3.8. At the direction of the government, integrate data from authoritative sources through application program interfaces, direct export access or any other-directed method to incorporate operationally relevant data into the modeling and supply chain analysis tools.

3.9. Establish an Authority to Connect through the Space AO and Space Force contractors to connect to authoritative and third-party data systems.

4. Period of Performance (PoP):

Start Date: 15 April 2026 or actual award date.

End Date: 14 April 2027 or +365 days after award.

5. Deliverables

Deliverable Description Success Metric Reference Objective

Kick Off Meeting and Briefing

A contract kickoff meeting with PAE AATS and senior leadership

Event Occurs and core stakeholders identify action officers to be supplied with licenses

N/A – Core business function

Fully Operational SLD 30 Launch and Test Capacity Model (LTCM)

A fully operational WR Capacity model capable of modeling the current reality of

A model that exposes resource bottlenecks and utilization for annual

2.2 spaceport and test resources and future improvements and additions to improve the delta’s capacity launch manifests that are up to 400 events and no less than 100 aeronautical tests

Migrated SLD 45 LTCM into Host Platform

Movement of the current python-based model into the graphic user interface of the platform in a YAML based format similar to the current

SLD 30 WR LTCM

Successful rehosting and replication of previously generated results

2.2

Fully Operational

SLD 45 LTCM

Model

A fully operational ER Capacity model capable of modeling the current reality of spaceport and test resources and future improvements and additions to improve the delta’s capacity

A model that exposes resource bottlenecks and utilization for annual launch manifests that are up to 400 events and no less than 100 aeronautical tests

2.2

Model Validation and Acceptance Test Plan

Deliver a validation and acceptance test plan within 60 days of contract award.

Plan must specify measurable test cases, identified scenarios, and model accuracy performance goals.

3.5

Quarter User Training on SLD

30 (LTCM)

Block training events on the model for at least 4 hours of instructor led training with WR personnel

At least 75% of licensed users trained and able to run the model without the help of the vendor.

2.2

Quarter User Training on SLD

45 (LTCM)

Block training events on the model for at least 4 hours of instructor led training with ER personnel

At least 75% of licensed users trained and able to run the model without the help of the vendor.

2.2

Delivered DMSMS Toolkit

A user-friendly search tool that surfaces supply chain risks to

A capability that is able to verify with 90% confidence the

2.3 critical range assets and procurable items with the launch and test range system baseline.

existence of a supply chain risk for at least:

- 100% of procurable end items valued at over $50,000

- 95% of procurable end items between $25000 and $49,999.99

- 80% of procurable end items valued between $15,000 and $24,999.99

- 75% of procurable end items valued between $1,000 and $14,999.99

- 65% of procurable end items valued below $1,000

Quarterly user training on DMSMS Toolkit

Block training events on the tool for at least 4 hours of instructor led training with LTRS personnel

At least 75% of licensed users are trained and able to use the tool without the help of the vendor.

2.3

Modeling Documentation and User Guides

Descriptive documentation on the model itself with leave behind user guides to enable

Delivered Document that achieves the description

2.1.2 users to be successful with the model

DMSMS User Guides

Descriptive documentation on the toolkit itself with leave behind user guides to enable users to be successful with the model

Delivered Document that achieves the description

2.2.2

Model Source Code

Government Purpose Rights

The government shall receive all final models, algorithms, source code, and data generated throughout the life of the contract in a common non-proprietary format.

2.1.3

Presentations as directed

Government requested presentations for leadership, industry events, and government sharing venues.

As described within 2 business days of request

3.1

SME Interview Reports

Written documentation on items discussed with an SME and development actions taken to meet the SME’s inputs

Within 24 hours of the interview and prior to any development occurs in a format dictated by the government

2.1.1

RMF Data for Authority to Connect

Certification and Accreditation documents for the AO to approve an ATC

Within 3 months of contract start with an ATC by month 6

3.0

API Connection Documentation

Descriptive documentation on the data connected, refresh rate, metadata, and relation to capacity

As needed 3.0 modeling or DMSMS analysis

Final Report A document covering completed platform configuration, lessons learned, future opportunities for the LTCM and DMSMS Toolkit

Delivery of the document

N/A – Core contract administration and close out.

6. Meetings and Reporting

The Contractor shall conduct bi-weekly sprint/status review meetings with the Government throughout the Period of Performance. These meetings will:

- Provide updates on progress against objectives and deliverables.

- Identify risks, issues, and mitigation strategies.

- Review completed and planned work for the upcoming sprint.

- Capture Government feedback and incorporate it into subsequent development cycles.

Meeting minutes or summaries shall be provided by the Contractor within three (3) business days of each session.

7. Expected Travel

7.1. One week per month of onsite visit to VSFB

7.2. One week per month of onsite visit to PSFB

7.3. At least two visits to LAAFB/SSC and PM LTRS in Colorado Springs

7.4. Other travel as directed.