Task 23-7 OSAM-1 Project Management.pdf

Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services II

(OMES-II)

Task Order Statement of Work (SOW) Date: March 24, 2021 Task Name: OSAM-1 Project Management Task No. 23/ Mod: 7 Task Monitor (TM): Redacted Contract number: NNG17CR69C Contract SOW Reference: Function 1 Technology Development Services: section L Robotic Technology Services and section M Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Services

I. Scope

a. Background The OSAM-1 Mission provides robotic on-orbit servicing capability to operational satellites located in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The primary objective of the mission is to rendezvous, autonomously grapple and tele-robotically transfer propellant to a client satellite to extend its operational life.

The OSAM-1 Mission will launch in the January 2025 timeframe to provide client satellite refueling and life extension services. The OSAM-1 Mission consists of OSAM-1 Servicing Vehicle (RSV), Launch Vehicle (LV), and Ground elements. The OSAM-1 Servicing Vehicle (RSV) is the servicing spacecraft. It will rendezvous with and capture a client satellite with a propellant load, perform the required contracted services using robotic arms and tools, and then depart to a phasing orbit to await the next client or disposal.

The OSAM-1 Servicing Vehicle (RSV) consists of a Servicing Payload and Spacecraft Bus. The Servicing Payload includes a Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) Subsystem, Vision Sensor Subsystem, Robot Subsystem, Propellant Transfer Subsystem (PTS), and other supporting subsystems. Supporting Spacecraft Bus subsystems include Communications, Electrical Power, Thermal, and attitude control subsystems.

The Launch Vehicle (LV) Element is the Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) and corresponding support services. Also contained in this element are the integration and processing facilities and support functions, including all RSV specific Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and associated local ground control systems required.

This Statement of Work (SOW) specifies work to be done and services to be provided in support of the OSAM-1 Mission for all elements other than the Payload, Ground Segment, and Mission Operations. This task provides program management, engineering, and Safety and Mission

Assurance support to all levels of OSAM-1 Mission system and subsystem development, and operations. It is organized to match the OSAM-1 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Elements.

FY20 and FY21 work covered under this task will continue to focus on development of the OSAM-1 Servicing Payload architecture, requirements, interfaces, and associated technologies and transition to the development of flight systems as well as performing Spacecraft Bus Support. The contractor is also requested to support the effort known as Dragonfly as an accommodation effort which is to include personnel, and processes necessary to integrate Dragonfly and OSAM-1.

b. Summary of work The paragraphs below document anticipated OSAM-1 efforts and schedule in FY20 and FY21.

As described in the Deliverable Items and Schedule section below, details of this work are subject to change at the discretion of the Task Monitor.

The Contractor shall provide appropriate manpower to support the OSAM-1 project as described below:

Project Management Support Project management support shall include tasks associated with the overall management of the OSAM-1 project. This includes the development of schedules, monitoring progress of activities, collecting reports from subsystems, preparing reports for Program, Center and HQ management, planning, preparation for and performing reviews for both internal and external review panels.

Development of project documentation and other products as needed to prepare for programmatic, technical and other reviews. Support efforts to plan, preparation for and perform design, integration, testing and operations of flight space and ground system hardware and software systems. The contractor shall provide support to any Earned Value Management (EVM) implementation done on the project.

Systems Engineering and Documentation Support

OSAM-1 is a Class C mission in Development phases (Phase C/D) for the duration of task order.

This task includes system engineering and development of documentation for OSAM-1 as defined in NPR 7120.5 and NPR 7123.1, with tailoring as defined in the OSAM-1 Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP).

System engineering support includes but is not limited to structural, mechanical, electrical, thermal, data systems, environments, reliability, risk tracking, system architecture definition, contamination etc.

Required documentation includes but is not limited to: 1) mission requirements at all levels; 2) mission concept of operations; 3) sub-system specifications; 4) technology development plans; 5) technology development test reports; 6) interface control documents; 7) integration and test procedures and reports; 8) validation and verification and plans and reports; 9) analysis, drawings and models; 9) risk management plans and assessments; etc.

Hardware and Software Design, Analysis, Fabrication, and Test FY20-FY21 efforts will include the design, analysis, fabrication, integration, and test of OSAM- 1 for all elements contained in this SOW.

c. Required skills/knowledge – The contractor shall provide the personnel and facilities necessary to continue OSAM-1’s advancement of the state of robotic servicing technology with the goal to enable on-orbit servicing of satellites that were not designed with servicing in mind as well as satellites launched with those capabilities. In order to achieve this objective, the following skills are essential:

- Experience in contamination engineering of space flight hardware

- Experience in developing project plans, schedules, and processes for integrating and testing spaceflight hardware on the ground in facilities and set-ups intended to test on-orbit performance

- Experience in managing a team of specialized engineer, scientists and innovators in solving on-orbit performance issues of satellites

- Working knowledge of orbital rendezvous, autonomous operation, and robotic servicing concept of operations, timelines, driving requirements, verification and validation activities, and current state of the art capabilities

- In-depth knowledge of previous and ongoing rendezvous and proximity operations missions. Working knowledge of GEONs and its application to the LEO environment and to relative navigation

- Working knowledge of state of the art relative navigation sensors, including, visible and infrared cameras, flash and scanning LIDARs, GPSRs and integrated inertial measurement sensors

- Expertise in feature tracking and pose determination algorithms as applied to non-cooperative vehicles. Detailed understanding of optimization and acceleration methods to instantiate algorithms on flight processors and FPGAs

- Working knowledge of on-orbit propellant storage and transfer systems. Understanding of hardware limitations, constraints, and restrictions. Detailed knowledge of high precision flow meter and pressure transducer design and operation. Detailed knowledge of flexible hose and hose deployment mechanisms and their limitations in the orbital environment

- Knowledge of mechanical systems, structural design, integration and test best practices.

Has a working knowledge of Extravehicular robotic structural designs, as applied to removing and manipulating spacecraft structure to affect servicing. Detailed experience with miniaturized (0.5-inch or less) brushless direct current stepper motors

- Knowledge of satellite berthing and restraint systems including system design, operation, and fault tolerance and fault detection isolation and recovery techniques to prevent servicing client vehicle damage

- Working knowledge of passive (un-powered) stowage mechanisms for capturing, servicing, and refueling tools. Necessary experience in designing light-weight, highly-compact, and multifunctional mechanisms

- Experience in design of real-time, multi-device computing systems targeting field programmable gate arrays and softcore processors. Extensive experience in applying parallel processing techniques to the field of image processing algorithms in order to affect real-time automotive operations.

- Working experience with ASIST command and telemetry systems including database development and scripting.

- Working knowledge of flight avionic design, fabrication, assembly, and test of flight avionic systems. Experience working with radiation tolerant EEE part selection and radiation mitigation techniques at the part, board, and functional levels. Experience with back-to-back FPGA design and routing techniques. Experience with designing buck converter for applications to digital motor controllers.

- Working knowledge of optical sensors including optical and detector designs.

Experience working with 4 MPixel-class color detectors. Experience with demo-spacing, binning, sub-sampling techniques. Experience designing miniaturized pan-tilt mechanisms.

- Experience designing satellite thermal control systems including experience with high-power dissipation techniques for avionics and robot motors.

- Experience developing the concepts of operations, design, fabrication, assembly, and test of tools to interface and service Landsat 7, including but not limited to, MLI blanket cutting, restraint, and closeout; fill/drain removal, cap stowage, and actuation;

and propellant transfer.

- Understanding of electro-mechanical best practices, specifically as required by GEVS and applicable GOLD Rules. Familiarity with QA and inspection requirements and understanding of the processes associated with mechanical and EEE parts.

- In order to continue development of a world class robotic simulation capability and to bring the flight robotic subsystem online, software engineering candidates should have hands on experience with dexterous robotics software development in C++ including knowledge of object oriented programming in C++. A working understanding of the Agile software development lifecycle and experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle including gathering requirements, design, implementation, testing, debugging, and deployment to the end user is a must. Experience with Open Robot Control Software (Orocos) and Robot Operating System (ROS) is strongly desired. The candidates must also have experience working with embedded systems and real time operating systems.

- Robot Subsystem I&T is comprised of component, assembly and system integration of a robot arm, avionics and software. In order to meet the aggressive flight schedule, candidates are required to have experience with GSFC environmental test facilities including vibration testing, TVAC and EMI. Additionally, knowledge of robot subsystem and GEVS requirements, specifically verification and validation approaches at the component, assembly and subsystem levels is required. Proficiency in writing and releasing WOAs, Procedures and Test Plans through NGIN and Windchill systems is also expected. Understanding of flight hardware handling requirements including safety, QA and ESD controls is necessary for all EDU and Flight integration and test efforts.

- Candidates are needed to serve as robotic controllers for evaluations. Experience controlling industrial, flight like, and flight parallel and, 6 and 7 degree of freedom serial robotic platforms is a must. These evaluations include determining the envelope of sensor performance; tele-operation and autonomous operations for tool engineering

IV. Deliverables/Schedules/Milestones

(See Contract sections B.1 and C.3)

Deliverables for these tasks shall include reports and presentations describing system trade studies, design, participation in component, subsystem, and system-level reviews, ground tests, etc., and algorithm mathematical specifications, analysis and test results, and ground system software deliveries and delivery documentation as defined by the Task Monitor. Deliverables include the above items at the discretion of the Task Monitor, all of which will be produced by a multi-disciplinary team from multiple contracting sources, and thus not a direct deliverable from this Task.

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. Some manpower positions shall be filled with individuals possessing appropriate security clearance.

b. Configuration Management Systems and documents will be covered under the Servicing Capabilities Office Configuration Management Plan.

c. Facilities Appropriate Information Technology devices to support the analyses, specification development, and report development are required. It shall be the contractor’s responsibility to provide and set up local workstations 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

23.001.110 RSV I&T

23.001.112 OSAM-1 Contamination & Coatings

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.

e. Performance Metrics The TM will evaluate the work performed for this task based on technical merit. The TM will utilize detailed performance metrics that reflect the contractor’s performance in meeting research analysis, specific mission requirements, deliverables and delivery schedule, and the contractor’s cost. The TM's technical evaluation of the task performance will be a subjective combination of performance metrics, technical quality of deliverables, cost control, significant events, innovations and meeting requirements set forth in the SOW.

f. Government Furnished Facilities, Equipment, Software and Other Resources

The Government will provide account and passwords to government-furnished workstations 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.

g. Quality Assurance Requirements The contractor shall comply with the OSAM-1 RL-SMA-REQ-0006, titled “Restore-L Mission Assurance Requirements”, Revision A W/Waiver, dated January 2020.

V. ODC (Travel and Procurement) (See I.1 1852.216-80 TASK ORDERING PROCEDURE d (6), please provide a BOE for all proposed ODC’s to determine the reasonableness)

Local and non-local travel is required for this task. Travel requirements will include, but are not limited to, Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center, West Virginia Robotics Lab, and OSAM-1 partner and vender site visits.

VI. Work Location This work shall be performed primarily on-site at the Goddard Space Flight Center, but the contractor may be required to perform some work at the contractor’s facility, at the Naval Research Laboratory, and at several other NASA and contractor test facilities.

VII. Reporting Requirements

a. Monthly Progress Reports The contractor shall report status in person or via teleconference to the TM or designated alternates on a monthly basis. Reports shall include informal presentation of interim results, status of development activities, and action item status. The contractor shall provide all reports at least one day in advance of the monthly meeting via email, and maintain an email distribution list with the concurrence of the TM. The contractor shall also support the TM in the preparation of status reviews for internal and external funding agencies. The contractor shall comply with any and all additional requests for status meetings and reports. The contractor shall deliver all documents in portable document format (PDF) electronic form to the TM, or as directed by the TM.

b. Monthly Financial Reports The contractor shall provide no later than the 10th working day following the close of the contractor’s monthly accounting period a 533M or supplemental report for each individual subtask and a summary 533M at the total task level. If it is not possible to provide the individual 533M at the subtask level, the contractor shall provide on the 10th working day following the close of the contractor’s monthly accounting period a break out of hours and costs by subtasks to the Contract Resource Analyst, Contracting Officer, and the Task Monitor. The report shall include current period hours and costs, cumulative to date hours and costs, and cumulative costs with a one-month cost plan. When needed, the contractor shall make adjustments to the distribution of costs, layout of the report and change reportable elements as specified by the Task Monitor and/or the Contract Resource Analyst.

Supplemental Financial Data Report

The excel-based monthly report spreadsheet shall include those items and elements currently delivered to the TM. When needed, the contractor shall make adjustments to the distribution of costs, layout of the report and change reportable elements as specified by the Task Monitor and/or the Contract Resource Analyst. Excel-based Supplemental reporting using 533 data may be requested as needed

VIII. Security Requirements

This task shall comply with IT security requirements as documented in the Servicing Study IT security plan for all systems. Some positions may require security clearances at a Top Secret level or higher.

IX. Mission Assurance and Safety The contractor shall develop and maintain a documented Quality Assurance (QA) program in compliance with document number RL-SMA-REQ-0006, titled “Restore-L Mission Assurance Requirements”, Revision A W/Waiver, dated January 2020. The program shall provide for quality and reliability engineering, system safety, and materials control for all fabrication, integration, and verification testing of all systems, sub-systems, and components of OSAM-1 hardware.

The program and the related documentation shall be at a sufficient level of maturity to comply with the requirements of all NASA pass all major project life cycle reviews.

X. Data Rights

This SOW shall adhere to the Data Rights clause, as stated in this contract

XI. Applicable Documents In the performance of this task, the contractor shall comply with the following documents:

1. NPR 7123.1B NASA Systems Engineering Processes and Requirements

2. OSAM-1 Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)

3. OSAM-1 Mission Assurance Requirements (MAR)

4. OSAM-1 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and WBS Dictionary,

5. OSAM-1 Mission Level 2 Requirements, document number OSAM-1-RQMT-

001477 dated April 18, 2016

6. OSAM-1 Configuration Management Plan

7. OSAM-1 Risk Management Plan

8. OSAM-1 IT Security Plan

9. NPR 7150.2A NASA Software Engineering Requirements

10. GPR 7150 Goddard Software Engineering Requirements

XII. References NPR 7120.8 NASA Research and Technology Development Program and Project Management Requirements