NASA USACE INDUSTRY DAY PRESENTATION 3.18.26 (1).pdf

INDUSTRY DAY

WALLOPS ISLAND SHORELINE

STABILIZATION PROJECT

Norfolk District Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday, 18 March 2026

0900 – 1100

AGENDA

Topic Moderated By

Welcome Remarks and Introduction Scope and Schedule Overview

Shadera Williams Project Manager USACE

Design Overview Nick Ingold, PE Civil Engineer USACE

Dredging Tom Luehman, PE Civil Engineer USACE

Site Location and Restrictions John Saecker, PE Project Manager Civil Engineer Wallops Flight Facility

Break

Environmental Megan Wood, PhD Environmental Scientist USACE

Contracting Tiffany Kirtsey, KO Civil Branch Chief

Question and Answer Shadera Williams

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

PROJECT OVERVIEW

SCOPE AND SCHEDULE

SHADERA WILLIAMS

PROJECT MANAGER USACE

The following presentation is preliminary information only.

All information provided is subject to change

Government is not currently soliciting proposals

Both verbal and written answers are not binding: the circumstances of the proposed acquisition may change over time

No part of Industry Day will be evaluated

Your involvement in Industry Day is strictly voluntary. No costs shall be charged to the Government

Feedback is encouraged and greatly welcomed

Slides will be posted to Sam.gov no later than 7 days after Industry Day

DISCLAIMER

Today’s Goal: to obtain insight and feedback from industry for a two future shoreline protection project at NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility.

Information gathering for anticipated construction using innovative, modern methods for construction in a highly complex workspace.

Information gathering on open-water hopper dredge with 11 miles from borrow area to nourishment location.

Expectations of dredging availability and scheduling.

Primary means and methods, challenges for construction, recommendations for risk/challenge mitigation.

The government also wishes to understand the risk, impact, and possible methods of risk mitigation in the case of two separate contracts for dredging/beach nourishment and breakwater construction.

Costs and benefit of simultaneous versus consecutive contracts, overlapping contracts, and possible coordination methods.

GOALS

NASA WALLOPS ISLAND

October 2023Post Replenishment 2021Pre Replenishment 2021

Low tide water-level at Launch pads 0-C, 0-A, and 0-B on 30 July 2024.

SCHEDULE

COMBINATION OF DREDGING/RENOURISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION

KEY ACTION SCHEDULED

Topo/Bathy Survey Draft & Report DEC 2024

Value Engineering AUG 2025

Geotechnical Exploration NOV 2025

Shoreline Modeling DEC 2025

Design Completion JUL 2026

Solicitation AUG 2026

Award (Breakwaters/Renourishment) JAN 2027 / MAR 2027

Construction Start Duration 12 to 18 months

Construction Completion JAN 2028 – JUN 2028

* DRAFT SCHEDULE

* ALL DATES ARE ESTIMATED

DESIGN

NICK INGOLD, PE

CIVIL ENGINEER USACE

CURRENT DESIGN

• Beach renourishment

• Length: ~15,000 feet

• Material: Borrow area (Shoal "A1“)

• Design Template: ~1.5 MCY

• Borrow Area (Shoal “A1”)

• ~ 11 miles offshore

• Size: ~474 acres

• Depth: 34 feet to 62 feet

• Breakwaters

• Size: 14 ft wide, 130 ft long

• Type II (armor)

• Class III (core)

• ~10,000 tons/each

~11 MILES

BEACH RENOURISHMENT & TEMPLATE

BEACH RENOURISHMENT AREA

~15,000 FT

BREAKWATER DESIGN & LAYOUT

DEPTH RANGE

-6 FT TO -13 FT

CREST ELEVATION = 6 FT

OUTSTANDING DESIGN TASKS

• Final assistance with permitting

• Finalize design and construction documents (plans, specifications)

• QC Reviews

• Support with contracting & solicitation

DREDGING

TOM LUEHMAN, PE

CIVIL ENGINEER WATER RESOURCES DIVISION USACE

DREDGING

• Hopper dredge with pump-off only, no seasonal restrictions

• Dredge Site

• Borrow area dimensions of 0.15 Miles by 2.05 miles

• Existing depths in borrow site range from -34 ft NAVD88 to -62 ft NAVD88

• Dredge to a maximum depth of 7 ft below existing bottom

• Pre/post surveys of borrow area will be required

• Anticipate sandy material

• Approximately 2.25 M CY of material available in borrow area

• Low probability for encountering MEC

PROJECT SITE

LOCATION AND RESTRICTIONS

JOHN SAECKER, PE

PROJECT MANAGER

CIVIL ENGINEER WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY

NASA Wallops Flight Facility- Shoreline Location

Assateague Island

Wallops Island Work Location

Wallops Main Base

Badging Office

Island Gate

NASA Wallops Flight Facility

- Secure facility, badged access only

- Vehicular Access via the Wallops Island Causeway

- Active Launch Range- Launch Cadence Increase

- 34 launches projected 2026 (2027 TBD)

- 5 orbital, 29 sub-orbital

- Pre-Launch restrictions

- Day of Launch restrictions

- NASA will provide required laydown and office area space, along with a fueling location, using prior approved locations on the island.

- New access points to the beach at the seawall will be considered.

- 2012 Dredge Project- Great Lakes 3.3M CY

- 2014 Dredge Project- Weeks Marine 650K CY

- 2020 Breakwater/Backpassing Project- CHC 1.1M CY of sand backpassed and 5 breakwaters installed.

Single Access Road to Island Badged Access

Renourishment Area and Potential Breakwater Set(s)

Launch Pads

Launch Pad

Sample Pre-Launch Hazard Area (PLDA) and Launch Hazard Area (LHA)- Pad 2

PLDA- Varies per rocket/payload. Area shown in sample is at Pad 2, a highly used launch area for sub-orbital launches.

PLDA’s can include a rocket simply sitting on the rail. For breakwater construction access in this area, NASA will provide the most likely PLDA area that will be encountered and advise that construction and use of any constructed breakwater access be located just outside of the area.

LHA- In effect hours prior to launch. No personnel allowed in the LHA.

Some LHA’s close the entire island.

NASA will communicate PLDA’s and LHA’s on a weekly basis at construction meetings and a daily basis as an operation gets close.

Past Dredging Sample Communication Plan- Rockon Launch

Un-named Shoal A Dredge Locations

Dodge/Padre Island Crew

Liberty Island Crew

Marine Constraints Impact Dredge and Placement Ops Majority of Launches will Impact

BEACH PLACEMENT CREW- Relocation During Launch

T-2 hours and 30 min (3:30 AM) NASA will ask for the (Beach personnel only) to clear the area.

NASA has given the beach personnel 15 min to clear this area and get to their designated site outside the LHA and confirm they are all there and accounted for. Beach personnel will remain at that designated site, outside the hazard area until after the rocket is launched and the NASA Range Operations Assistant (ROA) has provided an ALL clear to resume activities.

Based on recent 2020/2021 shoreline project, high likelihood on-beach mobile equipment must also be moved outside LHA on the beach, working specifics with Range Safety.

DREDGE OPERATION- Relocation During Launch

T-2 hours (4:00 am) NASA will ask the Beach rep. BOAT assets to clear the area.

Boats will have one hour to clear the hazard area and to confirm their new location outside this hazard area. The boats will remain outside the hazard area until after the rocket is launched and the NASA ROA has provided an ALL clear to resume activities. The ROA can be reached at (757) 824.2224.

10 MINUTE BREAK

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

MEGAN WOOD, PHD

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST USACE

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS FROM PREVIOUS CONTRACTS

• Wallops Beach

• Typically time-of-year restrictions for protected birds and sea turtles

• March 15 – August 31 (or last chicks have fledged) for red knots, piping plovers, and oystercatchers

• May 1 – August 31 (or last nest has hatched) for loggerhead sea turtles

• NASA staff conducts beach surveys during TOYR

• Sprigging of American beach grass on created dune

• Dredge/borrow site

• Turtle excluder devices (TEDs) on both dragheads, inspection prior to start of dredging

• 24-hour/100% coverage bridge watch for endangered species and marine mammals

• Inspection of both dragheads after every load for impinged turtles/other endangered species

NASA ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS REFERENCES

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/sripp-final-peis-volume-ii.pdf?emrc=674f6afc265e7.

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GROUND NEST LOCATIONS 2020-2024

CONTRACTING

TIFFANY N. KIRTSEY,

CIVIL BRANCH CHIEF – CONTRACTING OFFICER

NASA WALLOPS BREAKWATER AND BEACH RENOURISHMENT:

PROCUREMENT SNAPSHOT

NASA Breakwater Project

- Sources Sought issued 5 March 2026 and closes at 5:00 PM on 20 March 2026.

- Magnitude $10M - $25M

- Contract scheduled to be advertised in 4th Quarter of FY26

NASA Beach Renourishment

- Sources sought issued 12 March 2026 and closes at 2:00 PM 25 March 2026.

- Magnitude $25M - $100M

- Contract scheduled to be advertised in 4th Quarter of FY26

SAM: https://sam.gov/ https://sam.gov/

NORFOLK DISTRICT SMALL BUSINESS

Ms. Stormie Wicks Deputy for Small Business Programs Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 803 Front Street Norfolk, VA 23510-1096

Phone: (757) 675-4428 stormie.b.wicks@usace.army.mil

QUESTIONS

• Are the marine mattresses usually assembled on site or are they imported from offsite? If they are assembled on site typically how large of an area is required to assemble them?

• What means and methods would the Contractor propose to construct the breakwater structures within the area offshore of the seawall since there is limited beach available?

• If construction equipment is mobilized within NASA’s flight zone, what advance notice would be required to demobilize the equipment from the flight zone prior to a launch date? How long does it generally take to mobilize and demobilize the equipment from a construction area to a staging area outside of the flight zone?

• With the limited availability of hopper dredges, what would be a period of performance that would encourage bidding?

• How could scheduling be accomplished with the known site limitations/restrictions?

• Is there industry interest in one contract or two separate contracts?

• Does the Contractor have had experience with constructing access roadways to breakwaters that are 200 feet offshore during construction? What measures and methods would they consider constructing and using?

• What time of the year would the contractors typically consider dredging for the project?

• When breakwaters are constructed, are they usually constructed around the clock until the structure is complete if the structure is in an active tidal environment? How long does it typically take to construct one breakwater structure (depending on size)?