SPACE TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED RESEARCH-FAST-TRACKING INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE (STAR-FISH) ARA - CALL 013: Topic Area 3. Anomaly Detection, Attribution & Protection, Oracle-Prime
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- FA9453-21-S-0001-CALL-013
- Agency
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Air Force Research Laboratory
Air Force Materiel Command, Department of Defense
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Place of performance
- Kirtland AFB, New Mexico 87117, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
Paragraph 1:
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (AFRL) is seeking proposals for the Space Technology Advanced Research-Fast-tracking Innovative Software and Hardware (STAR-FISH) Call 013 Topic Area 3, focused on "Anomaly Detection, Attribution & Protection, Oracle-Prime". The goal is to provide enhanced Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in the cislunar domain (between Earth and Moon) to support lunar missions, search and rescue, and asteroid tracking. Offerors must submit white papers addressing the problem, relevance to AFRL needs, scientific viability, project plan, and expected value/cost. The white papers are limited to 6 pages total and are due by September 12, 2024. Questions on the opportunity must be submitted by August 21, 2024.
Paragraph 2:
This solicitation has no set-aside designation. It is a new federal requirement, not an incumbent contract. The budget details are not provided, but the goal is to augment the existing United States Space Force (USSF) SSA network with the Oracle-Prime spacecraft operating at the Earth-Moon L1 Lagrange point to track objects in cislunar space. The place of performance is Albuquerque, NM.
Notice text
4 versions
Update #4 · Latest ·
Amendment 2: The Government has attached the timely Questions and Answers for this opportunity.
Amendment 1: The Government has revised the original SOO and replaced it in this call. All previous versions are obsolete and should be disregarded.
Technical Description
Oracle-Prime
The amount of traffic to the Moon and lunar surface is expected to increase significantly over the next decade. In the same way that the Department of Defense (DoD) monitors activity in space out to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) in support of the interests and assets of the United States and its allies, Oracle-Prime will provide Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in this increasingly important cislunar domain to support freedom of navigation, international Lunar missions, and search and rescue of lost satellites and astronauts. Oracle-Prime will augment the existing United States Space Force (USSF) SSA network with vital additional data, assist National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its mission to land astronauts safely on the Moon, and identify and track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids.
Oracle-Prime will serve as the first SSA sensor of its kind operating in cislunar space, providing high- quality data collected by optical telescopes from a never-before-attempted perspective. The Oracle-Prime spacecraft will operate about L1 in the Earth-Moon system to test space traffic monitoring techniques for objects transiting through or operating within cislunar space. Oracle-Prime will demonstrate capabilities for multiple SSA scenarios, including the discovery of previously unknown (untracked) cislunar objects and continuous tracking of known objects operating in the domain from Moon and beyond, referred to as XGEO.
Attachments are restricted as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), access must be requested.
Questions shall be submitted to the outlined Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist no later than close of business 21 August 2024. Questions submitted via email shall include "STARFISH Call 013" in the subject line. Questions submitted after will not be answered.
Update #3 ·
Amendment 1: The Government has revised the original SOO and replaced it in this call. All previous versions are obsolete and should be disregarded.
Technical Description
Oracle-Prime
The amount of traffic to the Moon and lunar surface is expected to increase significantly over the next decade. In the same way that the Department of Defense (DoD) monitors activity in space out to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) in support of the interests and assets of the United States and its allies, Oracle-Prime will provide Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in this increasingly important cislunar domain to support freedom of navigation, international Lunar missions, and search and rescue of lost satellites and astronauts. Oracle-Prime will augment the existing United States Space Force (USSF) SSA network with vital additional data, assist National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its mission to land astronauts safely on the Moon, and identify and track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids.
Oracle-Prime will serve as the first SSA sensor of its kind operating in cislunar space, providing high- quality data collected by optical telescopes from a never-before-attempted perspective. The Oracle-Prime spacecraft will operate about L1 in the Earth-Moon system to test space traffic monitoring techniques for objects transiting through or operating within cislunar space. Oracle-Prime will demonstrate capabilities for multiple SSA scenarios, including the discovery of previously unknown (untracked) cislunar objects and continuous tracking of known objects operating in the domain from Moon and beyond, referred to as XGEO.
Attachments are restricted as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), access must be requested.
Questions shall be submitted to the outlined Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist no later than close of business 21 August 2024. Questions submitted via email shall include "STARFISH Call 013" in the subject line. Questions submitted after will not be answered.
Update #2 ·
Technical Description
Oracle-Prime
The amount of traffic to the Moon and lunar surface is expected to increase significantly over the next decade. In the same way that the Department of Defense (DoD) monitors activity in space out to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) in support of the interests and assets of the United States and its allies, Oracle-Prime will provide Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in this increasingly important cislunar domain to support freedom of navigation, international Lunar missions, and search and rescue of lost satellites and astronauts. Oracle-Prime will augment the existing United States Space Force (USSF) SSA network with vital additional data, assist National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its mission to land astronauts safely on the Moon, and identify and track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids.
Oracle-Prime will serve as the first SSA sensor of its kind operating in cislunar space, providing high- quality data collected by optical telescopes from a never-before-attempted perspective. The Oracle-Prime spacecraft will operate about L1 in the Earth-Moon system to test space traffic monitoring techniques for objects transiting through or operating within cislunar space. Oracle-Prime will demonstrate capabilities for multiple SSA scenarios, including the discovery of previously unknown (untracked) cislunar objects and continuous tracking of known objects operating in the domain from Moon and beyond, referred to as XGEO.
Attachments are restricted as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), access must be requested.
Questions shall be submitted to the outlined Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist no later than close of business 21 August 2024. Questions submitted via email shall include "STARFISH Call 013" in the subject line. Questions submitted after will not be answered.
Update #1 ·
Technical Description
Oracle-Prime
The amount of traffic to the Moon and lunar surface is expected to increase significantly over the next decade. In the same way that the Department of Defense (DoD) monitors activity in space out to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) in support of the interests and assets of the United States and its allies, Oracle-Prime will provide Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in this increasingly important cislunar domain to support freedom of navigation, international Lunar missions, and search and rescue of lost satellites and astronauts. Oracle-Prime will augment the existing United States Space Force (USSF) SSA network with vital additional data, assist National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its mission to land astronauts safely on the Moon, and identify and track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids.
Oracle-Prime will serve as the first SSA sensor of its kind operating in cislunar space, providing high- quality data collected by optical telescopes from a never-before-attempted perspective. The Oracle-Prime spacecraft will operate about L1 in the Earth-Moon system to test space traffic monitoring techniques for objects transiting through or operating within cislunar space. Oracle-Prime will demonstrate capabilities for multiple SSA scenarios, including the discovery of previously unknown (untracked) cislunar objects and continuous tracking of known objects operating in the domain from Moon and beyond, referred to as XGEO.
Attachments are restricted as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), access must be requested.
Questions shall be submitted to the outlined Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist no later than close of business 21 August 2024. Questions submitted via email shall include "STARFISH Call 013" in the subject line. Questions submitted after will not be answered.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Call 013 Q_A.xlsx | XLSX spreadsheet | |
| Att 3 STAR-FISH White Paper Template.docx | DOCX document |
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