Statement of Work for the Development of Training for the NASA Addendum
to the Industry Soldering Requirements

# **Background**

> NASA Workmanship standards are vitally important for the safety of
> NASA personnel and the mission assurance of flight hardware and
> mission critical ground support equipment. The development of training
> to standards is essential to provide NASA civil servants and
> contractors the necessary training to fabricate hardware with the
> highest quality and reliability. NASA is transitioning to the use of
> the industry soldering standard (J-STD-001C) as augmented by NASA
> requirements to reduce the probability of failure when hardware is
> exposed to the NASA flight environment.

# **SCOPE**

> This Statement of Work (SOW) defines the requirements for the
> development of workmanship training for NASA/MSFC for the NASA
> addendum to the industry soldering standard (J-STD-001C) and to
> assemble the technical data necessary to support the appropriate NASA
> requirements for high reliability soldering for hardware built to
> function in NASA flight environments.

## Development of Training Modules

The contractor shall develop training modules for the following:

a.  A module to address the requirements in the NASA addendum to
    J-STD-001C and any additional requirements the contractor identifies
    and NASA/MSFC agrees are necessary (this module shall include the
    "why" and "application" of unique NASA requirements and include a
    graphical/computer generated representation of the solder joint
    features specific to NASA requirements (similar to IPC-A-610C
    presentation)).

b.  An overview module to address the basics of solder, flux, and
    general metallurgical principles associated with high reliability
    soldering technology.

The training modules shall be delivered in electronic presentation
format via the NASA Workmanship Intranet site for use by NASA,
contractors, and training organizations.

2.  Development of NASA Workmanship Intranet site.

The contractor shall support the NASA Workmanship intranet site by
posting data to the site and reviewing all available data for acceptance
as credible data considering NASA's flight environment.

# **Contractor tasks**

## The contractor shall develop and deliver all training modules in presentation format to the NASA Workmanship intranet site for public distribution in accordance with paragraph 2.1.

## The contractor shall have the technical capability and be responsible for research of existing technical data from Government and industry sources including existing data on the NASA Workmanship intranet site. J-STD-001C, class 3, or NASA Addendum requirements that cannot be justified by existing data shall be formally identified to NASA/MSFC for future testing. Data validity should be based on multivariable testing in environments that envelope the typical NASA aerospace environmental parameters as defined by NASA/MSFC (when testing is environmental in nature). The contractor shall deliver a requirements matrix derived from J-STD-001C and NASA Addendum requirements that references technical reports that support each requirement in the aforementioned documents. Publicly available data or government owned data shall be posted electronically to the NASA Workmanship site. Other data may be posted if the contractor obtains written approval from the data owner for NASA to post the data to the NASA Workmanship intranet. 

## The contractor shall support revision of the NASA Addendum to J-STD-001C by adding additional requirements as data review warrants.

## All tasks shall be complete within one year of authority to proceed (ATP).

# Delivery Schedule/Milestone Payments

1.  Schedule (per paragraph 3.4) and a detailed project plan shall be
    delivered within 10 business days of ATP.

2.  Requirements matrix (per paragraph 3.2) shall be delivered no later
    than 6 months after ATP.

3.  Training modules (per paragraph 2.1) shall be delivered no later
    than 12 months after ATP.