Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: ADNET SYSTEMS INC
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2017-10-01 to 2022-09-30
Current total value of award: $271915130
Description: EO14042 SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCES DATA ANALYSIS (SESDA) THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE A BROAD RANGE OF SERVICES TO SUPPORT PRIMARILY SCIENCES AND EXPLORATION DIRECTORATE (SED, CODE 600) EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, DATA OPERATIONS, AS WELL AS ACTIVITIES IN INFORMATION SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES, ENGINEERING, AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH, THAT ENABLE CODE 600 TO SUCCESSFULLY CARRY OUT ITS SCIENCE MISSIONS AT THE GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (GSFC).  SED SCIENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AND FUNDING ARE CLOSELY ALIGNED TO NASA'S SCIENCE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS. SCIENCE DATA SYSTEMS IN THE SED EXIST TO ENABLE THE PRODUCTION OF SCIENCE RESULTS. SED SCIENCE DATA OPERATIONS ARE DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY SCIENCE DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC NEEDS AND DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC APPROACHES TO HOW DATA ARE MOST EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY MADE AVAILABLE AND USEFUL TO DISCIPLINE RESEARCH COMMUNITIES.  THE SERVICES REQUIRED UNDER THIS CONTRACT SUPPORT ALL THE SCIENCE DISCIPLINES WITHIN CODE 600, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE STUDY OF THE EARTH, THE SUN, OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE UNIVERSE. RESEARCH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDES SCIENTIFIC DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, MODELING AND SIMULATION OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF FLIGHT PROJECT INSTRUMENT AND DATA SYSTEMS, FIELD EXPERIMENTS, DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE DATA MANAGEMENT, ARCHIVAL AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, AND PROGRAMMING AND INCLUDES ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, NETWORK ENGINEERING, AND EDUCATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH.  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL SUPPORT BOTH ONGOING AND NEW PROJECTS AS REQUIRED IN ALL THESE AREAS.  WORK DEFINED UNDER THIS CONTRACT IS PRIMARILY FUNDED BY THE SED (CODE 600) ALTHOUGH OTHER DIRECTORATES SUCH AS THE FLIGHT PROJECTS DIRECTORATE (CODE 400), THE APPLIED ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE (CODE 500), AND THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTORATE (CODE 700) CAN UTILIZE THIS CONTRACT WHEN APPROPRIATE. THESE DIRECTORATES HAVE PIVOTAL ROLES IN NASA'S MISSION TO PIONEER THE FUTURE IN SPACE EXPLORATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, AND AERONAUTICS RESEARCH. GSFC ALSO HAS OTHER AREAS OF STRATEGIC RESPONSIBILITY THAT SUPPORT NASAS PROGRAMS AND NEW FOCUS AREAS ARE OCCASIONALLY DEFINED BY NASA HEADQUARTERS. MOST OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED WILL BE IN DIRECT SUPPORT TO THE SCIENCE, FLIGHT PROGRAMS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONAL ENTITIES AT GSFC.  THE TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS CONTRACT ARE DEFINED BELOW BY CATEGORY WITH EXPANDED DEFINITIONS.