Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: CORNELL TECHNICAL SERVICES LLC
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: 2015-10-30 to 2017-08-31
Current total value of award: $129351
Description: SURFACE WATER AND OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY (SWOT) STANDING REVIEW BOARDS (SRB) -SWOT IS A NASA/INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS SCIENCE MISSION DESIGNED TO PROVIDE OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENTS FOR DETERMINING OCEAN CIRCULATION, SEA-LEVEL RISE AND CLIMATE CHANGE.  IT IS DESIGNATED AS A CATEGORY 2 SPACE-FLIGHT PROJECT.  INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS INCLUDE CENTRE NATIONAL D ETUDES SPATIALES (CNES) AND CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY (CSA).  WITHIN NASA, SWOT IS A MISSION WITHIN THE EARTH SCIENCE DIVISION (ESD) OF THE SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE (SMD) OF NASA. THE FLIGHT MISSION IS BEING HOSTED AT JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL). A STANDING REVIEW BOARD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INDEPENDENTLY ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF THE FLIGHT PROJECT/MISSION.  INDEPENDENT REVIEWS OF THE PROJECT ARE CONDUCTED AT DEFINED LIFECYCLE MILESTONES AND ARE USED TO OBJECTIVELY ASSESS THE PROJECTS PROGRESS AGAINST THE PROJECT PLAN, ITS READINESS TO PROCEED TO THE NEXT LIFECYCLE PHASE, COMPLIANCE WITH NPR 7120.5E, NASA SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK REQUIREMENTS, NPR 7123.1, NASA SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESSES AND REQUIREMENTS, NASA SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK REQUIREMENTS, JET PROPULSION LABORATORY INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT REVIEW PLAN (JPL RULES) DOC ID 75512 REV.5), AND THE SRB HANDBOOK.  3.3 THE PURPOSE OF THIS TASK IS TO OBTAIN SRB SUPPORT IN CONDUCTING SWOT LIFE-CYCLE REVIEWS (LCR), PREPARE REVIEW DOCUMENTS&PRESENTATIONS, ATTEND SUBSYSTEM REVIEWS AS AN SRB OBSERVER, AND COMPLETE ALL REQUESTED MANAGEMENT OUT-BRIEFS