Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2022)
Recipient: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
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: 2016-09-15 to 2018-01-31
Current total value of award: $685349.6
Description: SPECIALIZED ENGINEERING, EVALUATION AND TEST SERVICES (SEETS II) CONTRACT.  TASK ORDER NUMBER SEVENTY-FIVE (75).  TASK ORDER TITLE:  AEROSPACE SUPPORT TO GOES-R GROUND FOR NAVY RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) SUPPORT.  THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION WILL PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) ENVIRONMENT OF SELECTED UNITED STATES (U.S) NAVAL SITES IDENTIFIED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) TRANSITION PLAN FROM BOTH A POTENTIAL FOR RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI) PERSPECTIVE AND FROM AN OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO EXAMINE POSSIBILITIES FOR REDUCING OR MITIGATING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI).  THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION WILL PERFORM AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SELECTED SITES AND THE ASSOCIATED ANTENNAS AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO THE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FROM THE REALLOCATION OF THE 1695-1710 MEGAHERTZ BAND AND SHARING WITH THE LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) WIRELESS CARRIERS.  THE STUDY SHALL ADDRESS POTENTIAL METHODS FOR MITIGATING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI) AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, HARDWARE AND/OR SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS.  ADDITIONALLY, THE STUDY SHALL EVALUATE THE PROPOSED METHOD FOR MONITORING AS BEING DEVELOPED BY THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA) FOR UNWANTED RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE, AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO ITS UTILITY FOR THE UNITED STATES (U.S.) NAVY AND MARINE CORPS SITES AS WELL AS PROVIDING A ROUGH ORDER OF MAGNITUDE COST FOR SAID SYSTEM BY SITE IF REQUESTED.  THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION WILL PERFORM A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF ALL ASPECTS THAT EFFECT THE SUCCESSFUL CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE DOWNLINKS IN 1695-1710 MEGAHERTZ BAND AS A RESULT OF SPECTRUM SHARING WITH WIRELESS CARRIERS AND RECOMMEND ACTION TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI) MITIGATION AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A MONITORING CAPABILITY THAT WILL AUGMENT THE AWS-3 AUCTION COORDINATION GUIDELINES.  THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION WILL COMPILE ALL INFORMATION INTO A FINAL REPORT FOR THE UNITED STATES (U.S.) NAVY PROGRAM MANAGER RESPONSIBLE FOR ADDRESSING ISSUES WITH THE AWS-3 SPECTRUM SHARING SCENARIOS, AND DELIVERED AS AN AEROSPACE TECHNICAL OPERATIONS REPORT (TOR).