Federal award (DELIVERY ORDER, fiscal year 2023)
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: 2013-07-26 to 2019-09-30
Current total value of award: $2522266.32
Description: FUNDS FOR JPSS-GROUND DATA PRODUCTS ENGINEER SUPPORT. ACQUISITION OF SPECIALIZED ENGINEERING, EVALUATION AND TEST SERVICES FOR THE NASA JPSS DATA PRODUCTS GROUPS RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION OF JPSS CGS OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS UNDER DPA AND DPE. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE ENGINEERING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE AND PROJECT MONITORING COMMUNICATION AND COORDINATION BOTH WITHIN THE JPSS PROJECT AND WITH EXTERNAL PROVIDERS TO ASSURE CORRECT PRODUCTION OF JPSS GROUND INTERFACE DATA PROCESSING SEGMENT (IDPS) AND FIELD TERMINAL SEGMENT (FTS) OPERATIONAL DATA PRODUCTS IN SUPPORT OF THE DATA PRODUCTS ENGINEERING (DPE) AND DPA ACTIVITIES PROVIDE ENGINEERING TECHNICAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE IN JPSS ALGORITHM INTEGRATION PROCESSES FOR THE IDPS/FTS OPERATIONAL SCIENCE ALGORITHMS. ASSESS SEVERITY OF REPORTED DISCREPANCIES AND ADVISE DATA PRODUCTS LEADERSHIP OF TECHNICAL IMPACT. ASSIST IN THE DOCUMENTATION OF ALGORITHMS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS SUCH AS ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENTS (ATBDS),  OPERATIONAL ALGORITHM DOCUMENTS (OADS), TECHNICAL REPORTS, AND DATA GUIDES. WORK WITH THE DPE ALGORITHM INTEGRATION TEAM (AIT) TO FACILITATE INTERACTION  BETWEEN THE INVESTIGATORS AND THE JPSS GROUND PROJECT SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES AND ASSIST INVESTIGATORS IN THE USE OF JPSS GROUND PROJECT SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES. ASSIST THE ALGORITHM AND VALIDATION TEAMS IN INTEGRATION AND OPERATION OF ALGORITHM SUPPORT FUNCTION (ASF) AND CALIBRATION/VALIDATION AND LONG TERM MONITORING (LTM) TOOLS. ASSIST VALIDATING THE OPERATION SCIENCE PRODUCTS INCLUDING THE VIIRS CLOUD MASK, THE JPSS DIRECT READOUT PRODUCTS AND OTHER SOFTWARE DELIVERED FOR THE ALGORITHM SCIENCE TEAMS. DESIGN AND DEVELOP ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES TO PERFORM INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF CONTRACTOR PERFORM. PROVIDE, AS NEEDED, EXPERTISE IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES INCLUDING ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE PHYSICS, COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SENSOR MODELING SUPPORT. INTERFACE AS NEEDED, WITH INTEGRATED PRODUCT TEAMS, USERS LIAISONS AND INTERNATIONAL LIAISONS TO ASSIST IN THE CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS, SYSTEM INTERFACE DEFINITION, INTERFACE COMPLIANCE AND OVERALL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SATISFACTION.