The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has a requirement for Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support Services.

The capabilities of the requirement include:

• NASA LSP Safety, Reliability and Quality Engineering and Resident Office Support:
  • Provide payload and launch vehicle processing insight including production and manufacturing assessments through factory floor and hardware walkdowns
  • Perform launch vehicle production nonconformance data analysis and trending
  • Review and perform engineering assessments of launch vehicle acceptance testing and launch vehicle hardware operations
  • Perform engineering assessments of prime launch vehicle providers and their suppliers and assess launch vehicle fleet crossover concerns
  • Track and evaluate launch vehicle quality management systems and supplier audit findings
  • Perform system safety, safety requirement development, and mishap/contingency planning
  • Perform reliability engineering services to determine probability of mission success
• Launch Site Support Engineering:
  •  Develop and provide engineering, facility and payload processing requirements to the NASA Launch Site Integration Manager for all payload ground processing mission activities at the NASA-provided payload processing facilities, the Eastern and Western Ranges, and other launch sites
  • Examples of the facility and payload processing requirements include satellite fueling, contamination control measures, specialized magnetic and electromagnetic protection requirements, specialized facility and protection requirements when processing payloads containing nuclear material, and other payload operational needs
• Communications and Telemetry (C&T):
  •  Provide development, engineering, operations, sustainment, and maintenance of NASA LSP communications and telemetry systems to support launch and test operations in all phases from mission planning to spacecraft arrival through the end of launch campaign
  • C&T systems include, but are not limited to, real-time voice, video, data, timing, and network connectivity for all systems and include all associated hardware and software to operate and maintain optimal system operations
  • Development and engineering include hardware and software design and support for modern digital transformations such as Voice-Over-IP, Video-Over-IP, high resolution video (4K, 8K, etc.), Telemetry-Over-IP, high speed data transport (10GbE, 40GbE, and beyond), virtualization, and infrastructure to support new launch vehicle providers
• Information Technology (IT):
  • Develop, maintain, operate, integrate, and secure highly available IT tools that provide for the management, preparation, publication, control, and dissemination of information and data required by the contract for mission lifecycle and program strategic goals
  • To secure highly available IT tools it is required to follow the IT Security guiding model of Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (CIA) triad using NIST 800-53 Rev 5 controls, which includes servers and workstations for mission analysis and development of software including, but not limited to, SharePoint development and administration, net framework with a SQL backend databases, and custom web applications
• Launch Vehicle Insight:
  • Perform engineering and analyses for the NASA LSP. Review and evaluate commercial launch provider and spacecraft customer tasks and products to enable NASA LSP to provide approval of mission specific items and readiness for NASA missions
  • Examples of launch vehicle products include but are not limited to: trajectory designs, coupled loads analyses, integrated thermal analyses and electromagnetic interference/compatibility assessments
  • The scope also includes fleet insight, evaluating, providing technical assessment, and reviewing the launch provider vehicle systems design, analyses, manufacturing, verification, validation, assembly, integration, testing, checkout, anomaly resolution, and launch preparations for compliance with applicable requirements and processes