SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- DARPA TTO System F6 Phase 2
- Notice Date
- 7/23/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Contracts Management Office, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22203-1714
- ZIP Code
- 22203-1714
- Solicitation Number
- DARPA-SN-09-52
- Archive Date
- 9/20/2009
- Point of Contact
- Chris Glista,
- E-Mail Address
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christopher.glista@darpa.mil
(christopher.glista@darpa.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Tactical Technology Office (TTO), intends to award a Sole-Source contract to Orbital Sciences Corporation for Phase 2 of the System F6 program. The objective of the System F6 program is to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of a satellite architecture wherein the functionality of a traditional “monolithic” spacecraft is replaced by a cluster of wirelessly-interconnected spacecraft modules. Each such “fractionated” module would contribute a unique capability, e.g., computation and data handling, communications relay, guidance and navigation, payload sensing, etc., or it can replicate the capability of another module. The fractionated modules would fly in a loose, proximate cluster orbit or potentially self-assemble into an aggregate system. Critical to this architecture is a robust, system-level approach to ensuring security, integrity, and availability, while implementing authentication and non-repudiation. The modules create a virtual satellite, delivering a comparable mission capability to a monolithic spacecraft, while significantly enhancing functional and programmatic flexibility and robustness, reducing risk through the mission life and spacecraft development cycle, and enabling incremental deployment of the system. The System F6 architecture will provide valuable options to decision makers throughout the life cycle development of future space systems that are absent in present-day monolithic architectures. Phase 1 of the program was awarded competitively under DARPA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 07-31. Phase 2 builds upon the concepts demonstrated during Phase 1 and will culminate in a Critical Design Review (CDR) which includes a complete, detailed design of the spacecraft modules and ground station, the design and hardware-in-the-loop demonstration of the key enabling technologies for fractionation, a developer’s kit that enables third parties to develop fractionated modules, and a comprehensive demonstration plan and concept of operations (CONOPS). This notice is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation is currently available. However, interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement. Responses/proposals received within forty-five (45) days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered by the Government. Information received will be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. A determination not to compete this proposed effort on a full and open basis is solely within the discretion of the Government. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to meet the requirements by submitting a white paper and past performance data by no later than 05 September 2009 (5:00 PM Eastern) to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Attn: Mr. Christopher Glista, Contracts Management Office (CMO), 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203-1714 or via email to christopher.glista@darpa.mil. Questions shall be submitted to the above email address. Please refer to Numbered Notice 22. It is noted that DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) maintains an annual Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking subsystem level technologies that enable revolutionary improvements to the efficiency of the military in five (5) general mission thrust areas: Space Operations; Land, Air, Sea and Space Platforms; Unmanned Systems; Directed Energy and Precision Strike. Please see Broad Agency Announcement BAA08-31.
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