AWARD
A -- RECOVERY DESKTOP SUPERCOMPUTING FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH HIGH END COMPUTING
- Notice Date
- 4/29/2010
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.Y, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NNG06HN01D52
- Archive Date
- 4/30/2010
- Point of Contact
- Lynne Hoppel, Contracting Officer, Phone 301-286-3035, Fax 301-286-0268, Email Lynne.C.Hoppel.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Lynne Hoppel
(Lynne.C.Hoppel.1@gsfc.nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- NNG06HN01D52
- Award Date
- 3/31/2010
- Awardee
- Northrop Grumman, 2311 Dulles Corner Park, Herndon, VA 20171
- Award Amount
- 699636.35
- Line Number
- 0004
- Description
- NASA/GSFC issued a sub-task order with Northrop Grumman to provide a completetoolkit of climate research products' investigations. The proposed system is comprised ofcompact high-performance compute hardware, global and regional climate and weathermodels, and ancillary analysis and visualization tools. The contractor will be provideda high-performance desktop system and the tools are expected to be made operational. Thefollowing tools are expected to be made operational by the Contractor:1) the currentversion ('MERRA') of NASA's global model that is used for research on climate change onthe seasonal to inter-annual scales; the 3.1 version of the Weather Research andForecasting model, a regional weather model that is widely used by the researchcommunity; 2) the 2009 optional version of the Global Forecast System, a weather modelused by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 3) the current version('AR5') of the Model-E general circulation model, a global climate model being used bythe intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; 4) Ocean model(s) to supplement theatmospheric models described above; and 5) the Grid Analysis and Display System 2009version, a tool used by the community to visualize output. The contractor shall implementthe tools and perform a validation of each. A feasibility study of available softwarerepository systems is also required. The contractor shall host a workshop of active andpotential users of the toolkit here at GSFC, Greenbelt, MD.<P>These services were acquired under the existing cost-plus-award-fee (CPAF) contract thatwas competitively awarded to the company on 10/2005. A CPAF arrangement was determinedappropriate because the contract is for the performance of research and developmenteffort, and uncertainties involved in contract performance do not permit costs to beestimated with sufficient accuracy to use any type of fixed-price contract.
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