SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER PARTNERING FOR EARLY CAREER INITIATIVE PROPOSALS
- Notice Date
- 6/17/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 12, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton,VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- PartneringEarlyInitiative
- Response Due
- 6/27/2014
- Archive Date
- 6/17/2015
- Point of Contact
- Robert B. Gardner, Contracting Officer, Phone 757-864-2525, Fax 757-864-7898, Email Robert.B.Gardner@nasa.gov - Teresa M Hass, Contracting Officer, Phone 757-864-8496, Fax 757-864-8863, Email Teresa.M.Hass@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Robert B. Gardner
(Robert.B.Gardner@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This partnering synopsis solicits potential partners to participate in a proposal development activity that addresses the technical objectives and development of a hardware-based technology demonstration in response to an Early Career Initiative (ECI) sponsored by NASAs Space Technology Mission Directorate and released on June 4, 2014. The deadline for proposals is August 27, 2014. The Early Career Initiative is an internal NASA call for space technology development and demonstration proposals that fosters the next step in the professional development of early career NASA technologists by providing cutting edge hands on space technology hardware development opportunities. This initiative promotes creative joint partnering within highly collaborative work environments between the best and brightest NASA early career innovators and the best and brightest innovators in industry, academia and other government organizations. Proposing teams will include a core team consisting of a no more than eight members total, including NASA and external partner members at least half of which must consist of NASA early career employees. Teams must propose innovative space hardware-focused projects lasting no more than 2 years and costing up to $1M in procurement per year. The general approach will be to employ agile systems engineering methods emphasizing working products, collaboration, iterative, hands-on testing, and responsiveness to change rather than formal process and documentation with milestone-based assessments including a continuation review at the development site and a final presentation to NASA Headquarters. A NASA early career employee must lead the project (Project Lead) but other roles (e.g., Project Manager, Project Scientist) can be filled by team members from NASA or partner. NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) is seeking partners to participate in developing proposals for and collaborating on potential ECI projects. LaRC is pursuing several topic areas that align with NASAs space technology priorities and involve a variety of technical areas that could benefit from partnering. 1.Small Free-Flying Space Systems Design, build, launch, and operation of small free-flying space platforms (e.g., cubesats, nanosats, picosats). 2.Small (micro/nano) Devices Small, low power in-situ device technologies (e.g., materials, photonics, optics, electronics) for sensing and coordinating collection of data associated with constituents and properties of planetary environments (e.g., atmospheres, biomes). 3.Dynamically Scaled Space Systems Build and test components and sub-systems of large-scale space systems employing flexible and deployable elements (e.g., membranes, arrays) to assess/validate designs in cost effective ground and space environments. 4.Digital Twin Technology Demonstration Methods and technologies to assess materials, structures, and systems over their service life by integrating real-time sensing and prognosis to detect and repair damage through high-fidelity and multi-scale computational modeling and simulation. 5.Radiation Affects/Shielding for Biological Systems Capabilities and technologies to determine the amount and nature of space radiation, its impact on humans, and ways to mitigate the risks and damage. 6.Materials and Manufacturing for Low Mass Systems Design and fabrication of light-weight components and systems with application to large, flexible, deployable space systems (e.g., solar sails, deployable arrays, articulating structures). This partnering opportunity does not guarantee selection for award of any contracts or other agreements, nor is it to be construed as a commitment by NASA to pay for the information solicited. It is expected that the partner(s) selected would provide (at no cost to NASA) technical requirements, conceptual designs, technical data, proposal input, project schedules, and cost estimates. If the proposal is subsequently selected, NASA LaRC anticipates issuing contracts or other agreements to the selected partner(s) for performance of the proposed tasks. Partner selections will be made by LaRC based on the listed criteria: (1)Technical Qualifications of the External Partner: This criterion evaluates the technical expertise/capabilities and innovativeness of the external partner in leading and/or executing activities related to the topics above and indicate the resources (skills and time) that would be allocated to the potential proposal development phase. (2)Agile Approaches Used in the Past: This criterion evaluates the external partners past experience in developing and utilizing agile development principles: using development methods that emphasize working products, collaboration, iterative, hands-on testing, and responsiveness to change rather than formal processes and documentation. Participation in this partnering synopsis is open to all categories of U.S. and non-U.S. organizations, including educational institutions, industry, not-for-profit institutions, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as NASA Centers and other U.S. Government Agencies. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Other Minority Universities (OMUs), small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs), veteran-owned small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses, HUBzone small businesses, and women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) are encouraged to apply. Participation by non-U.S. organizations is welcome but subject to NASAs policy of no exchange of funds, in which each government supports its own national participants and associated costs. RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS: Responses to this partnering synopsis shall be limited to 5 pages in not less than 12-point font for each technical area of interest (i.e. offerors responding to one or more of the mission elements may submit up to 5 pages per each element). Responses shall address each of the evaluation criteria listed below. Resumes of key personnel and a cover page that clearly identifies the topic area addressed by the response do not count against the total allocated page count. All responses shall be submitted to LaRC electronically via e-mail by 4:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time June 27, 2014 to Brad Gardner (Robert.B.Gardner@nasa.gov) and Keith Belvin (w.k.belvin@nasa.gov). Technical and programmatic questions should be directed to Keith Belvin and procurement questions should be directed to Brad Gardner.
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