NASA, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Procurement Office, Space Station Branch, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812

A -- FURNACE SIGNAL CONDITIONING UNIT (FSCU) FOR THE SPACE STATION FURNACE FACILITY (SSFF) SOL W-5-EB-87095 POC Contact, Michael R. Sosebee, GP52B, 205-544-0415/Contract Specialist, or Byron W. Butler/Contracting Officer The proposed effort will provide the necessary management, labor, equipment, materials, facilities, hardware, and services required for the design, fabrication, assembly, qualification verification, delivery and sustaining engineering for the FSCU -- The required hardware includes flight units and non flight units and all ground support equipment and flight support equipment -- SSFF is a materials research facility in the microgravity environment of the Space Station (SS) United States Laboratory (USL) which will accommodate basic research, commercial applications, and studies of phenomena of metals and alloys, electronic and photonic materials, and glasses and ceramics -- The SSFF will operate, regulate and support a variety of experiment modules in order to support the broad base of research requirements -- The FSCU is a subsystem of the SSFF Instrument Control Electronics (ICE) -- The FSCU provides the signal conditioning for Control Thermocouple Temperature measurements, Sample Thermocouple Temperature measurements, cartridge and ampoule failure measurements and temperature measurements of Thermocouple Reference Junction's (TRJ) -- The FSCU will communicate with the Command and Data Management System of the SSFF via MIL-STD-1553B data bus -- Copies of the RFP must be requested in writing or by (FAX 205-544-4401) -- The closing date will be contained in the solicitation. (0012)

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