Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, BMDO/DCT, 1725 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 809, Arlington, VA 22202

A -- MIDCOURSE SPACE EXPERIMENT (MSX) DATA CERTIFICATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR TEAM SUPPORT SOL HQ0006-98-R-0009 POC Ms. Karla Smith Jackson, (703) 604-4473, Reference Number BMDO 98-07 The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), requires Data Certification and Technology Transfer (DCATT) Principal Investigator Team Support for the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) program. The technical efforts to be performed under this proposed contract include: 1) acting as Deputy for DCATT PI team; 2) leading the DCATT effort on the MSX pointing performance assessment team; 3) leading the DCATT effort on the Ultraviolet and Visible Imagers and Spectrographic Imagers (UVISI) performance assessment team; and 4) participating in the SPIRIT III (infrared sensor) data certification effort. BMDO plans to award a sole source cost-reimbursable contract to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Research Administration, Research Institute, Room E-39 Huntsville, AL 35899. BMDO believes UAH is the only source possessing the existing R&D expertise to meet programmatic and technical schedules within the constrained BMDO budget. UAH has been performing this MSX DCATT effort since 1996 (just prior to the MSX launch) under a grant issued by NASA. UAH has developed a unique approach to certify optical sensor performance characterization and co-alignment : certifying the relative and absolute pointing of eleven optical sensors and the spacecraft optical bench, to determine precisely where in space the sensors are pointing during a given data collection event. This precise pointing knowledge is critical to the MSX analysis effort. Any other firm desiring consideration must fully identify its capability to perform this requirement in writing not later than 15 May 1998. Capability statements may be sent to Ms. Karla Smith Jackson, BMDO/DCTR, 1725 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 809, Arlington, VA 22202. See Note(s): 22. (0118)

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