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Statement of Work

1. BACKGROUND

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National

Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), provides scientific and

technical leadership for development of environmental satellite services and products.

The NESDIS Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis (OPPA) provides engineering

and program management to small-scale flight projects, domestic and international

partnerships, and data exploitation initiatives. OPPA’s mission is to provide the

leadership, expert engineering, and project management to enable deployment of new

satellite missions necessary to maintain the uninterrupted flow of remotely-sensed

environmental data required to protect life, property, and the environment and to promote

economic well-being. OPPA is responsible for advanced planning and systems

engineering and acquisition activities, including defining user requirements and

developing conceptual engineering design of future satellite systems to meet those

requirements. It manages systems development, and launch services, and launch and

early orbit support to system handover to operations. OPPA cooperates closely with

other NOAA offices, Federal agencies, foreign technical agencies, international scientific

and technical organizations, and constituents in carrying out their responsibilities on

behalf of the American public.

2. SCOPE OF WORK

Work Element 1: Program Management and Scientific Analysis Support

Scope:

OPPA conducts conceptual and preliminary system studies for the evolutionary and

logical growth of the civil operational remote sensing satellite systems (oceanic and

meteorological). It translates remote sensing user requirements into system concept and

system performance objectives and specifications for implementation by the current or

future satellite systems. It provides technical justification for budgetary and

programmatic changes for system growth, and for improvements based on user

requirements and technical feasibility. It plans, provides, and performs technical liaison

with other NESDIS offices, the technical staffs of NASA, Federal and non-Federal user

agencies and groups. It evaluates and recommends system changes (space, sensor, and

ground) that will improve reliability, data thru-put rates, and data and service quality and

utility.

In support of mission requirements, OPPA is tasked with hundreds of formal requests

each year for technical information related to its mission. These requests come from a

wide variety of sources, including the White House, Congress, Department of Commerce,

NOAA Headquarters, other NOAA Line and Program Offices, domestic and foreign

partner agencies (i.e., NASA, EUMETSAT, JAXA), NESDIS HQ, Offices and Centers,

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and the general public. Support is needed to help OPPA management respond to requests

for technical information in an accurate, succinct, and timely manner to help NOAA

management make the right decisions related to mission planning and budgeting, and

mission sustainment. Launch and communications support are needed to help OPPA

ensure it is ready for upcoming mission launches. Communications need to be accurate,

coordinated, and completed in a timely fashion. Further communications and conference

support are needed in planning, execution, and possible attendance of scientific and

technical conferences and activities.

Support is also needed for critical scientific analysis and documentation support to OPPA

strategic and advanced planning, assessment of new technology and requirements,

efficient management of technical action items, and development and updating of

technical documents.

Technical Services Requirements:

The contractor shall plan, investigate and provide scientific analysis of new NASA, DoD,

and other U.S., and foreign satellite capabilities, as requested, that NOAA may leverage

to meet its requirements for Earth and space weather observations. Typical areas that the

Contractor shall provide analysis and/or documentation are:

● NASA Earth Science and Heliophysics satellite missions (Earth Ventures,

Decadal Survey, Earth Science Technology Office, Space Technology Mission

Directorate, NASA Centers (e.g., JPL, Goddard)

● NOAA Technology Demonstrations for Gap Mitigation (e.g., EON-MW, EON-

IR)

● ● Other planned NOAA satellite missions (GPSRO, Solar Wind, CME,

Scatterometry, Altimetry)

● DoD satellite missions (e.g., Altimetry, Ocean Color, Ocean vector winds, low

light imagery, space weather)

The above list contains typical examples. OPPA may require contractor analysis of other

emerging satellite opportunities in the future, which will fall within the same range and

scope of effort as the above list. Working in support of the OPPA managers, the

Contractor shall review and analyze scientific and new technologies and applications of

interest to NOAA-wide observing systems. Duties include assisting with technology

discussions and planning as well as assist with documenting NOAA required studies,

analysis and responses such as response to National Research Council reports.

The contractor shall provide engineering and project management services, including

development or assistance in the development of project documents, and briefings for

programmatic reviews; review and analysis of technical documents.

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The contractor shall also provide technical management support by improving office

productivity through the development, implementation, and monitoring of efficient office

management processes and techniques; track key office technical action items using

standard operating procedures; develop and update administrative plans and documents

as needed; and to lead other routine tasks as necessary to maintain a productive

workplace environment.

Specific activities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

● Lead reporting and communications of action status to OPPA leadership at daily

meetings

● Develop and update OPPA Technical Action Tracker database, provide critical

OPPA action metrics

● Create and maintain technical library that includes all major OPPA briefing and

action responses

● Receive and document all internal and external scientific and technical data

requests for OPPA, control the technical action management process by tracking,

coordinating and consolidating all responses and inputs received from OPPA.

Maintain configuration control of official OPPA responses to incoming NESDIS,

NOAA, OMB, Congressional, and GAO requests.

● Develop, update, and implement standard operating procedures for OPPA action

process, routing procedures, and record keeping.

● Develop communications of highly technical material in layman’s terms

3. IT SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

● The contractor shall comply with the IT Security requirements of the Department

of Commerce as outlined in Commerce Acquisition Regulation (CAR) 1352.239-

72, Security Requirements For Information Technology Resources (April 2010)

● In addition, personnel shall be screened in accordance with the requirements for

High Risk contracts as specified by CAM 1337.70 section 2.2 (Oct 2015);

specifically, in accordance with CAR 1352.237-70, Security Processing

Requirements—High or Moderate Risk Contracts (April 2010). Any access by

contract personnel who are Foreign Nationals shall be in accordance with the

requirements of CAR 1352.237-73, Foreign National Visitor and Guest Access to

Departmental Resources (APR 2010).

The contract shall submit security forms required by CAR clause 1352.237-70 two (2)

weeks prior to each new contract employee’s start of work so that the NOAA staff has

sufficient time to process requests for background checks, NOAA badges, and network

access.

4. DELIVERABLES

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The following deliverables shall be developed in concert with the respective NOAA

managers.

a) OPPA Action Tracker database, developed, maintained, and updated, as directed,

to provide critical OPPA action metrics

b) OPPA technical library, developed, maintained, and updated, as directed, to

include all major OPPA briefing and action responses

c) Communication inputs, such as Story Boards, NESDIS News inputs, as directed,

to address OPPA Communication efforts

d) Satellite mission analysis report, as directed, which consists of a 2-4 page Word

document that describes a research satellite system’s capabilities, potential

benefits to support NOAA operational requirements, and limitations

e) Presentations in power point format, as directed, for all assigned travel or support

to government travel to meetings

f) Input (spreadsheets, budget planning documents, and PowerPoint briefings) to

support OPPA Integration Program, as well as advanced planning, program

definition, and technology assessment functions.

g) Scientific analysis and input to Research to Operations Transition Plans (specific

deliverables and schedules developed per the direction of NOAA managers)

h) Trip report summary for all assigned domestic and international trips

i) Monthly Activity Report, within 5 business days after the end of the accounting

month.

5. TRAVEL

The estimated travel requirements for the Work Element 1 are not to exceed eight

domestic trips.

The contractor shall plan, coordinate and obtain Government approval for all travel. The

contractor shall provide the Government a trip report. At a minimum, the trip report

should be a narrative of the visit’s important events. When multiple contractors from the

same contract travel to the same event, a group trip report will suffice.

6. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

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The services to be provided under this task order shall be performed at NOAA/NESDIS

Headquarters, /or at

contractor designated site.

7. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

Or

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