Solicitation Quantity: NNH16ZCQ001K-CIS-Appendix_L
Solicitation Overview
NASA has launched a solicitation discover below the Subsequent Area Applied sciences for Exploration Partnerships-2 (Subsequent STEP-2) Broad Company Announcement (BAA) to hunt industry-led capabilities research to tell future communication and navigation actions.
NASA’s long-term imaginative and prescient is to supply for a resilient area and floor communications and navigation infrastructure during which area mission customers can seamlessly “roam” between an array of space-based and ground-based networks. Initially, NASA seeks to create an interoperable structure composed of a combination of present NASA belongings and business networks and companies. Within the long-term, it will permit for a clean transition to totally commercialized communications companies for near-Earth customers. The overarching aim is to create a dependable, strong, and cost-effective set of economic companies during which NASA is one in all many shoppers.
The Commercialization, Innovation, and Synergies (CIS) Workplace’s second Functionality Research BAA seeks {industry} insights and revolutionary steerage within the following three (3) Thrust Areas:
- Wideband Satellite tv for pc Communications
- Phased Array Floor Techniques
- Constellation Topology Evaluation
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