ESTS is proud to be working with the Space & Technology Solutions of Houston team on the OMES III Contract at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, managed under the Engineering Technology Directorate. Alongside KBR, Inc., Intuitive Machines, and our other great teammates, we will be providing multidisciplinary engineering services to various NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration missions in Greenbelt, Maryland such as the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program and NASA’s Exploration and In-space Services (NExIS) projects.
To read NASA’s Press Release visit: https://bit.ly/3V5mVeu. More background information is included below.
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is home to the nation’s largest organization of combined scientists, engineers, and technologists and chartered to expand the knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system, and the universe through observations from space. To this end, GSFC’s primary emphasis is in scientific investigation, in the development and operation of space systems, and in the advancement of essential technologies. In accomplishing this responsibility, the GSFC has undertaken a broad program of scientific research, both theoretical and experimental, in the study of space phenomena and Earth sciences. The program ranges from basic research to flight experiment development and from mission operations to data analysis.
The Engineering Technology Directorate (ETD) is GSFC’s largest organization responsible for
providing multidiscipline engineering expertise to all projects within GSFC. ETD comprises
five engineering divisions: the Mechanical Systems Division (MSD), the Instrument Systems
and Technology Division (ISTD), the Electrical Engineering Division (EED), Software
Engineering Division (SED), and the Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division
(MESA). ETD is an end-to-end science mission operation that is instrumental in designing
missions, building satellites and instruments, operating and controlling spacecraft, and acquiring
and distributing data to the world-wide science community. ETD will be responsible for
providing multidiscipline engineering expertise to both in-house and out-of-house instrument
and spacecraft programs. To fulfill these responsibilities and ultimately achieve missions, the ETD must acquire a wide range of engineering services in support of its divisions to implement the GSFC mission.
OMES III Task Orders will be issued to perform services in the following areas for components, subsystems, systems, science instruments, and spacecraft, suborbital craft (e.g., aircraft, sounding rockets, UAVs, balloons), including free-flying spacecraft, suborbital craft payloads, and Space Station payloads as well as ground support equipment, simulators, non-flight models, and prototypes; candidate, feasibility, and systems definition studies; project management; systems engineering; analysis; preliminary design; detailed design; fabrication; assembly; integration; test and verification; test instrumentation; data systems management; launch and post-launch operations; research and technology unique to system development; parts and materials; documentation; maintenance; sustaining engineering; configuration management; performance assurance; systems safety; and contamination control.
We can’t wait! Transition activities begin on September 1, 2023, and OMES III work is scheduled to begin on December 1, 2023.
