NASA Draft AO for Earth Venture Instruments released for community comment
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Draft AO Prospective Bidders Telecon/WebEx: October 17, 2011
Comments Due: October 28, 2011
Identification Number: NNH11ZDA020J
Notice Type: Presolicitation
On September 29, 2011, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is releasing a draft solicitation for community review and comment: the draft Earth Venture Instrument-1 (EVI-1) Program Element Appendix to the Second Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-2) Announcement of Opportunity (AO). Upon the release date, the full text of the draft solicitation will be available at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/.
The Earth Venture element of the ESSP Program conducts Principal Investigator (PI)-led science investigations relevant to SMD’s Earth Science research program. Earth Venture investigations must address NASA’s goals to acquire deeper scientific understanding of the components of the Earth system, their interactions, and the consequences to life of changes in the Earth system. This solicitation calls for proposals for complete PI-led spaceflight instrument development. When deployed on a satellite selected by NASA, these spaceflight instruments will be used to conduct innovative, integrated, hypothesis or scientific question-driven investigations addressing pressing Earth system science issues.
Participation is open to all categories of organizations or institutions, U.S. or non-U.S., including educational, industrial, and not-for-profit institutions, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and other Government agencies.
NASA will hold an Earth Venture Instrument-1 (EVI-1) Draft AO Prospective Bidders Telecon/WebEx on Monday, October 17, 2011, to provide an overview of the draft EVI-1 Program Element Appendix and to address any questions. Information about the Workshop will be made available on the EVI-1 Additional Information Homepage at http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EV-I/.
The comment period for the draft EVI-1 solicitation ends on October 28, 2011.
The issuance of the draft EVI-1 solicitation does not obligate NASA to issue the EVI-1 solicitation and solicit proposals. Any costs incurred by prospective investigators in preparing submissions in response to this draft solicitation are incurred completely at the submitter’s own risk.
Comments may be addressed in writing or by e-mail to the EVI-1 Program Scientist: Dr. Kenneth Jucks, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546-0001, E-mail: kenneth.w.jucks@nasa.gov (subject line to read ” EVI-1 Instruments Draft PEA “). Responses to all inquiries will be answered by e-mail and also posted at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) location of the EVI-1 Additional Information Homepage at http://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EV-I/; anonymity of persons/institutions who submit questions will be preserved.
