February 26, 2020

EVC-1 Selection News: NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record

NASA has announced the investigation selected as a result of the Earth Venture Continuity-1 solicitation. NASA Press Release 20-020, Feb. 26, 2020 https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-new-instrument-to-continue-key-climate-record

 

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February 13, 2019
SALMON-3 AO Amendment 13: EVC-1 New Dates for the Pre-Proposal Conference, Mandatory Notice of Intent NOI and Proposal Submissions

SALMON-3 AO Amendment 13: New Dates for the Pre-Proposal Conference, Mandatory Notice of Intent NOI and Proposal Submissions for Program Element Appendix (PEA) N: Earth Venture Continuity (EVC)-1

With this amendment released on or about February 12, 2019, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) NNH17ZDA004O, "Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-3)" amends PEA N: Earth Venture Continuity (EVC)-1 as follows:

1. The Pre-Proposal Web conference set to TBD by Amendment 12 is scheduled for February 28, 2019.
2. Changes the date for mandatory Notices of Intent (NOI) submissions originally due on March 29, 2019 to April 26, 2019, 11:59 PM Eastern.
3. Changes the last date for emailing/submitting questions from May 10, 2019 to July 12, 2019, 11:59 PM Eastern.
4. Changes the electronic proposal due date via NSPIRES from May 24, 2019 to July 26, 2019, 11:59 PM Eastern.
5. Changes the due date for receipt of proposal CD-ROMs from May 29, 2019 to July 31, 2019 4:30 PM Eastern.

Further lapses in U.S. Government/NASA funding, however, may impact these new and any unchanged EVC-1 program dates and adjustments via future amendments may be necessary. In the event of future lapses to the NASA operations, proposers should visit NSPIRES, the official NASA source for the full EVC-1 program element appendix. Reminder: this email is not a complete or verbatim summary of the EVC-1 program element appendix or its amendments. The full EVC-1 text is available at https://nspires.nasaprs.com/ by searching on NNH17ZDA004O-EVC1.

Questions may be addressed to Dr. David Considine, Earth Venture Continuity - 1 Program Scientist at david.b.considine@nasa.gov (subject line to read 2019 EVC-1).

Responses to all inquiries will be posted in the EVC-1 Acquisition Homepage at: https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVC-1/evc-1_qas.html. Anonymity of those who submit questions will be preserved.

 

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December 19, 2018
Amendment #11 to the SALMON-3 AO creates a new proposal opportunity via PEA N: Earth Venture Continuity (EVC)-1
 

NASA's Science Mission Directorate announces the addition of Program Element Appendix (PEA) N to the omnibus NASA Announcement of Opportunity entitled Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-3 NNH17ZDA004O). PEA N is the Earth Venture Continuity (EVC)-1, a new opportunity to propose complete PI-led science investigations requiring spaceflight. The full text of the EVC-1 PEA N of SALMON-3 is available on the NSPIRES page for NNH17ZDA004O-EVC1.

EVC-1 solicits proposals for cost-capped activities resulting in the design, implementation, on-orbit characterization, and scientific exploitation of observations from a capable observing system to enable retrieval of top of the atmosphere short wave, long wave, and total radiative fluxes. Measured top of atmosphere radiances and any necessary algorithms will be used by NASA to seamlessly extend and continue the Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Climate Data Records. Other outputs are expected to include scientific investigations by the Principal Investigator (PI) team to advance the understanding of radiances, radiative fluxes, and the ERB.

EVC-1 PEA investigations may be proposed as a Focused Mission of Opportunity (FMO) or a Small Complete Mission (SCM) that fulfills the solicited objectives and includes all of the elements specified in both the PEA and in the SALMON-3 AO. The PI-Managed Mission Costs or PIMMC cap for the EVC-1 mission is $150M in fiscal year (FY) 2019 dollars, and NASA plans to complete the selection using a single step process. NASA intends to select one proposed PI-led investigation to proceed to development for flight and operations.

Proposal selection and award will be implemented according to the guidelines set forth in Section 7.4 of the SALMON-3 AO and of this PEA. Proposers should read both the SALMON-3 and the PEA N: EVC1 carefully.

A pre-proposal WebEx/Teleconference will be January 23, 2019. The forthcoming schedule updates, agenda, and logistical information for this session is found on the EVC-1 Acquisition Homepage: https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVC-1/.

Mandatory Notices of Intent (NOI) due: March 29, 2019, 11:59 PM EST Last Date for submission of Questions: 11:59 pm eastern time on May 10, 2019 Due Date for Receipt of Electronic Proposals in NSPIRES: 11:59 pm eastern time on May 24, 2019 Due Date for Receipt of Proposal CD-ROMs: 4:30 pm eastern time on May 29, 2019

Questions concerning this PEA may be addressed to Dr. David Considine, Earth Venture Continuity - 1 Program Scientist at david.b.considine@nasa.gov (subject line to read 2019 EVC-1). Responses to all inquiries will be posted in the EVC-1 Acquisition Homepage at: https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVC-1/evc-1_qas.html. Anonymity of those who submit questions will be preserved.

 

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November 21, 2018

Draft Earth Venture Continuity 1 (EVC-1) PEA Released

 
NASA Announcement: Release of the DRAFT Earth Venture Continuity-1 (EVC-1) Program Element Appendix (PEA) to the Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-3) for Community Comments
 
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a draft of the Earth Venture Continuity 1 (EVC-1) Program Element Appendix (PEA) to the Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-3) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for community comments (NNH19ZDA007J). The full text of the draft solicitation is available on NSPIRES (http://nspires.nasaprs.com).
 
SALMON-3 is an omnibus NASA AO which provides a solicitation and procurement base for modest investigations, also referred to as Missions of Opportunity (MO), requiring space flight that advance the high priority science, exploration, and technology objectives of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and the Space Technology Mission Directorate. EVC-1 will solicit proposals for cost-capped activities resulting in the design, implementation, on-orbit characterization and scientific exploitation of observations from a capable observing system, to enable the retrieval of top of the atmosphere short wave, long wave, and total radiative fluxes. Measured top of the atmosphere radiances and any necessary algorithms will be used by NASA to seamlessly extend and continue the Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) Climate Data Records. Other outputs are expected to include scientific investigations by the PI team to advance the understanding of radiances, radiative fluxes, and the ERB. More information will be made available in the EVC-1 Library at https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVC-1/evc-1_library.html.
 
EVC-1 is part of the Earth Venture (EV) portfolio under the Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program and will be the first solicitation in the EVC series. The EV portfolio consists of regularly solicited, competitively selected, cost and schedule constrained Earth science investigations as recommended in the 2017 Decadal Survey report. The PI-Managed portion of the Mission Cost Cap for EVC-1 is $150M in FY2019 dollars and NASA plans to complete the selection using a single-step process.
 
Participation will be open to all categories of organizations (U.S. and non-U.S.), including educational institutions, industry, not-for-profit organizations, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, NASA Centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other Government agencies.
 
The comment period for the Draft EVC-1 SALMON-3 PEA ends on December 7, 2018. Comments on the draft (subject line to read "EVC-1 Draft AO") should be addressed by email to Dr. David Considine, (david.b.considine@nasa.gov).
 
Responses to all inquiries will be answered by email and anonymized versions posted weekly at the PEA Questions and Answers (Q&A) section of the EVC-1 Acquisition Homepage (https://essp.larc.nasa.gov/EVC-1/).
 

 

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