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The purpose of this amendment is to: Extend the response date from December 20, 2019 to January 6, 2020. Notify vendors that the following organizations will be involved in the evaluation of the RFI R... The purpose of this amendment is to: Extend the response date from December 20, 2019 to January 6, 2020. Notify vendors that the following organizations will be involved in the evaluation of the RFI Responses Aerospace MITRE Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) All contractor employees will be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement prior to accessing any RFI Responses. To answer questions that were received in response to this RFI, Attachment: RFI Questions and Answers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOAA NESDIS is soliciting information through this RFI to survey vendor capabilities in preparation for a possible future release of one or more Request(s) for Proposal (RFP) to procure, develop, deploy, and maintain Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (TT&C) capabilities to support a NOAA Space Weather Follow On- Lagrange 1 (SWFO?L1) Mission. NOAA requires commanding, ranging, and uninterrupted data acquisition capability for the SWFO?L1 mission, provided through the SWFO?L1 Antenna Network (SAN). SWFO?L1 will be stationed on the Earth-Sun line at Lagrange point L1 and the orbit tracks across the sky around the world like the path of the Sun. NOAA requires the real-time stream of X-band mission data from the SWFO?L1 observatory to be uninterrupted with extremely low ground latency. NOAA requires S-band commanding from NOAA facilities. NOAA requires high precision ranging both from NOAA facilities and from at least one ranging station in the southern hemisphere. The SAN must be in place to support an October 2024 launch date of the SWFO?L1 spacecraft. NOAA is considering solutions in three categories: NOAA-owned antennas that meet all requirements NOAA-owned primary antennas to meet full coverage requirements with options for services to provide backup capabilities to meet availability requirements A vendor-defined mixture of NOAA-owned antennas and vendor-provided services that together meet all requirements