Inactive Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5)

The FAA/Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) has a requirement for advanced flight safety and system safety support in the evaluation of applications for commercial launch and reentry licen... The FAA/Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) has a requirement for advanced flight safety and system safety support in the evaluation of applications for commercial launch and reentry licenses, commercial launch and reentry site licenses, permitted operations, safety approvals, and amateur rocket activities (under CFR Title 14, part 101). AST also requires support for regulatory development, training, tool development, and research on advanced modeling concepts and computational tools. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of risk is a core element of the AST decision-making process. Understanding and modeling the possible outcomes associated with launch and reentry operations enables AST to make decisions regarding acceptable operational and mission approaches that affect public safety within the regulatory framework. This support therefore requires significant knowledge of, and, where requested, expertise in, quantitative and qualitative safety analysis of launch and reentry, to include explosive safety, debris risk, toxic risk, distance focusing overpressure risk, hazard areas determination, maximum probable loss determination, flight safety systems, software safety, and system safety. This support also requires significant knowledge of, and, where requested, expertise in, space launch and reentry vehicle operations, current launch and reentry vehicle systems, launch and reentry range operations, and public safety issues associated with launch and reentry site operations, as implemented in accordance with U.S. Commercial Space Transportation regulations.