Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Solid State Recorder (SSR) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Solid State Recorder (SSR) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) NASA would like to survey the market for new or existing Flight Solid State Data Recorder (SSR) in order to incorporate this information into the WFIRST Spacecraft conceptual design and to obtain answers to several questions, listed below: The WFIRST mission being run from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is investigating vendors who can provide a spaceflight qualified high capacity and high throughput data recorder to be used to store the science data (CCSDS) packets that come from the Wide Field Instrument and the Coronagraph Instrument. The SSR would be a component of the Payload Command and Data Handling (C&DH) subsystem. Briefly, WFIRST is a NASA observatory designed to perform Wide Field imaging and surveys of the near infrared sky. WFIRST is a 6.5 year mission (with 10 year goal). WFIRST is currently targeted to launch in summer of 2024 and will be in orbit at L2. The purpose of this RFI is to survey vendor capabilities in designing and building a SSR to meet the WFIRST mission requirements. This request is for information and planning purposes and feasibility of the requirements. While our intent may be to team with an industry partner(s), we are not bound by this RFI to do so. This is not a Request for Proposal, nor a Request for Quotation, nor an Invitation to Bid. Therefore, this RFI is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract nor will the Government pay for information provided in response to this RFI. To consolidate our planning, responses from industry are requested by September 1, 2016, in the form of written and illustrated concepts, estimates for development costs and schedule, assumptions used for cost and schedule estimates design assumptions, and descriptions of capabilities. Responses can be submitted via email. The email text must give a point-of-contact and provide his/her name, address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address. The information is requested for planning purposes only, subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3, entitled "Solicitation for Information for Planning Purposes." It is not NASA's intent to publicly disclose vendor proprietary information obtained during this solicitation. To the full extent that it is protected pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and other laws and regulations, information identified by a respondent as "Proprietary or Confidential" will be kept confidential. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in FedBizOpps. It is the potential offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for the release of any solicitation or synopsis. Technical or procurement questions should be directed to the contacts below. Interested offeror's shall address the requirements of this RFI in written format as described in the previous paragraphs by electronic mail to the contacts below no later than September 1, 2016.