RECOVERY THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THISOPPORTUNITY IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AUTHORIZED UNDER THEAMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009. THE WORK IS SPONSORED BY THE SCIENCEMISSION DIRECTORATE FOR THE EARTH SCIENCE PROGRAM UNDER THE UNIVERSITY AFILIATED RESEARCHCENTER (UARC) CONTRACT NAS2-03144 WITH THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.NASA/Ames Research Center (ARC) intends to issue Task Order 087-R entitled, EarthScience Instrumentation Development Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator (E-MAS) Systemto the University of California under UARC contract NAS2-03144. This task is a research and development effort to provide systems engineering and systemintegration to assist in the development of a follow-on instrument to the MODIS AirborneSimulator (MAS). The Enhanced MAS or EMAS will provide important measurements in supportof ongoing calibration and validation activities for the MODIS instruments, whilesupporting the development of algorithms for future spaceborne systems. The system willbe composed of 3 subsystems that together will provide high quality measurements ofatmospheric constituents by measuring absorption, scattering and reflectance of incomingsolar radiation. This new system might eventually replace NASAs MODIS Airborne Simulator(MAS,) with higher quality measurements than are currently available within the agency.Oral communications are not acceptable in response to this notice.This announcement will not result in a Request for Proposal; this announcement is forinformational purposes only. Questions and/or concerns may be submitted in writing, viae-mail, to the following government point of contact.
[email protected] Ombudsman has been appointed. See NASA specific note BInformation about major upcoming ARC procurement actions is available at:http://ec.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eis/admin/admin.cgi?center=ARC