Dave Ector
COSMIC PM for OSD
4 November 10

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• GNSSRO Level 1 Requirements Documents (L1RD) status
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L1RD Completed and signed 5 May 2010
• L1RD assessment underway
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Initial budget/partnerships for COSMIC-2 do not fully support all
L1RD requirements
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C-2 was designed to be a replication of C-1 – except X2 satellites
(12)
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All at 72 degrees
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2 northern tracking stations with current latency (around 60 min average)
• L1RD requires 2 inclinations – 72 degrees and 24 degrees
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L1RD requires 45 min average latency
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Partnering with the AF for SSAEM sensors – 2 secondary payloads on 6 satellites
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AF purchase of rockets will close budget shortfall – allow us to meet all
L1RD threshold requirements

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• Acquisition Environment
• Solid support from NESDIS
• Very strong support from Weather Service
• Historically solid support from OMB
• New start – clearly at risk in this political environment
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Being sold as a VERY low hanging fruit – very large forecasting impacts for a small price – compared to other satellite programs
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Why not do this commercially? Is the #1 question from
OMB and congress.
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International and government partnership leverage is one of our major selling points – we have outside contributions up to double the NOAA investment ($200+M)

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Mission Definition Review – successfully completed in August
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TriG Payload
– SRR complete in August
– PDR planned for November
– Antenna design kicked off for COSMIC-2
– Procurement strategy in draft
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Air Force is proceeding with partnership
– Payloads contracts work
– Discussions with STP for the Minotaur 4 – received ‘11 funding
– AF provided draft MOA under review at NOAA
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NSPO is moving forward quickly on spacecraft procurement
– RFI released in May
– 5 RFIs under review
– Plans to release RFP for 12 spacecraft by January
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NOAA working ground planning
– Discussions with KSAT on ground station options
– Working with UCAR on proposal to “operationalize” CDAAC processing software to install at NSOF

• COSMIC 2 is on schedule even with a 3-6 month CR
– NASA started the NRE for the payload in April
– Internal planning money has help us get our international agreements complete
– JPL is working risk mitigation activities for the NOAA paylaod
– Taiwan is on track to award spacecraft contracts
• USAF partnership is imminent – comes with 2 launch vehicles
– Letter of intent from the AF
– Reviewing AF draft MOA
• Well coordinated L1RD is complete
– Pushed the limits of the original budget which was based on COSMIC 1
– Can meet threshold requirements of L1RD now that the AF has joined the team by allocating LV money to ground stations – without requesting additional money
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