To accomplish the ORS Office’s mission, a ORS Rapid Response Space Center initially co-located within the existing satellite assembly and test buildings at Kirtland AFB is envisioned to execute a significant number of the Tier 2 and 3 demands. The classification of the satellites and data could be unclassified to classified at the SCI level. The ORS Rapid Response Space Center will be tasked to:
- Meet urgent operational needs of the JFCs when needed, whether in days, weeks, or months by rapidly executing Tier 2 capabilities that were previously developed and qualified from industry outside of the Chile Works and executing Tier 3 capabilities that adapt existing Tier 2 inventory to accommodate unanticipated needs.
- Chose the relevant mission configuration
- Assemble and test satellite vehicle and compatibility with ground systems (from components, modules, or line replaceable units)
- Deliver satellite vehicle to launch site and provide technical support at launch site
- Deliver ground system control software/database to a satellite operations center
- Provide technical support during early on orbit checkout
- Maintain proficiency, inventory, and capability to meet the urgent needs
The functions and relations of the ORS community, mission partners, industry, and the Chile Works is depicted below in figure 1 and the Chile Works operational process flow is shown in figure 2.
Figure 1
Figure 2
There are four major phases associated with the Chile Works. First is the initial establishment of the capability (processes and equipment, procedures, initial inventory); second is establishing routine operations (maintenance, training, process improvement); third is supporting user training/planning functions (wargames, exercises); and fourth is responding to urgent needs.
To accomplish this, three major services or functions must occur within the Chile Works. The services/functions required are:
Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I). The contractor shall be required to provide the necessary resources to staff, manage, and rapidly execute the following SE&I functions.
- Establish the equipment and tool requirements, and coordinate the procurement necessary for the rapid assembly, integration and test of ORS satellites.
- In coordination with external industry and government, establish the functions, processes, production and test flow for rapid AI&T process that supports the Tier 2 and 3 timelines.
- Develop and manage a Mission Assurance Plan that will provide the statistics necessary to manage risk and build confidence in a Chile Works operation.
- Oversee integration of the satellite vehicles.
- Provide support to the ORS Office to conduct mission planning and analysis.
- Provide on-call support to Launch site.
- Provide on-call support to ground systems operations for Launch and Early Operations.
- Coordinate and participate in managing external interfaces and standards necessary to provide timely Tier 2 and 3 capabilities.
- Provide configuration control and maintenance of the processes, interface control documents, assembly drawings, software, top level satellite vehicle bus and payload details, models, simulation, and databases associated with the Chile Works
- Provide engineering support for configuration change requests
- Monitor and validate test results
- Improve the processes necessary to decrease the timeline to launch, decrease cost, increase reliability, or lower risk.
- Support external analysis to manage Tier 3 innovation using Tier 2 assets.
- Support ORS Office concepts development and planning to increase mission area capability
- Provide support for Exercises and Wargames.
- Planning, execution and analysis
- Script scenarios
Integrated Logistics Support (ILS). The contractor shall be required to provide the necessary resources to staff, manage and rapidly execute the following ILS functions.
- Manage and procure long lead parts (major assemblies, modules, and components) necessary to meet the timeliness associated with Tier 2 and 3 as directed by the government to meet planned test and force structure requirements.
- Receive, checkout, and stock parts.
- Coordinate shipment of the assembled satellite vehicles.
- Host and manage the Technical Data associated with the Chile Works.
- Support data, parts, and system configuration control.
- Legacy component conversion to ORS architecture. (e.g. develop software interfaces as necessary such as xTEDS.)
- Conduct commonality, supportability analysis and trades to improve timeliness, reduce cost, improve reliability, and reduce risk.
- Develop, manage and execute training of the Chile Works functions.
- Manage the repair of parts.
- Conduct Reliability Growth analysis.
- Provide Failure Reporting and Analysis.
- Provide support for Exercises and Wargames.
- Planning, execution and analysis
- Script scenarios
Assembly, Integration, and Test (AI&T). The contractor shall be required to provide the necessary resources to staff and rapidly execute the following AI&T functions.
- Install and checkout equipment (e.g. unique handling equipment, additional shock and vibration tables, unique storage capability) necessary to operate the Chile Works.
- Assemble, integrate, and test buses, payloads, satellite vehicles
- Prepare for shipment of the satellite vehicles
- Provide on-site support to Launch site.
- Provide on-call support to ground systems operations for Launch and Early Operations.
- Maintain calibration of tools and equipment in the Chile Works.
- Improve the processes necessary to decrease the timeline to launch, decrease cost, increase reliability, or lower risk.
- Provide feedback on rapid test and assembly
- Provide support for Exercises and Wargames.
- Planning, execution and analysis
- Script scenarios
