Amanda BeckmanHezel

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Amanda Beckman-Hezel Deputy Division
Manager Acquisition Division 1 March 2005
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JPL Yesterday
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or shall we say yesteryear.
JPL YESTERDAY
What a year!
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Seventeen JPL spacecraft and three major
instruments operating across the solar system
Two Voyagers on an interstellar mission
Spitzer studying stars and galaxies in the
infrared
GALEX studying UV universe
Cassini studying Saturn
Ulysses, Genesis, and ACRIMSAT studying the sun
JPL TODAY
Stardust returning comet dust
Topex/Poseidon, QuikSCAT, Jason 1, and GRACE
(plus ASTER, MISR, and AIRS instruments)
monitoring Earth
Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey orbiters
Spirit and Opportunity on Mars
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JPL Today
Background and Roles
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JPL TODAY
Background

• Federally (NASA) - owned
• University (Caltech) - operated
• 1.4 billion business base
• 5400 employees and contractors
• 177 acres
• 134 buildings and 57 trailers
• 670,000 net square feet of office space
• 860,000 net square feet of non-office space
  (e.g., labs)

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JPL TODAY
Our Role in the Competitive NASA

• JPL competes for its missions, just like industry
• NASA issues requirements, Announcement of
  Opportunities (AO), which JPL competes for along
  with other organizations, e.g.
• Discovery
• New Frontiers or
• Explorer class missions
• JPL tries to implement one or more missions
  in-house at all times, to maintain our skill base

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JPL Tomorrow Projected Opportunities
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JPL Implementation Modes1996 - Present

• JPL Executes Missions In 3 Modes
• System Subcontract JPL procures
• spacecraft from industry
• (total13)
• 2. Mixed Mode JPL and
• industry share
• Spacecraft development
• (total31)
• 3. In-House JPL performs all
• aspects of mission (total10)

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Missions and Instruments Under Development for
Launch 20072013

• Orbiting Carbon Observatory (07)
• Hamilton Sundstrand, Pomona CA
• Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles VA
• Mars Phoenix polar lander (07)
• Lockheed Martin Civil Space Systems, Denver CO
• Kepler (07) extra-solar planet transits
• Ball Aerospace, Boulder CO
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) (08)
• Ball Aerospace, Boulder CO

JPL TOMORROW
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Missions and Instruments cont.

• Mars Telecommunication Orbiter (09)
• Spacecraft provider not finalized
• Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) (TBD)
• Northrop Grumman Space Technology,
  El Segundo CA
• NUSTAR (10)
• Currently in pre-Phase A
• System subcontract
• Mars Science Laboratory (11)
• In-house build
• Prometheus (13)
• Northrop Grumman Space Technology,
  El Segundo CA

JPL TOMORROW
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Large Service Providers

• Lockheed Martin Information Technology Pasadena,
  CA
• PC/MAC hardware and services
• Raytheon, Pasadena CA
• Scientific data systems and analysis
• Computer Science Corp., Pasadena CA
• Network infrastructure
• All Star Service, San Diego CA
• Facility maintenance and operations
• Construction Services

JPL TOMORROW
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Who to Contact
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Connecting with Acquisition
Division 26 Acquisition Division Stan Jankowski
WHO TO CONTACT
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Connecting with the Business Opportunities Office
WHO TO CONTACT
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Getting to Know NASA and JPL Better

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• http//www.jpl.nasa.gov
• JPL Acquisition Division
• http//acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/default.htm
• JPL Business Opportunities Office
• http//acquisition.jpl.nasa.gov/boo
• NASA
• http//www.nasa.gov
• Small Business Administration
• http//www.sbaonline.sba.gov

WHO TO CONTACT
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Enjoy the Conference. Thank
you.