# Starling Space Traffic Monitoring

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/80arc025pa003

- Solicitation number: 80ARC025PA003
- Notice type: Special notice
- Status: Closed. Deadline was March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT
- Department: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Contracting office: NASA Ames Research Center (80ARC0)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AR13 Space R&D Services; Space Flight, Research And Supporting Activities; Experimental Development
- Place of performance: Moffett Field, California
- First posted: March 14, 2025
- Last posted: March 14, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/204ff8e1c3de47eb89f1d20668cf7d68/view

## Description

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) has a requirement for NASA intends to award a sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract to ERADrive, Inc. for software algorithms and services to detect, identify, and track Resident Space Objects using star-tracker cameras on the Starling spacecraft swarm. The contract includes developing and integrating the software for the four-satellite system’s Xilinx Zynq processor and testing its scalability, response time, and capabilities over a 24-month period (May 2025–May 2027).

The work leverages the existing on-orbit infrastructure and includes delivering supporting documentation.

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) intends to issue a sole-source contract to acquire software algorithms and related services from ERADrive, Inc. This procurement is justified under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, as ERADrive, Inc. is the only responsible source capable of providing a demonstrated, on-orbit solution for detecting, identifying, and tracking Resident Space Objects using star-tracker cameras on the Starling spacecraft swarm’s Xilinx Zynq processor, with no other sources offering a comparable, operational system compatible with the existing infrastructure.

The Government intends to acquire a commercial product or service using FAR Part 12. Interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to perform the effort electronically via email to Joshua.D.Taggart not later than 5:00 CT p.m. on March 31, 2025. Such capabilities/qualifications will be evaluated solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct this acquisition on a competitive basis.

A determination by the Government not to compete this acquisition on a full and open competition basis, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. NASA Clause 1852.215-84, Ombudsman, is applicable. The Center Ombudsman for this acquisition can be found at : https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/procurement/regs/Procurement-Ombuds-Comp-Advocate-Listing.pdf

## Publications

- March 14, 2025: Special notice, due March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT. Notice 204ff8e1c3de47eb89f1d20668cf7d68. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/204ff8e1c3de47eb89f1d20668cf7d68/view

## Points of contact

- Joshua Taggart, joshua.d.taggart@nasa.gov, 6506040790

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