# SPACE TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED RESEARCH-FAST-TRACKING INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE (STAR-FISH) ARA - CALL 013: Topic Area 3. Anomaly Detection, Attribution & Protection, Oracle-Prime

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/fa945321s0001call013

- Solicitation number: FA9453-21-S-0001-CALL-013
- Notice type: Combined synopsis and solicitation
- Status: Closed. Deadline was September 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of the Air Force
- Agency: Department of the Air Force
- Contracting office: FA9453 AFRL RVK (FA9453)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AC33 National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Experimental Development
- Place of performance: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
- County: Bernalillo County (FIPS 35001). https://abierto.us/counties/bernalillo-county-nm-35001
- City: Kirtland AFB. https://abierto.us/cities/kirtland-afb-nm-3536300
- First posted: August 14, 2024
- Last posted: August 29, 2024
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6c6645d7ad4e4622af713c1983cbdb9b/view

## Description

**Amendment 2:** The Government has attached the timely Questions and Answers for this opportunity.

**Amendment 1:** The Government has revised the original SOO and replaced it in this call. All previous versions are obsolete and should be disregarded. Technical Description Oracle-Prime The amount of traffic to the Moon and lunar surface is expected to increase significantly over the next decade.

In the same way that the Department of Defense (DoD) monitors activity in space out to Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) in support of the interests and assets of the United States and its allies, Oracle-Prime will provide Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in this increasingly important cislunar domain to support freedom of navigation, international Lunar missions, and search and rescue of lost satellites and astronauts.

Oracle-Prime will augment the existing United States Space Force (USSF) SSA network with vital additional data, assist National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its mission to land astronauts safely on the Moon, and identify and track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids. Oracle-Prime will serve as the first SSA sensor of its kind operating in cislunar space, providing high- quality data collected by optical telescopes from a never-before-attempted perspective.

The Oracle-Prime spacecraft will operate about L1 in the Earth-Moon system to test space traffic monitoring techniques for objects transiting through or operating within cislunar space. Oracle-Prime will demonstrate capabilities for multiple SSA scenarios, including the discovery of previously unknown (untracked) cislunar objects and continuous tracking of known objects operating in the domain from Moon and beyond, referred to as XGEO.

Attachments are restricted as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), access must be requested. Questions shall be submitted to the outlined Contracting Officer and Contract Specialist no later than close of business 21 August 2024. Questions submitted via email shall include "STARFISH Call 013" in the subject line. Questions submitted after will not be answered.

## Publications

- August 14, 2024: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due September 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT. Notice 316e601c52384bd0805c1851e6b8e094. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/316e601c52384bd0805c1851e6b8e094/view
- August 16, 2024: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due September 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT. Notice b460eeea39364643824a9ab77dc96b31. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/b460eeea39364643824a9ab77dc96b31/view
- August 16, 2024: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due September 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT. Notice c74a5a9fe12b4282a0fd15ed4f528d90. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/c74a5a9fe12b4282a0fd15ed4f528d90/view
- August 29, 2024: Combined synopsis and solicitation, due September 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT. Notice 6c6645d7ad4e4622af713c1983cbdb9b. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/6c6645d7ad4e4622af713c1983cbdb9b/view

## Points of contact

- Winter Silva, winter.silva.1@spaceforce.mil
- Erin Fleming, erin.fleming@spaceforce.mil

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