RFQ for Engineering Support Services

The U.S. Naval Observatory is seeking a contractor to provide support for a one-year period for the transportation of observational data from potentially compromised sources to support EOP determination. The contractor will also provide consultation for special processing due to complex geodetic experiments and assistance with electronic-VLBI connections. The required services include data validation, buffering, and inspection to mitigate the vulnerability of accepting data from international sources. The key requirements of the job are: • Providing support for the transportation of observational data • Consulting for special processing due to complex geodetic experiments • Assisting with electronic-VLBI connections • Validating, buffering, and inspecting data to mitigate vulnerability • Making modifications to the 20m Antenna Backend to make it VGOS compliant up to 14 GHz.