NASA GSFC is considering missions to Solar System targets that may be addressed infuture New Frontiers opportunities. NASA GSFC is seeking partners for spacecraftsubsystems for potential pre proposal studies, and eventual proposals. The potentialmissions are designed to meet the science goals of the New Frontiers programs, ascurrently described in the recent Planetary Decadal Survey. This opportunity requests aspecific subsystem listed in section 2.0 of the attached POD.GSFC mission teams will be submitting proposals to the New Frontiers Announcement ofOpportunity (AO) expected to be release in 2015. The AO is a two-step process, with thefirst proposal response being primarily focused on the merit and feasibility of thescience objectives of the proposed mission. The initial submissions will then bedown-selected, and the resultant subset of proposals will be funded to perform Phase Aconcept studies. During Phase A, proposals will be expanded and refined to detail theentire end-to-end mission life cycle concept, with greater attention to engineeringimplementation. While the AO schedule cannot be specified at this time, the following isestimated based on earlier AOs and related missions: AO release 2015 Proposals due 2015 Phase A selection TBD Phase A concept study report 2016 Mission selection TBD Preliminary Design Review TBD Critical Design Review TBD Launch 2020/2022 Timeframe End of Operations Launch + 2 to 10years depending upon targetThis partnership opportunity is being issued to select teaming partners to dopre-proposal mission studies and to help prepare the GSFC New Frontiers candidate missionconcepts for the initial proposal submittal; to assist in the Phase A concept studies ifthe mission is down-selected; and to provide a flight qualified system should the missionbe selected for flight. GSFC is interested in finding partners for the subsystems surrounding the samplecollection, retrieval, and storage of material from a comet, as well as the integrationof these systems. For the portion of this partnership opportunity dealing with the preparation of theinitial submission to the New Frontiers AOs there will be no exchange of funds betweenthe teaming partners. Funding will be available for Phase A and subsequent phases shouldthe mission be competitively selected for those additional phases.

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