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Remote Data Concentrator (RDC) Requirements for Diverse Mission Applications

Agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Location: Pasadena, CA
Amount: Amount not listed
Deadline: Closes in 5 days (Jul 23, 2026)
Posted: Jul 6, 2026
Set-aside: No Set aside used
NAICS code: 336413

What this contract is for

The California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), located at 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, is issuing the subject RFI to obtain information from spacecraft operators, mission planners, and system integrators regarding requirements for Remote Data Concentrators (RDC) for modern avionics platforms. This information will inform the development of RDC architectures and support subsequent vendor engagement. This RFI is to also gather information of potential qualified sources and to obtain your business size relative to the following NAICS code: 336413 - Other Aircraft Part and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing with a size standard of 1,250 employees. Responses to this RFI may be used by JPL to make appropriate decisions regarding a Small Business Set-Aside procurement. Purpose As NASA continues to advance avionics technologies used in a wide range of applications, new, higher-bandwidth intercommunications buses are becoming available. TSN Ethernet is being evaluated as an alternative to heritage avionics bus technologies, due to its combination of fault tolerance features, deterministic timing to support for high-rate real-time control loops, high bandwidth, and large commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ecosystem. However, it is likely that missions will need to fly legacy non-Ethernet devices such as UART, MIL-STD-1553, I2C, and CAN, as well as more modern high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.x or MIPI CSI-2. There is a need for products allowing flight computers, which will typically natively support either PCI-Express or TSN Ethernet, to communicate with devices on these other interfaces, while meeting strict fault tolerance, latency, and jitter guarantees. The purpose of this RFI is to assess RDC requirements across a wide rang...

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