PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose of: 1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Processing (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. 2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certified relief valve. 3. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the areas of Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels, Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F). These courses are approved by NASA M&P, NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification not available in the commercial marketplace. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose of:
1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Processing &Processes (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certified relief valve.
3. Composite / Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (CPV/COPV) testing and evaluation: While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into CPV/COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate CPV/COPV technology.
4. Hazardous Propellant Compatibility Assessments, Analysis, and Degradation Testing. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis, and unique interpretation capabilities for evaluation of propellant systems and propellant contaminated materials. WSTF maintains environmental controls, and permits specifically designed to evaluate hazardous propellants and their performance and compatibility with materials and systems. WSTF is the only hazardous propellant compatibility and degradation materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. Customers require specialized hazardous propellant assessments, analysis, and degradation testing when designing or qualifying systems for sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields.
5. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the various specialized technical areas of such as Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-NASA- STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels, Blast and Fragmentation, and Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F)Compatibility. These courses are approved by NASA M&P, NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- in-depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification not available in the commercial marketplace.
6. WSTF's Remote Hypervelocity Impact Test Laboratory possesses the unique ability to launch single projectiles as small as 0.05 mm and perform testing on hazardous targets under highly specialized conditions. Targets may be heated/cooled, pressurized, energized, or contain toxic and/or flammable materials. WSTF is the sole NASA facility to simulate micrometeoroid / orbital debris impacts for manned space flight, and is the only facility capable of repeatedly launching single projectiles smaller than 1.0 mm and is not available in the commercial marketplace. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose of:of allowing partner to access NASA WSTF's expertise and capabilities for materials, fluids and component testing, goods, services, and analysis in several technical areas.
1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Processing (M&P) M&P certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certified relief valve.
3. Composite / Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (CPV/COPV) testing and evaluation: While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into CPV/COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate CPV/COPV technology.
4. Hazardous Propellant Compatibility Assessments, Analysis, and Degradation Testing. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis, and unique interpretation capabilities for evaluation of propellant systems and propellant contaminated materials. WSTF maintains environmental controls, and permits specifically designed to evaluate hazardous propellants and their performance and compatibility with materials and systems. WSTF is the only hazardous propellant compatibility and degradation materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. Customers require specialized hazardous propellant assessments, analysis, and degradation testing when designing or qualifying systems for sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields.
5. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the various specialized technical areas of such as Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-NASA- STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels, Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F), and Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility. These courses are approved by NASA Materials and Processing (M&P), NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- in depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification not available in the commercial marketplace.
6. WSTF's Remote Hypervelocity Impact Test Laboratory possesses the unique ability to launch single projectiles as small as 0.05 mm and perform testing on hazardous targets under highly specialized conditions. Targets may be heated/cooled, pressurized, energized, or contain toxic and/or flammable materials. WSTF is the sole NASA facility to simulate micrometeoroid / orbital debris impacts for manned space flight, and is the only facility capable of repeatedly launching single projectiles smaller than 1.0 mm and is not available in the commercial marketplace. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose ofof allowing partner to access NASA WSTF's expertise and capabilities for materials, fluids and component testing, and analysis in several technical areas such as:
1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Material & Processing (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certified relief valve.
3. Composite / Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (CPV/COPV) testing and evaluation: While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into CPV/COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate CPV/COPV technology.
4. Hazardous Propellant Compatibility Assessments, Analysis, and Degradation Testing. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis, and unique interpretation capabilities for evaluation of propellant systems and propellant contaminated materials. WSTF maintains environmental controls, and permits specifically designed to evaluate hazardous propellants and their performance and compatibility with materials and systems. WSTF is the only hazardous propellant compatibility and degradation materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. Customers require specialized hazardous propellant assessments, analysis, and degradation testing when designing or qualifying systems for sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields.
5. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the areas of Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels, Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F). These courses are approved by NASA M&P, NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, These specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- in-depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners applications and partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification that cannot currently be obtained from the commercial marketplace.
6. WSTF's Remote Hypervelocity Impact Test Laboratory possesses the unique ability to launch single projectiles as small as 0.05 mm and perform testing on hazardous targets under highly specialized conditions. Targets may be heated/cooled, pressurized, energized, or contain toxic and/or flammable materials. WSTF is the sole NASA facility to simulate micrometeoroid / orbital debris impacts for manned space flight, and is the only facility capable of repeatedly launching single projectiles smaller than 1.0 mm and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
7. The High Energy Blast Facility (HEBF) at WSTF, possesses the unique capability to perform highly energetic test and evaluation. This area is rated for test and evaluation of hardware with a potential of an equivalent 500 Lb. T-n-T explosive release. This explosive release can occur from high pressure gas storage (pressure vessels or boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) or chemical explosions from hazardous fluids such at oxygen, hydrogen or hypergolic propellants. The area has two instrumented test pad(s). Instrumentation include dynamic over-pressurization, pressure, temperature and high speed photogrammetry. WSTF ability to perform and evaluate large scale explosive testing with sensitive and hazardous fluids and high pressure is unique within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace or other NASA facilities. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose of:of allowing partner to access NASA JSC expertise and capabilities for materials, fluids and component testing, and analysis in several technical areas.
1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Processing (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certified relief valve.
3. Composite / Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (CPV/COPV) testing and evaluation: While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into CPV/COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate CPV/COPV technology.
4. Hazardous Propellant Compatibility Assessments, Analysis, and Degradation Testing. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis, and unique interpretation capabilities for evaluation of propellant systems and propellant contaminated materials. WSTF maintains environmental controls and permits specifically designed to evaluate hazardous propellants and their performance and compatibility with materials and systems. WSTF is the only hazardous propellant compatibility and degradation materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. Customers require specialized hazardous propellant assessments, analysis, and degradation testing when designing or qualifying systems for sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields.
5. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the various specialized technical areas of such as Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-NASA- STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels, Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F), and Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility. These courses are approved by NASA M&P, NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- in-depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification not available in the commercial marketplace
6. WSTF's Remote Hypervelocity Impact Test Laboratory possesses the unique ability to launch single projectiles as small as 0.05 mm and perform testing on hazardous targets under highly specialized conditions. Targets may be heated/cooled, pressurized, energized, or contain toxic and/or flammable materials. WSTF is the sole NASA facility to simulate micrometeoroid / orbital debris impacts for manned space flight and is the only facility capable of repeatedly launching single projectiles smaller than 1.0 mm and is not available in the commercial marketplace. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose of:of allowing partner to access NASA WSTF's expertise and capabilities for materials, fluids and component testing, and analysis in the following technical areas.
1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Processing (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ASME certified relief valve.
3. Composite / Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (CPV/COPV) testing and evaluation: While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into CPV/COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate CPV/COPV technology.
4. Hazardous Propellant Compatibility Assessments, Analysis, and Degradation Testing. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis, and unique interpretation capabilities for evaluation of propellant systems and propellant contaminated materials. WSTF maintains environmental controls, and permits specifically designed to evaluate hazardous propellants and their performance and compatibility with materials and systems. WSTF is the only hazardous propellant compatibility and degradation materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. Customers require specialized hazardous propellant assessments, analysis, and degradation testing when designing or qualifying systems for sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields.
5. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the various specialized technical areas of such as Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-NASA- STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure VesselsCOPV, and Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F)Compatibility. These courses are approved by NASA M&P, NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- in-depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification not available in the commercial marketplace.
6. WSTF's Remote Hypervelocity Impact Test Laboratory possesses the unique ability to launch single projectiles as small as 0.05 mm and perform testing on hazardous targets under highly specialized conditions. Targets may be heated/cooled, pressurized, energized, or contain toxic and/or flammable materials. WSTF is the sole NASA facility to simulate micrometeoroid / orbital debris impacts for manned space flight, is the only facility capable of repeatedly launching single projectiles smaller than 1.0 mm and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
7. The High Energy Blast Facility (HEBF) at WSTF, possesses the unique capability to perform highly energetic testing and evaluation. This area is rated for test and evaluation of hardware with a potential of an equivalent 500 Lb. T-n-T explosive release. This explosive release can occur from high pressure gas storage (pressure vessels or boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) or chemical explosions from hazardous fluids such at oxygen, hydrogen or hypergolic propellants. The area has two instrumented test pad(s). Instrumentation includes dynamic over-pressurization, pressure, temperature and high- speed photogrammetry. WSTF's ability to perform and evaluate large scale explosive testing with sensitive and hazardous fluids and high pressure is unique within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace or other NASA facilities. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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PURPOSE AND IMPLEMENTATION. This Umbrella Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement" or "Umbrella Agreement") shall be for the purpose of:of allowing partner to access NASA WSTF's expertise and capabilities for materials, fluids and component testing, goods, services, and analysis in several technical areas.
1. NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF-629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and & Processing (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
2. Component processing capabilities: In the area of component processing (precision cleaning, refurbishment, modifications, machining, and calibration capabilities and related queries such as gas sampling) WSTF combines highly reliable precision cleaning up to a level 50A with a long performance history of effectively processing articles for safe use in hazardous oxygen, hydrogen, and propellant systems, resulting in a unique expertise that can help partners develop and operate high performance systems safely. WSTF is also unique in its capability to maintain clean during component processing (such as in calibration) and to safely handle and dispose of hazardous propellant fluids such as Hypergols that may be found in partner provided hardware for cleaning and refurbishment. WSTF is also the only known National Board Inspection Code (NBIC) certified facility in the world that can maintain clean on relief valves during the assembly and testing portion, resulting in a precision cleaned American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certified relief valve.
3. Composite / Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (CPV/COPV) testing and evaluation: While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into CPV/COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate CPV/COPV technology.
4. Hazardous Propellant Compatibility Assessments, Analysis, and Degradation Testing. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis, and unique interpretation capabilities for evaluation of propellant systems and propellant contaminated materials. WSTF maintains environmental controls and permits specifically designed to evaluate hazardous propellants and their performance and compatibility with materials and systems. WSTF is the only hazardous propellant compatibility and degradation materials and component test facility within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace. Customers require specialized hazardous propellant assessments, analysis, and degradation testing when designing or qualifying systems for sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields.
5. Flight / Sensitive System Specialized Training. NASA WSTF offers specialized courses in the various specialized technical areas of such as Oxygen Compatibility, NASA-NASA- STD-6001 Testing, Precision / Field Cleaning, Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessels, Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility and Blast and Fragmentation (B&F), and Hazardous Propellant Material Compatibility. These courses are approved by NASA M&P, NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC), NASA Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA), and Range Safety. Though general topic courses may be commercially available, specialized courses provided by NASA WSTF cover more in- in-depth material with unique emphasis on flight and sensitive / reactive system applications. Partners developing or applying hardware to space flight or other sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications may require unique flight application specific training as well as NASA training certification not available in the commercial marketplace.
6. WSTF's Remote Hypervelocity Impact Test Laboratory possesses the unique ability to launch single projectiles as small as 0.05 mm and perform testing on hazardous targets under highly specialized conditions. Targets may be heated/cooled, pressurized, energized, or contain toxic and/or flammable materials. WSTF is the sole NASA facility to simulate micrometeoroid / orbital debris impacts for manned space flight and is the only facility capable of repeatedly launching single projectiles smaller than 1.0 mm and is not available in the commercial marketplace.
7. WSTF's High Energy Blast Facility (HEBF) possesses the unique capability to perform highly energetic test and evaluation. This area is rated for test and evaluation of hardware with a potential of an equivalent 500 lb TNT explosive release. This explosive release can occur from high pressure gas storage (pressure vessels or boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) or chemical explosions from hazardous fluids such at oxygen, hydrogen or hypergolic propellants. The area has two instrumented test pads. Instrumentation includes dynamic over-pressurization, pressure, temperature and high speed photogrammetry. WSTF's ability to perform and evaluate large scale explosive testing with sensitive and hazardous fluids and high pressure is unique within NASA and is not available in the commercial marketplace or other NASA facilities. The Parties shall execute one (1) Annex Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Annex") concurrently with this Umbrella Agreement. The Parties may execute subsequent Annexes under this Umbrella Agreement consistent with the purpose and terms of this Umbrella Agreement. This Umbrella Agreement shall govern all Annexes executed hereunder; no Annex shall amend this Umbrella Agreement. Nevertheless, Annexes may include an additional sentence to Article 8.C. (titled "Liability"), in standard approved form, which shall be applicable solely to the activities conducted under such Annex. Each Annex will detail the specific purpose of the proposed activity, responsibilities, schedule and milestones, and any personnel, property or facilities to be utilized under the task. This Umbrella Agreement takes precedence over any Annexes. In the event of a conflict between the Umbrella Agreement and any Annex concerning the meaning of its provisions, and the rights, obligations and remedies of the Parties, the Umbrella Agreement is controlling.
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