COTS Tasks
- NASA Investor and Lessons Learned. Define NASA investor role with corresponding responsibilities and activites, including options to obtain appropriate insights.
- ROI and "if/then/else" assessments. Develop methodology and provide ROI assessments for COTS partnerships and future initiatives.
- Horizontal Insight (Competitive Landscape Assessment). Provide "horizontal insight" of the current emerging commercial space market, including both domestic and international organizations.
- New COTS Initiatives. Provide planning, fact finding, and coordination support for development of new NASA initiatives for extending COTS methodology to other VSE program elements such as Low-Impact Docking Systems, communication and navigation infrastructure, space power, etc.
- Commercial-Space Advisory Group. Establish and manage a Commercial Space Advisory Group of recognized aerospace and financial experts to provide independent inputs and reviews to NASA on items of interest to commercial space.
- Barriers to Entry and Developing the COTS "Eco-system". Provide an assessment of barriers to entry for emerging space companies, and strategies and opportunities for business goal alignment.
