Who We Are
- The Environmental Project Engineering Section (EPE) of the Environmental Test Engineering and Integration Branch (ETE&I), Code 549.
- Our team is composed of electrical, mechanical and environmental test engineers who provide a technical interface between flight projects and the ETE& I test facilities.
- Please contact the EPE if you anticipate the need for spacecraft, system or subsystem integration or testing facilities at GSFC.
What We Do
- We support in-house and out-of-house GSFC projects by providing an interface between the project and the ETE&I Facilities.
- We provide environmental test engineering support for your project from concept to launch.
How We Do It
- We assign an Environmental Project Engineer to each project as a member of the project team, who provides the interface between the project and the ETE&I facilities.
- We work with you to identify the test requirements, the required test facilities and to coordinate contacts with ETE&I test engineers.
- We work with ETE&I test managers to develop cost estimates for your overall test program.
- We review safety evaluation plans and provide them to the appropriate ETE&I test manager for test approval and planning.
- We create Work Directives (WDs) for your approval which provide the funding for performing the I&T tasks.
- We coordinate your schedule with the overall ETE&I schedules to help in test facility planning and identify schedule conflicts between projects.
- We monitor test progress and I&T costs.
- We serve on Source Evaluation Boards/Tech Panels.
- We develop and review statements of work for RFPs.
How May We Assist Your Project
- We can assist in your proposal effort, by providing environmental test and integration inputs tailored to your project requirements.
- We can assist in developing an Environments Specification for the different phases of your mission.
- We can provide Environmental Test Project Management for your project by:
- Helping you plan your activities at Goddard, including tests, test schedules, facilities, identifying unique data requirements, power requirements, potential safety hazards.
- Providing a single point-of-contact for environmental test and integration activities.
- Providing conceptual drawings to ensure selected test facilities and cleanrooms are adequate for your I&T campaign.
- Creating Work Directives (WDs) to provide approved funding for the facility activities.
- Monitoring project expenditure in the I&T facilities and provide you with timely reports.
- Monitoring progress of the I&T activities for you and helping resolve conflicts with other potential users.
