WASHINGTON, DC - March 09, 2010
-- NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a
contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston
to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the
agency's Johnson Space Center.
The Safety and Mission
Assurance Support Services contract helps ensure safety, reliability,
maintainability and quality in the International Space Station, space
shuttle and Constellation programs.
The cost-plus-award-fee
contract option that has been exercised continues services from May 1,
2010, through April 30, 2011. Work under the contract will be performed
at Johnson, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and NASA's White
Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
Significant subcontractors
in the work include Futron Corp. of Bethesda, Md.; GHG of Houston; M.H.
Chew of Livermore, Calif.; URS - Washington Division of Princeton,
N.J.; Management Technology Associates of Huntsville, Ala.; J&P
Technologies and JES Tech, both of Houston; SoHaR Incorporated of
Culver City, Calif.; and Texas Southern University of Houston.
For more information about NASA's Johnson Space Center, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/johnson