NASA Selects Engineering Evaluation and Test Contractor

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WASHINGTON -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.,
has selected the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, Calif., for the
Specialized Engineering Evaluation and Test Services contract. The
total value of this indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity
cost-plus fixed fee contract is $35 million. The period of
performance is 18 months.

Under this contract, the Aerospace Corporation will provide
specialized programmatic engineering and evaluation test services in
its role as a federally funded research and development center of the
U.S. Air Force. Aerospace Corporation will support activities related
to project management, systems and discipline engineering as well as
business and resource management at Goddard.

The contractor will provide on- and off-site project and
multidisciplinary engineering services, independent testing,
contractor on-site monitoring and independent evaluation of projects
and programs. The Aerospace Corporation also will provide leadership
or staffing for focused science and technology studies, advanced
systems architecture, systems engineering and independent reviews.

Task orders will be issued for services performed in all aspects of
mission and instrument development and implementation. Services
include components, subsystems, systems, science instruments and
observations. Task orders also will be issued for the Tracking and
Data Relay Satellite system engineering support and support for
launch, ground system, spacecraft, and suborbital craft, including
attached shuttle or space station payloads. Exploration vehicles or
spacecraft to support the exploration program also are included.

For information about NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/goddard