NASA Extends Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract

WASHINGTON -- 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

Source: NASA