NASA Awards Space Station Cargo Mission Services Contract

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a contract with a potential value of
$171 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., for
support of International Space Station cargo mission services.

The contract will support planning, coordination, preparation and
packing of standardized containers for cargo missions to the station
by international partner and commercial cargo vehicles. Lockheed
Martin will process flight crew equipment including clothing and
personal hygiene items, housekeeping items, audio and video
equipment, laptop computers, batteries and crew survival equipment.
The contract also includes provisions to support similar services for
future vehicles to the station.

A three-month phase-in period and the three-year basic period of the
cost-plus-award-fee contract have a total estimated value of $85
million. The contract phase-in period begins Jan. 1, 2011. The basic
period extends from April 1, 2011, through March 31, 2014. Exercising
four one-year extension options worth a total of $86 million would
bring the contract value to $171 million.

Work on the contract will be performed at NASA's Johnson Space Center
in Houston and other Texas locations. Major Texas subcontractors
include Bastion Technologies and Dittmar Associates, both of Houston;
GHG Corp. of Webster; LZ Technology in Alvin; Rothe Enterprises in
San Antonio; and the University of Texas at El Paso.

For more information on the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Source: NASA

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