NASA Awards Atmospheric Sciences Support Contract

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a contract to Science Systems and
Applications, Inc., of Lanham, Md., to provide atmospheric-sciences
support services.

This is a cost-plus fixed-fee indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity
contract with a maximum ordering value of $103 million. The period of
performance, including the phase-in period, is from April 1, 2012,
through April 30, 2017. This is a follow-on contract and a small
business set-aside acquisition.

The contractor will support projects that encompass all aspects of
design, development, testing, maintaining, calibrating and operating
suborbital instruments for atmospheric and solar observations.
Additional support will be provided to aid the implementation,
formulation and operation of satellite missions and the preparation
of research proposals, publications and manuscripts. The contract
also will support computing and software engineering efforts for
NASA-funded researchers using high-end computing resources.

The work will be performed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md., on behalf of the Earth Science Division at NASA
Headquarters, Washington
.
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