Date: March 29th 2008

March 28, 2008

Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen e cole@nasa gov

Cynthia M O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md 301-286-4647 cynthia m ocarroll@nasa gov

CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-017

NASA AWARDS UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA DATA CENTER CONTRACT

WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center The total maximum value of the cost, no-fee contract is approximately $39 million over the five-year contract period

The archive center is devoted to the collection, processing, archiving, distribution and support of science data from, but not limited to, Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System Project in Greenbelt, Md , is responsible for providing access to data from NASA's Earth science program to scientific and other users

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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