Feb 10, 2010

Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087 beth dickey-1@nasa gov

RELEASE: 10-041

NASA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF GEORGE M LOW AWARD FOR QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE

WASHINGTON -- NASA presented its highest honor for quality and performance, the George M Low Award, to two companies that share a commitment to teamwork, safety, customer service, technical and managerial excellence

The Low award demonstrates the agency's commitment to promote excellence and continual improvement by challenging NASA's contractor community to be a global benchmark of quality management practices The 2009 awards were presented Wednesday, Feb 10, at NASA's seventh annual Project Management Challenge in Galveston, Texas, to:

United Space Alliance, or USA, of Houston USA provides ground operations, vehicle processing and logistics at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ; delivers specialty engineering and technical services at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala ; and designs and plans missions, trains astronauts, develops and verifies software, and executes mission operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston USA received the award in the large business service category

Applied Geo Technologies, or AGT, of Choctaw, Miss Tribally owned AGT is a small, disadvantaged provider of aerospace and defense services It provides scientific, laboratory and geographic analysis services; maintains measurement standards; and calibrates and repairs instrumentation at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Bay St Louis, Miss AGT received the award in the small business service category

The award was established in 1985 as NASA's Excellence Award for Quality and Productivity It was renamed in 1990 in memory of George M Low, an outstanding leader during his 27-year tenure at the agency Low was NASA's deputy administrator from 1969 to1976 and a leader in the early development of space programs

For more information about the George M Low Award, visit:

http://www hq nasa gov/office/codeq/gml

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