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1. NASA Awards Human Health and Performance Contract to SAIC

Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:31:46 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Awards Human Health and Performance Contract to SAIC

August 21, 2013

William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #C13-038

NASA Awards Human Health and Performance Contract to SAIC

NASA has selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Va , to provide biomedical, medical and health services in support of all human spaceflight programs at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston

The contract begins Oct 1 and has a maximum potential value of $1 76 billion, including a five-year base period and two option periods that could extend the contract through 2023 The contract is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-award-fee task orders

The new human health and performance contract will support many NASA programs and offices including the International Space Station, Orion, Advanced Exploration Systems, Human Research, Commercial Crew and Cargo, and Space Technology Mission Directorate

Contract services to Johnson's Human Health and Performance Directorate and the Human Research Program include fundamental and applied biomedical research, biotechnology development, operational space medicine and occupational health and medicine

SAIC also will manage clinical, biomedical, space food and environmental laboratories; behavioral sciences; human factors engineering; spacecraft environment monitoring and management Additional services include biomedical engineering; biomedical flight hardware requirements, design, fabrication, testing and operation; and payload and hardware integration with the International Space Station

Work under the contract will be performed at Johnson and SAIC facilities

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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