July 22, 2009

Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja r alexander@nasa gov

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

CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-035

NASA SELECTS ICESAT-II LASER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CONTRACTOR

WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Fibertek Inc of Herndon, Va , for a Laser Systems Engineering Services contract The total value of this indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity cost-plus award fee contract is $35 million The period of performance is five years

The contractor will provide services related to the engineering and manufacturing of the ICESat-II mission These will include the formulation, design, development, flight fabrication, integration, testing, verification, and operations of the ICESat-II Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System instrument space flight laser and ground system hardware

ICESat-II will use precision laser-ranging techniques to measure the topography of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and the thickness characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice According to the National Research Council's Decadal Survey on Earth Science and Applications from Space, the mission will fill an urgent need in understanding the Earth's rapidly changing ice cover

Work will be performed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md , and at the contractor's facility

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