March 9, 2010

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

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james a hartsfield@nasa gov

CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-012

NASA EXTENDS JOHNSON SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT

WASHINGTON -- NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center

The Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services contract helps ensure safety, reliability, maintainability and quality in the International Space Station, space shuttle and Constellation programs

The cost-plus-award-fee contract option that has been exercised continues services from May 1, 2010, through April 30, 2011 Work under the contract will be performed at Johnson, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico

Significant subcontractors in the work include Futron Corp of Bethesda, Md ; GHG of Houston; M H Chew of Livermore, Calif ; URS - Washington Division of Princeton, N J ; Management Technology Associates of Huntsville, Ala ; J&P Technologies and JES Tech, both of Houston; SoHaR Incorporated of Culver City, Calif ; and Texas Southern University of Houston

For more information about NASA's Johnson Space Center, visit:

http://www nasa gov/johnson

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