Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington July 27, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: C04-o

NASA EXERCISES LOCKHEED MARTIN MISSION SUPPORT CONTRACT
OPTION

NASA has exercised a $178.5 million, two-year contract
option with Lockheed Martin Space Operations of Houston for
Space Shuttle and International Space Station mission
operations support work.

This will be the third option period of the contract known as
the Mission Support Operations Contract (MSOC). The MSOC is a
cost-plus-award-fee contract.

Under the MSOC, Lockheed Martin and its subcontractors
perform space operations and data services support work for
Space Shuttle missions and International Space Station
expeditions. MSOC provides mission operations and planning
ground systems for the Mission Control Center at NASA's
Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, the Houston Support
Room/Backup Command and Control Center in Russia and an
Integrated Planning System.

In addition, ground systems services are provided for JSC's
Emergency Operations Center, the Electronic System Test
Laboratory and Space Communications Integration.

Work covered under the option will begin in October 2004 and
continue through September 2006. The option value is
$178,542,564, bringing the total contract value to
$246,298,890.

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