July 23, 2009

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749


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

RELEASE: C09-036

NASA EXTENDS BIOASTRONAUTICS CONTRACT WITH WYLE

HOUSTON -- NASA has exercised a $201 million second option on a
contract with Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group of
Houston to provide continuing support to the Space Life Sciences
Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center. The option extends the
contract to April 30, 2013.

Under the bioastronautics contract, Wyle's work supports the
International Space Station, space shuttle, Constellation and Human
Research Programs. Wyle maintains readiness of Space Life Sciences
facilities and laboratories.

Wyle provides services for program integration; habitability and
environmental factors; human adaptation and countermeasures; space
medicine; flight hardware development and human research activities.
Option 2 is a continuation of previous work with the exception that
the space shuttle will be retired and no longer supported.

The majority of the work is performed at Johnson. Work also is
performed at launch and landing sites in the United States and
Russia, as well as at the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow.

The contract's base period was from May 1, 2003 to April 30, 2008.
Exercising Option 1 in July 2007 extended the contract to April 30,
2011. The base period and Option 1 have a combined value of $775
million. Exercising Option 2 brings the total potential value of the
contract to $976 million.

Major subcontractors include Barrios Technology, Bastion
Technologies,
Easi, Muniz Engineering and Lockheed Martin, all in Houston; Futron
of Bethesda, Md.; and the University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston.

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