NASA MODIFIES SPACE STATION PAYLOAD INTEGRATION CONTRACT

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington Oct. 5, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

CONTRACT RELEASE: 05-001

NASA MODIFIES SPACE STATION PAYLOAD INTEGRATION CONTRACT

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has signed a modification to a
contract with The Boeing Company. The modification is valued at more than
$94 million.

The contract consolidates work done in support of international space
station payload integration activities. The modification transfers a portion
of work from one contract to another to consolidate activities. Work being
transferred includes: payload engineering integration; payload software
integration and flight software production; payload facility sustaining
engineering; and logistics support.

Boeing will continue to manage the overall space station payload integration
process. The company will develop and maintain requirements between NASA
payloads and the space station. Requirements include: station racks used to
house scientific experiments; develop and deliver software payload flight
configuration tables and flight displays; design and develop payload support
systems; perform analyses to support certification of station facility
racks; provide sustaining engineering in support of payload facilities; and
provide logistics, repairs and maintenance for flight and ground units.

The action modifies a completion form, cost-plus-award-fee contract. The
period of performance of this change is the first quarter of fiscal year
2006 to the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008.

The contract covers work at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space
Center, Fla., and Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. For
information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html

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