NASA Selects Icesat-Ii Laser Systems Engineering Contractor

July 22, 2009

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1761


Cynthia M. O'Carroll
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-4647


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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