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Sept. 9, 2009

J. D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
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Alan Brown
Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.
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CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-044

NASA AWARDS SOFIA CONTRACT OPTION TO L-3 COMMUNICATIONS

WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded a contract modification to L-3
Communications Integrated Systems, L.P., of Waco, Texas, for further
developmental engineering in support of the Stratospheric Observatory
for Infrared Astronomy mission, known as SOFIA.

This option modification under the base contract L-3 currently holds
extends the period of performance through Dec. 31, 2009. The option
is valued at approximately $8.7 million, bringing the total value of
the contract to about $37.7 million.

The initial cost-plus-award-fee contract took effect Feb. 9, 2007,
with a 23-month base period extending through Dec. 31, 2008, with
three one-year options. Two additional one-year option periods yet to
be exercised could extend the agreement through Dec. 31, 2011.

Under the base contract, L-3 Communications is responsible for
completing development and testing of the SOFIA Airborne System,
including modification, fabrication, installation, integration, and
verification of various systems to meet mission requirements. Option
1 of the contract covers completion of the SOFIA subsystems, such as
the mission control and communication system. The option also
includes engineering and flight test support for the telescope cavity
door-open flight tests and early science flight programs, and support
of reviews leading to NASA public aircraft certification.

The SOFIA program includes a high-altitude airborne observatory
consisting of a German-built 2.5-meter (100 inch) infrared telescope
mounted in a cavity in the rear fuselage of a highly modified Boeing
747SP jetliner. Scientific instruments housed in the observatory will
be capable of celestial observations ranging from visible light
through the sub-millimeter far-infrared spectrum. NASA and the German
Aerospace Center are developing SOFIA jointly.

For more details about SOFIA and its mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/sofia

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