NASA Awards Shuttle/Space Station Engineering Support Contract

Jan. 18, 2006

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-3749

Lynnette Madison
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(281) 483-5111

CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-001

NASA AWARDS SHUTTLE/SPACE STATION ENGINEERING SUPPORT CONTRACT

NASA has awarded a $34 million contract to The Charles Stark Draper
Laboratory, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., to provide engineering
development and analysis for the space shuttle and International
Space Station. The work will support the guidance, navigation,
control and integrated avionics systems of the shuttle and station.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee award contract begins Feb. 1, 2006, with a
two-year base period. The base period is followed by one two-year
extension option and one eight-month extension option, making the
total potential contract length four years and eight months.

Draper's work will support functions in the Engineering Directorate at
NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston.

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