MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Science
Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) an indefinite-delivery,
indefinite-quantity contract to provide multidiscipline engineering
support services to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Maryland. The single-award contract has a five-year base period of
performance and an award ceiling of $620 million. Work will be performed
at Goddard.
The NASA Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services (OMES) II contract
covers engineering support to Goddard’s Applied Engineering and
Technology Directorate (AETD). SAIC will provide engineering services
for the study, design, systems engineering, development, fabrication,
integration, testing, verification, and operation of spaceflight,
airborne, and ground system hardware and software, including development
and validation of new technologies to enable future space and science
missions.
“SAIC is proud to be chosen to provide engineering support to NASA’s
scientific and exploration missions,” said Bob Genter, SAIC senior vice
president and general manager of the Federal Civilian Customer Group.
“The OMES II contract represents a large-scale and diverse effort
supporting NASA Goddard’s important work on current and future applied
engineering technologies. We will strive to bring innovative approaches
and solutions utilizing our science mission understanding and expertise,
and interdisciplinary creativity and capabilities among our teams.”
OMES II is a cost-plus fixed-fee contract whose period of performance
begins July 1 and ends after June 30, 2022. Under the contract, SAIC
will provide support to the components, subsystems, systems, and
instruments for suborbital craft and spacecraft. The company will also
perform sustaining engineering, performance assurance, and systems
safety.
AETD is the largest organization within Goddard, responsible for
providing multidiscipline engineering expertise to all of the space
center’s projects. AETD’s 1,300 engineers support Goddard’s mission to
build satellites and instruments, operate and control spacecraft, and
acquire and distribute data for the benefit of national and global earth
and space science.
About SAIC
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle
services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and
enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity
through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of
systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex
projects. SAIC’s more than 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and
mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government.
Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of
approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com.
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