Author Topic: NASA: Contract options with USA and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne  (Read 1240 times)

Offline Chris Bergin

RELEASE: C11-016

NASA NEGOTIATES SIX, ONE-MONTH OPTIONS WITH UNITED SPACE ALLIANCE

HOUSTON -- NASA has incorporated six, one-month content adjustments
that provide options for continuation of services to support fly-out
of the space shuttle manifest beyond Thursday, March 31. If all
options are exercised, this extension to the Space Program Operations
Contract with United Space Alliance (USA) of Houston is valued at
$436,480,084. NASA plans to exercise four, one-month options to
support the current shuttle manifest.

The contract covers work and support for mission design and planning;
software development and integration; astronaut and flight controller
training; system integration; flight operations; vehicle processing,
launch and recovery; vehicle sustaining engineering; flight crew
equipment processing; and space shuttle and International Space
Station-related support to the Constellation Program. The contract is
a cost reimbursement contract, with provisions for award and
performance fees.

Work in support of this contract is performed at USA's facilities in
Houston; Huntsville, Ala.; NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; major
subcontractor facilities in Huntington Beach, Calif.; Houston; and
Cape Canaveral, Fla. Significant subcontractors include Barrios
Technology of Houston; Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston; Lockheed
Martin Commercial Space Systems of Newtown, Pa.; Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif.; and The Boeing Company of Houston.


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Offline Chris Bergin

RELEASE: C11-017

NASA AWARDS SPACE SHUTTLE MAIN ENGINE CONTRACT MODIFICATION

HOUSTON -- NASA has signed a $36.9 million contract modification to
space shuttle main engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne of
Canoga Park, Calif., to provide continued shuttle main engine
prelaunch and launch support from April 1 through July 31.

The contract modification also provides two additional options that if
exercised, would bring the potential contract amount for all six
months to $56 million.

This modification supports the flyout of the Space Shuttle Program and
brings the total potential value of the contract to $2.29 billion.
The original contract began on Jan. 1, 2002.

The majority of the work will take place at Pratt & Whitney
Rocketdyne's headquarters in Canoga Park.

Three main engines and two solid rocket boosters provide the thrust to
launch the space shuttle. At 14-feet long and seven-and-a-half feet
in diameter at the nozzle exit, the liquid propellant main engines
have a combined thrust of more than 1.2 million pounds.

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