NASA awards contract worth $1.3 billion Mission Operation Support program Technology and Equipment

Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland, has been awarded by NASA a nine-year contract to facilitate mission and flight crew operations assistance for the International Space Station and future human space exploration.

The ultimate cost of this single award, cost-plus-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract goes to $1.3 billion. The contract award commence Oct.1. There are two-year options that could expand the contract through Sept. 30, 2023. A firm-fixed cost 61-day phase-in period starting Aug.1, are included in the contract.

The Integrated Mission Operations Contract II (IMOC II) facilitates assistance and products for spaceflight activities capability development and execution for the Mission Operations Directorate, the International Space Station Program, consisting the Avionics and Software Office, and the Flight Crew Operations Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

This covers assistance to crew, flight controller, mission preparation, instructor and analyst training, as well as real-time mission performance activities associated to exploration missions and space station operations.

Operations efficiency development support is needed as NASA states requirements related with the rising options for the exploration drives and probable new programs, including but not restricted to the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Program, the Lunar Precursor Robotics Program, the Space Launch Systems Program, the Human Research Program, the Exploration Technology Program, the Commercial Crew Program, commercial cargo, and advanced technology and research.

Lockheed Martin Corporation’s LMSI Segment – Information Systems & Global Solutions, Gaithersburg, Maryland; GHG Corporation, Webster, Texas; GeoControl Systems, Inc., Houston; and Cimarron Software Services, Inc., Houston are the significant subcontractors to SGT, Inc.