NASA Selects Supercomputing Support Firm

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration selected the Computer Sciences Corp. to provide supercomputing support at the Ames Research Center.

NASA said the 10-year, cost-plus-award-fee contract, has a potential value of approximately $600 million and consists of a two-year base period and eight one-year priced options.

The Lanham, Md., corporation will support the supercomputing services provided by NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames. The division operates some of the largest, most advanced supercomputers in the world and is the space agency’s lead supercomputing facility.

Officials said the company also might provide similar support to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and additional high performance computing support to other NASA field centers if all contract options are exercised.