Lucrative NASA Contract Awarded to Computer Sciences Corp. Of Lanham

By & Wire Reports

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it awarded a contract to Computer Sciences Corp., of Lanham, to provide supercomputing support services at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The contract has a potential value of approximately $600 million. The 10-year, cost-plus-award-fee contract consists of a two-year base period and eight one-year priced options, with a maximum value of $597,083,422 if all options are exercised. The California-based company also may provide supercomputing support to the NASA Center for Computational Sciences facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, and additional high-performance computing support to other NASA field centers as needed, if those options are exercised.

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