David E. Steitz
Headquarters, Washington, DC         September 6, 2000
(Phone:  202/358-1730)

Lynn Chandler
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/614-5562)

RELEASE:  C00-j

CONTRACT FOR GODDARD SPACE CENTER SUPPORT AWARDED

Space Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) of Lanham, MD, has 
been selected by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 
MD, for a contract to provide engineering, science, and 
technology support for the Space and Earth Science Directorates 
at Goddard. The contract is valued at $204.5 million over a 
period of five years.

Two other Maryland firms are major subcontractors on the 
effort.  They are Global Science & Technology, Inc. of 
Greenbelt and SM&A of Largo. 

The services required under this contract support a broad range 
of science disciplines including:  solar and space plasma 
physics, astrophysics and astronomy, planetary studies, 
atmospheric science and climatology, oceanography, land 
processes, geodynamics, and solid earth geographics.  Research 
and information technology services include scientific data 
analysis, modeling and simulation of physical processes, 
development of flight project data systems and large scale data 
management, archival and delivery systems, systems analysis, 
and programming. 

Work under the Cost-Plus-Award-Fee type contract will be done 
at Goddard, NASA's Center of Excellence for scientific 
research.  

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