Kyle Herring
Headquarters, Washington                 Feb. 6, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

John Ira Petty
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: c02-b

LOCKHEED MARTIN AWARDED $78 MILLION CONTRACT ADDITION

     In addition to existing work, NASA has tasked Lockheed 
Martin Space Operations of Houston to provide support to the 
Earth Observing System Program's Earth to Polar Ground 
Network project under the Consolidated Space Operations 
Contract (CSOC).  

The tasks associated with this effort include procurement, 
installation, operation, and maintenance of telecommunication 
services. Specifically, the firm will provide circuits that 
will be used to provide data communication services between 
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the 
NASA facility in Spitzbergen, Norway; between Goddard and 
Gilmore Creek, Alaska; between Goddard and Poker Flats, 
Alaska; between Poker Flat Research Range and Gilmore Creek, 
Alaska.

The new work is valued at $78 million, should NASA exercise 
the five-year option of the contract. If the option period is 
exercised, the contract will run through December 31, 2008.  
Most of the work will be done at NASA Marshall Space Flight 
Center, Huntsville, Ala., under the cost-plus-award-fee 
contract.

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