Kyle Herring
Headquarters, Washington                                Feb. 5, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

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

RELEASE: c02-c

DYNCORP AWARDED $148 MILLION OPERATIONS SUPPORT CONTRACT AT JSC

     Dyncorp Technical Services LLC of Forth Worth, Texas, has been 
awarded a five-year, $148 million Center Operations Support Services 
contract for work to be performed at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) 
in Houston.

The hybrid cost-plus-award fee/firm-fixed-price contract also 
includes operation support services for NASA facilities at Ellington 
Field and at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, both in Houston.

Tasks to be performed include maintenance, operation and repair of 
JSC's physical plant; engineering, design and minor construction; 
grounds maintenance; facility-related information management; 
logistics, transportation, inventory management, rigging and hauling 
and custodial support.

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