Add to NASA Daily News Summary 
For Release:  Sept. 6, 2000
Media Advisory m00-174a


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  CONTRACT FOR GODDARD SPACE CENTER SUPPORT AWARDED

  NASA SELECTS PROPOSALS FOR NEXT LEVEL OF RESEARCH



*****************************


NEWS RELEASES



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.  

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  David E. Steitz 
(Phone:  202/358-1730)
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Lynn 
Chandler (Phone: 301/614-5562)

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/2000/c00-j.txt



----------------------------


NASA SELECTS PROPOSALS FOR NEXT LEVEL OF RESEARCH

NASA has selected 110 promising research proposals from 97 
firms in 27 states for negotiation of phase-2 contract awards for 
its Small Business Innovative Research program. The total value of 
the awards is expected to be more than $66 million.

A total of 267 proposals were submitted by contractors completing 
phase-1 projects as part of their 1999 awards. All proposals were 
peer reviewed for both technical merit and commercial potential. 


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus 
(Phone: 202/358-1979)

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/2000/c00-i.txt



----------------------------


If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-
mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html



*****************************


The NASA Daily News Summary is issued each business day at
approximately 2 pm Eastern time. Members of the media who wish
to subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail
message to:

Brian.Dunbar@hq.nasa.gov



*****************************


end of daily news summary