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NASA Selects Goddard Program Analysis And Control Contractor

The James Web Space Telescope
by Staff Writers
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2008
 NASA has selected SP Systems Inc to provide ongoing mission support services under the Program Analysis and Control (PAAC III) contract. The work will support NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Flight Projects Directorate in Greenbelt.

The cost-plus award fee indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract will be effective from June 28, 2008 through June 27, 2013. The maximum ordering value of the contract is $200 million. This award is a follow-on to the PAAC II contract.

SP Systems Inc. will support newly proposed, under development and on-going programs including the Hubble and James Web Space Telescopes, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope. The contractor will provide planning and scheduling, configuration management, information technology, documentation and library services, and general business and general accounting services.

The Goddard Flight Projects Directorate is responsible for managing spacecraft flight hardware systems, ground systems, launch vehicles, and research instrumentation payloads for NASA science and exploration programs.

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