NASA recently awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a three-year, $340 million contract extension to provide facilities development and operations support of human spaceflight missions at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), according to a company statement.
Under the Facilities Development and Operations Contract (FDOC), Lockheed Martin provides engineering and operations assistance for the hardware, software, data and display systems used to train for, and execute, all human spaceflight missions supported by the mission operations directorate at JSC. FDOC supports the International Space Station (ISS), Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle and other programs that may be defined in the future.
Lockheed Martin spokesman Dior Ginyard said Tuesday the company, in partnership with NASA, is currently upgrading both the mission control center (MCC) and training systems to utilize commodity hardware and 21st century information technology (IT). This will increase the flexibility of the IT systems, Ginyard said, while driving down the cost of operations as well as increasing the IT security posture. Completion is expected by the end of the year.
Ginyard said the three-year deal includes a two-year base period worth $253 million with a one year option period worth $87 million. NASA holds the option on the third year, Ginyard said. The contract also provides systems services support within the Kraft Mission Control Center and the Garn Mission Simulator and Training Facility, as well as backup control centers. The contract is a cost-plus-award fee with baseline, level of effort and ID/IQ contract provisions, NASA said Aug. 1.
The lifetime value of the contract, which Ginyard said began Jan. 1, 2009, now exceeds $1 billion.