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Contract Award: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Hawthorne, California) – $16,737,600

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $16,737,600 modification (P00005) to contract FA8811-20-F-0007 to add mission-unique launch services to the USSF-67 mission fixed-price task order under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2. Work will be performed in Hawthorne, California; Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, and is expected to be completed Oct. 2, 2022. Fiscal 2021 space procurement funds in the amount of $6,054,089; and fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $7,582,317 will be obligated at the time of award. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity.



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