Fri, Apr 24, 2015
Agreement Worth $1.5 Billion To Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group Of Houston
NASA has extended and increased the value of its contract with Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group of Houston to provide continuing support to the Human Health and Performance Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The cost-plus-award-fee contract modification increases the overall value of the contract by $97 million to $1.5 billion. The modification extends the contract up to nine months, including one five-month base and four one-month options. With the extension, the contract performance period will end Jan. 31, 2016.
Services provided under the current contract support the International Space Station, Orion and Human Research programs. Work includes medical services, research, technology development, engineering, operations and flight hardware development to support the health, safety and productivity of crews living and working in space. Wyle maintains readiness of facilities and laboratories and provides services for program integration, habitability and environmental factors, human adaptation and countermeasures, space medicine, flight hardware development and human research.
Work under the contract is performed at Johnson and Ellington Field in Houston, as well as NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Major subcontractors include Lockheed Martin Space Operations, Bastion Technologies and Muniz Engineering Inc., all in Houston.
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