Nov 7 2011
From The Space Library
CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-045 NASA SELECTS CONTRACTOR FOR ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC SERVICES CLEVELAND --
NASA has selected Vantage Partners LLC of Lanham, Md., to provide engineering and scientific services to the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Under this contract, Vantage Partners LLC will perform a wide range of engineering, research and technology development, operations and project management services at Glenn. These services will support the aeronautics and space exploration work assigned to the center by the agency, and will include delivering engineering products ranging from initial concepts through complete flight systems. This contract provides for a cost-plus-fixed-fee base effort and a cost-plus-award-fee indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity effort. The maximum value of the contract, including both work elements, is $240 million during a possible five-year performance period. Vantage Partners LLC is a Small Business Administration 8(a) joint venture formed by Vantage Systems Inc., of Lanham Md., and Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. of Greenbelt, Md.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-228 NASA HOSTS TELECONFERENCE ON EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTIC HOT SPOT GREENBELT, Md. --
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 9, to discuss a new field campaign season on one of Antarctica's "hottest" spots: the rapidly-melting Pine Island Glacier. The Pine Island Glacier ice shelf expedition, an international effort led by seven institutions, aims to peek beneath the ice and determine how the ocean is melting the glacier's underbelly. During the news conference, panelists will discuss this season's scientific goals, state-of-the-art data collection, and the methods used to deploy staff and equipment on this crevasse-ridden, isolated edge of Antarctica. Teleconference participants are: - Robert Bindschadler, glaciologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. - Sridhar Anandakrishnan, geophysicist, Penn State University, University Park, Pa. - Timothy Stanton, oceanographer, Naval Postgraduate School, San Diego - Scott Borg, director of Antarctic sciences, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va.
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