Sep 17 2003
From The Space Library
NASA awarded its Kennedy Space Center Integrated Communications Services (KICS) contract, valued at approximately US$190.7 million, to InDyne Inc. of McLean, Virginia. Under the costplus-award fee/firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, InDyne would provide communications services at NASA's KSC in support of the Space Shuttle Program, ISS Program, Payload Carriers Program, and Launch Services Program Office payloads. The KICS contract was the first of five work packages in NASA's space mission communications and data services solicitation, which succeeded the NASA consolidated space operations contract (CSOC) and incorporated the requirements of the visual information technical contract as well as the telephone service requirements of the outsourcing desktop initiative. (NASA, “First Contract in SMCDS Solicitation Awarded To InDyne, Inc.,” contract release c03-ff, 17 September 2003, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_c03f_indyne_contract.html (accessed 28 January 2009).
NASA announced the successful completion at KSC of the Multi-Element Integrated Test (MEIT) between Kibo, the Japanese Experiment Module-Pressurized Module (JEM-PM), and NASA's Node 2. Only the third such integrated test carried out at KSC, its successful completion was a major milestone in demonstrating on-orbit performance of key ISS elements~on-orbit activation sequence, command-and-track systems that support audio and video systems, and caution-and-warning systems that monitor life systems in ISS modules. A team of international participants representing many organizations had carried out the MEIT. Members included ESA, Japan's NASDA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency; NASA and Boeing employees at NASA's KSC, JSC, DFRC, and GRC; as well as flight-crew members from the United States, Japan, and Brazil. (NASA, “Space Station Elements Successfully Complete Testing,” news release 03-298, 17 September 2003, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_03298_station_elements.html (accessed 28 January 2009).
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