Aug 13 2015

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Release C15-030 NASA Selects Contractor for Propellants, Life Support Services

NASA has selected URS Federal Technical Services, Inc. of Germantown, Maryland, an AECOM company, to fulfill the KSC Propellants and Life Support Services Contract (KPLSS) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

The KPLSS contract is a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum performance period of five years, including one two-year option and one one-year option. The contract has a potential maximum value of $93 million.

Propellant services include receipt, storage, repackaging and distributing 25 different fluids, as well as the management and maintenance of more than 150 major mobile and fixed propellant systems. Life Support services include the delivery, recycling, rebuilding, operation, maintenance and manufacture of protective and respiratory equipment. Engineering services include project management, configuration management, fluids management and engineering, design engineering, and pressure vessels and systems support.

KPLSS serves a critical role in executing and supporting mission requirements by providing propellants and life support operations, maintenance, and engineering support and equipment for NASA and other launch processing facilities.

Release C15-029 NASA Awards Contract for Support Services at Glenn Research Center

NASA has selected Alcyon Technical Services JV, LLC of Huntsville, Alabama to provide technical information, administrative and logistics support services at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a potential total value of $175.6 million.

The potential period of performance is 7.5 years, which includes a one-year base period, four one-year option periods, two one-year award term periods, and a six month option to extend services.

Under this contract, Alcyon Technical Services will provide a variety of institutional service including logistics, stock purchases, media services, records management and archives, library and learning center, metrology services, and administrative and clerical services. The services will be performed at Glenn and the agency’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

Release C15-028 NASA Awards Contract for IT Services at Langley Research Center

NASA has awarded its Langley Information Technology Enhanced Services II (LITES II) contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of McLean, Virginia for information technology (IT) services at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

This firm fixed price, indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract runs from Nov. 1 to Oct. 21, 2020 and has a total value of $200 million. The work will take place at Langley and at SAIC’s Hampton facility, and will support other NASA centers, industry and government partners.

LITES II provides for IT support services in the areas of science and engineering applications, some center infrastructure applications, data center support, business management applications support, and IT project management support. The IT services range from more traditional IT services, such as system administration, to more specialized IT that involves the development, maintenance and operation of science and engineering software used in modeling and simulation.

Langley has a focused effort to revitalize its capabilities in modeling and simulation, as part of the Comprehensive Digital Transformation (CDT). The goal of CDT is to push the state of the art in modeling and simulation by increasing the level of physics modeled in the numerical simulations as well as increasing the speed and usefulness of the tools. This will allow a shift to more numerical modeling and simulation to answer complex problems.

Release M15-124 NASA TV Coverage Set for Japanese Cargo Craft Launch to Space Station

The launch of a Japanese cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station will be broadcast live on NASA Television on Sunday, Aug. 16, followed by live coverage of its arrival at the orbiting laboratory Thursday, Aug. 20.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch its H-II Transport Vehicle (HTV)-5 at 8:58 a.m. EDT (9:58 p.m. local time in Japan) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. NASA TV coverage of the launch will begin at 8:15 a.m.

Loaded with more than 4.5 tons of supplies, including water, spare parts and experiment hardware for the six-person space station crew, the unpiloted cargo craft, named Kounotori, Japanese for “white stork,” will blast off for a four-day journey to the station.

On Aug. 20, the HTV-5 will approach the station from below and slowly inch its way toward the orbital complex. Expedition 44 Flight Engineers Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Kjell Lindgren of NASA will operate the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to reach out and grapple the 12-ton spacecraft and install it on the Earth-facing side of the Harmony module, where it will spend five weeks. Flight Engineer Scott Kelly of NASA will monitor HTV-5 systems during the rendezvous and grapple.

NASA TV coverage of the rendezvous and grapple of the HTV-5 on Aug. 20 will begin at 5:30 a.m. Capture is scheduled for approximately 7:10 a.m. Coverage of the final installation of the cargo craft to Harmony will resume at 9:30 a.m.