Jul 30 2016

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CONTRACT RELEASE C13-033 NASA Selects Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center Contract

NASA has selected the University of Colorado Boulder for the management and operations of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center.

This cost, no-fee completion contract is worth about $42 million. The base performance period is from Aug. 1 through May 31, 2014, with four one-year extension options.

This contractor will provide operating services to the National Snow and Ice Data Center for user services, product generation, data and information management at the Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center. Additional services include archival and distribution and related science support activities.

The work will be performed primarily at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder.

RELEASE C13-032 NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services

NASA will exercise the fifth one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. of Lanham, Md., for supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

The option exercised on the cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at about $62 million. It begins Aug. 1 and continues through July 31, 2014. The contract began Aug. 1, 2007, with a two-year base period and eight one-year options. Its maximum value will be $597 million, if all options are exercised.

The company will continue to serve the agency's primary high-performance computing facility, which is operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames. The facility serves as the supercomputing pathfinder for the agency and develops and operates some of the largest, most advanced and productive supercomputers in the world.

The company also may provide supercomputing services to the Center for Climate Simulation at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and to other agency field centers as needed.

MEDIA ADVISORY M13-121 NASA Invites Reporters and Public to Curiosity First Anniversary Event

NASA officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station will observe the first anniversary of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars at a public event in Washington from noon-1:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 6. The event will be broadcast on NASA Television and streamed live on the agency's website.

Media and the public are welcome to attend to hear highlights from the Mars Science Laboratory's first year of investigations, learn about upcoming NASA robotic missions to the red planet, and speak with astronauts conducting experiments in space that will enable human exploration of Mars in the 2030s.

Those interested in attending should plan to arrive at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, by 11:30 a.m. Seating is limited.

Participating will be:

• Charles Bolden, NASA administrator
• Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, NASA astronauts, live from the space station
• Jim Green, director, Planetary Division, NASA's Science Mission Directorate
• Sam Scimemi, director, NASA's International Space Station Program
• Prasun Desai, acting director, Strategic Integration, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate

The Mars Science Laboratory mission successfully placed the one-ton Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, UTC and EDT (evening of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT), about 1 mile from the center of its 12-mile-long target area. Within the first eight months of a planned 23-months primary mission, Curiosity met its major science objective of finding evidence of a past environment well-suited to support microbial life. With much more science to come, Curiosity's wheels continue to blaze a trail for human footprints on Mars.

To follow the conversation online about Curiosity's first year on Mars, use hashtag #1YearOnMars or follow @NASA and @MarsCuriosity on Twitter.