May 3 1977
From The Space Library
Langley Research Center announced award of a 5yr $23 million contract to Wyle Laboratories for electronic instrument support to test and research facilities at the center. The contract, running from Oct. 1977 through Sept. 1979 with options to extend for another 3yr, covered inspection, calibration, maintenance, and satisfaction of measurement requirements on some 30 000 instruments and transducers valued at more than $50 million; also, design, modification, and maintenance of hardware and computer programs associated with digital data systems and special purpose computers used in the research facilities. (LaRC Release 77-15)
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Dr. Richard C. Atkinson as director of the National Science Foundation. (NASA Legis. Act. Rpt., May 3/77)
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