Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: KBR WYLE SERVICES, LLC
Awarding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Period of performance: 2011-07-01 to 2015-07-31
Current total value of award: $76800000
Description: THIS CONTRACT SUPPORTS A WIDE ARRAY OF GEODYNAMIC, GEOMAGNETIC, GEOPHYSICAL, AND ATMOSPHERIC INVESTIGATIONS OF SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES SUCH AS THE EARTH, VENUS, MARS, AND MERCURY.  AMONG THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THESE INVESTIGATIONS ARE INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE DATA COLLECTION, ARCHIVING AND DISSEMINATION SCIENTIFIC DATA ANALYSIS, MODELING AND INTERPRETATION REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESULTS PUBLIC OUTREACH AND EDUCATION AND ASSOCIATED TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE WORK.  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE SUPPORT TO INVESTIGATORS ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS SUCH AS GRACE, THE OCEAN SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY MISSION, THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN EARTH SCIENCE, ICESAT, AND FUTURE MISSIONS OUTLINED IN THE ROADMAP OF EARTH-SCIENCE MISSIONS DEFINED THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE DECADAL SURVEY, SUCH AS SWOT, DESDYNI, ICESAT-2, GPSRO, AND GRACE FOLLOW-ON.  THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE SUPPORT TO INVESTIGATORS INVOLVED IN ANALYSIS OF SPACE GEODETIC DATA (SLR, DORIS, AND GNSS), USED FOR GEODETIC ANALYSIS,  PRECISION ORBIT DETERMINATION, AND THE DETERMINATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE SUPPORT TO INVESTIGATORS INVOLVED WITH LAGEOS-1, LAGEOS-2, STARLETTE, STELLA, LARETS, LARES, EARTH POSITIONING SATELLITES SUCH AS GPS, GALILEO, AND GLONASS EARTH ALTIMETRY SATELLITES SUCH AS TOPEX/POSEIDON, JASON-1, JASON-2, GEOSAT, GEOSAT-FOLLOW-ON (GFO-1), GFO-2, CRYOSAT-2 PLANETARY SPACECRAFT SUCH AS MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR, MARS ODYSSEY, LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, THE MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER, MESSENGER, AND MAVEN. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR DATA SYSTEMS SUCH AS THE CDDIS. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT FOR MEETINGS.