NASA Selects SSAI to Support Terrestrial Physics Lab

NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), of Lanham, Md., for a $67.1 million contract to support the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Under terms of the cost-plus-award-fee contract, SSAI will provide the Terrestrial Physics Laboratory at Goddard with support services, including research, computing, science instrumentation, administration, and calibration and validation.

Subcontractors to SSAI under this effort are Decision Systems Technologies, Inc., of Rockville, Md., and Science Applications International Corporation in Beltsville, Md.

The contract is a 100-percent small-business set-aside procurement.

The Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics advances NASA's mission of understanding and protecting our home planet through the exploration of the physics and dynamics of the Earth, as well as of other planets and their satellites. The Lab's innovative programs study the global properties of the solid Earth, global- and regional-scale vegetation monitoring, biosphere-atmosphere interactions and laser remote sensing.

The Lab defines, designs, builds and demonstrates instruments for Earth and planetary remote-sensing science programs and develops reliable, low-cost computing systems important for the production, distribution and analysis of regional and global data sets. More information about the Laboratory is on their Web site at: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ltp/about.html