RELEASE NO: 98-182

GODDARD SELECTS CONTRACTOR EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS

Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md.) has selected three winners for the 1998 Goddard Contractor Excellence Award. The three winners are: Bristol Aerospace Limited, Winnipeg, Canada; Jackson and Tull, Aerospace Engineering Division, Seabrook, Md.; and Raytheon Support Services Company, Annapolis Junction, Md.

"The Contractor Excellence Award provides us with an opportunity to recognize those contractors who make a substantial contribution to the mission of Goddard and who are committed to the philosophy of continuous improvement as evidenced by their business practices," said Judy Bruner, the chair of the Goddard Space Flight Center Contractor Award evaluation committee.

To be considered for the award, applicants are asked to provide evidence of meeting schedules, monitoring costs, quality and productivity improvements, management commitment to continuous improvement, customer service satisfaction, human resource utilization and long term research and development.

The winners of this year's award were chosen because of their outstanding continuous improvement efforts and contributions to Goddard's mission.

The three winners of the Goddard award will automatically be sent forward to compete for the George M. Low Award, which is NASA's Quality and Excellence Award. In addition, three other Goddard Contractor Excellence Award finalists will be forwarded for consideration for the NASA Agency prestigious award. The three companies are: CSC, System Sciences Division, Lanham-Seabrook, Md.; ITT Aerospace/Communications Division, Fort Wayne, Ind. and Swales Aerospace, Beltsville, Md.

Other finalists for the 1998 Goddard award are: Century Computing, Inc., Laurel, Md.; Raytheon STX Corporation, Lanham, Md.; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Md. and Unisys, Federal Systems, Lanham, Md.