GRC NEWS RELEASE 01-006



01-006
For Release: January 23, 2001



Pamelia Caswell
Media Relations Office
216/433-5795
Pamelia.Caswell@grc.nasa.gov

Glenn Research Center Awards Research Contract to Maryland Firm NASA's 
Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, has awarded a contract to the 
QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD, to provide scientific research and 
development services at the Center. 

In performing the main tasks of the contract, QSS Group, Inc. will 
design and develop aeronautical and space systems and space-flight 
hardware, perform mathematical and theoretical analyses, and conduct 
tests.



The work will support various activities at Glenn, such as wind tunnel 
testing of new air- and space-flight concepts, developing improved 
tracking and data-relay satellites to greatly increase the amount of 
data that can be sent to or received from NASA's far-flung 
spacecraft, and improving Earth-observing satellite systems.



The contract consolidates two existing contracts and is expected to 
provide overall work efficiencies to Glenn. The five-year, "8(a) 
set-aside" contract has a total estimated value of $140 million.



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