NASA AWARDS MORE SHUTTLE WORK TO USA



July 7, 1998



Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington DC
(Phone: 202/358-1639)



John Ira Petty
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-2530)

<h4>Release: c98-h</h4> <h3>NASA Awards More Shuttle Work to USA</h3> 

NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, has modified its contract 
with United Space Alliance (USA) of Houston to include more than $900 
million in work on the Space Shuttle's solid rocket booster and other 
shuttle elements.



USA is the prime contractor for the space shuttle fleet operations. 
This $919.5 million cost-plus-award-fee/incentive-fee contract 
modification includes work previously performed under three separate 
NASA contracts: work on the boosters performed by USBI at Kennedy 
Space Center in Florida; design and production of primary shuttle 
avionics software by Lockheed Martin in Houston; and processing of 
flight crew equipment, including space suits, personal equipment and 
tools, performed by Boeing Aerospace Operations in Houston.



The new work comes under Phase 2 of NASA's space flight operations 
contract with USA. Under Phase 1 of the contract, NASA consolidated 
operations of 12 separate contracts under USA. Phase 2 will 
consolidate an additional 16 contracts as part of a continuing NASA 
effort to transfer day-to-day shuttle operations from government 
employees to private companies.



The performance period under Phase 2 runs through Sept. 30, 2002.

	
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