July 29, 2009

Sonja Alexander 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-1761 
sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov 

Cynthia M. O'Carroll 
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
301-286-4647 
cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov 

CONTRACT RELEASE: C09-037

NASA INCREASES VALUE OF ENGINEERING SUPPORT CONTRACT

WASHINGTON -- NASA has increased the maximum ordering value of the 
Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology Support, or METS, 
services contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc. of 
Greenbelt, Md. The maximum value increased by $40 million to 
approximately $339 million. The ordering period remains from Feb. 5, 
2005, through Feb. 4, 2010. 

Under the contract, SGT Inc. performs tasks that are necessary for the 
formulation, design, development, flight and non-flight fabrication, 
integration, testing, and verification of space flight and ground 
system hardware and software. This includes development and 
validation of new technologies to enable future space and science 
missions for the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at 
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. 

Task orders under the contract provide critical support to a wide 
range of NASA's missions and projects, including the Lunar 
Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Hubble 
Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Geostationary 
Environmental Operational Satellites-R, Polar Operational 
Environmental Satellites, the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale Satellites, 
the Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory, the Glory 
Observatory and others. 

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