Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington, DC                        May 1, 1998
(Phone:  202/358-1639)

Jerry Berg
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
(Phone:  256/544-0034)

RELEASE:  C98-e

NASA AWARDS $131 MILLION CONTRACT OPTION TO
CSC TO CONTINUE INFORMATION SUPPORT SERVICES

     NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, has 
exercised an option to continue an existing contract with Computer 
Sciences Corp. (CSC), Falls Church, VA, for the provision of a 
myriad of information services to Marshall and to NASA agencywide.  

     The priced option, valued at $131,845,510, covers the period 
May 1, 1998, through April 30, 1999.  It continues efforts under a 
contract titled Program Information Systems Mission Services 
(PrISMS), which was awarded to CSC in 1994.

     Work performed by CSC and its subcontractors under PrISMS 
includes support to Marshall in the areas of computer systems, 
applications software, networks and telephone systems, data 
reduction and audio-video services.

     It also includes a range of services in support of the entire 
agency, including management of several wide-area networks, 
agencywide information management systems, and the NASA Automated 
Data Processing Consolidation Center.

     The option is the third of a possible six priced options.  
The PrISMS contract has an approximate total value, if all options 
are exercised, of $1.053 billion.

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