Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington             May 28, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

George H. Diller 
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/861-7641)

RELEASE: c02-l

NASA AWARDS ELV SUPPORT CONTRACT TO ANALEX CORPORATION

     NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Fla., has selected 
Analex Corp., Brook Park, Ohio, for the award of the 
Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support (ELVIS) 
contract. This is a new performance-based, fixed-price/cost-
plus-award-fee contract to perform various integrated support 
services for the NASA Expendable Vehicle (ELV) Program Office 
located at Kennedy.   

Under the ELVIS contract, Analex will provide a broad range 
of ELV support services for NASA requirements at Kennedy; 
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.; Vandenberg Air Force 
Base, Calif.; and other launch site locations. This includes 
management, operation and maintenance of facilities, systems 
and equipment, as well as specified technical and 
administrative capabilities.

The contract covers responsibility for furnishing engineering 
services; performing safety and mission assurance functions; 
and providing communications, data and telemetry support. In 
addition, at Vandenberg Analex will also be responsible for 
maintenance of NASA's administrative, launch support and 
spacecraft facilities, mission support planning, and customer 
support for payload processing activities. 

The contract has a one-month phase-in period beginning June 
1, 2002, to be followed by a three-year, three-month basic 
period of performance. There are two options of three years 
each for a potential nine-year, four-month contract term. The 
contract value for the basic performance period is $54.9 
million. The potential contract value including all priced 
options over nine years, four months is $163.7 million.

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