NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, California, has awarded a Research Facilities And Engineering Support Services (RFESS) contract to Inuteq, LLC, of Beltsville, Maryland.
The cost-plus-award-fee contract covers a one-year base performance period beginning Nov. 1, 2014 and extending through Oct. 31, 2015 with a value of $14.3 million. If four one-year options listed are exercised, the contract would extend through Oct. 31, 2019, with a total potential value of $73.3 million.
Many of the services provided under the contract with Inuteq, a certified small disadvantaged business, will be provided under subcontract by Arcata Associates of Las Vegas, Nevada. NASA Armstrong’s contract with Arcata, which had held the RFESS contract since July 1, 2002, will expire on Oct. 31, 2014.
The Research Facilities and Engineering Support Services contract provides support for three primary areas of NASA Armstrong’s Mission Information and Test Systems Directorate. They include:
- The Dryden Aeronautical Test Range, which supports and enables flight research operations and low earth-orbiting missions;
- The Research Aircraft Integration Facility, which ensures high-fidelity flight simulations that enhance the quality, quantity, and feasibility of research objectives; and
- The Consolidated Information Technology Center, which ensures that information technology services are designed, managed, and utilized to support NASA Armstrong priorities and operations.
NASA Armstrong is NASA’s center of excellence for aeronautical flight research, airborne science and airborne astronomy missions. For more on NASA Armstrong, visit:
www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong
Alan Brown
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
(661) 276-2665
alan.brown@nasa.gov