QinetiQ North America has been awarded the engineering services contract for NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The new cost plus award fee contract begins on March 1, 2011. It has a five-year base period with three, one-year options. The maximum potential value of the contract is approximately $1.959 billion.
Under the contract QinetiQ North America and its partners will:
· design and develop ground systems and equipment for handling, test, checkout, servicing, and other ground processing of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and payloads,
· Perform flight systems engineering and support engineering for space flight hardware and software,
· Develop technology that addresses NASA mission requirements and operational needs,
· operate laboratories and developmental shops, and
· provide cross-cutting technical services.
"We're very pleased that NASA has decided to continue and expand our long relationship. We are proud to be a part of the NASA team at the Kennedy Space Center," said Dr. Stephen Cambone, President of QinetiQ North America's Mission Solutions Group.
"This is a great day for our space operations people," said Joe Broadwater, executive vice president of QinetiQ North America's Aerospace Operations and Support Division. "We have some of the best talent in the industry, and we will partner with NASA to meet the agency's operational needs for the 21st Century."
UK-based Qinetiq was formed from the formerly state-owned Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and was floated on the London stock market in February 2006.
Based in McLean, Virginia, its US Services business also supports NASA’s work at the Glenn Research Centre in Ohio and the Goddard Spaceflight Centre in Maryland.
