Feb. 27, 2008

Beth Dickey/Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-2087/4997
beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov, stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov

Lynnette Madison/Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
lynnette.b.madison@nasa.gov, bill.j.byerly@nasa.gov

CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-007

NASA AWARDS CONSTELLATION PROGRAM SUPPORT CONTRACT

WASHINGTON - NASA has awarded SGT Inc. of Greenbelt, Md., a contract
for support services for Constellation Program, which is developing
new spacecraft to travel beyond low Earth orbit. The Constellation
fleet includes the Orion crew vehicle, the Ares I and Ares V launch
vehicles and Altair human lunar lander. The small business contract
has a potential value of $60 million with options.

Work on the contract will be performed at NASA's Johnson Space Center
in Houston with additional work possible at NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida, NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.,
and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

SGT Inc. will provide program planning and control services supporting
the Constellation Program. Services include the program's business
management, configuration and data management, requirements analysis
and integration, schedule management and integration and technology
protection.

The base period of the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity,
cost-plus-award-fee contract is three years, effective April 11. The
contract's base value is not to exceed $60 million. Two one-year
extension options are available and could bring the total contract
value to $100 million.

For more information about the contract, visit:

http://procurement.jsc.nasa.gov/cpsc

For information about NASA's exploration program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration