NASA has awarded a consolidated Extravehicular Activity
(EVA) Systems Contract to Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems
International of Windsor Locks, Conn.
The spacewalk support contract, with a base period of five
years and five additional one-year options, has a potential
value of $814 million.
Work includes defining and integrating EVA requirements for
Space Shuttle flights and International Space Station
expeditions; sustaining engineering for EVA hardware systems
including provisioning of Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU)
spacesuits, tools and crew aids, problem analysis and
resolution, and real-time mission support; extending
certified spacesuit life support system component life
through the life of the Shuttle and Station.
It also includes flight processing and outfitting of EVA
flight hardware systems; processing and outfitting of EVA
training hardware systems; and advanced spacesuit hardware
systems technology development.
The cost-plus-award-fee contract will support the EVA Office
at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston. Work will be
performed at JSC, and at the worksites of Hamilton Sundstrand
and its major subcontractors, United Space Alliance and
Oceaneering Space Systems, both of Houston, and ILC Dover
Inc., Frederica, Del.
The contract replaces all work associated with the existing
EMU contract and incorporates elements related to EMUs in the
Space Flight Operations Contract and the Science,
Engineering, Analysis and Test contract into a single
contract.
Integration of these contracts and activities is designed to
consolidate work, increase efficiency and provide effective
end-to-end management of all activities and equipment
associated with spacewalks.
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