Raytheon Co. wins a five-year contract worth as much as $250 million to maintain and manage large volumes of sensing data and imagery from space instruments.
Companies will compete to handle the agency's PC, mobile communications and other related services for an estimated $2.5 billion over 10 years. Four other contracts will bring the total to more than $4 billion for a broad range of IT services.
Contractors will have a chance to play a significant role in the government's move to make data more open to the public and other agencies, which likely will involve cloud computing.
ASRC Research and Technology Solutions will provide information and technical services to NASA’s Stennis Space Center under a new $54.5 million contract.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will continue providing several computer services to NASA under a contract extension that has an estimated value of $230 million.
NASA has issued a request for proposals for what is expected to be the largest of five contracts, which together are estimated to be worth more than $4 billion to overhaul the agency's IT services.
NASA is getting into the green tech business, it seems, by using software designed for such things as the International Space Station and Mars Rover missions to control indoor energy systems.
NASA has released a final request for proposals, previously estimated at $100 million over five years, to consolidate the agency's enterprise applications.
Federal agencies might need cloud computing as a way to meet new mandates to share information with the public, experts say. Meanwhile, the Defense Department falls in line with President Barack Obama's directive for open government.
NASA has opened up bidding for the first of five planned information technology services contracts that have been estimated to be worth more than $4 billion total.
Science Applications International Corp. has won a 14-month contract extension from NASA for integration and information technology services that could be worth more than $120 million.
