Contact:

David E. Steitz Headquarters,
Washington
Phone: 202/358-1730

Mark Hess
Goddard Space Flight Center
Phone: 301-286-8982

Jan. 30, 2002 - RELEASE NO: c02-a

VIRGINIA FIRM WINS $82 MILLION CONTRACT FROM NASA GODDARD

ManTech Systems Engineering Corporation of Fairfax, Va., has won a $82.3 million contract to provide engineering and technician mechanical support at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Goddard builds instruments and satellites that monitor the Earth's vital signs, study the Sun and its influence on our planet and peer into the deepest reaches of space for answers to fundamental questions about the origin and fate of the Universe.

To accomplish this task, Goddard operates the Environmental Test and Integration Facility to assemble the instruments and satellites and verify their ability to withstand the rigors of launch and the extremes of space. The contractor will provide engineering and technical services for the operation, maintenance and modernization of the facility.

This facility is one of the most complete and comprehensive within the United States government for environmental test and qualification of space flight hardware. The facility includes clean-room assembly and check-out areas, thermal vacuum chambers, a high capacity centrifuge, an acoustic test cell, electro-dynamic shakers, static-load test facilities, a modal test facility, electromagnetic compatibility test facilities and a magnetic characterization test facility.

The cost-plus-award-fee contract begins on May 1, 2002.