SAIC wins $494M NASA safety services recompete
The interior of the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility is seen during a media preview for an upcoming public open house at NASA's Johnson Space Center in October 2018 in Houston, Texas. Photo by Loren Elliott / Getty Images
By
Ross Wilkers
Science Applications International Corp. has held this program supporting space flight programs since 2013.
Science Applications International Corp. has won a potential seven-year, $494 million contract to continue its role as a main provider of safety-related services at the Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility.
This is the third iteration of the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract that SAIC has held since it captured the original in 2013 at a $202 million ceiling. SAIC won the recompete in 2019 at a $292 million ceiling.
SMAEC III's start date is June 1 and marks the beginning of an initial five-year base period, NASA said Friday. The new contract could extend for up to two individual option years.
Reinvigorating SAIC's win rate on the recompete front has been a point of emphasis for Toni Townes-Whitley since she started as chief executive in October, following a string of losses on that front.
Work under the contract takes place at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The program's areas of emphasis include safety, reliability, engineering, and quality and software assurance for NASA's key programs including those in deep space.
NASA cites the Gateway lunar space station, Orion spacecraft and Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility as among the programs being supported under the contract.