NASA Awards Contract for Supercomputing Support Services

    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has
 selected Computer Sciences Corporation of Lanham, Md., to provide
 supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett
 Field, Calif. The contract has a potential value of approximately $600
 million.
     The 10-year, cost-plus-award-fee contract consists of a two-year base
 period and eight one-year priced options, with a maximum value of
 $597,083,422 if all options are exercised.
     Computer Sciences Corporation will support the supercomputing services
 provided by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames. The division
 operates some of the largest, most advanced supercomputers in the world and
 is the lead supercomputing facility for High Performance Computing for
 NASA.
     The company also may provide supercomputing support to the NASA Center
 for Computational Sciences facility at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
 Greenbelt, Md., and additional high performance computing support to other
 NASA field centers as needed, if those options are exercised.
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SOURCE NASA