WASHINGTON, July 30  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded a sole-source interim contract for electrical systems engineering services to MEI Technologies in Houston.

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This interim contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract that will ensure program continuity and critical mission support. The contract will cover both existing and new requirements. It has a maximum ordering value of $99 million with an ordering period of 18 months.

Under this contract, MEI Technologies will provide electrical engineering support services for the study, design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification and operations of hardware and software for space, air and ground systems. This will include development and validation of new technologies to enable future missions in support of the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Task orders issued under this contract will provide critical support to a wide range of NASA missions and projects, including the James Webb Space Telescope; Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites; the Landsat Data Continuity Mission; Magnetospheric Multi-Scale Satellites; Global Precipitation Measurement; and others.

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