Oct. 17, 2008 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@xxxxxxxx CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-062 NASA INCREASES VALUE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has increased the maximum ordering value of a contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc., by $49.2 million to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Under the Multidisciplinary Engineering and Technology Support services (METS) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, SGT Inc. performs tasks necessary for the design, testing, verification and operations of space flight and ground system hardware and software. Tasks include development and validation of new technologies to enable future space and science missions in support of the directorate's five engineering divisions: Mechanical Services, Information Systems, Instrument Systems and Technology, Electrical Engineering, and Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis. Work under the contract provides critical support to a wide range of Goddard's missions and projects, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Geostationary Environmental Operational Satellites-R, the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites, the Magnetospheric MultiScale Satellites, the Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory and the Glory Observatory. For information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx