April 1, 2010 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@xxxxxxxx Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. 301-286-4647 cynthia.m.ocarroll@xxxxxxxx CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-022 NASA SELECTS EARTH SCIENCE DATA AND INFORMATION CONTRACTOR WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Md., for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development contract. The total value of the five-year, cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is $250 million. Raytheon will perform development and sustaining engineering of software and hardware systems that provide science data management to the Earth Science Data and Information System Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The contractor also will coordinate and integrate task related activities with the project, NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers, the Earth science data centers, science investigator teams, the user community, and other Earth Observing System contractors. For more information about NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System Project, visit: http://esdis.eosdis.nasa.gov 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