NASA awards safety contract at Kennedy

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency has awarded the Millennium Engineering and Integration Co. a safety and mission assurance support services contract.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the cost-plus-award-fee contract awarded the Satellite Beach, Fla., company is valued approximately $45.2 million and includes a two-year base period and two, one-year options.

NASA said the new contract consolidates several contracted activities currently supporting the Kennedy Space Center's Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate requirements into a single support contract.

Services include performing risk assessments, inspections, mishap investigations, analyses, independent assessments, evaluations of work performed by other contractors and NASA organizations, and maintaining various applications and databases.