NASA hikes tech contract value

GREEN BAY, Md., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has increased the ordering value of a contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. of Greenbelt, Md.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the contract's minimum ordering value was increased by $49.2 million to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.

The company, under its indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, performs tasks necessary for the design, testing, verification and operations of space flight and ground system hardware and software, NASA said.

The contract, the space agency said, "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, Polar Operational Environmental Satellites, Magnetospheric MultiScale Satellites, the Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory and the Glory Observatory.