ITT Exelis Gets $435 Million Deep Space Network Contract

摘要

NASA awarded incumbent ITT Exelis, Herndon, Va., a contract potentially worth $435 million over 10 years to support and sustain the Deep Space Network (DSN), which the agency uses to communicate with spacecraft far away from Earth. The contract, which has a five-year base period, calls for Exelis to provide maintenance, operations, and engineering services for the global DSN radio network, which has arrays in Barstow, Calif, Madrid, and Canberra, Australia. Exelis announced the award in a May 22 press release. Jai-Rui Cook, a spokeswoman for the NASA -funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena, Calif., which manages the DSN, said May 23 she was unable to provide a dollar value for the five-year base contract because the terms have yet to be finalized.