NASA Awards Bridge Contract For Flight Dynamics Support Services

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NASA has awarded the Flight Dynamics Support Services (FDSS) Bridge contract for engineering services to a.i. solutions Inc.,Lanham, Md.This contract is necessary to continue performance at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center inGreenbelt, Md.until the Flight Dynamics Support Services II contract is awarded.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity basic contract has a minimum ordering value of$500,000and a maximum ordering value of$20 millionwith a period of performance fromMarch 14 through March 13, 2015. There is also an option to extend the period of performance fromMarch 14, 2015, throughJune 13, 2015, with a maximum ordering value of$5.4 million.

The contractor will continue to provide flight dynamics and attitude control operations engineering support and analysis and related work to the Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division's Navigation and Mission Design Branch and Attitude Control Systems Engineering Branch, including the Flight Dynamics Facility, and related organizations, as required, for both in-house and out-of-house spacecraft programs.

Task orders issued under the FDSS Bridge contract provide critical support to a wide range of NASA's missions and projects including: James Webb Space Telescope, the Magnetosphere Multi-scale Mission, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution (MAVEN).

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NASA Extends Cargo Mission Contract at Johnson Space Center

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NASA has exercised a $22 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems of Houston to provide support to International Space Station activities at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.The contract provides support consisting of analytical and physical processing activities to support pressurized cargo requirements for visiting vehicle flights to and from the International Space Station, including cargo mission planning, cargo coordination, stowage integration, cargo processing, international shipping and the capability to build hardware to support pressurized and unpressurized cargo transportation, as needed.The contract also provides for the performance of flight crew equipment processing activities necessary to provide and maintain flight and training hardware and services in support of the space station and other programs.This cost-plus-award-fee contract option continues services from April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2015. Work under the contract will be performed at Johnson.Significant subcontractors on the contract are Bastion Technologies of Houston; GHG of Webster, Texas; LZ Technology of Houston; Rothe Enterprises of San Antonio; TechTrans International of Houston; Stress Guys of Houston; and University of Texas El Paso.For more information about NASA's Johnson Space Center, visit:http://www.nasa.gov/johnsonFor more information on NASA and its programs, visit:http://www.nasa.gov

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Personalized Medicine in Bladder Cancer: A Summary of the Cancer Genome Atlas Findings – Video

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Personalized Medicine in Bladder Cancer: A Summary of the Cancer Genome Atlas Findings
This presentation provides information about personalized medicine and what you should know about the Cancer Genome Atlas research findings in bladder cancer...

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