HOUSTON, Aug. 14,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) is pleased to
announce NASA's award to the Space & Technology Solutions
team, a KBR joint venture with Intuitive Machines (Nasdaq: LUNR,
LUNRW), to provide multidisciplinary engineering for some of NASA's
most critical space orbital systems in its Applied Engineering and
Technology Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in
Maryland. The
Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied all protests of
this award.
The Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services (OMES) III
contract has a five-year period of performance with a total value
of $719 million. The
cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity
contract directly aids the primary support vehicle for the Joint
Polar Satellite System program, the backbone of both short- and
long-term weather forecasts, as well as NASA's Exploration and
In-space Services projects division, which develops groundbreaking,
more sustainable technologies to service spacecraft and pioneer
in-space assembly and manufacturing.
As a part of OMES III, KBR will provide electrical engineering,
instrument systems and technology services, exploration and mission
support services, as well as mission engineering and systems
analysis for the study, design, development, fabrication,
integration, testing, verification and operations of spaceflight,
airborne, and ground system hardware and software.
"We are pleased with this new business award. The world's
leading government agencies and commercial enterprises rely on
KBR's innovative solutions to complex challenges both on and off
the planet," said Byron Bright,
President of KBR Government Solutions U.S. "As a partner with
Intuitive Machines, we are proud to support NASA's development of
space orbital systems with our unparalleled spaceflight engineering
expertise."
KBR has been supporting GSFC for more than 35 years and has
extensive experience in all phases of mission operations, ground
systems engineering and spaceflight instrument development.
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