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NASA Extends Expendable Launch Vehicles Support Contract


WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded Analex Corporation ofFairfax, Va., an option for the Expendable Launch Vehicles Integrated Support, or ELVIS, contract.

This second option period award is a hybrid performance-based, cost-plus-award-fee, fixed-price-award-fee, and fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. It extends ELVIS through Sept. 30, 2011. The award has a potential value of approximately $90 million.

Analex Corporation currently is performing work under the contract's first option period, a three-year option that ends Sept. 30, 2008. The potential contract period, if all options are exercised, is nine years, three months, with a total approximate value of $258 million.

The contract provides integrated support services in the areas of business and administration, safety and mission assurance, engineering, and technical, facility, and launch operations. Launch vehicles include the Atlas, Delta, Pegasus, Taurus, and Falcon rockets. The contract specifically provides engineering services and analyses, communications, telemetry, special studies, and technical services for ground and flight expendable launch vehicle systems and payloads.

Services will be provided at NASA'sKennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station inFlorida, Vandenberg Air Force Base inCalifornia, and other launch sites and NASA resident offices.

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

SOURCE NASA

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