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Allard Beutel/Donald Savage
Headquarters, Washington            March 25, 2003
(Phone: 202-358-0951/1727)

RELEASE: c03-i

NASA AWARDS $39.9 MILLION CONTRACT ADDITION TO LOCKHEED 
MARTIN

     NASA has awarded additional work, valued at $39.9 
million, for the Consolidated Space Operations Contract 
(CSOC) currently held by Lockheed Martin Space Operations 
Company in Houston.

The contract addition will fund the maintenance and 
operation by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 
Calif., of the Deep Space Network in the United States as 
well as JPL's technical support of the international 
complexes in Spain and Australia.

This Cost Plus Award Fee contract will expire on December 
31, 2003, and will be performed primarily at the Deep Space 
Communication Complex, Goldstone, Calif. and at facilities 
in Pasadena. The additional work brings the total value of 
the CSOC to $2.1 billion.

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