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Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington          Feb. 7, 2003
(Phone: 202/358- 1058

Tracy Young
Kennedy Space Center
(Phone: 321/ 867-9284)

RELEASE: c03-003

NASA AWARDS SPACEPORT TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT

     NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., has awarded the 
University-affiliated Spaceport Technology Development Contract 
(USTDC) to the ASRC Aerospace Corporation of Greenbelt, Md. The 
contract is a cost-plus award fee/incentive fee performance-based 
indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract.

The contract features a four-year, seven-month basic period of 
performance beginning March 1, 2003, with five one-year options for a 
potential nine-year seven-month contract term. The basic contract's 
estimated cost is $220 million with a potential value of $600 million 
over the entire period inclusive of the five one-year options.  

Under the contract, ASRC Aerospace, along with their USTDC partners; 
Swales Aerospace, Beltsville, Md.; Sierra Lobo, Inc., Milan, Ohio; and 
the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., will provide non-routine 
engineering development products and services to operational customers
performing processing, launch, landing, and range activities at KSC. 
ASRC will perform applied research and development functions to meet 
future technology challenges.     

The work will be performed at KSC and at NASA facilities located on 
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. ASRC Aerospace is a wholly 
owned subsidiary of the Artic Slope Research Corporation, Barrow, 
Alaska. 

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