NASA extends Boeing Payload Ground Operations Contract.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-21 December 2001-NASA: NASA extends Boeing Payload Ground Operations Contract (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20122001 NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., has extended the period of performance of the Payload Ground Operations Contract (PGOC) held for the last 15 years by The Boeing Company at Kennedy Space Center.

The contract expires Dec. 31, 2001. This cost-plus-award-fee extension through March 2002 (with one-month options until July 2002) is valued at $59.5 million and brings the total contract value to almost $1.9 billion. The extension provides for coverage of payload ground support, test, integration and de-integration for space shuttle and expendable launch vehicle payloads. This action ensures uninterrupted program...