NASA extends services pact

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA has decided to purchase the option on an existing contract with Computer Sciences Corp. for information services for the space agency's centers and facilities.

The option on the Program Information Systems Mission Service (Prisms) is valued at $108 million and extends the existing Prisms contract through April 30, 2002.

The option is the last of six that were included in the contract, originally awarded to CSC in 1994. It brings the total value of the Prisms contract to about $950 million.

Prisms includes support for NASA computer systems, applications software, telephone systems and audio/visual services. It also includes support for information management systems at the agency's Automated Data Processing Consolidation Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

Meanwhile, NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has awarded a contract for research and development in modeling and simulation of rotorcraft.

Illgen Simulation Technologies Inc., Goleta, Calif. won the five-year, performance-based task order valued at $45 million.