Northrop Grumman awarded $274 million for NASA environmental test

July 17, 2019
The contract will support the NASA Goddard Engineering and Technology Directorate

Northrop Grumman, which will soon be demonstrating autonomous robotic manufacturing in space, received a $274 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity award for NASA’s Environmental Test and Integration Services III contract. The contract will support the NASA Goddard Engineering and Technology Directorate, which is responsible for providing multidiscipline engineering expertise to all projects within NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and managing the environmental test and integration facilities.

Under this contract, Northrop Grumman will provide environmental test and integration related services for the development and operation of spaceflight and ground system hardware and software. The work will be performed at GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland.

In addition to this contract, the company’s technical services business unit also supports NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in a number of other areas and is currently the prime contractor for NASA’s Sounding Rocket Operations Contract and NASA’s Balloon Operations Contract.

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