CSC wins US $144 million task order to support NASA's Center for Computational SciencesEl Seguno 16 January 2001 Computer Sciences Corporation has won a six and a half-year, task-order contract with a maximum value of $144 million to support NASA's Center for Computational Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, USA.
CSC's High Performance Center of Excellence will perform the work, which was
awarded under GSA's Millennia Contract.
As the prime contractor, CSC will acquire, install and manage the latest
supercomputer systems on a multi-year technology refresh basis for the NASA
Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), the high-performance scientific
computing facility that is operated, maintained, and managed by NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center's Earth and Space Data Computing Division. CSC will also
provide systems programming and software engineering in support of the NCCS
mission to provide computing resources and support services to enable space and
Earth scientists funded by NASA to accomplish their research goals. More than
700 Earth and Space Science users are involved in almost 200 separate research
projects at NCCS.
Established in 1959, the Goddard Space Flight Center mission is to: enable
discovery through leadership in Earth and space science; serve the scientific
community, inspire the Nation, foster education, and stimulate economic growth;
partner with others to achieve NASA's goals; and create technologies that
support and advance these endeavors to take full advantage of doing research in
space.
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