COMPUTER SCIENCES <CSC> WINS LARGE NASA CONTRACT
Computer Sciences Corp said
it won a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) that could be worth one billion dlrs if
NASA exercises all its options.
    The contract is for systems engineering and analysis
services for the Mission Operations and Data Systems
Directorate at Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt,
Maryland.
    Expected to be efective November 15, the contract will
consist of a 34-1/2 month base performance period, a two-year
priced option and five unpriced annual renewal options.
    The value of the basic and priced-option periods is about
310 mln dlrs. The company estimates the total value of the
award at about one billin dlrs over the full ten-year period.
    The contract will consolidate work currently performed by
Computer Sciences under three separate contract that total
about 40 mln dlrs in annual revenues. The company also expects
a revenue increase of about 25 mln dlrs annually for additional
work to be performed under the contract.
    Computer Sciences said about 25 pct of the contract value
will go to subcontractors, the largest of which is Ford Motor
Co's <F> Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp.
    Computer Sciences' Systems Sciences division in Silver
Spring, Maryland, will perform the work at its facilities at
Beltsville and Greenbelt, Maryland.
    The contract is the largest in the company's history.
 Reuter
