NASA, Boeing Sign Contract Modification for Station

Kyle Herring

Johnson Space Center; Houston, TX

281-483-5111

Release: J00-18

NASA and the Boeing Space and Communications Group, Houston,TX, have
signed a modification to the International Space Station contract
(NAS15-10000) valued at $26.3 million definitizing planned changes to
the assembly sequence baseline.

The changes included moving launch dates, deleting and adding U.S.
flights, and revising the Multi-Increment Manifest (MIM). These factors
required rework to the Design Analysis Cycle, Verification Analysis
Cycle, mass properties and other analysis-related activities.

Work under this Cost-Plus-Award-Fee contract will be performed by Boeing
in Houston as well as at Boeing Information, Space and Defense Systems
locations in Huntington Beach, CA; Canoga Park, CA; and Huntsville, AL.