NASA Awards Engineering, Research Support Contract

Written by Ben

January 13, 2018

NASA has selected HX5, LLC of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, to perform engineering, research and scientific support at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

The Glenn Engineering and Research Support (GEARS) contract is a cost plus fixed fee/award term contract includes an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity provision and has a maximum potential value of approximately $376.8 million. The performance period begins April 1 and will extend seven years, with a two-year base period, a two-year option, a one-year option and a two-year award term.

GEARS will provide engineering, research and scientific support for communications and intelligent systems, power, propulsion, materials and structures, and systems engineering and architecture. Work under the contract includes facilities engineering, test engineering, manufacturing engineering, project management, and data management and scheduling support. HX5 also will support fundamental research on space or gravity-dependent combustion and fluid systems.

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