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NASA Awards Sciences and Exploration Data Analysis Contract

It's all about getting new data.
by Staff Writers
 Greenbelt, Md. (SPX) Feb 25, 2006
 NASA said it has selected ADNET Systems Inc. of Lanham, Md., for its Sciences and Exploration Data Analysis five-year cost-plus contract. The award is worth a total of $220,931,298.

The work includes - but is not limited to - the development and use of scientific computer systems; engineering data analysis systems; engineering efforts that develop new technologies for scientific instrumentation; software application development and implementation, and computer system management for research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The principal work will be performed at Goddard and at the contractor's facility, the space agency said in a statement.

ADNET will support ongoing missions related to NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The missions include - but are not limited to - in-orbit satellites such as the Advanced Composition Explorer; Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration; Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging; Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment; Earth Observing-1; Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite; Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and Landsat-7.

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