Garnering A Five Year NASA Contract Is QinetiQ

QinetiQ North America’s (QNA) Missions Solutions Group has been awarded a five year, $190 million contract with NASA to provide mission-critical engineering, IT, and security support services to customers in the Space, Security, Defense and Intelligence communities. Under this contract, QNA will provide a wide range of environmental test and integration services to support projects at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. These will include providing facility services, cable fabrication, optical services, and thermal blanket fabrication for a variety of projects that may involve the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. QNA’s Mission Solutions Group will also work with Goddard to ensure all future spacecraft can endure the environmental hardships of space travel. The firm will provide thermal and vacuum chamber testing, mechanical and optical integration, equipment recertification, facility operations & maintenance, information technology services, and general integration and testing support to NASA.