Award NoticePosted Sep 10, 2025

Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS)

NASA · NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

Stage
Awarded
NAICS
541715
Value
$1.8B
Solicitation
80JSC025D0073
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
R425
Place
Houston, TX, USA
Contact
Andrea De Paz (jsc-cosmos@mail.nasa.gov)

No listed company matched (Materiality N/A)

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  • Sep 10, 2025 · this notice
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    ASCEND AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGY, LLC · $1.8B

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What the notice says

The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide services needed to ensure the availability, integrity, reliability, and security of the functional capabilities for command, control, and support of space vehicles and their payload elements which comprise the Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) Mission Systems. The Contractor shall provide support to the Mission Control Center Systems (MCCS), Training Systems (TS), Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), and other FOD mission systems environments to include operations, development, modifications, sustaining engineering, maintenance, inform… (show all)

ation technology (IT), cyber security, and communications security (COMSEC). These services also include mission preparation (�Plan�), crew, instructor, and flight controller training (�Train�), and real-time mission execution (�Fly�) activities to support the Orion/Space Launch Systems (SLS) Programs, the International Space Station (ISS) Program, the Commercial Crew Program, the Moon to Mars Program, and future NASA programs and missions.

Who won similar work

2 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER), same product/service code (PSC) R425 and NAICS 541715.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
BARRIOS TECHNOLOGY, LLC1$450.5MAug 14, 2025
SIERRA LOBO INC1$266.0MApr 24, 2026

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