NASA Awards $330.3 Million Contract to Peraton Inc. for Sounding Rocket Operations

 NASA Awards $330.3 Million Contract to Peraton Inc. for Sounding Rocket Operations

NASA has recently chosen Peraton Inc., a company based in Herndon, Virginia, to carry out suborbital flight operations under the Sounding Rocket Operations IV (NSROC IV) contract. This follow-on contract encompasses various core requirements, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity quantity, cost-plus-award-fee task orders, and potential option periods. The initial performance period spans from October 1 to September 30, 2024, with the potential to extend the contract until September 30, 2028, through four option periods. If all options are exercised, the contract's total potential value amounts to an impressive $330.3 million.

Under the NSROC IV contract, Peraton Inc. assumes responsibility for the design, fabrication, integration, and flight qualification testing of suborbital payloads. Additionally, the company is expected to provide launch vehicles, associated hardware, and other services related to launch operations for the NASA Sounding Rockets Program Office.

The designated work sites for this contract include Wallops and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Furthermore, remote launch sites such as Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Andoya Space Center with sites in Andenes and Svalbard, Norway, as well as mobile launch sites like Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll and Equatorial Launch Australia in Nhulunbuy, Australia, will be utilized. It is worth noting that the NSROC IV contract may introduce additional mobile launch sites, and specific locations may be specified in task order awards.

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is primarily conducted at Wallops Flight Facility, which falls under the management of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The agency's Heliophysics Division oversees the sounding rocket program.

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