NASA will exercise a one-year extension option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corporation in Lanham, Md., to provide supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The extension is valued at approximately $57 million.

The option exercised on the cost-plus-award-fee contract begins April 1, 2010, and will continue to March 31, 2011. The contract consists of a two-year base period and eight one-year priced options with a maximum value of approximately $597 million if all options are exercised.

The company will continue to support the supercomputing services provided by the agency's primary high performance computing facility operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames. The division serves as the supercomputing pathfinder for the agency; maintains a deep knowledge of high performance computing and related technologies and applications; and develops and operates some of the largest, most advanced and productive supercomputers in the world.

The contract is structured so the company also may provide supercomputing services to the NASA Center for Computational Sciences facility at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and additional high performance computing support to other agency field centers as needed.

For more information about high performance advanced supercomputing at Ames, visit:

http://www.nas.nasa.gov