NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) of Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services for the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

The five-year maximum value of the Science, Technology and Research Support Services contract is $425 million. SSAI will support work in Earth and planetary atmospheric science, research and technology at Langley's Atmospheric Sciences Data Center.

The work will support requirements in science; algorithm development, implementation and maintenance; interpretation, analysis, validation and models; field missions; space mission, payload and instrument operations; atmospheric science data center and science computing systems; instrument development; communications and outreach.

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