NASA Awards 2-Year Contract to Boeing

(October 22, 2024)

NASA has awarded Boeing a two-year engineering and sustainment contract, continuing the company’s more than three decades’ support of the International Space Station (ISS).

The contract extension, through Sept. 30, 2026, will enable Boeing to provide essential engineering support for the majority of the station’s hardware and software systems. The company will also manage technical integration across all space station segments, including visiting vehicles and U.S. and international partner segments.

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The ISS has played a key role in advancing scientific research, hosting over 4,000 experiments that benefit life on Earth.

  • It is the only platform to test hardware essential for survival in deep space.
  • Boeing teammates partner with NASA on-site at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as well as other locations around the world to operate, maintain and sustain the ISS 24/7.

Boeing Space LogoIn the past decade, Boeing innovations have reduced ISS sustainment costs by 30% while increasing efficiencies that have enabled the completion of more science investigations.

“We are honored that NASA entrusts us with the world’s premier space laboratory,” said John Mulholland, Boeing’s vice president and program manager of the ISS program. “Boeing is committed to upgrading and maintaining the ISS for increased government and commercial use until new microgravity research platforms are ready to replace it.”

Source: Boeing