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National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to ALCYON TECHNICAL SERVICES (ATS) JV, LLC

aerospaceexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 2015 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2015-10-15·LATEST ACTION2026-05-01·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_NNG15CR66C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

IGF::CL::IGF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ADVANCED SERVICES (SEAS). UNDER THIS CONTRACT, THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE MISSION AND INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (M&ISE) SERVICES TO THE MISSION ENGINEERING&SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIVISION AND RELATED APPLIED ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FLIGHT AND GROUND SYSTEMS AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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In plain English

NASA systems engineering and mission analysis services for flight and ground systems development and technology validation.

Sub-sectors
nasa-systems-engineeringmission-operationstechnology-development
Why this matters

Ongoing contract since 2015 supporting core NASA mission engineering capabilities across multiple directorates and flight programs.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains a specialized systems engineering contractor ecosystem supporting NASA's distributed mission architecture and technology maturation pipeline.

U.S.–China competition angle

Systems engineering expertise underpins U.S. space exploration and satellite capabilities in competition with Chinese space programs.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-18. Cost: $0.002939.

Period of performance
Start
2015-10-15
End
2023-11-30
Status
expired943 days ago
Sources

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