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Article: ITT Awarded NASA Space Communications Network Services Contract.
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- October 10, 2008
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MCLEAN, Va. -- ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) today announced it has been selected by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) contract. The contract has a base period of performance of five years and three months, with two one-year option periods, and a maximum potential value with all options exercised of $1.26 billion.
This contract extends ITT's support of NASA's communications networks. For more than 25 years, ITT has provided engineering services for NASA's near-Earth communications networks, and since 2003, has provided maintenance ...