AverStar Wins $47.5 Million Contract Addition From NASA.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999-- AverStar, Inc., a pioneer in providing information technology services and software products for commercial and government customers, today announced that NASA Ames Research Center NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale in California. This research center is most commonly called NASA Ames. , Moffet Field, Calif., has signed a contract modification which increases AverStar's Independent Verification and Validation (testing) Independent Verification and Validation - (IV&V) The verification and validation of a software product by an organisation that is both technically and managerially separate from the organisation responsible for developing the product. (IV&V) of software programs contract by $47.5 million. This modification brings the total IV&V contract value to $80.5 million, which would include all contract options through October 2004. AverStar has performed IV&V for NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. mission- and safety-critical systems since 1987. The company uses system engineering-based IV&V methods to minimize risk and allocates resources based on risk analyses and critical need assessments, all the while placing emphasis on maximizing benefit and minimizing cost. AverStar's IV&V approach is committed to customer success and includes correcting errors at every level at the earliest point in the project life-cycle. Personnel executing the contract include software technologists and systems engineers trained in the discipline of IV&V. This contract, established in October 1996, provides the NASA Ames IV&V Facility in Fairmont, W. Va., the prime contracting resources required to evaluate NASA's mission critical programs, including space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. , International Space Station, vehicle checkout and launch control system, X-33 and advanced air transportation technologies. The funding increase is in response to original and new program driven requests in the areas of independent testing, additional subsystem IV&V and commercial-off-the-shelf IV&V. Greg Blaney, the NASA technical manager of the contract, stated, "I am pleased that this contract modification has been completed. Additional requests by NASA software development projects since contract initiation have exceeded expectations. This contract modification will allow the NASA IV&V Facility to sustain needed software IV&V services to our customers as well as further assist the NASA IV&V Facility, our commercial partners, and the West Virginia University West Virginia University, mainly at Morgantown; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; est. and opened 1867 as an agricultural college, renamed 1868. Research Group in meeting our strategic goals." "The increase validates AverStar's successful application of its technical IV&V methods and tools to NASA programs, and it is representative of AverStar's commitment to its system assurance business and its long-term business relationship with the NASA," said Greg Miller Greg David Miller (born November 3, 1984, in Orange, California) is a Major League Baseball pitching prospect in the Los Angeles Dodgers minor league system. Greg was on the fast track to the majors in '03, but a shoulder injury in the spring of '04 slowed him. , AverStar program manager. The majority of the work is performed at the West Virginia IV&V Facility with additional professionals at the systems development, integration and test locations such as Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) U.S. launch site for manned space missions. [U.S. Hist.: WB, So:562] See : Astronautics , Marshall Space Flight Center The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Shuttle external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction, for computers, networks, and and Ames Research Center. Analyst teams are also co-located with the NASA prime contractors tasked with system development and integration. Team-members include Mountain States Information Systems, Electronic Warfare Associates, Galaxy Global, GeoControl Systems, Orbital Science, Charles Stark Draper Charles Stark Draper, Sc.D. (October 2, 1901 – July 25,1987) is often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." Born in Windsor, Missouri, he attended the University of Missouri in 1917, then transferred to Stanford University, California in 1919, from which he Labs, Smith Advanced Technology and ANSER Anser a genus of birds in the family Anseriformes. Anser anser domestic geese and wild geese. . About AverStar AverStar creates and validates software and solutions for the critical systems of government and commercial customers. The 1800-employee company delivers high-quality, reliable products and services for civil government, aerospace, defense and corporate customers. AverStar headquarters are located at 23 Fourth Avenue, Burlington, Mass., 01803, with 35 offices throughout the United States. Please visit AverStar's Web site at www.averstar.com. |
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