Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington                  July 2, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1979)

Marny Skora
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
(Phone: 757/864-6121)

RELEASE: c02-r

FIRMS ON TWO COASTS TO PROVIDE PRECISION SERVICES TO NASA

     NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. has 
selected two companies in Virginia and one in California to 
provide the agency with aerospace models and development test 
hardware for spaceflight and ground-based tests.  

Dynamic Engineering Inc., doing business as Allied Aerospace 
Industries and Advanced Technologies, Inc., both of Newport 
News, Va., and Tri Models, Inc., of Huntington Beach, Calif., 
will support NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 
Calif.; Glenn Research Center, Cleveland; Marshall Space 
Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.; and Langley with precision 
design and fabrication services.

The value of this multiple-award, performance-based contract 
is $49 million over five years.

Called the reliance consolidated models-design and/or 
fabrication of aerospace-models systems contract, the new 
award consolidates design and fabrication activities for the 
agency. "We have found that consolidating the needs of NASA's 
field centers and offering multiple vendors simplifies the 
procurement process and ensures the best value for the 
government," said Robert K. Hedgepeth, Langley's technical 
expert and chair of the source evaluation team.

Contracted precision equipment may include wind tunnel 
models, drop models, model components, model support systems, 
test equipment, turbomachinery models, aircraft flight test 
hardware, space flight hardware, structural test articles and 
instrumentation devices to measure force, moment, 
acceleration, attitude, pressure strain and temperature.

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