Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington, DC                    December 2, 1998
(Phone:  202/358-1639)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone:  281/483-5111)


RELEASE:  c98-u


ENGINEERING AND TESTING SUPPORT TO BE SUPPLIED BY INTERNATIONAL 
SPACE STATION CONTRACT MODIFICATION

     NASA today signed a contract modification with The Boeing 
Company, Houston, TX, to supply additional engineering support and 
pre-launch testing for the International Space Station, increasing 
the prime space station contract held by Boeing by $163.4 million.

     Boeing was awarded the eight-year prime contract, currently 
valued at $7.1 billion, for the construction and integration of 
the International Space Station in 1995.  The modification, 
effective today, to the cost-plus-award-fee Space Station Contract 
NAS15-10000 with Boeing Information, Space and Defense Systems has 
a value of $163,477,000.

     The modification will cover sustaining engineering for 
station elements, engineering support required after a component 
has been constructed and delivered to NASA, as well as support of 
multi-element integrated testing, a testing program which 
functionally links the various station components together prior 
to launch.

     Work on the contract may be performed at Boeing facilities in 
Huntington Beach, CA.; Canoga Park, CA; Huntsville, AL.; Orlando, 
FL; Houston, TX; and at Honeywell, Inc., in Glendale, AZ.

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