Leidos Awarded $270M Contract for NASA Ames Mission Support Services

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential five-year, $270 million contract to provide program and project management services to NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.

The company will help Ames personnel develop instruments, modernize technology and implement missions for biosciences flight projects, the space agency said Tuesday.

Reston, Virginia-based Leidos will also support collaborative science and aeronautics research efforts at the center.

Work under the contract’s two-year base period of performance will commence on Sept. 1 with a 60-day phase-in period. NASA may exercise up to three single-year option periods to extend the work.

The agency will procure services through the issuance of core requirements and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders.