Award notice
Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS)
80JSC025D0073
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Johnson Space Center. Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology).
Awarded
Ascend Aerospace and Technology, LLC
$1,800,000,000.00 on the award notice, August 28, 2025, contract 80JSC025D0073
Description
As published on SAM.gov.
The principal purpose of this requirement is to provide services needed to ensure the availability, integrity, reliability, and security of the functional capabilities for command, control, and support of space vehicles and their payload elements which comprise the Flight Operations Directorate (FOD) Mission Systems.
The Contractor shall provide support to the Mission Control Center Systems (MCCS), Training Systems (TS), Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), and other FOD mission systems environments to include operations, development, modifications, sustaining engineering, maintenance, information technology (IT), cyber security, and communications security (COMSEC).
These services also include mission preparation (“Plan”), crew, instructor, and flight controller training (“Train”), and real-time mission execution (“Fly”) activities to support the Orion/Space Launch Systems (SLS) Programs, the International Space Station (ISS) Program, the Commercial Crew Program, the Moon to Mars Program, and future NASA programs and missions.
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Ascend Aerospace and Technology, LLC
- UEI
- KP39YMAWCQM5
- CAGE
- 9B8U8
- Vendor location
- Cape Canaveral, FL
- Contract
- 80JSC025D0073
- Obligated
- $22,764,729.92, potential $1,800,172,869
- Actions
- 7 between August 28, 2025 and August 14, 2026
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition, 7 offers received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- Contract Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (Cosmos)
- Match
- award number 80JSC025D0073 equals the contract number; same awarding office 80JSC0 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
September 10, 2025
Award notice, originally solicitation
Awarded to ASCEND AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGY, LLC Cape Canaveral for $1,800,000,000. SAM.gov, notice 73c3f0ff6faf4b6385c9cecb2eeb15f2
Points of contact
- Andrea De Pazjsc-cosmos@mail.nasa.gov
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