# Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/80jsc025d0073

- Solicitation number: 80JSC025D0073
- Notice type: Award notice
- Status: Awarded to Ascend Aerospace and Technology, LLC for $1,800,000,000.00
- Department: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Contracting office: NASA Johnson Space Center (80JSC0)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: R425 Engineering and Technical Services
- Place of performance: Houston, Texas
- County: Harris County (FIPS 48201). https://abierto.us/counties/harris-county-tx-48201
- City: Houston. https://abierto.us/cities/houston-tx-4835000
- First posted: September 10, 2025
- Last posted: September 10, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/73c3f0ff6faf4b6385c9cecb2eeb15f2/view

## Description

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.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Ascend Aerospace and Technology, LLC (UEI KP39YMAWCQM5)
- Contract: 80JSC025D0073
- Obligated: $22,764,729.92
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 7 offers received
- Link: award number 80JSC025D0073 equals the contract number; same awarding office 80JSC0 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_80JSC025D0073_8000/


## Publications

- September 10, 2025: Award notice. Notice 73c3f0ff6faf4b6385c9cecb2eeb15f2. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/73c3f0ff6faf4b6385c9cecb2eeb15f2/view

## Points of contact

- Andrea De Paz, jsc-cosmos@mail.nasa.gov

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