SAIC lands potential $494M NASA contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded a safety and mission assurance support contract from NASA worth up to $494 million.

The federal agency announced it had selected SAIC for the Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract III on March 29, and the contract period begins June 1. SMAEC III follows SMAEC II, an up to $292 million contract that SAIC won in April 2019.

SAIC will provide safety, reliability and quality engineering, along with quality and software assurance support, for NASA programs and projects in deep space, including the Orion spacecraft, the Gateway lunar space station, the International Space Station and other programs.

The contractor will perform work at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and its White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, and potentially at other NASA centers, U.S. government facilities, contractor or subcontractor locations or vendor facilities.

The SMAEC III is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with the ability to issue cost-plus-award-fee and fixed price task orders. It has a five-year base period and two one-year options, with the possible extension of services through November 2031.

SAIC has about 24,000 employees and reported $7.4 billion in revenue for its fiscal year 2024, which ended Feb. 2 — down 3% from the $7.7 billion reported in fiscal 2023.