NASA has selected Sigma Space Corporation of Lanham, Maryland, to provide Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Support Services.

The total maximum ordering value of the cost-plus fixed fee contract will be $120 million. Sigma will provide support to the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Sigma will support research involving satellite remote sensing as well as field and aircraft instruments for measuring Earth, oceanic, biospheric and atmospheric processes; scientific and engineering support for the development and calibration of remote sensing instruments; and the development of data systems for the production and distribution of satellite products. This contract will support the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project Science Data Segment; Earth Observing-1; Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Project and the Earth Observing System missions Terra, Aqua, and Aura. The work will be performed primarily at Goddard. The period of performance for the contract is from June 1, 2009, through May 31, 2014.