Southland Company Wins Important NASA Contract

NASA announced the selection of El Segundo- based Wyle Laboratories Inc. to provide biomedical, medical and health services in support of all human spaceflight programs at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

“The work supports ongoing research aboard the International Space Station and helps enable the journey to Mars,” according to a NASA statement.

The contract begins Oct. 1 and has a maximum potential value of $1.44 billion, including a five-year base period followed by one three-year option and one two-year option.

• Jobs at Wyle Laboratories

According to NASA, the contract directly supports its “Human Health and Performance Directorate at Johnson, which is charged with ensuring crew health, safety and performance; providing occupational health services at Johnson and NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico; and conducting research and developing technologies to help mitigate risks to the health, safety and performance of future spaceflight crews.”

Work under the contract will be performed at Johnson, White Sands and facilities operated by Wyle Laboratories.

Companies working with Wyle on the contract include Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Maryland; University of Texas Medical Branch of Galveston, Texas; Intelligent Automation Inc. of Rockville, Maryland; Anadarko of The Woodlands, Texas; and MEI Technologies, JES Tech, University of Houston, Intuitive Machines and GeoControl Systems, all in Houston.