Space Program Services

By Terrence Nowlin

PAE Senior Engineering Manager Eartha Smith sits at the unlikely intersection of facilities management and customer service. She knows the value of building trust and delivering a quality product. In fact, her expectations for keeping leaders happy at Johnson Space Center could be described as out of this world. 

“If we don’t take care of our customer, I guarantee you somebody else will,” Smith said. 

FALLS CHURCH, VA  – NASA recently announced it awarded the Base Operations, Spaceport Services contract at the Kennedy Space Center to the joint venture PAE-SGT Partners LLC, known as PSP. The firm fixed-price contract with a potential value of $608.7 million is for institutional support services at both the Kennedy Space Center and the NASA facilities at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The contract is two years followed by three two-year options. It has cost reimbursable and indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity components.