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AFRL ContractAir Force Research Laboratory Contract Services provided: The U.S. Air Force uses wargame simulation exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of enhancements to its weapon systems and procedures against comparable enemy forces. Under this contract, MEI Technologies supports AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate (AFRL/RD). We develop and execute a continuing series of Advanced Concept Event (ACE) wargames specifically devoted to next-generation capabilities, with the focus on directed energy (laser weapons). ACE operates as a distributed event, with system simulators playing interactively from any location on the globe. MEI Technologies has helped incorporate space systems into the event, playing alongside and interactively with air, ground and Naval systems. MEI Technologies began work on this contract in 2002 and has received two extensions of the project. Our work has helped increase participation in the wargame from four weapon systems a few years ago to nearly 30 systems for ACE 2009. |
AMCOM EXPRESS ContractArmy Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services (EXPRESS) Contract Services provided: The AMCOM EXPRESS contract, which began in September 2008, is a multiple award, BPA program (Blanket Purchase Agreement). It issues task orders to Federal Supply Schedule contractors to provide advisory and assistance services across technical, programmatic and logistics domains to AMCOM and its customers. This contract also provides the same level of support to the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), the Program Executive Offices (PEO) and allies for fielded Army aviation and missile systems. MEI Technologies develops Test and Evaluation (T&E) documentation through all phases of the acquisition cycle. Sample tasks include developing test requirements, writing statements of work, developing models and simulations and validating them, creating test evaluation strategy and more. In addition, we provide engineers and technical support personnel who plan, coordinate, conduct and evaluate the test. |
BIO ContractBioastronautics Contract Services provided: Under the BIO contract, MEI Technologies supports the NASA-Johnson Space Center’s space and life sciences initiatives surrounding the health and productivity of crews living and working in space. Our engineers, scientists and technical personnel perform tasks ranging from biomedical research, operational space medicine and human factors engineering to space food laboratory operation, biomedical flight hardware production and payload and hardware integration with shuttle and the International Space Station, just to name a few. We have successfully worked on the Anthropometry and Biomechanics Facility, the Habitability Design Center and the Low Impact Docking System (LIDS) test. MEI Technologies’ prime customer on the BIO contract is Wyle Labs. The contract began in 2003. |
CISS ContractCenter Institutional Safety Services Contract Services provided: The CISS contract, which began in July 2009, provides safety and fire protection services to the NASA-Johnson Space Center in accomplishing its institutional safety program objectives. Major areas of the contract include safety, fire protection, training, maintenance of fire protection systems, test safety, safety information systems and special projects. As a subcontractor to Anadarko Industries for CISS, MEI Technologies specifically supports the JSC Safety and Test Operations Division, whose mission is to help line management and employees in reducing and preventing injuries to NASA personnel and damage to NASA equipment. |
DHEP ContractDepartment of Defense (DoD) Human Exploration Payloads Contract Services provided: The company's first prime contract win was with the U.S. Air Force performing payload integration, integrating DoD experiments on the shuttle. We are proud to still hold that work today, now known as the DHEP contract. The DoD requires services and hardware to conduct research/fly payloads on NASA’s manned space vehicles, as well as other available space transportation systems, including the space shuttle, International Space Station, Automated Transfer Vehicle, Russian Launch Capabilities (i.e., Progress/Soyuz), the HII Transfer Vehicle, and any commercial launch capabilities in support of human spaceflight/exploration or other goals. Specifically, MEI Technologies provides DHEP support to the U.S. Air Force. We help the USAF execute a series of processes to assure their DoD experiments meet NASA standards. Our tasks include hardware design reviews, quality control, astronaut/ground crew training, real-time flight following and many other activities. The contract began in July 2009. |
ESC ContractEngineering and Science Contract Services provided:
ESC, which began in February 2005, provides design, test and evaluation, facility maintenance and operations, systems engineering and integration support to NASA-Johnson Space Center projects supporting the space shuttle and International Space Station Programs. Tasks performed include evaluating electrical, electronic, and electromechanical parts, performing analysis of parts obsolescence, environmental stress screening, and failure analysis of custom hardware and one-of-a-kind prototypes. Specialty engineering disciplines employed include risk management, reliability and maintainability engineering, thermal engineering, and electromechanical interference and compatibility (EMI/EMC) analysis, thermodynamic modeling and investigations to ensure safe return of the Space Shuttle during de-orbit transition to Earth. |
ESES ContractElectrical Systems Engineering Services Contract Services provided:
ESES provides critical support to the Applied Engineering & Technology Directorate at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. As the ESES prime contractor since February 2005, MEI Technologies provides electrical engineering support services for the study, design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification and operations of spaceflight, airborne, and ground system hardware and software. Additionally, we provide support for the development and validation of new technologies to enable future space and science missions. |
ESES Interim ContractElectrical Systems Engineering Services Interim Contract Services provided:
MEI Technologies provides electrical engineering support services for the study, design, development, fabrication, integration, testing, verification and operations of hardware and software for space, air and ground systems. This includes development and validation of new technologies to enable future missions in support of the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA—Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. |
GPSW ContractAir Force Space Command Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC), GPS Wing SE&I Contract Services provided: The GPSW contract, which began in March 2007, provides systems engineering and integration support to the Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missiles Systems Center (SMC) and the GPS Wing’s space and ground control segments. As a subcontractor to SAIC on this contract, MEI Technologies manages specialty engineering disciplines, conducts oversight of prime contractor quality assurance programs, witnesses integrated systems testing, and performs interoperability analysis. Specialty engineering disciplines employed include quality engineering, risk management, reliability and maintainability engineering, system safety engineering, test and verification, engineering data analysis management and reporting. |
JETS ContractJSC Enabling Technology and Security Contract Services provided: Through the JETS contract, MEI Technologies manages the NASA-Johnson Space Center’s network security perimeter, which includes institutional firewalls, intrusion detection systems, VPN systems, log repositories, content monitoring and filtering system, security information management and vulnerability scanning systems. The broad range of institutional IT services provided includes: IT security operations, certification and accreditation program support, system administration, network monitoring and analysis, data center operations, engineering for new IT system requirements, sustaining engineering for existing IT systems, advanced infrastructure development, and IT planning, policy architecture and integration support. MEI Technologies also supports hardware and software requirements definition, design, testing, implementation, and configuration management for a complex heterogeneous environment. Serving the JETS contract since August 2004, we have positively impacted more than 14,000 civil servant and contractor personnel at NASA-JSC. |
LM Orion ContractLockheed Martin Orion Program Contract Services provided:
The Orion contract provides systems engineering and engineering specialty support to the NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) development effort. Tasks performed include requirements analysis, risk management, evaluation of aero-coefficients, base environments, aerothermal heating during reentry and launch vehicle ascent, and wind tunnel data analysis and planning. MEI Technologies assists Lockheed Martin Astronautics in defining thermal requirements for passive thermal control. To define these requirements, we develop thermal analytical models in support of integrated ORION thermal analyses. MEI Technologies also provides Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) requirements verification and conceptual level design for the ascent, abort and reentry phases, as well as dynamic loads and environments analysis. In the Safety and Mission Assurance area, MEI Technologies provides system safety, software safety, risk management, mechanical engineering CADCAM services, mechanisms design, and analysis and planning. Lockheed Martin awarded MEI Technologies the Orion sub-contract in September 2006. |
MITS ContractMarshall Information Technology Services Contract Services provided: Under MITS, MEI Technologies provides IT security services and end-to-end IT computing services—from development and installation to operations, maintenance, storage and more. In addition, we provide application and Web services for various science and engineering tools that support NASA’s space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research activities. All MITS contract work supports NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, AL and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, LA. MEI Technologies won the five-year subcontract from Dynetics in February 2010. |
S&FS ContractSafety and Fire Protection Systems Maintenance and Operation Safety & Fire Services Contract Services provided: The SF&S contract provides safety and fire services to support the NASA-Johnson Space Center in accomplishing its institutional safety program objectives. MEI Technologies specifically supports the JSC Safety and Test Operations Division, which strives to help line management and employees in reducing and preventing injuries to NASA personnel and damage to NASA equipment. We provide facility safety, training and emergency response services to the Center and the Sonny Carter Training Facility. We also inspect fire extinguishers for Ellington Field facilities. MEI Technologies won the contract in October 2003. |
SETAC ContractSystems Engineering and Technical Assistance Contract Services provided: SETAC supports the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) and other Army and DoD organizations supported by the Command. It was created to ensure timely, energetic and cost-effective technologies for defense against evolving threats. It also strives to develop technology that maximizes benefits for strategic and theater missile defense and air/space technology programs, as well as to ensure all programs are in regulatory compliance. Services provided under SETAC include engineering support, such as independent assessments, analyses, software verification, simulations and special studies associated with USASMDC/ARSTRAT missions. As a subcontractor to System Studies and Simulation Inc. for SETAC, MEI Technologies helps plan, coordinate and accomplish tasks that support the warfighter. We prepare, review and analyze test requirements for multiple levels of aircraft-launched missile systems, perform on-site testing support to National Test Ranges, coordinate and approve Test and Evaluation Master Plans, and prepare and implement test/qualification/certification plans, test and test data analysis procedures. MEI Technologies was awarded the sub-contract in December 2007. |
TEC ContractTest and Evaluation Contract Services provided: The TEC contract, which began in 2006, provides materials and components testing, propulsion testing, and depot activities at the NASA-White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) in New Mexico. Systems engineered include propellant and pressure, instrumentation, control and data collection systems. MEI Technologies’ projects at WSTF encompass a broad range, including:
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