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KBR wins $3.6B NASA health, human performance contract
The company keeps a role it has held since 2015 in helping NASA better understand health risks that come with spaceflight.
KBR has won a potential 10-year, $3.6 billion contract to continue its role as a provider of professional services that aid in NASA’s efforts to mitigate potential health risks in future human spaceflight missions.
The Human Health and Performance Contract 2 primarily supports work at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, which is home to the agency’s Human Health and Performance Directorate that focuses on astronaut health.
NASA said Monday that the new contract’s five-year base period will begin on Nov. 1 with a pair of options that could extend work to 2025.
Some of the programs within the contract’s scope include the Human Research Program, International Space Station Program, Commercial Crew Program and Artemis campaign.
KBR is tasked with helping NASA to ensure crew health, safety and performance by providing occupational health services and conducting research into health risks that inherently part of spaceflight.
For KBR, its capture of HHPC2 means the company will retain work it originally won in 2015. NASA has obligated approximately $1.5 billion against the current HHPC contract to-date, according to GovTribe data.
NASA also represents a key customer for KBR as the company has embarked on a multi-year strategy to build a franchise space business.