The overall scope of this contract is to provide wallops range operations and maintenance support services training command, control, communications, information and computer systems services testing,…

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, on behalf of Wallops Flight Facility, awarded a $270 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract to KBR Wyle Services, LLC on August 10, 2019, for Wallops Range operations, maintenance, and sustainment services, with ultimate completion scheduled for June 30, 2026.

The originating solicitation encompasses range operations training; command, control, communications, information and computer systems services; testing, modification, and installation of communications and electronic systems at launch facilities, launch control centers, and test facilities; range sustaining engineering; and ground operations support. Instrumentation systems are permanently located at Wallops Flight Facility, Bermuda, and Alaska, with mobile instrumentation deployed worldwide, including Norway, Kwajalein Atoll, Coquina North Carolina, Australia, and French Guiana. Place of performance is Chincoteague, Virginia. The contract carries a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structure without set-aside designation.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows the contract has delivered substantial labor footprint, with FY2025 invoicing of $39.6 million across 145 FTEs and 301,868 contractor hours—representing a sharp increase in government-paid rates to $131.24 per hour compared to historical years averaging $97.60–$104.15 per hour. Across the reporting period FY2021–FY2025, the contract invoiced $172 million and averaged 155 FTEs, with FY2025 marking the highest invoiced amount. Subcontractor engagement has expanded; FY2025 reports 9 subcontractors performing 30 percent of contractor hours, including Mwave Industries, Viasat Inc., Wideband Systems Inc., and a multi-vendor team of specialized suppliers supporting telemetry, communications, and ground operations. A May 2025 special notice from NASA indicates the government sought to extend the contract for an additional 6-month period through February 2026 to ensure program continuity and avoid disruption to Wallops Range operations.

The overall scope of this contract is to provide wallops range operations and maintenance support services training command, control, communications, information and computer systems services testing, modifying and installing communications and electronic systems at launch facilities, launch control centers and test facilities range sustaining engineering services, and ground operations support. This effort provides direct customer support to NASA WFF's range by providing qualified personnel, equipment, tools, materials, vehicles, specialized test equipment, supervision, and other services. NASA's WFF requires an innovative, integrated, flexible and effective management approach and the contractor must provide technical support in a planned and coordinated manner which will ensure essential wallops range support systems are ready to support user requirements, and cause no impact to wallops range program schedules due to equipment degradation, failures, system problems or reprioritization of preexisting program requirements. The wide variety of support systems involves flexible workload planning, cost management, and scheduling of resources to identify and resolve technical systems problems. Available capacity for operations, maintenance, and sustaining engineering may be made available to other WFF organizations with the permission of the contracting officer's representative (COR), and rmmo management. Instrumentation systems are permanently located at WFF, bermuda, and in alaska. In addition, mobile instrumentation is deployed to locations worldwide, including but not limited to norway kwajalein atoll coquina, NC australia and french guiana to meet range customer requirements. The wallops range receives and provides range support from and to various agencies. The wallops range constantly strives to ensure IT is prepared to accommodate the current and future needs of its customers. To that end, the contractor shall pursue ongoing preventive and corrective maintenance and sustaining engineering tasks to ensure readiness and mitigate the effects of obsolescence of its current range equipment and systems. The contractor shall also work with rmmo in cooperation with other NASA centers and organizations to maintain and sustain range systems to common standards. The contractor shall work with WFF organizations and provide operational requirements to support new engineering and/or technology development activities approved by the range. Such activities enable the evolution of the range architecture to include space-based metric tracking, telemetry, and command relay, and mission planning systems. The contractor shall also provide operational requirements and support transitioning new engineering or technology developments to operations.