This federal contract, valued at $1,973,021.00, was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center to Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc. for the development of liquid oxygen/hydrogen deep-throttling injector technology. The contract is a definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee type with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2011. Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc. is a subsidiary of the parent company Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc., which is a major aerospace and defense contractor that has received various federal contract awards and grants from agencies such as the Department of Defense and NASA. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.