A--MISSION AND PROGRAM INTEGRATION AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LOGISTIC SERVICES

Over the last few years with the cancellation of the Constellation Program, therehas been a shift in how the International Space Station (ISS) Program transfers crew andcargo to the ISS. The ISS Program will now expand its use of Commercial andInternational Partners to provide for crew and cargo services. This change in Programfocus has a direct impact on the how NASA manages the ISS Program and its relatedtransportation and integration services. Based on all these changes, the ISS Programneeds to be able to address and respond more quickly to the dynamic environment of launchschedule changes. A new contract strategy has therefore been developed that combinesportions of the Mission and Integration Contract (MIC) (NNJ10GA20B) and the ProgramIntegration Contract (PIC) (NNJ09GA18B) which will be the Mission and Program Integration(MAPI) contract and provides for a separate standalone Russian Language and Logistics(RLLS) contract. The details of these new contract strategies can be found at the following links forMAPI (NNJ11401774R) http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=147353 and for RLLS (NNJ11401832R) http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=147354