KeyLogic Providing Software Assurance Services for NASA Under New Contract

KeyLogic Systems, a subcontractor to Northrop Grumman Corporation and partnering with a number of other firms, has been awarded a contract to provide independent verification and validation services for mission-critical software to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  The indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity contract spans the next five years and will issue competitive task orders valued up to $200 million.  This contract also marks KeyLogic’s first federal contract awarded in West Virginia, where the company’s headquarters has been located since its inception six years ago.

Independent verification and validation (IV&V) is a systems-engineering process that is applied throughout the software-development lifecycle to verify that the system is working according to design and to provide validation that organization’s objectives are being met.  KeyLogic and the rest of the team will help NASA’s IV&V facility refine and apply these processes and technologies to increase reliability, support safety requirements and reduce problems within their mission-critical software assurance systems.  Once the software is compliant with NASA’s development plans, standards, procedures and specifications, NASA will be able to correct errors early in the software development lifecycle, therefore reducing costs and development time.

In addition to the IV&V services, the team will provide technical support for NASA’s critical human exploration, robotic and instrument systems.  Analysts will provide detailed reviews of the software requirements, design, code and text implementation, and will support mission-critical operational and software components to ensure these projects are safe, secure and successful.

“We are pleased to be part of the Northrop Grumman team to support this mission-critical work of improving the performance of NASA systems,” said KeyLogic Executive Director Glenn Copen.  “It is particularly exciting to participate in this project in our own state of West Virginia with several other local companies, proving that our technology capabilities are second to none.”

The contract will be managed from the West Virginia High Technology Foundation campus in Fairmont, WV, near NASA’s IV&V facility.  Work will be performed at these sites, along with numerous other NASA centers around the United States, and will create approximately 100 jobs during the next 18 months.

KeyLogic’s team is headed by Mr. Copen and includes members of his Portfolio and Performance Management business unit, as well as several new hires.  Since contract award, KeyLogic has begun work on two separate task orders, Phoenix and GLAST.  Scott Schield is serving as the Systems Engineer for the Phoenix Mars Lander exploration program.  Eric Sylvania is the Project Lead and Senior Engineer and David Dymm is the Senior Software Engineer supporting the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) development effort.

Along with KeyLogic and Northrop Grumman, the core team includes the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation; Action Facilities Management, Westover, WV; Azimuth, Morgantown, WV; ISM and New-Bold Enterprises, Fairmont, WV; MPL Corp., Buckhannon, WV; and Mountain State Information Systems, Elkins, WV.  Additional Northrop Grumman teammates include L-3 Communications, New York, NY; Electronic Warfare Associates, Herndon, VA.; and Barrios Technology and GB Tech, Houston, TX.

 

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