jenks@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (10/19/87)
_High_Technology_ magazine (August 1987) had a story on the Station.
There are four "work packages" and thirty companies in 8 teams bidding
for them. NASA is *supposed* to pick a team as of November to do the
work on each package.
In the following section, team leaders are in CAPITALS. The teams are
in column form under the team leader.
The packages and teams are:
Segment I Crew and lab modules ($2.5 billion)
BOEING MARTIN MARIETTA
Grumman Aerospace General Electric, Astro Space Division
Lockheed Missiles & Space Hughes Aircraft
Teledyne Brown Engineering United Technologies (Hamilton Standard)
TRW USBI Booster Production
Wyle Laboratories
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics
Segment II Framework (main boom) ($3.7 billion)
ROCKWELL McDONNELL DOUGLAS
Grumman Aerospace Honeywell
Harris IBM
Intermetrics Lockheed Missiles & Space
Sperry RCA
SRI International
TRW
Segment III Free-flying platform and research eqpt. ($750 million)
GENERAL ELECTRIC RCA
TRW Honeywell
IBM
Lockheed Missiles & Space
McDonnell Douglas
RCA (I don't know why it's here twice.)
Computer Sciences
Segment IV Power system ($1.0 billion)
ROCKETDYNE TRW
Ford Aerospace & Commun. Lockheed Missiles & Space (On both sides!)
Garrett Fluid Systems Planning Research Corp.
General Dynamics Analex
Lockheed Missiles & Space Teledyne Brown Engineering
Sunstrand Eagle Engineering
The preceding was copied from _High_Technology completely without permission.
Alphabetical Listing of Companies and Segments:
Key:
#1: Segment I Crew and lab modules
#2: Segment II Framework (main boom)
#3: Segment III Free-flying platform and research eqpt.
#4: Segment IV Power system
Analex, #4
Boeing, #1
Computer Sciences, #3
Eagle Engineering, #4
Ford Aerospace & Communications, #4
General Electric, #3
Garrett Fluid Systems, #4
General Dynamics, #4
General Electric, Astro Space Division, #1
Grumman Aerospace, #1
Grumman Aerospace, #2
Harris, #2
Honeywell, #2
Honeywell, #3
Hughes Aircraft, #1
IBM, #2
IBM, #3
Intermetrics, #2
Lockheed Missiles & Space, #1
Lockheed Missiles & Space, #2
Lockheed Missiles & Space, #3
Lockheed Missiles & Space, #4
Lockheed Missiles & Space, #4
Martin Marietta, #1
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, #1
McDonnell Douglas, #2
McDonnell Douglas, #3
Planning Research Corp., #4
RCA, #2
RCA, #3
RCA, #3
Rocketdyne, #4
Rockwell, #2
SRI International, #2
Sperry, #2
Sunstrand, #4
TRW, #1
TRW, #2
TRW, #3
TRW, #4
Teledyne Brown Engineering, #1
Teledyne Brown Engineering, #4
USBI Booster Production, #1
United Technologies (Hamilton Standard), #1
Wyle Laboratories, #1
Through the course of my job interviewing, I have heard several
companies' representatives complain that their companies had "lost the
contract" with NASA for the Station. I thought the results weren't due
until November. It isn't always the best policy to question the
interviewer's source of information. I wish I knew, however, what the
real status is on the Station bids.
Would someone who knows what NASA has done on these bids please let me
know? I am putting special emphasis on these companies during my job
search. If NASA has decided which teams will get the contracts, I
want to know.
-- Ken Jenks
Graduating MS: Aero/Astro Engineering (BS: Computer Science),
Looking for a full-time manned-space job, starting 1/88,
University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
(Resume available on request)
jenks@p.cs.uiuc.edu
{ihnp4!pur-ee}uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!jenkshenry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/21/87)
> Looking for a full-time manned-space job, starting 1/88,
Dept of Possibly Excessive Cynicism: How's your Russian? :-)
--
PS/2: Yesterday's hardware today. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
OS/2: Yesterday's software tomorrow. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henryjenks@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (10/22/87)
> > Looking for a full-time manned-space job, starting 1/88, > > Dept of Possibly Excessive Cynicism: How's your Russian? :-) > -- > PS/2: Yesterday's hardware today. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > OS/2: Yesterday's software tomorrow. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry Ochen horosha, tovarich. Actually, I took one semester so I'd have a head start if NASA even cooperates with the Russians again. I'd take more if I had time, but I don't want to emigrate. At least, not to another place on Earth. -- Ken Jenks Graduating MS: Aero/Astro Engineering (BS: Computer Science), (still) Looking for a full-time manned-space job, starting 1/88, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign (Resume available on request) jenks@p.cs.uiuc.edu {ihnp4!pur-ee}uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!jenks