NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has exercised an option to continue an existing contract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Falls Church, Va., to provide information services to Marshall and all other NASA facilities.

The priced option, valued at $136,934,782, covers the period of May 1, 2000, through April 30, 2001. It continues services under a contract titled Program Information Systems Mission Services, originally awarded to Computer Sciences in 1994.

Work performed by CSC and its subcontractors under the Mission Services contract includes support for Marshall computer systems, applications software, telephone systems and audio-visual services. It also includes a range of services for all NASA facilities, including support of information management systems and the NASA Automated Data Processing Consolidation Center at Marshall.

The contract option is the fifth of six priced options, bringing the value of the contract, to date, to $905,074,108. If all options are exercised, the Mission Services contract will have an approximate total value of $1.050 billion.